Aquinas 101 - Course 2: Introduction to Thomistic Philosophy

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

Oct 28, 2019

54:35

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The Sense in Which Rocks and Cats Are Substance

01:27

The Corporeal and the Spiritual in David Corry's Philosophy

01:03

Existence: A Potentiality to Be This Kind of Being

00:47

The Substance and Accident Theory

01:03

Introduction

4min

Aquinas' Distinction Between Essence and Existence

3min

Rusty's Agility, Not Nothing

3min

Substances Subsist

3min

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

3min

Is a Cat a Substance?

4min

Why God Can't Have Accidents

2min

What Makes a Substance Exist?

3min

Aristotle's Accidents

3min

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Corporeal Versus Incorporeal

3min

11.

Is There a Basic Physical Force?

3min

12.

The Power of Conceptual Thought

3min

13.

Aquinas's Conceptual Thinking

3min

14.

Act and Potency - A New Distinctive

3min

15.

What Is the Root of Squirrels?

3min

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

3min

17.

Existence as Act

3min

18.

The Existence of Something Is Not the Same as Its Nature

2min

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