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501 1, 72 | in generation is a ~vital act observed in them. For the 502 1, 72 | any sin whatever in the act of ~begetting children. 503 1, 73 | completion of a work is an act in itself. But we do ~not 504 1, 73 | 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: God did act on the seventh day, not 505 1, 74 | lies only in the Divine ~act producing the substance 506 1, 74 | words, "It was ~done," some act of God is expressed by some 507 1, 75 | principle which is called its act. Therefore the soul, which 508 1, 75 | is not a body, but the act of a body; thus heat, ~which 509 1, 75 | calefaction, is not a body, but an act of a ~body.~Aquin.: SMT 510 1, 75 | as it causes it to be in act. But, as is shown in Phys. ~ 511 1, 75 | of understanding: for the act of understanding does ~not 512 1, 75 | in order to perform its act of ~perception.~Aquin.: 513 1, 75 | in the body; thus in the act of vision, the pupil of 514 1, 75 | obeying the appetite; and the ~act of this power does not consist 515 1, 75 | clear that to move is not an act of the sensitive soul without 516 1, 75 | participate of the First Act, which is God; by participation 517 1, 75 | is a form only, is a pure act, ~and is infinite. But this 518 1, 75 | for a form, as such, is an act; and that ~which is purely 519 1, 75 | potentiality cannot be part of an act, since potentiality ~is 520 1, 75 | 1~Reply OBJ 1: The First Act is the universal principle 521 1, 75 | potentiality is receptive of act, it must be proportionate 522 1, 75 | must be proportionate to act. But ~the acts received 523 1, 75 | from the First Infinite Act, and are ~participations 524 1, 75 | all acts, as there is one act, from which all ~participated 525 1, 75 | potentiality of the First Act. Now the receptive ~potentiality 526 1, 75 | by ~transmuting it to the act of a form. A subsistent 527 1, 75 | it from potentiality to act. So after the words quoted 528 1, 75 | moves from potentiality to act; ~while whatsoever things 529 1, 75 | the participator as ~its act. But whatever created form 530 1, 75 | His own existence, is pure act ~and infinite. But in intellectual 531 1, 75 | to a form, which is an act, by virtue of itself. Wherefore 532 1, 76 | and that it is not the act of any body. ~Therefore 533 1, 76 | whatever receptive power is an act of a body, receives a ~form 534 1, 76 | subject is what can, and does, act. But the intellectual action 535 1, 76 | nature; because form is the act of matter, not by an ~accidental 536 1, 76 | of the thing to which the act is to be ~attributed: for 537 1, 76 | except so far as it is in act; wherefore a ~thing acts 538 1, 76 | by that whereby it is in act. Now it is clear that the 539 1, 76 | thing is ~said to move or act, either by virtue of its 540 1, 76 | explain the fact, that the act of the intellect is the 541 1, 76 | of the intellect is the act of Socrates. ~This can be 542 1, 76 | form one thing ~so that the act of the intellect could be 543 1, 76 | thing moved. ~Whereas the act of intellect remains in 544 1, 76 | For since the form is an act, and matter is only in ~ 545 1, 76 | the power of seeing is the act of the ~eye; for understanding 546 1, 76 | for understanding is an act which cannot be performed 547 1, 76 | corporeal ~organ, like the act of seeing. But it exists 548 1, 76 | intellectual power be not the ~act of the body.~Aquin.: SMT 549 1, 76 | power thereof not being the act of the body, ~although the 550 1, 76 | several agents, but one act; for example, if there be 551 1, 76 | understand, which is the act of the intellect, is not 552 1, 76 | understander," and have but one act of understanding, in regard, 553 1, 76 | that "the ~soul is the act of a physical body which 554 1, 76 | say that the soul is the act of a body ~only, but "the 555 1, 76 | of a body ~only, but "the act of a physical organic body 556 1, 76 | when the soul is called the act, the soul itself ~is included; 557 1, 76 | we say that heat is the act of what is hot, and ~light 558 1, 76 | soul is said to be the "act of a body," etc., because 559 1, 76 | potentially. Yet the first act is ~said to be in potentiality 560 1, 76 | potentiality to the second act, which is operation; for ~ 561 1, 76 | by the motive power, the act of which presupposes the ~ 562 1, 76 | that "the soul ~is the act of a physical organic body 563 1, 76 | is ~itself essentially an act; nor does it give existence 564 1, 76 | united to matter as its act. Nor is there any other 565 1, 76 | which causes matter to be in act, as the Philosopher ~says, 566 1, 76 | which, if considered as an ~act, is very distant from matter, 567 1, 76 | body of which it is the act. But it ~is the act of an 568 1, 76 | the act. But it ~is the act of an organic body. Therefore 569 1, 76 | must be ~the form and the act, not only of the whole, 570 1, 76 | action of the ~species. But act is in that which it actuates: 571 1, 76 | Reply OBJ 2: The soul is the act of an organic body, as of 572 1, 77 | because, since power and act ~divide being and every 573 1, 77 | must refer a power and its act ~to the same genus. Therefore, 574 1, 77 | genus. Therefore, if the act be not in the genus of ~ 575 1, 77 | the power directed to that act cannot be in the genus of ~ 576 1, 77 | by its very essence is an act. Therefore if the ~very 577 1, 77 | form the soul is ~not an act ordained to a further act, 578 1, 77 | act ordained to a further act, but the ultimate term of ~ 579 1, 77 | potentiality to another act, does ~not belong to it 580 1, 77 | power, is called the ~first act, with a further relation 581 1, 77 | further relation to the second act. Now we observe that ~what 582 1, 77 | the soul, that it ~is "the act of a body having life potentially"; 583 1, 77 | potentiality by ~reason of an act, as act.~Aquin.: SMT FP 584 1, 77 | by ~reason of an act, as act.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[77] A[ 585 1, 77 | Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: The act to which primary matter 586 1, 77 | does existence; for to ~act belongs to what exists. 587 1, 77 | in God, Who is the Pure Act; in treating of ~which subject 588 1, 77 | operate belongs to what is in act. But by the one ~essence 589 1, 77 | extrinsic to it. But the act is subsequent to the power; ~ 590 1, 77 | as such is directed to an act. Wherefore we seek ~to know 591 1, 77 | nature of a power from the act to which it is directed, 592 1, 77 | diversified, as the nature of the ~act is diversified. Now the 593 1, 77 | diversified. Now the nature of an act is diversified according 594 1, 77 | of the objects. For every act is either of an active ~ 595 1, 77 | Now, the object is to the act of a passive ~power, as 596 1, 77 | On the other hand, to the act of ~an active power the 597 1, 77 | from ~these two things an act receives its species, namely, 598 1, 77 | its end or term; for the act of heating differs from 599 1, 77 | heating differs from the act of ~cooling, in this, that 600 1, 77 | 1 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 1: Act, though subsequent in existence 601 1, 77 | another; for sight can ~act independently of hearing, 602 1, 77 | body" may determine the act of ~sense in its mode of 603 1, 77 | understood as determining the act of sense on the part of 604 1, 77 | in this, that each is an act; and that by each ~of them 605 1, 77 | but forasmuch as it is in act, it produces it. This I ~ 606 1, 77 | because these ~powers have no act apart from the corporeal 607 1, 37 | Ghost; for no ~notional act is reflected back on the 608 1, 37 | on the principle of the act; since it ~cannot be said 609 1, 37 | imports only a notional act. Hence we cannot say that 610 1, 37 | speaking," as by a notional act; forasmuch as "to speak" 611 1, 37 | Love itself as a notional act.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[37] A[ 612 1, 39 | by reason of the notional act this name "God" stands for 613 1, 40 | is signified by ~way of act, as "generation"; and "relation" 614 1, 40 | that relation follows upon act, have said that ~the divine 615 1, 40 | taken for the ~notional act, is attributed to the Father 616 1, 40 | originating; as the notional act of spiration precedes, in 617 1, 40 | presupposes the notional act, for relation, as such, 618 1, 40 | such, is ~founded upon an act: secondly, according as 619 1, 40 | and thus the notional act presupposes the relation, 620 1, 41 | the term of one notional act?~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[41] A[ 621 1, 41 | origin is designated by an act. In God there is a ~twofold 622 1, 41 | separately after the ~manner of act, and separately after the 623 1, 41 | means the principle ~of act. So, as we understand the 624 1, 41 | principle by a notional act. But in God the distinction 625 1, 41 | terms the intellect and the act of ~understanding in God, 626 1, 41 | God, whereas in God the act of understanding is His 627 1, 41 | Further, in God, the power to act [posse] and 'to act' are 628 1, 41 | power to act [posse] and 'to act' are not ~distinct. But 629 1, 41 | begetting is the same as the act of ~begetting, so the divine 630 1, 41 | the same in reality as the act of ~begetting or paternity; 631 1, 41 | the term of one notional act?~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[41] A[ 632 1, 41 | would seem that a notional act can be directed to several ~ 633 1, 41 | all things by one simple act. Wherefore there can ~be 634 1, 42 | nature are more powerful to act. And so as Augustine (Fulgentius, ~ 635 1, 42 | as it exists, ~begins to act thus, the effect would not 636 1, 42 | passing from ~potentiality to act; and this cannot be said 637 1, 42 | proceeding from potentiality to act, it follows that a man is 638 1, 42 | doing." But the Father can act of Himself. ~Therefore the 639 1, 42 | per se], that He does not act by Himself [a se]."~Aquin.: 640 1, 42 | eternity knowledge and will to act, ~by begetting Him. Or, 641 1, 43 | the performance of a new act, or in the acquisition of 642 1, 43 | to which it ~belongs to act, and which is capable of 643 1, 45 | actual, still it is not pure act. Hence it is necessary that ~ 644 1, 45 | cause of all things. For ~to act for an end seems to imply 645 1, 45 | it does not become Him to act for an end.~Aquin.: SMT 646 1, 45 | Agent, Who is agent only, to act for the ~acquisition of 647 1, 45 | Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 1: To act from need belongs only to 648 1, 45 | giver, because He ~does not act for His own profit, but 649 1, 46 | movement: for movement is the act of what is in ~potentiality. 650 1, 46 | If therefore God did only act from something presupposed, 651 1, 46 | creation is ~the proper act of God alone.~Aquin.: SMT 652 1, 46 | although creation is the proper act of the ~universal cause, 653 1, 46 | Hence nothing else can act ~dispositively and instrumentally 654 1, 46 | the potentiality from ~the act which the agent intends 655 1, 46 | the ~matter of water to an act like to itself, but is impeded 656 1, 46 | restrained from being reduced to act; and the more the potentiality 657 1, 46 | to reduce the matter ~to act. Hence a much greater power 658 1, 46 | it appears that it is an act of ~much greater power to 659 1, 46 | the potentiality from the act, it follows ~that the power 660 1, 46 | between potentiality and act. For because forms pre-exist 661 1, 46 | active qualities in nature act by virtue of substantial ~ 662 1, 48 | composition of potentiality and act, as will appear ~later ( 663 1, 49 | OBJ 4: A thing is said to act in a threefold sense. In 664 1, 49 | sense a thing ~is said to act effectively, as when a painter 665 1, 49 | Nom. iv): "Evil does not act, nor is it desired, ~except 666 1, 49 | medium between subject and act. ~Hence, where it touches 667 1, 49 | Hence, where it touches act, it is diminished by evil; 668 1, 49 | consists in perfection and act. Act, however, ~is twofold; 669 1, 49 | consists in perfection and act. Act, however, ~is twofold; first, 670 1, 49 | first, and second. The first act is the form and integrity 671 1, 49 | of ~a thing; the second act is its operation. Therefore 672 1, 49 | considered consists in act, and not in potentiality, 673 1, 49 | potentiality, and the ultimate act ~is operation, or the use 674 1, 49 | we use all things by the act of the will. Hence ~from 675 1, 49 | consists in the ~disordered act of the will, and the pain 676 1, 50 | of itself it belongs to act. Hence it is true ~that 677 1, 50 | not produce a morally bad act, since it is from the good 678 1, 50 | will itself ~that a moral act is judged to be good. Nevertheless 679 1, 50 | to his nature, causes an act morally evil. And, ~as explained 680 1, 50 | there is of motion in the act of limping is caused by 681 1, 50 | supreme good, who is pure act.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[49] A[ 682 1, 51 | OBJ 3: Further, form is act. So what is form only is 683 1, 51 | what is form only is pure act. But an ~angel is not pure 684 1, 51 | But an ~angel is not pure act, for this belongs to God 685 1, 51 | from its object, whence any act receives its ~species and 686 1, 51 | an ~angel, yet there is act and potentiality. And this 687 1, 51 | existence but ~existence is its act. Hence the nature itself 688 1, 51 | existence as potentiality to act. Therefore if there be no 689 1, 51 | existence, as of potentiality to act. And such a kind of composition 690 1, 51 | Hence God alone is pure ~act.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[50] A[ 691 1, 51 | non-existence, by withdrawing His act of ~preservation; but also 692 1, 52 | to ~understand is not the act of a body, nor of any corporeal 693 1, 52 | beget offspring is a vital act. But this has befallen ~ 694 1, 54 | Further, movement is "the act of an imperfect being," 695 1, 54 | is in potentiality is the act of ~an imperfect agent. 696 1, 54 | application of energy is ~the act of one in act: because energy 697 1, 54 | energy is ~the act of one in act: because energy implies 698 1, 54 | is in potentiality is the act of ~an imperfect but the 699 1, 54 | the movement of what is in act is not for any need of ~ 700 1, 55 | 1/1~Whether an angel's act of understanding is his 701 1, 55 | would seem that the angel's act of understanding is his ~ 702 1, 55 | his action - that is, his act of understanding.~Aquin.: 703 1, 55 | own essence. Therefore the act of ~understanding, which 704 1, 55 | anything which is not a pure ~act, but which has some admixture 705 1, 55 | But God alone is ~pure act. Hence only in God is His 706 1, 55 | 3~Besides, if an angel's act of understanding were his 707 1, 55 | subsisting. Now a subsisting act of ~intelligence can be 708 1, 55 | substance, which is His very act of understanding subsisting 709 1, 55 | if the angel were his own act of understanding, there 710 1, 55 | diverse participation of the act of understanding.~Aquin.: 711 1, 55 | very nature consists in act, instantly, so far as lies 712 1, 55 | after it has been reduced to act.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[54] A[ 713 1, 55 | one of which signifies the act in the abstract, and ~the 714 1, 55 | when he says that "the act of the intellect is life."~ 715 1, 55 | with the ~agent. For the act of understanding is brought 716 1, 55 | the contrary, The angel's act of understanding is his 717 1, 55 | simple infinity, we have the act "to ~understand," of which 718 1, 55 | object is "the true"; and the act "to will," of ~which the 719 1, 55 | from its object. But the act of ~sensation is relatively 720 1, 55 | nature alone is its own act of ~understanding and its 721 1, 55 | understanding and its own act of will.~Aquin.: SMT FP 722 1, 55 | the reason of his whole act of understanding, since 723 1, 55 | the angel, whereas to his act of understanding it is compared 724 1, 55 | power is ordained to an act, then according to the diversity ~ 725 1, 55 | is said ~that each proper act responds to its proper power. 726 1, 55 | it as ~potentiality is to act, as is evident from what 727 1, 55 | Q[44], A[1]). Now the act to which the operative power 728 1, 55 | simple form which is pure act cannot be the subject of ~ 729 1, 55 | accident as potentiality is to ~act. God alone is such a form: 730 1, 55 | it ~as potentiality is to act, can be the subject of accident; 731 1, 55 | which, previous to ~the act of understanding, is in 732 1, 56 | Reply OBJ 2: As the sense in act is the sensible in act, 733 1, 56 | in act is the sensible in act, as stated in De ~Anima 734 1, 56 | made ~from both as from act and potentiality: so likewise 735 1, 56 | likewise the intellect in act ~is said to be the thing 736 1, 56 | the thing understood in act, not that the substance 737 1, 56 | say that "the intellect in act is the thing understood 738 1, 56 | the thing understood in act"; for a thing is actually 739 1, 56 | between potentiality and act. If, therefore, the higher ~ 740 1, 57 | otherwise he would not ~act, since acts belong to single 741 1, 58 | discovered not merely by outward ~act, but also by change of countenance; 742 1, 58 | brute does not control its act, but ~follows the impression 743 1, 59 | potentiality, and ~sometimes in act?~(2) Whether the angel can 744 1, 59 | potentiality, sometimes in ~act?~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[58] A[ 745 1, 59 | potentiality and sometimes in act. For movement is the act 746 1, 59 | act. For movement is the act of what is in ~potentiality, 747 1, 59 | in potentiality, but ~in act. Therefore the intellect 748 1, 59 | consist in habit, but in act, as the Philosopher says ( 749 1, 59 | is taken there not as the act of something ~imperfect, 750 1, 59 | potentiality, but as the act ~of something perfect, that 751 1, 59 | potentiality divested ~of act. In the same way, the angel' 752 1, 59 | potentiality as to be without act.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[58] A[ 753 1, 60 | since such movement is the act of a perfect agent, as stated 754 1, 60 | in the angels. For the ~act of free-will is to choose. 755 1, 60 | Some things there are which act, not from any previous ~ 756 1, 60 | were, moved and made to act by others; just as the ~ 757 1, 60 | target by the archer. Others act from some kind ~of judgment; 758 1, 60 | endowed with an intellect can act with a judgment ~which is 759 1, 60 | know naturally. ~But the act of the appetitive faculty 760 1, 60 | as they express a simple act of the ~will, they are in 761 1, 61 | our consideration is that act of the will which is ~love 762 1, 61 | dilection; because every act of the appetitive faculty 763 1, 61 | are not acted upon, but act of themselves; because they ~ 764 1, 61 | in the world are moved to act by something else ~except 765 1, 61 | He is in no way ~moved to act by another; and in Whom 766 1, 61 | an angel being moved to act in so far as ~such natural 767 1, 61 | Yet he is not so moved to act that he does not act himself, 768 1, 61 | to act that he does not act himself, because he ~has 769 1, 61 | grasp other things. The act of the appetitive faculty, 770 1, 61 | not follow a ~discursive act of the reason; but only 771 1, 62 | His being: for He does not act ~through something besides 772 1, 62 | God's will does not act by necessity in producing 773 1, 63 | difficulty of the meritorious act. But the angel ~experienced 774 1, 63 | said that one and the same act of turning to God, so ~far 775 1, 63 | and, ~consequently, an act cannot be meritorious as 776 1, 63 | beatitude immediately after one act of merit?~Aquin.: SMT FP 777 1, 63 | beatitude instantly ~after one act of merit. For it is more 778 1, 63 | rewarded at once after one act of ~merit. Therefore neither 779 1, 63 | Further, an angel could act at once, and in an instant, 780 1, 63 | merited beatitude by one act of his will, he merited 781 1, 63 | instantly, in his first act of ~charity, had the merit 782 1, 63 | by only one ~meritorious act.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[62] A[ 783 1, 63 | instantly after the first act of ~charity, whereby he 784 1, 63 | can be from ~merely one act; because man merits beatitude 785 1, 63 | merits beatitude by every act informed by ~charity. Hence 786 1, 63 | beatified straightway after ~one act of charity.~Aquin.: SMT 787 1, 63 | of their acts. Now their act which merited ~beatitude 788 1, 63 | simultaneously with the act of beatitude, ~which is 789 1, 63 | Consequently, only one meritorious ~act is required; which act can 790 1, 63 | act is required; which act can so far be called an 791 1, 63 | OBJ 2: Further, a moral act seems to be more closely 792 1, 63 | nature is; because a moral act is preparatory to grace. 793 1, 63 | consists not in habit, but ~in act. Therefore there can never 794 1, 63 | and in like manner the act of nature must be preserved 795 1, 63 | must be preserved in the ~act of beatitude.~Aquin.: SMT 796 1, 63 | angel can neither will nor act, except as aiming towards ~ 797 1, 63 | enjoyable. In the same way the act of perfect ~charity has 798 1, 64 | instant of his creation by an act of his own will?~(6) Supposing 799 1, 64 | that rectitude which an act ought to have; whether we 800 1, 64 | nature, art, or morals. That act alone, the rule of which 801 1, 64 | is the sole rule of God's act, because it is not referred 802 1, 64 | created will has rectitude of act so far only as it ~is regulated 803 1, 64 | occurs in two ways in the act of free-will. ~First, when 804 1, 64 | delight of an inordinate act as ~something good to be 805 1, 64 | preceding his first sinful act, nor any passion fettering 806 1, 64 | that the angel's sin was an act subsequent to ~his creation. 807 1, 64 | the term of the creative act is the angel's very being, ~ 808 1, 64 | while the term of the sinful act is the being wicked. It 809 1, 64 | instant by an inordinate act of free-will. For ~although 810 1, 64 | although a thing can begin to act in the first instant of 811 1, 64 | held that he elicited an act ~of free-will in the first 812 1, 64 | beatitude by one meritorious act, as was said above (Q[62], 813 1, 64 | that he could not elicit an act of free-will in the first 814 1, 64 | iv, 24). Hence the first act was common ~to them all; 815 1, 64 | lies within its own will to act for its end.~Aquin.: SMT 816 1, 65 | 1~Reply OBJ 5: A demon's act is twofold. One comes of 817 1, 65 | properly called his own act. Such an act on the demon' 818 1, 65 | called his own act. Such an act on the demon's part is ~ 819 1, 65 | things. Another kind of act is natural to the demon; 820 1, 65 | sorrow, ~as denoting a simple act of the will, is nothing 821 1, 66 | the sake ~of its proper act, as the eye for the act 822 1, 66 | act, as the eye for the act of seeing; secondly, that 823 1, 66 | exists for ~its own proper act and perfection, and the 824 1, 66 | is produced: for in the act of coming into being the ~ 825 1, 66 | brought from potentiality into act by some composite ~agent. 826 1, 66 | transmutation from potentiality to act can have taken place, and ~ 827 1, 66 | brought by movement into act.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[65] A[ 828 1, 67 | of creation is being in ~act: and act itself is a form. 829 1, 67 | creation is being in ~act: and act itself is a form. To say, 830 1, 67 | existed actually, yet without act, ~which is a contradiction 831 1, 67 | some ~corporeal thing in act, as fire, air, water, or 832 1, 67 | potentiality is prior to act, and the ~part to the whole. 833 1, 67 | Nature produces effect in act from being in potentiality; ~ 834 1, 67 | potentiality must precede ~act in time, and formlessness 835 1, 67 | But God produces being in act ~out of nothing, and can, 836 1, 67 | is a form, is a kind of act; whereas matter, as such, 837 1, 67 | that matter should be in act without form, than for ~ 838 1, 67 | potentialities, and the ~same act befits the same potentiality. 839 1, 67 | and earthly bodies do not act upon each other ~mutually. 840 1, 67 | partial, since a being in act would subsist under the 841 1, 67 | receiving any one form it is in ~act only as regards that form. 842 1, 67 | to suppose any being in act, unless in its totality 843 1, 67 | unless in its totality it be act ~and form, or be something 844 1, 67 | or be something which has act or form. Setting aside, 845 1, 67 | totality it is form and act. But every such thing is 846 1, 67 | potentiality is directed towards act, potential beings ~are differentiated 847 1, 67 | those of lower degree who act as messengers, though they 848 1, 68 | originally applied to the act of the ~sense, and then, 849 1, 68 | to be a luminous body in act - in ~other words, to be 850 1, 68 | substantial form, so does light act ~instrumentally, by virtue 851 1, 70 | plants were produced in act in their various species 852 1, 70 | they were not produced in act on the third day, but in 853 1, 71 | for the sake of its proper act, or for ~other creatures, 854 1, 71 | intellect, which does not act through the body, do not 855 1, 71 | are united to them, and act as their moving power. A ~ 856 1, 71 | material elements, either in act, as some holy writers say, 857 1, 71 | in generation is a ~vital act observed in them. For the 858 1, 71 | any sin whatever in the act of ~begetting children. 859 1, 72 | completion of a work is an act in itself. But we do ~not 860 1, 72 | 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: God did act on the seventh day, not 861 1, 73 | lies only in the Divine ~act producing the substance 862 1, 73 | words, "It was ~done," some act of God is expressed by some 863 1, 74 | principle which is called its act. Therefore the soul, which 864 1, 74 | is not a body, but the act of a body; thus heat, ~which 865 1, 74 | calefaction, is not a body, but an act of a ~body.~Aquin.: SMT 866 1, 74 | as it causes it to be in act. But, as is shown in Phys. ~ 867 1, 74 | of understanding: for the act of understanding does ~not 868 1, 74 | in order to perform its act of ~perception.~Aquin.: 869 1, 74 | in the body; thus in the act of vision, the pupil of 870 1, 74 | obeying the appetite; and the ~act of this power does not consist 871 1, 74 | clear that to move is not an act of the sensitive soul without 872 1, 74 | participate of the First Act, which is God; by participation 873 1, 74 | is a form only, is a pure act, ~and is infinite. But this 874 1, 74 | for a form, as such, is an act; and that ~which is purely 875 1, 74 | potentiality cannot be part of an act, since potentiality ~is 876 1, 74 | 1~Reply OBJ 1: The First Act is the universal principle 877 1, 74 | potentiality is receptive of act, it must be proportionate 878 1, 74 | must be proportionate to act. But ~the acts received 879 1, 74 | from the First Infinite Act, and are ~participations 880 1, 74 | all acts, as there is one act, from which all ~participated 881 1, 74 | potentiality of the First Act. Now the receptive ~potentiality 882 1, 74 | by ~transmuting it to the act of a form. A subsistent 883 1, 74 | it from potentiality to act. So after the words quoted 884 1, 74 | moves from potentiality to act; ~while whatsoever things 885 1, 74 | the participator as ~its act. But whatever created form 886 1, 74 | His own existence, is pure act ~and infinite. But in intellectual 887 1, 74 | to a form, which is an act, by virtue of itself. Wherefore 888 1, 75 | and that it is not the act of any body. ~Therefore 889 1, 75 | whatever receptive power is an act of a body, receives a ~form 890 1, 75 | subject is what can, and does, act. But the intellectual action 891 1, 75 | nature; because form is the act of matter, not by an ~accidental 892 1, 75 | of the thing to which the act is to be ~attributed: for 893 1, 75 | except so far as it is in act; wherefore a ~thing acts 894 1, 75 | by that whereby it is in act. Now it is clear that the 895 1, 75 | thing is ~said to move or act, either by virtue of its 896 1, 75 | explain the fact, that the act of the intellect is the 897 1, 75 | of the intellect is the act of Socrates. ~This can be 898 1, 75 | form one thing ~so that the act of the intellect could be 899 1, 75 | thing moved. ~Whereas the act of intellect remains in 900 1, 75 | For since the form is an act, and matter is only in ~ 901 1, 75 | the power of seeing is the act of the ~eye; for understanding 902 1, 75 | for understanding is an act which cannot be performed 903 1, 75 | corporeal ~organ, like the act of seeing. But it exists 904 1, 75 | intellectual power be not the ~act of the body.~Aquin.: SMT 905 1, 75 | power thereof not being the act of the body, ~although the 906 1, 75 | several agents, but one act; for example, if there be 907 1, 75 | understand, which is the act of the intellect, is not 908 1, 75 | understander," and have but one act of understanding, in regard, 909 1, 75 | that "the ~soul is the act of a physical body which 910 1, 75 | say that the soul is the act of a body ~only, but "the 911 1, 75 | of a body ~only, but "the act of a physical organic body 912 1, 75 | when the soul is called the act, the soul itself ~is included; 913 1, 75 | we say that heat is the act of what is hot, and ~light 914 1, 75 | soul is said to be the "act of a body," etc., because 915 1, 75 | potentially. Yet the first act is ~said to be in potentiality 916 1, 75 | potentiality to the second act, which is operation; for ~ 917 1, 75 | by the motive power, the act of which presupposes the ~ 918 1, 75 | that "the soul ~is the act of a physical organic body 919 1, 75 | is ~itself essentially an act; nor does it give existence 920 1, 75 | united to matter as its act. Nor is there any other 921 1, 75 | which causes matter to be in act, as the Philosopher ~says, 922 1, 75 | which, if considered as an ~act, is very distant from matter, 923 1, 75 | body of which it is the act. But it ~is the act of an 924 1, 75 | the act. But it ~is the act of an organic body. Therefore 925 1, 75 | must be ~the form and the act, not only of the whole, 926 1, 75 | action of the ~species. But act is in that which it actuates: 927 1, 75 | Reply OBJ 2: The soul is the act of an organic body, as of 928 1, 76 | because, since power and act ~divide being and every 929 1, 76 | must refer a power and its act ~to the same genus. Therefore, 930 1, 76 | genus. Therefore, if the act be not in the genus of ~ 931 1, 76 | the power directed to that act cannot be in the genus of ~ 932 1, 76 | by its very essence is an act. Therefore if the ~very 933 1, 76 | form the soul is ~not an act ordained to a further act, 934 1, 76 | act ordained to a further act, but the ultimate term of ~ 935 1, 76 | potentiality to another act, does ~not belong to it 936 1, 76 | power, is called the ~first act, with a further relation 937 1, 76 | further relation to the second act. Now we observe that ~what 938 1, 76 | the soul, that it ~is "the act of a body having life potentially"; 939 1, 76 | potentiality by ~reason of an act, as act.~Aquin.: SMT FP 940 1, 76 | by ~reason of an act, as act.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[77] A[ 941 1, 76 | Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: The act to which primary matter 942 1, 76 | does existence; for to ~act belongs to what exists. 943 1, 76 | in God, Who is the Pure Act; in treating of ~which subject 944 1, 76 | operate belongs to what is in act. But by the one ~essence 945 1, 76 | extrinsic to it. But the act is subsequent to the power; ~ 946 1, 76 | as such is directed to an act. Wherefore we seek ~to know 947 1, 76 | nature of a power from the act to which it is directed, 948 1, 76 | diversified, as the nature of the ~act is diversified. Now the 949 1, 76 | diversified. Now the nature of an act is diversified according 950 1, 76 | of the objects. For every act is either of an active ~ 951 1, 76 | Now, the object is to the act of a passive ~power, as 952 1, 76 | On the other hand, to the act of ~an active power the 953 1, 76 | from ~these two things an act receives its species, namely, 954 1, 76 | its end or term; for the act of heating differs from 955 1, 76 | heating differs from the act of ~cooling, in this, that 956 1, 76 | 1 Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 1: Act, though subsequent in existence 957 1, 76 | another; for sight can ~act independently of hearing, 958 1, 76 | body" may determine the act of ~sense in its mode of 959 1, 76 | understood as determining the act of sense on the part of 960 1, 76 | in this, that each is an act; and that by each ~of them 961 1, 76 | but forasmuch as it is in act, it produces it. This I ~ 962 1, 76 | because these ~powers have no act apart from the corporeal 963 1, 77 | object for the purpose of its act only - namely, for ~the 964 1, 77 | the sensitive power is the act ~of a corporeal organ, it 965 1, 77 | sense ~which perceives the act of vision.~Aquin.: SMT FP 966 1, 78 | is to operation as its ~act, so is the essence to being. 967 1, 78 | passes from potentiality to act, may ~be said to be passive, 968 1, 78 | whether the intellect ~be in act or potentiality by observing 969 1, 78 | universal being is that of the act of all being: and ~such 970 1, 78 | potentiality, but is pure act. ~But no created intellect 971 1, 78 | created intellect can be an act in relation to the whole 972 1, 78 | created intellect is not the act of all things intelligible, 973 1, 78 | things as a ~potentiality to act.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[79] A[ 974 1, 78 | has a double relation to act. There is a potentiality ~ 975 1, 78 | always perfected by its act: as the matter of the heavenly ~ 976 1, 78 | which is not ~always in act, but proceeds from potentiality 977 1, 78 | proceeds from potentiality to act; as we observe in ~things 978 1, 78 | intellect ~is always in act as regards those things 979 1, 78 | intellect, which is pure act, as we ~have said above. 980 1, 78 | reduced from potentiality to act.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[79] A[ 981 1, 78 | so-called intellect is the act of a corporeal organ. But 982 1, 78 | sense: for it is not an act of a corporeal ~organ. Hence 983 1, 78 | that has to be brought into act. ~Therefore there is no 984 1, 78 | form is intelligible in act from ~the very fact that 985 1, 78 | reduced ~from potentiality to act except by something in act; 986 1, 78 | act except by something in act; as the senses as ~made 987 1, 78 | Sensible things are found in act outside the soul; and ~hence 988 1, 78 | Now the intelligible in act ~is not something existing 989 1, 78 | in ~potentiality and in act with regard to the same 990 1, 78 | passes from potentiality to act. Therefore there must ~needs 991 1, 78 | but of the intellect in act: of which he had already 992 1, 78 | already said: ~"Knowledge in act is the same as the thing." 993 1, 78 | instance, of the visible ~in act to the sight; it would follow 994 1, 78 | which makes all things (in ~act). But now the active intellect 995 1, 78 | objects are made to be in act: for which, besides the ~ 996 1, 78 | because it is not the ~act of any corporeal organ. 997 1, 78 | intellect is reduced to act by the fact that the ~intelligible 998 1, 78 | it. Now the intellect in act ~implies understanding in 999 1, 78 | implies understanding in act; and therefore the intellect 1000 1, 78 | it, it is said to be in act," and that "this ~happens


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