![]() In so doing, he bases himself on Aristotle's theories of hylemorphism and of potency and act. Aquinas explores the harmonious coexistence of the indivisibility and unity of the composed whole, on the one hand, and the divisibility and multiplicity of the material component parts of the mobile substance, on the other. ![]() This predominance is so radical that the component parts form a single substance that is unqualifiedly undivided and one. The indivisibility and unity of the mobile substance, qua compound whole, predominates over the divisibility and multiplicity that exists between the various material parts that make up the whole. Aristotle holds the mobile substance to be a unified totality made up of multiple material parts. ![]() The unity and indivisibility of the mobile substance is that of a whole made up of the many distinct material component parts that comprise it. ![]()
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