Emergence of Matter in the Medieval Dynamic Paradigm. Influence on Dialectical Materialism

Abstract

A disruptive dynamic metaphysics refutes in the thirteenth century the Thomistic conception of matter as a pure power without its own entity outside of form, granting itself marginal actuality and rescuing the doctrine of rationes seminales a new version with outstanding influence on contemporary dialectical materialism. This essay aims to elucidate the announced impact in a hermeneutical synthesis based on two primary keys: efficient action as induction of sown forms that presumes a certain autonomy in the natural agent due to the underlying nature of matter in the processes of generation and corruption, and the diagnosis of qualitative change as a manifestation of the quantitative.