Autor: Flanagan, Josef

Buch: Quest for Self-Knowledge

Titel: Quest for Self-Knowledge

Stichwort: Potenz, Form, Akt; konjugiert, zentrale

Kurzinhalt: konjungiert, zentral am Beispiel einer Pflanze; 6 metaphysische Grundbegriffe; 4 Grundbeziehungen; Metaphysiker, Wissenschaftler

Textausschnitt: () ... we can distinguish between the conjugate forms and the central form or unity that operates through these conjugate forms. Since these central forms exist in individual or limited ways, we can further identify central act as existence and central potency as the source that individualizes any existing central form. In addition...

() For example, a plant is an organic unity (central form) that exists (central act) in an individualized way (central potency). That same individual existing plant operates (conjugate act) reproductively (conjugate form) in certain particular ways (conjugate potency).