PHL206H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Maimonides, Double Negative, Spinach
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The existence of god, providence and will february 7 th. Hww 472-478: names of god; 478-482: providence and will. To be contingent/merely possible = you can go on without existing, it is contingent. To be necessary = exist all the time. The assumption that aquinas is making is something with the feature of corruption/generation must be actualized for it to exist. If something has the potency to be actualized in a way, then it has to be actualized for you to acknowledge this potency. This is the concept of plenitude if something is possible, it actually has to occur. If there were a time that nothing existed, then nothing would exist now unless there was a necessary being. If everything were merely possible, then you would have nothing that existed. A whole series of possible causes will not be actualized without a necessary being (which is god).
