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Are the Existential Acts of Created Beings Pure Act?

September 27, 2022 Harrison Jennings

According to the Thomistic picture, individual created beings are compositions of essence and existential act (esse). The essence stands as potency to the esse which actuates it, resulting in an existing substance. In a paper I am working on and … Continue reading Are the Existential Acts of Created Beings Pure Act?

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