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Prime Matter

Substance (a matter/form unity). Prime Matter. Substantial form. Quantity. Quality. Relation. Where. When. Activity. passivity. posture. Habit or state. The whole thing is in potentiality to existence The whole thing must be rendered actually Existent by the Act of Existing (Esse).

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Prime Matter

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  1. Substance (a matter/form unity) Prime Matter Substantial form Quantity Quality Relation Where When Activity passivity posture Habit or state

  2. The whole thing is in potentiality to existence The whole thing must be rendered actually Existent by the Act of Existing (Esse) Quantity Quality Relation Where When Activity passivity posture Habit or state

  3. The Act of Existing The whole thing is in potentiality to existence The whole thing must be rendered actually Existent by the Act of Existing (Esse) Substance Quantity Quality Relation When Where Posture Action Passivity Habit/State Quantity Quality Relation Where When Activity passivity posture Habit or state

  4. A Being is a composite of Essence and Existence Esse The act of existing Act of Existing Quod Est “What is” Or Essence

  5. Nothing moves itself from potentiality to actuality except by something already in actuality Nothing brings itself into existence For a thing to bring itself into existence, it would have to exist before it exists, which is absurd.

  6. So, how does a being receive “existence”, or the act of existing? Esse Essence Perhaps an already existing being, whose essence is distinct from its existence? Impossible

  7. Why?????????

  8. A thing acts according to the powers of its nature or essence Nature or Essence Plants cannot do more than they are able according to the powers of their nature. i.e., plants cannot sense, or think, or run. They can grow, reproduce, and nourish themselves.

  9. Can you and I create anything? Absolutely NOT Why Not? Because to create is to bring something into existence from nothing. We can only produce, not create. To produce is to bring something into existence from already existing material. I.e., a desk from already existing wood.

  10. Any being whose essence is distinct from its existence cannot create, in the sense of bringing something into being from nothing. They can only produce. Esse Essence or nature So how can we account for the existence of beings?

  11. Like produces like. Like begets like. Oak Tree Snake Elephant s n a k e Elephant oak tree

  12. Who creates? Who or what imparts the Act of Existing? What is the Agent Cause of the Act of Existing? Esse? We know that like begets like, that is, a thing begets what is of the same nature. We also know that existence is outside of our nature or essence. That is why imparting existence (esse) is outside of our power, or not within our power. We cannot bring something into being from nothing.

  13. Hence, there must be a being whose essence is identical to its existence. There must be a being whose essence is to exist. This being’s essence is to exist. And so, since like begets like, this being begets beings. This being alone creates. Essence = Existence Cannot not exist/necessarily exists/always existed Does not have a received existence Is His own Existence Ipsum Esse Subsistens God

  14. IPSUM ESSE SUBSISTENS esse

  15. IPSUM ESSE SUBSISTENS Beings

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