Hyle

279 The two essentials in the composition of all sublunary things were, by the ancient Greeks, termed psyche and hyle, that is, spiritus et materia, soul and body. 1877 tr. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Here Crescas takes up the problem and points out that whether we accept or not an eternal "hyle," everything that exists must be dependent upon ❋ Isaac Husik (1907)

Their matter is the primitive "hyle," and their form is the primitive form, which is the root of all forms, essential as well as accidental. ❋ Isaac Husik (1907)

These are "hyle" (matter) -- what has no likeness or form, but has the capacity of receiving form -- and form, which is defined as that which has power to clothe the hyle with any form. ❋ Isaac Husik (1907)

Accordingly he compromised by saying that while the present world as it is is not eternal, it came from a primitive "hyle" or matter, which was eternal. ❋ Isaac Husik (1907)

It is called "hyle," and is the same as the darkness of the first chapter in Genesis. ❋ Isaac Husik (1907)

Body, corporeity, is the result of the union of "hyle" and "form." ❋ Unknown (1852)

Greek scheme we have three terms, 1. the 'hyle', [Greek: hulae], which holds the place of the chaos, or the waters, in the true system; 2. ❋ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1803)

Hartshorne would argue, contra Alston, that there is a connection between belief in creation ex hyle (as opposed to creation ex nihilo) and the metaphysical principle that being is dynamic power. ❋ Dombrowski, Dan (2009)

Paul Woodruff has defined hylomorphism as “the doctrine, first taught by Aristotle, that concrete substance consists of forms in matter (hyle)” (Audi [1999], p. 408). ❋ Spade, Paul Vincent (2008)

For the Greeks, the principle of imperfection was matter, hyle. ❋ Smith, Zadie (2008)

According to Heidegger in his famous essay, "The Origin of the Work of Art", one of the most common understandings of a thing is, precisely, matter (hyle) that has form (morphe). ❋ Enowning (2007)

The concept of treedom does not subsist in some fortuitous, exogenous hyle -- that is the doctrine of carpenters, not of philosophers. ❋ Robert A. Harris (N/A)

(Gr. hyle; Lat. materia; Fr. matière; Ger. materie and stoff), the correlative of Form. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

There being no previously existing material cause (hyle) of creation, the application of the fourth cause appears in the Scholastic theory on potency and materia prima, the radical and undifferentiated constituent of nature. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Sila is connected with the Latin silva and with the Greek hyle ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Now when God determined to realize matter and form _in actu_, he caused the pure form to be clothed with its splendor, which no hyle can touch. ❋ Isaac Husik (1907)

Thus our world is dependent for its forms upon God, for its matter upon the prime and eternal "hyle." ❋ Isaac Husik (1907)