Aseity

Under aseity (from Latin a se, of itself, out of itself; aseitas ) refers to the For -itself, the Von- to - be - itself, ie something that has not received its being from elsewhere.

The term has different meanings depending on the philosophical context.

Scholasticism

The scholastic philosophy called the being of God as aseity, ie His unconditional, in contrast to related, created being.

The aseity come exclusively to God because only this is absolute and its being not indebted to another, such as setting out in the framework of Natural Theology in the opinion of the scholasticism of Kontingenzbeweis. In the scholastic theology thus so is the absolute independence of God, by virtue of which he was the reason for his existence only in itself, meant.

Other meanings

The aseity happens

• Spinoza the substance;
• Schopenhauer the will;
• Eduard von Hartmann the unconscious.