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Often appears with: the nature and attributes of God · voluntariness · the problem of evil and theodicy · soul and body · socrates sits · reason and the intellect · preformation of organisms · pre-established harmony · past and future · notional acts · military discipline and training · mechanism vs miracle
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He argues aeviternity differs from time and eternity as a mean: angels’ absolute being lacks past/future differences, which arise only by our intellect’s comparison to parts of time.
"being," does not add a reality to being; but that the "one" which is the principle of number, does add a reality to "being," belonging to the genus of quantity. Reply Obj. 2: There is nothing to prevent a thing which in one way is divided, from being another way undivided; as what is divided in number, may be undivided in species; thus it may be that a thing is in one way "one," and in another way "many." Still, if…
He explains that “absolutely possible” excludes contradictions, so God cannot do self-contradictory things—not due to weakness, but because they lack the nature of possibility.
not incompatible with the subject, as that Socrates sits; and absolutely impossible when the predicate is altogether incompatible with the subject, as, for instance, that a man is a donkey. It must, however, be remembered that since every agent produces an effect like itself, to each active power there corresponds a thing possible as its proper object according to the nature of that act on which its active power is …
Aquinas begins Question 41 on persons in relation to notional acts, listing six inquiries about attributing notional acts to persons, their voluntariness, their terms of origin, divine power, its meaning, and multiple persons as terms.
Further, active generation is to paternity as nativity is to filiation. But filiation presupposes nativity; for the Son is so called because He is born. Therefore paternity also presupposes generation. *On the contrary,* Generation is the operation of the person of the Father. But paternity constitutes the person of the Father. Therefore in the order of intelligence, paternity is prior to generation. *I answer that…
Leibniz argues that Bayle’s limits on divine power are unsupported, using analogies and preformation to defend pre-established harmony: once preformed, organism and soul-body correspondence follow naturally.
of a fuse passing along a cord in fireworks, since the whole disposition of things preserves a perfect harmony between them by means of their influence one upon the other. This declaration of M. Bayle pledged me to an answer. I therefore purposed to point out to him, that unless it be said that God forms organic bodies himself by a perpetual miracle, or that he has entrusted this care to intelligences whose power an…