Act and potency — the last metaphysical composition in creatures
Last metaphysical composition: act and potency.
Act = whatever perfects; potency = aptness to be perfected or changed.
Every creature has both — and can still receive more change.
Latin
XXIV. Restat unum, quod omisimus, compositionis metaphysicae genus, nimirum ex actu & potentia. Actus hic dicitur quicquid rem perficit, determinat, & constituit, & uno verbo quaevis perfectio actus est. Potentia vero dicitur id secundum quod res apta est perfici & determinari, & in se aliquid recipere vel pati. Idcirco res omnes creatae compositae dici possunt ex actu & potentia. Nam in iis omnibus est aliquid quod perficit, & aliquid quod perficitur. Et praeter perfectiones quae actu illis insunt, nulla est quae non possit aliud recipere, & non sit alicujus mutationis capax.
About this text
Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu, Sedan Theses, newly rendered from Latin: from theology proper through the Roman theses I–77 and the Reformed theses of Part Two. The theses only — not the collected works.
English follows locked Pitt Latin through Imaginum CLOSED + Sanctorum Cultu Romana CLOSED + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL. 1675 PDF ~384-390 (book ~370-376); Vision OCR + pdftotext + tess. No modern English. This slice densifies Sanctorum Pars Secunda I-XL. Next: Pars Secunda XLI–fin (~CI). Claim stays claimed (book densify not done).
Catalogue & scope
ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves). Densify through Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL (Pars Secunda not closed; not whole folio).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Theologia I-XLIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive PDF of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Checked print pdftotext of De Theologia pages (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive DjVu OCR of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Fide I-XXII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Authoritate Scripturae Pars I I-XLVII + Pars II I-XXXV + Pars III I-VIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Scripturae plenitudine densify (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
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