Dynamism in the Cosmology of Christian Wolff: A Study in Pre-critical RationalismExposition Press, 1966 - 122 pages |
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able accidents active force active or motor active potency actually aggregates of simple analysis Aristotle attributes and modes bodily called characteristics Christian Wolff composed composite compound substance conceived consequently Cosmologia derived force Descartes distinct Dynamicum e il Razionalismo endowed with force essence and nature essentials Etienne Gilson explain extension force in bodies force of inertia Gilson given Hence Ibid internal principle Jacques Maritain Kant Leibniz manner of existing matter and motor meta Methodo Scientifica modifiable and perdurable Monadology monads motor force notes Wolff notion of active notion of substance Ontologia passive force passive potency passive principle phenomena physical possible present primitive force qualities says Wolff Scholastic philosophy Scholasticism simple sub simple substances soul species stance subject modifiable sufficient reason things tion triple number true substances velocity Wolff claims Wolff contends Wolff defines Wolff e il Wolff insists Wolff's elements Wolff's metaphysics Wolff's notion Wolff's Ontology Wolff's opinion