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)