The Catholic World, Vol. 19, April 1874‐September 1874Various
Religion
The Catholic World, Vol. 19, April 1874‐September 1874
Various
Catholic Church -- Periodicals
Theologia Moralis Novissimi Ecclesiæ Doctoris S. Alphonsi, in Compendium
Redacta, etc., 576.
Thomas and Baldwin’s Gazetteer, 720.
Thomas’s Dictionary of Biography, 720.
Thomas Grant, First Bishop of Southwark, 855.
Thomas, S., of Villanova, Life of, 573.
Tigranes, 575.
True to Trust, 281.
Twelve Tales for the Young, 576.
Université Laval: Sixième Centenaire de S. Thomas d’Aquin à S. Hyacinthe
et à Quebec, 281.
Verne’s The Baltimore Gun Club, 575.
Virtues of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, The, 288.
What is Darwinism? 429.
Who is Jesus Christ? 431.
Wilberforce’s The Church and the Empires, 859.
Wilson’s Illustrious Soldiers, 719.
Wood’s Ecclesiastical Antiquities, 143.
Worcester’s Dictionary, 720.
THE CATHOLIC WORLD. VOL. XIX., NO. 109.—APRIL, 1874.
The Principles Of Real Being. IV. Intrinsic Principles of Substance and
Suppositum.
We have briefly shown in the preceding article that a complete being, to
be a substance and a suppositum, requires no positive addition to its
three intrinsic principles, but needs only to be left to itself. This is,
in our opinion, an obvious truth. But as there are philosophers of high
repute who do not fully share the same opinion, and, on the other hand,
the notions of substance and of suppositum are both intimately connected
with some theological truths which cannot be well explained without a
distinct knowledge of what these two notions really imply, we deem it
expedient to enter into a closer examination of the subject, that we may
better understand by the light of reason, and confirm by the weight of
authority, the traditional doctrine on substance and suppositum, their
essential constitution, formal distinction, and supernatural separability.
Substance is very commonly described as “that which is in itself and by
itself”—_quod in se et per se subsistit_. This definition exhibits the
“predicamental” substance—that is, a substance ultimately complete, which
is at the same time a suppositum also, according to Aristotle’s
comprehensive conception of substance. And it is for this reason that such
a definition is made up of two members; of which the first—viz., “that
which exists in itself”—strictly applies to substance as such; whilst the
second—viz., “that which subsists by itself”—strictly refers to the
suppositum as such, and exhibits substance as possessing its own natural
subsistence or suppositality.
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