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

Introduction

Aquinas' Distinction Between Essence and Existence

Rusty's Agility, Not Nothing

Substances Subsist

Substance and Accident Are Pair Like Male and Female, Up and Down, Positive and Negative

Is a Cat a Substance?

Why God Can't Have Accidents

What Makes a Substance Exist?

Aristotle's Accidents

Corporeal Versus Incorporeal

Is There a Basic Physical Force?

The Power of Conceptual Thought

Aquinas's Conceptual Thinking

Act and Potency - A New Distinctive

What Is the Root of Squirrels?

Squirrel Nature Is a Potency, a Potentiality, a Possible Way to Be

Existence as Act

The Existence of Something Is Not the Same as Its Nature