In scholastic philosophy, Actus Purus (English: "Pure Actuality," "Pure Act") is the absolute perfection of God. Created beings have potentiality that...
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Look up actus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Actus may refer to: In Ancient Rome: Actus (unit of length), unit of length Actus, path which could...
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Look up purus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Purus and Purús may refer to: Purus River or Rio Purús, a tributary of the Amazon River in South America...
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Latin Church (section Actus purus)
Vatican Council described Aquinas' system as the "Perennial Philosophy". Actus purus is the absolute perfection of God. According to Scholasticism, created...
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Potentiality and actuality (redirect from Actus et potentia)
who relied on Aristotle's concept of entelechy, when he defined God as actus purus, pure act, actuality unmixed with potentiality. The existence of a truly...
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Actus essendi is a Latin expression coined by Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274). Translated as "act of being", the actus essendi is a fundamental metaphysical...
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on account of God's complete actuality. Thomas defined God as the Ipse Actus Essendi subsistens, subsisting act of being. God is infinite. That is, God...
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is no need to change: he is αὐτουσία (unchanged: Gregory of Nyssa), actus purus and ipsum esse subsistens (Thomas Aquinas). Many (Thomas Aquinas, for...
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of the divine essence and interpreting the latter as "pure energy" (actus purus)" (Christos Yannaras, Orthodoxy and the West: Hellenic Self-Identity...
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Apophatic theology Aseity Divine simplicity Quinque viae Beatific vision Actus purus Actus essendi Primum Movens Sacraments Correspondence theory Hylomorphism...
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virtute divina concederetur alicui quod nullam inordinatam libidinem in actu generationis sentiret, adhuc transmitteret in prolem originale peccatum....
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existent only in act (actu)—i.e. pure actuality without potentiality, and therefore without corporeality. His essence is actus purus et perfectus. This follows...
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Apophatic theology Aseity Divine simplicity Quinque viae Beatific vision Actus purus Actus essendi Primum Movens Sacraments Correspondence theory Hylomorphism...
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Perfection, there is no further need to change: he is the so-called actus purus, or aseity. Instead, the recent process theology inserts this concept...
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Apophatic theology Aseity Divine simplicity Quinque viae Beatific vision Actus purus Actus essendi Primum Movens Sacraments Correspondence theory Hylomorphism...
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complained about this problem in the Roman Catholic dogmatic teaching of actus purus. Modern Orthodox theological scholarship is split, according to William...
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Western theology, especially the traditional scholastic claim that God is actus purus, for its alleged incompatibility with the essence–energies distinction...
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Actus primus, or first actuality, is a technical expression used in scholastic philosophy. The Latin word actus means determination or complement. In...
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Apophatic theology Aseity Divine simplicity Quinque viae Beatific vision Actus purus Actus essendi Primum Movens Sacraments Correspondence theory Hylomorphism...
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immutable, and eternal. Summing up these properties, Aquinas offers the term actus purus (Latin: "pure actuality"). Aquinas held that not only does God have knowledge...
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who maintained a strong view of the simplicity of God, conceived as Actus purus. This doctrinal division reinforced the east–west split of the Great...
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has shown to be the ontotheological determination of Being;...Derrida Actus purus Deconstruction Face-to-face Kant, Immanuel, Critique of Pure Reason,...
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