You may wonder, dear blog, what relation can there possibly be between ‘Substantial Form’ and ‘DNA’… I share your curiosity and amazement. But thanks to my beloved copy of Purgatorio we have an answer:
‘Substance’ for Dante and his scholastic sources emphatically does not mean, as in modern usage, a material substance, but is rather the potentiality to be an independent ‘subsisting’ being…
So far this matches my Aristotelian Metaphysics lessons, or at least what I remember from them. But, check this out: Continue reading
