Aquinas 101 - Course 2: Introduction to Thomistic Philosophy

Episode 13 – The Distinction of Essence and Existence | Prof. Edward Feser

Oct 14, 2019

01:00:49

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A Critic's Charge of Circularity Can Be Rebutted

01:19

The Difference Between Essence and Existence

01:01

Kenny's Critique of God

01:02

You Can Know a Thing's Essence Without Knowing It Exists

01:03

Introduction

2min

The Difference Between Essence and Existence

4min

A Contingent Thing's Existence Must Be Really Different From Its Essence

3min

The Difference Between Animality and Rationality

2min

Is There a Difference Between Its Essence and Its Existence?

5min

The Essence of a Thing and Its Existence Are Not Separated

5min

Fido Sustaining in Being by a Cause C

2min

Hierarchical Causal Series

2min

The Hierarchical Causal Series of FIDO

3min

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What Is Subsistence Existence?

3min

11.

The Essence, Existence, Distinction

5min

12.

Kenny's Critique of Individual Existence

2min

13.

Existential Statements Like, Quote, Martians Do Not Exist, Unquote, Are Self-Contradictory

2min

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The Inference to a Real Distinction Is Invalid

3min

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The Concept of Aspirin Is Not Logically Independent of Its Existence

2min

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The Critic's Allegation of Circularity Can Be Rebutted

2min

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The Essence of Natural Objects

6min

18.

What Is the Essence of Things?

4min

19.

The Consistent Conventionalist View of the Human Mind

4min

Course Listening for Lesson 13 - "Essence and Existence"

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