Doctrine of Act and Potency (Outline)
Critical to the Central Aim of Metaphysics
The Dynamic Philosophy of Change (Motion is Change)
Distinctions of Act/Potency(Motion tendency to Teleological)
HyloMorphism (Motion Form/Matter)
Conclusion Arguments
ACT
Potency
Matter
Form
Reflected in the Problem of "being and becoming"
Pre-Socratic Binary Perspective
Parimedes
Heraclitus
Denied change "becoming"
Everything is in state of "flux"
Aristotelian Approach (Motion is Caused)
Posited the Anti-Binary Position:
Doctrine of "Act and Potency"
Basis of Motion
Prime Mover
Argument of Motion
Prime Matter
Not beginning of Motion but beginning of cyclical Motions
Material
Irrational
Kinds of Being
External Causes of Motion
Orders the Hierarchy of "Being" (Motion Orders)
Divisions of Creature State of Existence
Divisions Creature State of Essence
God
Angels
Man
Animals
Plants
Composition (Degree of Simplex/Complex)
The origin of movement's causations (External/Internal)
Reason (irrational/rational)
Natural/Supernatural
Hiearchy of Man's Being
Hylomorphic
Simplex and Complex
Rational/Irrational
Natural/Supernatural
External /Internal (Motioned)
Material and Immaterial
Instances of Being
Essence and Existence
Being is Incomprehensible
Immaterial
Rational
Identifies operational principles of Logic logos (Motion Rational)
Systemic
Connection between Causation and Effect
Potency Actualizes an agent proportionally to its
Hiearchical Nature
Creates the "power" to actualize
Tendency/inclination to a good corresponds an agent's relationship to logic
Decisive Actions follow either the intellect or the will
Superior/Inferior Capacity to Change
Pure Act has no Potential
Telogical Journey from Ontological (End depends a nature's beginning)
Fire Example
Conclusion
Objections to Metaphysics (Faith and Certitude)
Supreme Illness of Creation/ Denial of Divine Realities)
Doctrine and Potency Differentiates Man from other creatures because Man's nature is most philosophicalcomplex
Man to be fulfilled should live Hylomorphically
Fulfillment is Man's Metaphysical Actualization
The System Order is split by two division of nature: (ordinary natural and supernatural)