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Ideas of Bonaventura, by Text

[Italian, 1221 - 1274, Born at Bagnorea, Italy. A Franciscan monk. Died at Lyons.]

1252	Commentary on Sentences

II.2.1.1.3 ad 5	p.380	16696	Successive things reduce to permanent things
			Full Idea: Everything successive reduces to something permanent.
			From: Bonaventura (Commentary on Sentences [1252], II.2.1.1.3 ad 5), quoted by Robert Pasnau - Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671 18.2
			A reaction: Avicenna first took successive entities seriously, but Bonaventure and Aquinas seem to have rejected them, or given reductive accounts of them. It resembles modern actualists versus modal realists.

IV.12.1.1.1c	p.186	16643	Accidents always remain suited to a subject
			Full Idea: An accident's aptitudinal relationship to a subject is essential, and this is never taken away from accidents….for it is true to say that they are suited to a subject.
			From: Bonaventura (Commentary on Sentences [1252], IV.12.1.1.1c)
			A reaction: This is the compromise view that allows accidents to be separated, for Transubstantiation, while acknowledging that we identify them with their subjects.