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Episode 14 – Introduction to Metaphysics - Part Two- Transcendentals and the Existence of God | Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P.

Aquinas 101 - Course 2: Introduction to Thomistic Philosophy

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Being in Act and Being in Potency

The most fundamental modality of being in act and being in potency is concerned not with movements or operations, but with the very substances of things as such. Each physical reality we encounter comes to be and can cease to be. We ourselves are capable of existing or not existing. There was a time that we did not exist, and there is a time in the future when we will not exist - at least not in the form we do now.

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