RT Article
T1 Is Matter the Same as Its Potency? Some Fourteenth-Century Answers
JF Vivarium
VO 59
IS 1/2
SP 123
OP 142
A1 Friedman, Russell L.
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1753024277
AB Abstract Is prime matter the same as its potency ( potentia ), its readiness to take on the entire gamut of corporeal substantial forms? This question, arising from a passage in Averroes, lies at the core of later medieval hylomorphism and was hotly debated. The present article looks at three answers to the question by figures from the first half of the fourteenth century: Gerald Ot who takes a Scotistic approach to the issue, John of Jandun and Peter Auriol taking an Averroan tack, and John Buridan with a nominalistic outlook. The discussion reveals a diversity of positions on the nature of potency and its relation to actuality, and in the case of Buridan an unusual view at the heart of his matter theory: the direct inherence of accidental forms in prime matter.
K1 John Buridan
K1 John of Jandun
K1 Gerald Ot
K1 Averroes
K1 potency
K1 Matter
DO 10.1163/15685349-12341400