Hence the famous unusquisque tantum juris habet, quantum potentia valet (or more exactly, quantum potentia valere creditur).
According to Ultzmann, there is a form of fecundating impotence in persons otherwise well provided with an apparent complete apparatus, an impotence which he terms potentia generandi.
Agreeable to this conception is the further Thomistic teaching that sanctifying grace is not directly created by God, but drawn (educta) from the potentia obedientialis of the soul.
It is impossible, they argue, to elicit vital or immanent supernatural acts unless the faculties of the soul have previously been raised to the supernatural order by means of the potentia obœdientialis.
Holy Ghost elevates the powers of the soul, and through the instrumentality of the so-called potentia obedientialis,(40) produces in it entitatively supernatural acts.
A man tied to a chair is not free to stand; his natural potentia standi is neutralized by external restraint.
On the potentia obedientialis see Pohle-Preuss, God the Author of Nature and the Supernatural, pp.
Alvarez(733) describes the Thomistic potentia dissentiendi as a faculty which can never under any circumstances become active.
But if we regard the power of God as He sees fit to exercise it in the present economy (potentia Dei ordinata), we find that it is limited by two sublime ideals of holiness to which neither man nor angel can attain, viz.
Land reads: "Quod ipsius agendipotentia juvatur"--which I have translated above.
Had they constantly used virtus or vis for the potentia activa, and reserved potentia exclusively for the potentia passiva, they would not have mistaken the one for the other, as they sometimes did.
But the potentia which, with the actus, constitutes the being and every class of beings is the potentia passiva; whilst the potentia from which any act proceeds is the potentia activa.
Moreover, a faculty does not cease to be potentia activa, even when it actually performs its operations.
When I actually make a syllogism, my faculty of reasoning is "in act," and yet it retains its potentia activa with regard to any number of other syllogisms.
Yet whilst the potentia operandi is active, the potentia essendi, according to S.
Thus, the word "power" retaining its active meaning, the potentia passiva may very appropriately be styled "potency.
Ens being two-fold, all change takes place out of Ens Potentia into Ens Actu, e.
Again, in another sense, the principles of all things are generically the same, though specifically different; such are Potentia and Actus.
His words are: unusquisque tantum juris habet quantum potentia valet;[1] each man has as much right as he has power.
And again: uniuscujusque jus potentia ejus definitur; each man's right is determined by his power.
Nihil autem reducitur de potentia in actum, nisi per aliquod ens actu: sicut sensus fit in actu per sensibile in actu.
Aquinas rephrases the definition as "Motus est actus existentis in potentia secundum quod huius modi.
Whence the definition of motion that Descartes[19] was later to deride, "motus est actus entis in potentia prout quod in potentia.
Potentia conjuncta actui suo perfectior est quam non conjuncta: sed humana natura erit in beatis in maxima perfectione: ergo erunt ibi omnes sensus in suo actu.
Dame Potentia was just retiring to rest as the jailer reached her dwelling, and it was only by the most urgent importunity that he succeeded in obtaining admission.
As they crossed the kitchen, they heard a sound proceeding from an adjoining room, which convinced them that neither Peter Trusbut nor Dame Potentia were on the watch.
Puffing with the exertion he had undergone, the pantler then sat down, while Ribald, resolved not to be balked of his pastime, entreated Dame Potentia to let her guests wash down their food with a measure of metheglin.
The matter being referred to Dame Potentia she at once assented, and assigned him Cicely's chamber.
Dame Potentia was restored to good humour by the attentions of the jovial warder, and the giants in consequence were regaled with an excellent and plentiful supper, of which Xit was permitted to partake.
The little Angela was conveyed by me, to Dame Potentia Trusbut.
But Dame Potentia looked rather grave, and privately intimated to her husband her desire, or rather command, that he should go home.
Via Herculia, coming southwards from the Via Appia and passing throughPotentia and Grumentum, joined the Via Popillia near the S.
Quaedam vero recedunt minus a permanentia essendi, quia esse eorum nec in transmutatione consistit nec est subjectum transmutationis; tamen habent transmutationem adjunctam vel in actu vel in potentia .
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "potentia" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
