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Episode 17 – Substance and Accident, Act and Potency | Prof. Michael Gorman

Aquinas 101 - Course 2: Introduction to Thomistic Philosophy

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Why God Can't Have Accidents

By making Socrates wise, Socrates's wisdom accident actualizes his potency to be wise. By making Rusty agile, Rusty's agility actualizes his potentiality to be agile. The general point is that accidents actualize potentialities of their subjects. God has no potentialities. He has no capacity to become other than he already is. So he just can't have accidents.

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