Tag: potency

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
May 16, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Life Sciences
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Tagged
, abortion, act, actuality, adults, Albert Einstein, Aristotle, baby, genius, gestation, human being, Jerry Coyne, life, possibilities, potency, potentiality, rational thought, soul, Thomistic philosophy, zygote}

Must We Be Able to Reason to Be Thought of as Human Persons?

_{Michael Egnor
May 16, 2022

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Life Sciences, Metaphysics, Philosophy

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A common argument as to why abortion is generally ethical is that the unborn child cannot reason. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
September 22, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Metaphysics
Tagged
, act, anti-intellectualism, Aristotle, Artificial Selection, atheism, biological adaptation, censorship, Communism, Darwinism, eugenics, Evangelical Christians, evolution, Expelled (movie), Friedrich Engels, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Marx, materialism, potency, purpose, synthesis, V.I. Lenin, violence}

Darwinism as Hegelian Dialectics Applied to Biology

_{Michael Egnor
September 22, 2020

Biology, Evolution, Metaphysics

6}

Nineteenth-century Darwinism was much more than a revolutionary scientific theory. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 17, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __edited, act, Aristotle, clouds, contingency, Five Ways, goodness, grass, images, light, mirror, nobility, ontology, Plato, potency, sky, Summa Contra Gentiles, Summa Theologica, Thomas Aquinas, trees, truth}

Aquinas’ Fourth Way: Light in a Mirror

_{Michael Egnor
October 17, 2019

Faith & Science

7}

It’s helpful, as with his Third Way, to begin with a metaphor, in order to get an intuitive feel for the proof. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 15, 2019

Categories
Astronomy
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Tagged
, __edited, a posteriori argument, a priori, act, Big Bang, Big Crunch, causation, change, cosmological arguments, existence, First Way, Five Ways, law of non-contradiction, logic, lunar phases, Moon, moonlight, Necessary Existence, potency, reflection, sun, Third Way, Thomas Aquinas}

Aquinas’ Third Way: An Analogy to Moonlight

_{Michael Egnor
October 15, 2019

Astronomy, Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Philosophy

6}

Imagine that you are an astronomer on a world with one moon. It is always night on your world, and the moon is the only body in the sky. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 4, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __edited, a posteriori argument, a priori, act, Aquinas.design, Aristotle, Big Bang, change, essential causal chain, Five Ways, general relativity, law of non-contradiction, photosynthesis, potency, Prime Mover, quantum mechanics, Summa Contra Gentiles, Thomas Aquinas}

Aquinas’ First Way and a Stack of Books

_{Michael Egnor
October 4, 2019

Faith & Science

12}

Nature is like a stack of books, sessile, until moved. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 3, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Tagged
, __edited, a posteriori argument, act, Aristotelianism, Aristotle, cosmological arguments, Five Ways, Jerry Coyne, law of non-contradiction, mechanical philosophy, nature, Parmenides, potency, pre-Socratic philosophers, Prime Mover, quantum indeterminacy, quantum mechanics, Thomas Aquinas, Werner Heisenberg}

Introducing Aquinas’ Five Ways

_{Michael Egnor
October 3, 2019

Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Philosophy

12}

In my ongoing debate with biologist Jerry Coyne, frequent reference is made to Aquinas’ Five Ways, particularly to his Prime Mover argument. Read More ›

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post

Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 8, 2019

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Evolution
Linguistics
Metaphysics
Philosophy
Physics
Social Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, "survival of the fittest", act, adaptation, Albert Einstein, Aristotle, Darwinian theory, Darwinists, doppelgänger, Erwin Schrödinger, First Way, form, genotype, Isaac Newton, matter, phenotype, potency, Prime Mover, quantum mechanics, theory, Thomas Aquinas, Universal Darwinism}

Aristotle and Universal Darwinism

_{Michael Egnor
April 8, 2019

Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Linguistics, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Physics, Social Sciences

6}

The greatest engine of atheism in modern times — Darwin’s theory — is nothing more than a bastardization of the strongest philosophical argument for God’s existence. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 30, 2017

Categories
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, actuality, Aristotle, Ed Feser, existence, intelligibility, matter, potency, substance}

What Is Form?

_{Michael Egnor
July 30, 2017

Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

4}

Materialism is an impoverished perspective on nature, and it creates, rather than solves, problems in metaphysics and science. Read More ›