Per Se vs Per Accidens Causal Series [Scriptum #3]

Brief explanation of the distinction between causality per se and causality per accidens.

[Mygoalwogel]

I've watched all your videos but the itch is still itchy. I love that you're sticking to meaty topics. I appreciated your explanation the role you hope to take in the Lutheran YouTube realm, and absolutely agree. You're a much needed channel.

[andrewvillalobos]

2:11 love this analogy here. Probably the best one that I have heard on this disctinction. This very much vibes with Aquinas' On Being and Essence.

[fr.hughmackenzie]

Seems to me, in the light of modern science, not least Relativity, per se just involves simultaneity and per accidens is across time. Otherwise they are causally identical. An animal father in all that he is across the space-time unity of the cosmos is just as necessarily related to his father (& vice versa) as the hand to the stick (& vice versa). Per accidens time series are indeed dependant upon per se series across space. But the opposite is also true.

As atheists from Russell onwards have shown the resultant scholastic cosmological arguments are thereby undermined.

[crypastesomemore]

I don’t get it. If per accidens are dependent on per se, and per se can’t be infinite, then how can per accidens be infinite?