PHIL249 Study Guide - Thomism, Quiddity, Hylomorphism
7 Mar 2014
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There must be some kind of composition or else there wouldn"t be di erent things. Now let"s gure out what the constitutive principles of things are. On being and essence, extrordinarily terse and compact account of the constitutive principles of things. His physical theory concerns elements and such, and that plays into this metaphysical theory. But really if we have his metaphysical theory we can see how it reads into modern physical theory (ie chemistry, physics, etc) We are inquiring into the basic metaphysical constitutive principles that make up things Form will give us the species (or quiddity) Matter will individuate (make browny di erent from other donkies) Form gives us the unity between individuals of a species. Universal hylopmorphism - this is what aquinas is arguing against. Aristotle is considered the rst person to put forward the idea of hylomorphism: all material is made up of matter and form.
