essentia

Japanese: essentia
essentia


[Essentia and Existence]
In this metaphysical way of thinking, individual things are perceived as a combination of form and matter, and the concepts of "existence" and "being," which are supposed to be simple, are split into two distinct concepts. In other words, "to be" is split into two meanings: "to ti estin" in the sense of "what something is" as determined by form, and "to hoti estin" in the sense of "whether something actually exists" as determined by matter, and this "to ti estin" is translated into Latin as quidditas or essentia (essential existence, "to be"), and "to hoti estin" is translated as existentia (actual existence, "there is") (although the translation "essential existence" may sound unnatural to our sense of language, since essentia comes from the verb esse, which means "to be/exist," it must be translated as "essential existence"). By the way, a major characteristic of the metaphysical way of thinking is that in this divided concept of existence, the "essential existence" determined by forms that are directly linked to supernatural principles always occupies the upper hand.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "essentia" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:


【本質存在(エッセンティア)と事実存在(エクシステンティア)】
 このように形而上学的思考様式のもとで個々の事物が形相と質料の結合体としてとらえられることによって,もともと単純であるはずの〈存在〉概念,〈ある〉という概念が二義的に分裂することになる。つまり,〈ある〉ということが,形相によって規定される〈何であるか〉という意味での〈である(ト・ティ・エスティンto ti estin)〉と,質料によって規定される〈現実にあるかどうか〉という意味での〈がある(ト・ホティ・エスティンto hoti estin)〉との二義に分裂し,このト・ティ・エスティンがラテン語ではクイディタスquidditasあるいはエッセンティアessentia(本質存在,〈……である〉)と訳され,ト・ホティ・エスティンがエクシステンティアexistentia(事実存在,〈……がある〉)と訳された(われわれの語感からすると〈本質存在〉という訳語は不自然に聞こえようが,エッセンティアが〈ある・存在する〉という意味の動詞esseに由来する以上,やはり〈本質存在〉と訳さねばならないのである)。ところで,こうして二義的に分裂した存在概念にあって,超自然的原理に直接結びつく形相によって規定される〈本質存在〉がつねに優位を占めるということも,形而上学的思考様式の大きな特質である。…

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