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Name 6 of the 9 accidents
Quality, Quantity, Relation, Time, Acting, State, Being acted upon, Place, Being in position
Second list of four senses of being
Essence
Universal
Genus
Substratum
Example of Perishable Sensible Bodies
Plants and animals
Aquinas vs Aristotle's Essence
Aquinas' essence lies in form and matter
Aristotle's lies in form alone
Aquinas' three seperate substances in order
God
Intelligences
Human souls
Third list of four senses of being
Subject matter/substratum
Essence
Composite
Universal
Final Cause
Primary substances are not predicated of or present in a subject
Three ways things are said to be known
In definition - the kind of being must be defined (in essence) before predication
In knowledge - you have more knowledge when you know the essence and not just the accidents
In time - substance must exist before its qualities can
First list of four senses of being
What a thing is
A this something
That a thing is such
That a thing is so much
Equivocation
many meanings in reference to one primary thing
Designated vs undesignated matter
designated is particular/individual
undesignated is universal to a species
Negation: absence
Privation: lack of a part of a being's nature
Aristotle's divided line (in order low to high)
Sensory Exp.
Memory
Experience
Techne/Art
Principle of Noncontradiction
the same attribute cannot at the same time belong and not belong to the same subject and in the same respect
Aquinas vs Aristotle on unmoved mover's end
Aristotle says it is the final end alone
Aquinas says it is the final and efficient end
How Aristotle's unmoved mover moves others
by desire
6 characteristics of a wise person
Knows the whole
Knows the difficult
Knows with exactitude/accurately
Is able to teach
Has the ruling art
Pursues knowledge for its own sake
Simple substance
a non-composite substance, is pure act, only God is perfectly simple
Composite vs Simple Substances
composite substances are form and matter and receive existence from God
simple substances are simply essence and only God is perfectly simple because he is pure act while angels have potentiality