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Some Fourteenth- Century Answers" concludes this issue by returning to the topic of matter. The natural world, as Latin medieval Aristotelians see it, is a dynamic place.[1] Material substances are endowed with real active and passive powers or potencies ( I potentiae i ), which enable them to produce and undergo changes, respectively. But a better understanding of powers and essences in medieval thought is, arguably, also relevant for the investigation of other areas in medieval philosophy, in particular, natural philosophy and philosophy of mind, as I shall briefly indicate here. As Frost specifies, these powers do not originate in prime matter, but rather in a substance's "proper matter" ( I materia propria i ), which is matter under a certain form. [Extracted from the article] |
