"Corporeity" Quotes from Famous Books
... sensible and physical, whereas it is an intellectual principle whose inherence is implied in any physical thing. It is something distinct from body, and has none of those properties we are now accustomed to ascribe to matter. Body, corporeity, is the result of the union of "hyle" and "form." Stobaeus thus expounds the doctrine of Aristotle: Form alone, separate from matter (yle) is incorporeal; so matter alone, separated from form, is not body. But there is need of the joint concurrence of ... — Christianity and Greek Philosophy • Benjamin Franklin Cocker |