RT Article
T1 Peter Auriol on the Metaphysics of Efficient Causation
JF Vivarium
VO 55
IS 4
SP 239
OP 272
A1 Löwe, Can Laurens
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2017
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1582477728
AB According to Peter Auriol, ofm (d. 1322), efficient causation is a composite being (ens per accidens) consisting of items belonging to three distinct categories: a change (or, more generally, a produced form), an action, and a passion. The change (or produced form) functions as the subject bearing action and passion. After presenting Aristotle’s account of action and passion, which constitutes the background to Auriol’s theory of causation, this paper considers Auriol’s interpretation of Aristotle’s account in contrast to an alternative interpretation defended by Hervaeus Natalis and William of Ockham. Finally, it shows how Auriol, on the basis of his interpretation of Aristotle, develops his own account of efficient causation as a composite being.
K1 Peter Auriol : Aristotle : efficient causation : action and passion : ens per accidens
DO 10.1163/15685349-12341344