PPT Slide
Ancient & Medieval Philosophy -- David L. Rouse
- “The opposite extreme to this is a being which is not made from or by anything and not preceded by time; and here too all members of both schools agree in naming it "pre- eternal." This being is apprehended by demonstration; it is God…”
- “The class of being which is between these two extremes is that which is not made from anything and not preceded by time, but which is brought into existence by something, i.e. by an agent. This is the world as a whole.”