Materia prima y privación en el Comentario tomista a la Física de Aristóteles
Main Article Content
Abstract
Thomas Aquinas in the text of his Commentary to Aristotle's Physics tries to point out the distinction between prime matter and privation. Prime matter is the subject of any substantial change; privation is the Jack of a form affecting a subject of change, either a natural substance or prime matter. Both -prime matter and privation- are non-beings, that is, both are outside the scope of formal being or of being in act. But, if prime matter is in potency, privation simply is not. Prime matter owns a confused entity, located in between being in act or formal being and non-being; it belongs to the sphere of being in potency. Privation simply is not and, so, it is only a being of reason, built by human intellect with basement in reality. Prime matter with its being in potency is the ontological background of continuous change in the world and of the essential temporality of any individual substance.
Downloads
Download data is not yet available.
Publication Facts
Metric
This article
Other articles
Peer reviewers
0
2.4
Reviewer profiles N/A
Author statements
Author statements
This article
Other articles
Data availability
N/A
16%
External funding
N/A
32%
Competing interests
N/A
11%
Metric
This journal
Other journals
Articles accepted
15%
33%
Days to publication
5049
145
Indexed in
-
—
To learn about these publication facts, click 
PF is maintained by the Public Knowledge Project
Article Details
How to Cite
PÉREZ-ESTÉVEZ, A. (2003). Materia prima y privación en el Comentario tomista a la Física de Aristóteles. Revista Española De Filosofía Medieval, 10, 351–360. https://doi.org/10.21071/refime.v10i.9276
Issue
Section
ARTICLES
Proposed Policy for Journals that Offer Open Access
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
- Since issue 33 and for the future issues, it is the policy of the publisher that authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).