# Essence and existence

- Id: `essence_and_existence`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/essence-and-existence/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `24dde40a947fc8f8f36a2955dac1e65685541bdd294f48b7a80294da2989dae5`

## Summary

The distinction between essence and existence asks what a thing is and by what it actually exists, refusing to confuse definition with the act of existing.

## Overview

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 23,778 passages across 2 works, including Summa Contra Gentiles, Summa Theologiae. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 2,
    "passages": 23778,
    "thinkers": 1,
    "traditions": 1
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "id": "modern-philosophy",
        "name": "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/modern-and-contemporary-philosophy/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "thomas_aquinas.summa_contra_gentiles",
        "title": "Summa Contra Gentiles",
        "author": "Thomas Aquinas",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/thomas-aquinas/summa-contra-gentiles/"
    },
    {
        "id": "thomas_aquinas.summa_theologiae",
        "title": "Summa Theologiae",
        "author": "Thomas Aquinas",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/thomas-aquinas/summa-theologiae/"
    }
]
```