EKPOMA REVIEW

This paper centers on the basic principle of being. Every being is seen to be in potency before it becomes an act. The paper argues that the notion of act and potency is both intrinsic and extrinsic judging from the principles of causality and motion. This is because every being that is said to exist, has a cause and this cause, produces its corresponding effect. Thanks to the efficient cause that determines the final cause of a being. The same is true of the notion of change and motion in being. This paper further argues that what is understood as potency is the gathering together of different acts while what is understood as an act, is the combination of different actualities. This necessitated the introduction of two operational terms 'Loosed' and the 'Strict' act. The method to be adopted in this work is analytic, speculative, and prescriptive.

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