Sentence examples for pure actuality from inspiring English sources

God is absolute, eternal, first cause, pure actuality, an omniscient, omnipotent, and perfect being.

Plato's view of the soul also marks him as a spiritualist, and Aristotle was a spiritualist for distinguishing the active from the passive intellect and for conceiving of God as pure actuality (knowledge knowing itself).

("Oh, the ecstasy of aloneness!") At a bookshop in 1953, she opened a collection of Kafka's short stories and turned to "The Metamorphosis": It was like a physical blow, the absoluteness of his prose, pure actuality nothing forced or obscure.

But only God is pure actuality.

It is esse rather than existere which "denominates the pure actuality of a being".

For matter is potentiality and form is actuality, so if the angels were altogether immaterial, they would be pure actuality without any admixture of potentiality.

But unlike Kant, he does not assert the actuality of a pure, free will.

It is crucial to Anaxagoras' theory that there be (in actuality) no such pure bits or volumes of any type of ingredient.

While acknowledging that there can never be pure instances of any ingredient in actuality, there could be such instances in analysis.

Here "actuality" (actus) means 'that which makes the being actually intelligible, by giving it the actual essence it has.' This movement of conceptual analysis opens the mind to see that we can understand a creature as "a being" (ens) only by referring to the notion of an act of being which is pure from non-being (esse purum), indeed, which is pure from any non-being (esse purissimum).

Most Aristotelian interpreters believed matter to be prope nihil, pure potentiality, while others believed that it possessed a certain degree of reality and actuality.