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2 - Programme for a medieval-philosophy course on conscience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 January 2010

Edited by
Timothy C. Potts
Timothy C. Potts
Affiliation:
University of Leeds
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Summary

POTENTIALITY AND ACTUALISATION (Background)

Texts:

Aristotle, Metaphysics 9; 5.12; Physics 8.4.

Readings:

C. D. Broad (1949), ‘The “Nature” of a Continuant’, in Feigl & Sellars (eds.), Readings in Philosophical Analysis, pp. 472–481. New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts.

A. J. P. Kenny (1964), translation of Aquinas, Summa theologiae, vol. 22, appendix 5. London, Blackfriars.

A. J. P. Kenny (1975), Will, Freedom and Power, chap. 7. Oxford, Basil Blackwell.

Questions:

What is the difference between potentiality and possibility?

Give your own examples to illustrate:

  1. (a) the difference between an active and a passive potentiality.

  2. (b) the difference between a rational and an irrational potentiality.

Are Aristotle's criteria for these differences satisfactory?

What are the respective actualisations of nous (intellect, thought) and orexis (desire)?

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Conscience in Medieval Philosophy , pp. 140 - 144
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1980

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