Sentences with phrase «passive substance to itself»

The activity of the agent substance is the giving of form to matter, and the consequent assimilation of the passive substance to itself.

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When the erosions of age begin to leave their mark on my body, and still more on my mind; when the ills that must diminish my life or put an end to it strike me down from without or grow up from within me; when I reach that painful moment at which I suddenly realize that I am a sick man or that I am growing old; above all at that final moment when I feel I am losing hold on myself and becoming wholly passive in the hands of those great unknown forces which first formed me: at all these sombre moments grant me, Lord, to understand that it is you (provided my faith is strong enough) who are painfully separating the fibres of my being so as to penetrate to the very marrow of my substance and draw me into yourself

(2) Substance is therefore rightly thought of as both static and passive, hence as lending itself immediately to the notion of an inert stuff or matter.

Substantial activity seems to be thought of as an explanation of the universe in a way that would participate in efficiency as well as in passive materiality, but in fact the Aristotelian categories of causality do not apply to Spinoza's vision of infinite substance.

Common self - defeating behaviors that you may be struggling with include: avoidance, isolation, procrastination, passive or aggressive communication, substance abuse, food, sex, or gambling addiction, and self - injury to name some.