(October 19, 2021 at 8:40 am)Belacqua Wrote: The summary in the video is so bare-bones that I think anyone would be left with questions. The argument is basically that a thing's essence and its existence are not necessarily together -- that is, we can talk about the essences of things that don't exist. For the essence to come into existence requires a cause.
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Thanks for the link to the video.
At 1:13 we get the definition of Essence as "The properties that make something what it is rather than some other thing."
Gives me flashbacks to 30 years ago when I was learning about Asset / Configuration Management.
What Aquinas misses, of course, is that the essence is not in the thing, it's in the reading/reader of the thing.
The PURPOSE of life is to replicate our DNA ................. (from Darwin)
The MEANING of life is the experience of living ... (from Frank Herbert)
The VALUE of life is the legacy we leave behind ..... (from observation)
The MEANING of life is the experience of living ... (from Frank Herbert)
The VALUE of life is the legacy we leave behind ..... (from observation)