
God, Creation, and the Act of Existence | Prof. Gaven Kerr
The Thomistic Institute
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My Active Existence Is Mine and Not Yours
An individual existence is a composite of essence and existence. The composite doesn't possess the active existence to its full universality. It's only an individual limited active existence that it has. So my active existence makes me exist no more and no less. If there was some part of me not actualized by that active existence, it would be nothing. We have a participation framework but now we see our telenism and pleatonism come together. There is no real difference between the two; they are both reducible to parallax. And then we get down to the meaty stuff: Parallels with septum perseus or quintessence in Deyubstant
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