05.29
I’m creating a new category here on the blog. It’s going to be a word-of-the-day type thing, except I’ll be posting more than just definitions of words. There will be all kinds of words, phrases and terms. I hope to post a new one every weekday. I feel like my wife and I are constantly looking up definitions because of the type of book that we read (homeschool literature, philosophy, theology). This will be a way for me to pass those along to you. I’m not just going to cut and paste from Websters though. Explaining something to someone else is a great way to clarify one’s own understanding of a subject, so that’s what I’ll do. And here’s one to kick things off:
Word: Hylomorphic
Definition: The metaphysical idea that a substance is the combination of physical and non-physical stuff.
Explanation: Hylomorphism is the belief that the conjuction of physical matter with non-physical “material” is what makes a substance. A substance being any existing subject(material or immaterial) that can’t be attributed as a property to another object. It stands on it’s own. It’s mostly the view that the immaterial self is not a substance without being conjoined to a physical body. It’s the conjuction that forms the substance. This competes with Descartes view that non-corporeal souls are substances by themselves which are then conjoined to a physical body in substantia.
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