Sentences with phrase «ipsum esse»

Put differently, whatsoever really exists, in whatsoever way it does exist, has and must have God, ipsum esse per se subsistens, for its cause — but in a radical way that extends even to its mode of being, its very mutability, its possibility for otherness, interaction, frustration, and fulfillment.

God isn't the «highest being» but, rather, the sheer act of «to be» itself (Aquinas put is as «ipsum esse subsistens»).