Abstract

PAZ LIMA, Jimena. Matter and INCOHATIO According TO the Cosmological Thought of Albert THE GREAT. Ideas y Valores [online]. 2016, vol.65, n.162, pp.35-50. ISSN 0120-0062.  https://doi.org/10.15446/ideasyvalores.v65n162.47360.

The article examines how, according to Albert the Great, the matter of hylomorphism as pure potentiality does not allow the explanation of substantial change, whereby he redefines the Aristotelian metaphysical principles. He considers it necessary that substantial form pre-exists as a form initiated in the prime matter for change to be continuous and teleological. These initiated forms -called formae materiae or formae partis- behave as habitudo and virtus formativa, and they only actualize matter -not the compound as a whole.

Keywords : A. the Great; cosmology; hylomorphism; prime matter.

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