In the next section of Chapter 2 of Feser's book, Feser did great at explaining the distinctions between essence and existence. The distinction between essence and nature was also clear though I'm not really sure if the distinction is warranted, but it shows just how precise and technical Aquinas' analyses of these metaphysical matters were.
There were, however, stuff said in this content that may come off to the modern atheist reader as pure word play. The bit about angels not sharing an essence but are each their own species feels sketchy to me, and I'm not really sure if we can make sense of form existing purely without matter. Also, God being that being whose essence and existence are identical felt a bit like jumping the gun, but we'll see some elaboration on this later in the book anyway so no further comment on this for now.
There were, however, stuff said in this content that may come off to the modern atheist reader as pure word play. The bit about angels not sharing an essence but are each their own species feels sketchy to me, and I'm not really sure if we can make sense of form existing purely without matter. Also, God being that being whose essence and existence are identical felt a bit like jumping the gun, but we'll see some elaboration on this later in the book anyway so no further comment on this for now.
