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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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