
Episode 20 – The Primary Being | Prof. Steven Long
Aquinas 101 - Course 2: Introduction to Thomistic Philosophy
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The Principle of Non-Contradiction
The metaphysics of God derives from the objective evidence of proportionate being. In this light two principles are paramount as we've seen in earlier lectures. The application of the principle of non-contradiction to being and the analogical division of being by act and potency. If it were not then fundamentally there could be no such thing as objectivity because the mind would have no root capacity to conform to what is the case. Being is real and hence really distinguished from its negation which is not real.
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