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Material Cause
(also called Matter).— In a bodily being, the potency principle from which the being in question comes to be.
Materialism
(also called Physicalism).— The doctrine according to which all that exists is matter or bodies. It denies the existence of anything spiritual. With regard to human beings, it denies that there is any...
Mechanism
In modern scholastic usage, a synonym for “atomism.” See Atomism.
Motion
The actualization of something in potency insofar as it is in potency. Motion (or kinésis) is the process by which a subject passes from a given state of privation toward a given terminus or end in w...
Natural
1. Pertaining to those beings which have a principle of motion and rest in themselves. In Aristotelian philosophy, primarily attributed to non-artificial beings. 2. Pertaining to the essence of a thi...
Naturalism
The doctrine according to which all that exists and can be known is what belongs to the natural world. In many contemporary versions of naturalism, the natural world is understood as that which can be...
Nature
1. The essence of a thing considered as an immanent principle of operative acts. In this sense, Aristotle defines nature as “the principle of motion and rest in that to which it belongs primarily and...
Operation
See Operative Act.
Passion
(also called Emotion).— A movement of the sense appetite in response to a particular, concrete good apprehended by the estimative or cogitative sense power, which consider the known object under aspec...
Patient
That which is affected by the efficient causality of an agent and, hence, the subject of a change. E.g., a tree that is struck by an ax wielded by a lumberjack.

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