![]() ![]() In my talk I will examine a borderline case of this metaphysical dynamic: the substrate of corporeal bodies, matter, and its role in the constitution of the hylomorphic compound. Finally available to the Latin philosophers since the end of the twelfth century, these pivotal sources will reshape the medieval debate on physics and metaphysics up to the Early-Modern Period. Often developed through slightly different vocabularies and theoretical contexts, the doctrinal genesis of this causal dynamic is connected to Aristotle's thematization of physics and metaphysics, and its interpretations by the Muslim and Jewish philosophical traditions. From that event, something (a.) is caused following the casual footprints of the event (effectus) (b.) it receives (and, in some case, provides) an accidental or substantial disposition (affectus), which is characterised by (c.) its lack of different characteristics or further improvement of those characteristics that the thing already has from the causal event (defectus). By a metaphysical viewpoint, these concepts are bound to each other as they describe three ontological situations reciprocally connected as different aspects of a causal event. by to): He affects to the old ways.Based on the same Latin verb facio, the terms 'affectus', 'effectus', and 'defectus' are widely used by the Latin philosophers in reference to different disciplines and peculiar problems of the reflection on, among others, being, soul, and knowledge. ![]() to incline, tend, or favor (usually fol.Ecology(of animals and plants) to occupy or inhabit.(of things) to tend toward habitually or naturally: a substance that affects colloidal form.to assume the character or attitude of: to affect the freethinker.Prefer: the peculiar costume he affected. ![]()
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