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Aquinas on Matter and Form and the Elements
Contents
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PART ONE— DE PRINCIPIIS NATURAE
Chapter One— Generation and Corruption
Being: Potential and Actual; Substantial and Accidental
Matter: Prime Matter and Subject
Form: Substantial and Accidental
Generation: Substantial and Accidental
Corruption: Substantial and Accidental
Generation Requires Matter, Form and Privation
The Meaning of "Nature" in the Title: De Principiis Naturae
Chapter Two— Matter, Form and Privation
Privation Is a Principle per accidens, but Necessary for Generation
Privation, Not Negation
Privation Is a Principle of Coming to Be, but Not of Being
Matter and Privation
Prime Matter, Simply Prime and Relatively Prime
Prime Matter and Substantial Form Are Ingenerable and Incorruptible
The Numerical Oneness of Prime Matter
Though Prime Matter Exists, It Does Not Exist Through Itself
Chapter Three— Agent and End; Principle, Cause and Element
In Addition to Matter and Form, There Must Be an Agent
In Addition to the Agent, There Must Be an End
Four Causes, Three Principles
The Meaning of "Reduced"
The Point of Observing That per accidens Causes Are Reduced to per se Causes
Principle and Cause Defined
Element Defined
Prime Matter Survives in One Way, the Elements in Another
Concluding Reflection
Chapter Four— Relations among the Four Causes
An Effect Can Have More Than One Cause; and A Cause, More Than One Effect
An Agent Can Be Both Cause and Effect in Relation to an End; So Too Matter in Relation to Form
The Matter and the Agent Are Both Prior and Posterior to the Form and the End
Absolute Necessity and Conditional Necessity
The Necessity of Death
Three of the Causes — Form, End, Agent — Can Coincide with One Another; The Fourth, i.e., Matter, Ca...
Chapter Five— Divisions within Each of the Four Causes
Prior Causes and Posterior Causes
Remote Causes and Proximate Causes: The Same As Prior Causes and Posterior Causes, Respectively
Semper Debemus Reducere Quaestionem Ad Primam Causam
Causes per se and Causes per accidens
Simple Causes and Composite Causes
Causes in Act and Causes in Potency
Universal Causes and Singular Causes
Chapter Six— Sameness and Difference in Matter and Form
Things: The Same in Number, the Same in Species, the Same in Genus, and the Same Only According to ...
Univocal Predication, Equivocal Predication, and Analogical Predication
One End, or One Agent, or One Subject
Matter and Form: The Same in Number, the Same in Species, the Same in Genus, and the Same Only Accor...
PART TWO— DE MIXTIONE ELEMENTORUM
The Question How Do Elements Remain in the Physical Things Which Are Made Up Out of Them?
A First Answer— The Elements Remain with Their Substantial Forms, but Their Active and Passive Quali...
Arguments of Aquinas Against the First Answer
A Second Answer— The Elements Remain with Their Substantial Forms, but Their Substantial Forms Thems...
Arguments of Aquinas Against the Second Answer
The Answer of Aquinas: The Elements Remain with Their Powers and with Retrievability, but Not with T...
PART THREE— ELEMENTS IN THE COMPOSITION OF PHYSICAL SUBSTANCES
1— If a Physical Substance Is Composed Out of Elements, Must It Also Be Composed Out of Prime Matter...
2— If a Physical Substance Is Composed Out of Elements As Well As Out of Prime Matter and Substantia...
3— Is an Element in Any Way an Agent Cause, in Addition to Being a Special Sort of Material Cause?
4— Is a Mixed Body, i.e., a Physical Thing Made Out of Certain Elements Combined in a Certain Ratio,...
5— Elements in the Definition of a Mixed Body (The Elements As Definientia)
6— Ingredients in the Definition of an Element (The Elements As Definienda)
7— The Elements and Creation
8— Opus Creationis, Opus Distinctionis, Et Opus Ornatus
9— The Elements and the Heavenly Bodies
The Nature of the Heavens and of the Heavenly Bodies
The Causality of the Heavens and of the Heavenly Bodies
10— The Seventh Day and Beyond, Like the First Day and Beyond: Unfolding, Developing, Evolving Out o...
11— The Elements and the Eduction of Substantial Forms from the Potency of Matter
PART FOUR— THE ELEMENTS IN AQUINASAND THE ELEMENTS TODAY
1— How Quarks Remain in Protons
2— A Quark, Like Any Element, Is an Agent Cause of a Special Sort, Besides Being a Material Cause of...
3— Ingredients in the Definitions of Quarks and Leptons
Matter Particles:
4— Is There Such a Thing As a Mixing? Are Protons Mixings of Quarks?
5— Particle Physics and Prime Matter
The Neutrino
The Rishon
6— Eddington's Two Tables
7— Searle On Micro-Properties and Macro-Properties
8— Nahmanides' Thirteenth Century Theological Big Bang
9— Schroeder On Nahmanides' Account of the Beginning and Expansion of the Universe
10— What Aquinas Might Have Said About Nahmanides' Account
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