Essence vs existence composition in creatures

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Metaphysical composition: essence ≠ existence in creatures.

Essence = what you must conceive (rational animal = man).

Winter rose-nature without a rose: creatures can be and not-be.

Latin

VII. Sed praeterea sunt quaedam compositionis genera magis abstracta & metaphysica, quae hic quoque consideranda sunt. Nam in rebus omnibus creatis essentia potest ab existentia distingui, estque aliud essentia, & aliud existentia. Quippe per essentiam intelligimus id sine quo res concipi non potest, & per quod res quaeque definitur. Sic animal rationale est hominis essentia, quia non potes concipere hominem quin concipias animal rationale: estque animal rationale hominis definitio. Per existentiam autem intelligitur id per quod res actu est in rerum natura. Jam autem haec duo in rebus creatis omnino distinguuntur. Siquidem existentia de illarum essentia non est. Nam possunt esse & non esse. Et potes essentiam illarum concipere, etiamsi de earum existentia non cogites: imo quamvis cogites & scias illas non existere. Veluti cum quis hyeme, quando nulla rosa existat, naturam rosae contemplatur. Ideoque res omnes creatae compositae dici possunt ex essentia & existentia.

About this text

Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu - Sedan Theological Theses, newly rendered from the 1675 London Latin. Covers De Theologia through Angelorum & Hominum Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII and Pars Secunda (Reformata) I-XL. Not the collected folio.

English follows locked Pitt Latin through Imaginum CLOSED + Sanctorum Cultu Romana CLOSED + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL. 1675 PDF ~384-390 (book ~370-376); Vision OCR + pdftotext + tess. No modern English. This slice densifies Sanctorum Pars Secunda I-XL. Next: Pars Secunda XLI–fin (~CI). Claim stays claimed (book densify not done).

Catalogue & scope

ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves). Densify through Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL (Pars Secunda not closed; not whole folio).

Witnesses

Copy-text Locked Latin, De Theologia I-XLIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
Checked print Internet Archive PDF of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
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Checked print Internet Archive DjVu OCR of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
Copy-text Locked Latin, De Fide I-XXII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
Copy-text Locked Latin, De Authoritate Scripturae Pars I I-XLVII + Pars II I-XXXV + Pars III I-VIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
Copy-text Locked Latin, De Scripturae plenitudine densify (Pitt 1675) (Latin)

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