
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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The Infinite Chain of Interdependent Limited Physical Beings
There are characteristics of potency for change and actuality of change that qualify the very being of every physical reality. Any such reality only ever exists in actual dependence upon other physical realities that act upon it, so as to make it the kind of actually changing reality that it is. To take an example, all of us are undergoing change at this current time because sunlight is warming our bodies through the medium of the atmosphere. And this is due to the forces that maintain the earth and movement around the sun and so on. We are part of what you might call an interdependent web of physical beings that depend upon one another under influence of mutually reinforced physical alterations.
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