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1001 1, 78 | otherwise than before the act of understanding - namely,
1002 1, 78 | but ~also after ceasing to act through them, much more
1003 1, 78 | memorative power is the act of some organ. But the intellect
1004 1, 78 | which is known, and to the act of ~knowledge. These two
1005 1, 78 | But on the part of the act, the ~condition of past,
1006 1, 78 | senses. Because our soul's act of ~understanding is an
1007 1, 78 | understanding is an individual act, existing in this or that
1008 1, 78 | intellectual nature: for such an ~act of understanding, though
1009 1, 78 | individual, is yet an immaterial ~act, as we have said above of
1010 1, 78 | also it understands its act of understanding, which
1011 1, 78 | which is an ~individual act, in the past, present, or
1012 1, 78 | ultimate completion of the act, and then it understands
1013 1, 78 | and then it understands in act. And ~sometimes the intelligible
1014 1, 78 | between ~potentiality and act: and then we have habitual
1015 1, 78 | does not understand in ~act.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[79] A[
1016 1, 78 | makes the object to be in act must be ~distinct from the
1017 1, 78 | the object existing in ~act. Thus the active power is
1018 1, 78 | its object as a being in act is ~to a being in potentiality;
1019 1, 78 | potentiality is to a being in act. ~Therefore there can be
1020 1, 78 | retention; by intelligence, the act of the intellect; and by
1021 1, 78 | intellect; and by will, the ~act of the will.~Aquin.: SMT
1022 1, 78 | Intelligence arises from memory, as act from habit; and in ~this
1023 1, 78 | term belong to it. For the act of the reason is, as it
1024 1, 78 | opinion" ~signifies an act of the intellect which leans
1025 1, 78 | measure" ~[mensurare] is an act of the intellect, applying
1026 1, 78 | But intelligence is an act separate from others ~attributed
1027 1, 78 | signifies the ~intellect's very act, which is to understand.
1028 1, 78 | power is from power; but ~as act is from power. And such
1029 1, 78 | sometimes it is in the first act, which is knowledge, ~and
1030 1, 78 | sometimes it is in the ~second act, which is to consider, and
1031 1, 78 | it is called intellect in act, ~or actual intellect.~Aquin.:
1032 1, 78 | intelligence there means the ~act of the intellect. And thus
1033 1, 78 | divided against intellect as act ~against power.~Aquin.:
1034 1, 78 | intelligence as meaning that act of the ~intellect which
1035 1, 78 | intellect which transcends the act of the reason. Wherefore
1036 1, 78 | apprehends something; and this act is called "intelligence."
1037 1, 78 | said above (A[8]), man's act of reasoning, since it is
1038 1, 78 | of necessity be either an act, a habit, ~or a power. But
1039 1, 78 | power. But it is not an act; for thus it would not always
1040 1, 78 | conscience is not a power, but an act. ~This is evident both from
1041 1, 78 | something is done by some act. Wherefore from ~this explanation
1042 1, 78 | clear that conscience is an act.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[79] A[
1043 1, 78 | conscience denominates an act. But ~since habit is a principle
1044 1, 78 | habit is a principle of act, sometimes the name conscience
1045 1, 78 | Reply OBJ 3: Although an act does not always remain in
1046 1, 79 | things, seemingly ~every act of the appetite regards
1047 1, 80 | power is taken from its act; for instance, sight from
1048 1, 80 | sensitive apprehension. ~For the act of the apprehensive power
1049 1, 80 | called a ~movement as the act of the appetite: since the
1050 1, 80 | in common with them the act of movement: for the apprehensive ~
1051 1, 80 | rather on the part of the act, to which ~they are led
1052 1, 81 | necessity. Therefore the act of the ~will cannot be necessitated.~
1053 1, 81 | is more noble. Now the ~act of the will, in the natural
1054 1, 81 | natural order, follows the act of the intellect. ~Therefore
1055 1, 81 | who understands; while the act ~of the will consists in
1056 1, 81 | thing potentiality precedes act, and ~imperfection precedes
1057 1, 81 | is more perfect: for thus act precedes potentiality. And ~
1058 1, 81 | willing to ~understand, that act of the will must be preceded
1059 1, 81 | must be preceded by another act of the ~intellect, and this
1060 1, 81 | the ~intellect, and this act of the intellect by another
1061 1, 81 | the intellect by another act of the will, and ~so on
1062 1, 81 | power having a determinate act. In like manner also the
1063 1, 81 | soul having a determinate act. If, therefore, ~the intellect
1064 1, 81 | the will itself, and its act, and its object. Wherefore ~
1065 1, 81 | understands the will, and its act, and its object, just as ~
1066 1, 81 | intellect itself, and ~its act, and its object, which is
1067 1, 81 | apprehension is not ~preceded by an act of the will; but the principle
1068 1, 82 | free-will - a power, an act, or a habit?~(3) If it is
1069 1, 82 | observe that some things act without ~judgment; as a
1070 1, 82 | lack knowledge. And some act from judgment, but not a
1071 1, 82 | case of some particular act, is ~not from a natural
1072 1, 82 | instinct, but from some act of comparison in the ~reason,
1073 1, 82 | free-will man moves himself to act. But it does not of necessity
1074 1, 82 | part, ~since it is not the act of a corporeal organ. And
1075 1, 82 | judgment denominates an act, not a ~power. Therefore
1076 1, 82 | strict sense denotes an act, in the common manner of ~
1077 1, 82 | is the principle of the act by ~which man judges freely.
1078 1, 82 | in us the principle of an act is both power ~and habit;
1079 1, 82 | are ~well-disposed to the act of the intellect when we
1080 1, 82 | power to be named from its act. And ~so from this act,
1081 1, 82 | its act. And ~so from this act, which is a free judgment,
1082 1, 82 | is ~the principle of this act. Otherwise, if free-will
1083 1, 82 | free-will denominated an act, it ~would not always remain
1084 1, 82 | some sort of relation to an act. And ~this may be both by
1085 1, 82 | by the habit he is apt to act well ~or ill.~Aquin.: SMT
1086 1, 82 | judgment. But to judge is an act of a cognitive power. Therefore ~
1087 1, 82 | in us." But desire is an act of the ~appetitive power:
1088 1, 82 | answer that, The proper act of free-will is choice:
1089 1, 82 | choice is ~principally an act of the appetitive power.
1090 1, 82 | preceding counsel, which is an act of reason. For though the
1091 1, 82 | But choice, which is the ~act of free-will, is distinct
1092 1, 82 | free-will, is distinct from the act of willing, because "the
1093 1, 82 | of willing, because "the act ~of the will regards the
1094 1, 82 | objects and acts. For the act of ~"understanding" implies
1095 1, 82 | and will - that is, the act of willing - are ~different
1096 1, 83 | whatever appertains to the act of the ~intellect, are not
1097 1, 83 | of the intellect, whose act of understanding has a ~
1098 1, 83 | only according as it is in act, as is shown Metaph. ix ~(
1099 1, 83 | known except through its ~act. It is therefore insufficient
1100 1, 83 | of this is, ~because the act of knowledge extends to
1101 1, 83 | from such potentiality ~to act - through the action of
1102 1, 83 | objects on his senses, to the act ~of sensation - by instruction
1103 1, 83 | instruction or discovery, to the act of understanding. ~Wherefore
1104 1, 83 | is sometimes unable to act ~according to that form
1105 1, 83 | the realization of ~its act. But this seems to be unreasonable.
1106 1, 83 | else it would not ~be in act. But when once it exists
1107 1, 83 | a way, the intellect in act is the thing understood ~
1108 1, 83 | the thing understood ~in act. Therefore what in itself
1109 1, 83 | essence is understood in act, ~is the cause that the
1110 1, 83 | potentiality is reduced to act by ~something actual. If,
1111 1, 83 | intellect which is always in act. But this is a separate ~
1112 1, 83 | reduced from potentiality to act ~by some being in act, that
1113 1, 83 | to act ~by some being in act, that is, by the active
1114 1, 83 | sensible soul to the sentient act, while the senses rouse ~
1115 1, 83 | rouse ~the intellect to the act of understanding.~Aquin.:
1116 1, 83 | that to feel is not an ~act of the soul alone, but of
1117 1, 83 | compared to ~it as a being in act to a being in potentiality;
1118 1, 83 | But if the intellect is in act, it understands. ~Therefore
1119 1, 83 | no way be hindered in its act through the ~lesion of a
1120 1, 83 | corporeal organ, if for its act there were not required
1121 1, 83 | there were not required the ~act of some power that does
1122 1, 83 | acquired, there is need for the act of ~the imagination and
1123 1, 83 | other powers. For when the act of the ~imagination is hindered
1124 1, 83 | case of frenzy; or when the act of the memory is hindered,
1125 1, 83 | Further, to syllogize is an act of the intellect. But during ~
1126 1, 84 | Therefore neither does the act of understanding take ~place
1127 1, 84 | namely, the sense, is the ~act of a corporeal organ. And
1128 1, 84 | power which is neither the act of a corporeal organ, nor
1129 1, 84 | place: for it is not the act of an ~organ; yet it is
1130 1, 84 | being," "unity," "power," "act," and the like; all these ~
1131 1, 84 | For the ~understood in act is in the one who understands:
1132 1, 84 | since the understood in ~act is the intellect itself
1133 1, 84 | the intellect itself in act. But nothing of what is
1134 1, 84 | from which proceeds an act tending to something external
1135 1, 84 | understands both its own act of intelligence, and the ~
1136 1, 84 | understood is the intellect in act, because the likeness of
1137 1, 84 | the form of the sense in act. Hence it does not follow
1138 1, 84 | comes first to an incomplete act, which is ~the medium between
1139 1, 84 | accomplishing the ~perfect act. The perfect act of the
1140 1, 84 | perfect act. The perfect act of the intellect is complete
1141 1, 84 | whereas the incomplete ~act is imperfect knowledge,
1142 1, 84 | known, is known partly in ~act and partly in potentiality,
1143 1, 84 | proceeds from potentiality to ~act, the same order of knowledge
1144 1, 84 | between potentiality and act.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[85] A[
1145 1, 84 | of nature: for instance, ~act considered absolutely is
1146 1, 84 | same ~intellect being in act as regards different intelligible
1147 1, 84 | the intellect does ~not act by composition and division.~
1148 1, 84 | passes from ~potentiality to act, it has a likeness to things
1149 1, 84 | knowledge by the ~first act of apprehension; but it
1150 1, 84 | intellect is true in its act of understanding. But ~truth,
1151 1, 84 | taken as ~determining the act of understanding as regards
1152 1, 84 | taken as determining the act of understanding on the
1153 1, 84 | the reason thereof is that act and form are received into ~
1154 1, 86 | the intellect know its own act?~(4) How does it know the
1155 1, 86 | 4) How does it know the act of the will?~Aquin.: SMT
1156 1, 86 | of matter, not being the act of a body as stated above (
1157 1, 86 | knowable so far as it is in act, and not, ~so far as it
1158 1, 86 | not know save what is in act: and hence it does not know
1159 1, 86 | God, the pure and perfect act, is ~simply and perfectly
1160 1, 86 | intelligible things as "act," but not as ~a "pure act,"
1161 1, 86 | act," but not as ~a "pure act," nor as a "complete act,"
1162 1, 86 | act," nor as a "complete act," and hence the angel's
1163 1, 86 | and hence the angel's act of ~intelligence is not
1164 1, 86 | its essence, but by its act. This happens in two ~ways:
1165 1, 86 | knowledge of the intellectual act. It is ~true, however, that
1166 1, 86 | though led thereto by its own act: ~because it is itself that
1167 1, 86 | essence of an angel is an act in the genus of ~intelligible
1168 1, 86 | passive intellect - or is the act of ~intelligible things
1169 1, 86 | intellect. For as sense in act is the sensible in act,
1170 1, 86 | in act is the sensible in act, by reason ~of the sensible
1171 1, 86 | is the form of sense in act, so likewise ~the intellect
1172 1, 86 | likewise ~the intellect in act is the object understood
1173 1, 86 | the object understood in act, by reason of the ~likeness
1174 1, 86 | form of the intellect in ~act. So the human intellect,
1175 1, 86 | between mere power and mere ~act. Now, it has been said (
1176 1, 86 | fails in being a perfect act, it ~falls short in being
1177 1, 86 | can be known only by its ~act; thus, for example, anyone
1178 1, 86 | that he ~can produce the act proper to that habit; or
1179 1, 86 | habit by considering the act. The first kind of ~knowledge
1180 1, 86 | its presence causes the act whereby it is known. The
1181 1, 86 | resides, by the interior ~act of the heart. For no one
1182 1, 86 | intellect knows its own act?~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[87] A[
1183 1, 86 | intellect does not know its own act. For ~what is known is the
1184 1, 86 | knowing faculty. But the act differs ~from the object.
1185 1, 86 | intellect does not know its own act.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[87] A[
1186 1, 86 | is known is known by some act. If, then, the ~intellect
1187 1, 86 | intellect knows its own act, it knows it by some act,
1188 1, 86 | act, it knows it by some act, and again it knows ~that
1189 1, 86 | and again it knows ~that act by some other act; this
1190 1, 86 | that act by some other act; this is to proceed indefinitely,
1191 1, 86 | the same relation to its act as sense ~has to its act.
1192 1, 86 | act as sense ~has to its act. But the proper sense does
1193 1, 86 | sense does not feel its own act, for this ~belongs to the
1194 1, 86 | intellect understand its own act.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[87] A[
1195 1, 86 | intelligible ~according as it is in act. Now the ultimate perfection
1196 1, 86 | operation: for this is not an act tending to ~something else
1197 1, 86 | agent as its perfection and act, as is said Metaph. ix,
1198 1, 86 | the intellect is its own act of ~understanding. This
1199 1, 86 | Divine, which is Its own act of ~intelligence, so that
1200 1, 86 | Essence, are one and the same act, because His ~Essence is
1201 1, 86 | because His ~Essence is His act of understanding. But there
1202 1, 86 | angelic, which is not its own act of understanding, as we
1203 1, 86 | the first object of that act is the angelic ~essence.
1204 1, 86 | distinction between the ~act whereby he understands that
1205 1, 86 | both by one and the same act; ~because to understand
1206 1, 86 | and by one and the same act is a thing, together with
1207 1, 86 | which neither is its own act of understanding, nor is
1208 1, 86 | the first object of its act of understanding, for this
1209 1, 86 | known ~secondarily is the act by which that object is
1210 1, 86 | is known; and through the act ~the intellect itself is
1211 1, 86 | perfection of which is this act of ~understanding. For this
1212 1, 86 | the true," in which the act also of understanding is ~
1213 1, 86 | intellect can understand its own act. But not ~primarily, since
1214 1, 86 | Reply OBJ 2: The intelligent act of the human intellect is
1215 1, 86 | human intellect is not the act ~and perfection of the material
1216 1, 86 | material thing and intelligent act could be understood by one
1217 1, 86 | could be understood by one act; just ~as a thing and its
1218 1, 86 | perfection are understood by one act. Hence the act ~whereby
1219 1, 86 | understood by one act. Hence the act ~whereby the intellect understands
1220 1, 86 | stone is distinct from the act ~whereby it understands
1221 1, 86 | another, and ~therefore the act of the proper sense is perceived
1222 1, 86 | contrary, does not perform the act of understanding ~by the
1223 1, 86 | intellect understands the act of the will?~Aquin.: SMT
1224 1, 86 | does not understand the act of ~the will. For nothing
1225 1, 86 | in the intellect. But the act of the will is not in the ~
1226 1, 86 | distinct. Therefore the ~act of the will is not known
1227 1, 86 | 1/1~OBJ 2: Further, the act is specified by the object.
1228 1, 86 | intellect. Therefore the ~act of the will is specifically
1229 1, 86 | intellect, and therefore the act of the will is not known
1230 1, 86 | above (Q[59], A[1]), the act of the will is ~nothing
1231 1, 86 | inclination, which ~is the act of the will, is in the intelligent
1232 1, 86 | subject. Therefore the act of the will is understood
1233 1, 86 | knows the ~nature of this act, and consequently, the nature
1234 1, 87 | the perfectible, and as act is to ~potentiality. Now
1235 1, 87 | consists ~in its form and act, since every agent acts
1236 1, 87 | substance ~of the sun so as to act like the sun, but its light
1237 1, 87 | intellect is "all things in act." ~Therefore both intellects,
1238 1, 87 | understood by us through its act by which it ~understands
1239 1, 87 | understands itself through its own act of ~understanding, which
1240 1, 87 | perfectly known through such act, nor through any other material
1241 1, 88 | as soon as it ceases to act by turning to corporeal ~(
1242 1, 88 | itself through ~its own act, as shown above (Q[87],
1243 1, 88 | But as the ~intellectual act resides chiefly and formally
1244 1, 88 | a habit, but as ~to the act of knowing; and hence he
1245 1, 88 | Thes. Para. 1/1~Whether the act of knowledge acquired here
1246 1, 88 | It would seem that the act of knowledge here acquired
1247 1, 88 | is previously known is an act of memory. Therefore ~the
1248 1, 88 | separated soul cannot retain an act of knowledge here acquired.~
1249 1, 88 | separation cannot produce any act of knowledge acquired in
1250 1, 88 | from the body. Thus the act of knowledge here acquired
1251 1, 88 | political ~justice, whereby we act pleasurably. (Cf. Aristotle,
1252 1, 88 | sensible would need ~to act upon the soul, or the soul
1253 1, 88 | not ~know how the living act, for the life of the spirit
1254 1, 89 | form. But a form is an act. Therefore the soul is a
1255 1, 89 | Therefore the soul is a pure act; which ~applies to God alone.
1256 1, 89 | of potentiality to the act of intelligence - acquires
1257 1, 89 | Nature, Which is a pure act - receives ~nothing from
1258 1, 89 | sense; but as regards the act of God, to breathe [spirare],
1259 1, 89 | Therefore it is not a pure act like God.~Aquin.: SMT FP
1260 1, 89 | since it is not a pure act. Therefore the ~soul was
1261 1, 89 | matter is in potentiality to act, ~any act pre-exists in
1262 1, 89 | potentiality to act, ~any act pre-exists in matter potentially.
1263 1, 89 | potentially. But the soul is the act of ~corporeal matter, as
1264 1, 89 | OBJ 2: The production of act from the potentiality of
1265 1, 89 | the first agent alone ~can act without presupposing the
1266 1, 89 | presupposes something to ~its act, acts by making a change
1267 1, 89 | the contrary, The proper act is produced in its proper
1268 1, 89 | since the soul is the proper act of the body, the soul was ~
1269 1, 90 | the earth. For it is an act of greater power to make
1270 1, 90 | Nevertheless the angels could act as ministers in the ~formation
1271 1, 92 | exterior body; secondly, the act ~of vision, which occurs
1272 1, 92 | exist does not signify an act. Therefore ~the image of
1273 1, 92 | mind does not ~signify an act, but rather the power or
1274 1, 92 | remains in the soul. But ~an act does not always remain.
1275 1, 92 | that by perceiving its own act, it understands itself ~
1276 1, 93 | be known perfectly, as an act ~through its object. And
1277 1, 93 | power through its proper ~act. But in the second movement
1278 1, 93 | before ~imperfection, as act precedes potentiality; for
1279 1, 94 | 6: We merit glory by an act of grace; but we do not
1280 1, 94 | do not merit ~grace by an act of nature; hence the comparison
1281 1, 94 | absolutely, both in habit and in act. But ~other virtues are
1282 1, 94 | imperfection either in ~their act, or on the part of the matter.
1283 1, 94 | both as to habit and as to act. ~But any virtue which implies
1284 1, 94 | habit, ~but not as to the act; for instance, penance,
1285 1, 94 | primitive state, in habit and in act. ~Virtues, however, relating
1286 1, 94 | the ~primitive state in act, but only in habit, as we
1287 1, 94 | daring and hope. Thus the act of temperance ~could exist
1288 1, 96 | immortality. For nothing can act beyond its own species;
1289 1, 97 | and woman; for in every act of generation there is an ~
1290 1, 98 | performing every ~kind of act; but only for the acts befitting
1291 1, 99 | to the execution of the act thereof.~Aquin.: SMT FP
1292 1, 102 | of a builder is not the act of building, ~but the house
1293 1, 102 | are governed by one do not act against each ~other, except
1294 1, 102 | agree not together, and act ~against each other; as
1295 1, 102 | OBJ 1: Movement is "the act of a thing moved, caused
1296 1, 102 | it is master ~of its own act, and acts of itself; and
1297 1, 102 | itself; and is not made to act by another, ~which seems
1298 1, 102 | Now every movement is the act of a ~movable thing, caused
1299 1, 102 | Phys. iii, ~3. And every act is proportionate to that
1300 1, 102 | to that of which it is an act. ~Consequently, various
1301 1, 102 | according to their nature, act of themselves, having ~dominion
1302 1, 102 | irrational creatures which do not act but are acted upon, are
1303 1, 102 | itself as master of its own act, it requires to be ~governed
1304 1, 102 | said to think or speak, or act against God: not ~that they
1305 1, 103 | agent, even after ceasing to act, can cause its effect to
1306 1, 103 | when the sun ceases to act upon it, because ~water
1307 1, 104 | potentiality can be reduced to act by the active power ~which
1308 1, 104 | God, it can be reduced to act by the ~Divine power: and
1309 1, 104 | is nothing else but the act of matter.~Aquin.: SMT FP
1310 1, 104 | would hold if God were to act of natural ~necessity. But
1311 1, 104 | of the intellect is ~its act of understanding; in the
1312 1, 104 | from within itself, the act of the will would not be
1313 1, 104 | form which is the first act, is for ~the sake of its
1314 1, 104 | operation, which is the second act; and thus operation is ~
1315 1, 104 | agent moves the second to act. And thus all agents ~act
1316 1, 104 | act. And thus all agents ~act in virtue of God Himself:
1317 1, 104 | existence, and applies them to act, and is moreover the end
1318 1, 104 | if He did so, He ~would act against His foreknowledge,
1319 1, 104 | but by no means does He act ~against the supreme law;
1320 1, 104 | law; because He does not act against Himself."~Aquin.:
1321 1, 107 | not bend to any servile act, or ~to the act, of those
1322 1, 107 | servile act, or ~to the act, of those who are subject
1323 1, 108 | God, have ~the power to act on others. Now the greatest
1324 1, 109 | Para. 1/1 - HOW ANGELS ACT ON BODIES (FOUR ARTICLES)~
1325 1, 109 | belongs to a body not to act unless moved. Hence a corporeal
1326 1, 109 | to reduce matter to the act of ~the substantial form
1327 1, 110 | remarks that "every malicious act and ~unclean passion is
1328 1, 110 | 1~Reply OBJ 1: Those who act as God's ministers, either
1329 1, 110 | from within, since the act of the cogitative faculty
1330 1, 110 | caused by the sense ~in act." But if this motion were
1331 1, 110 | caused by the sense in act. Therefore it is contrary
1332 1, 110 | phantasy, which is the act of the imaginative faculty,
1333 1, 110 | imagination is from the sense in ~act. For we cannot imagine what
1334 1, 110 | in such a way that the ~act of the imaginative movement
1335 1, 110 | something towards changing the act of the nutritive power,
1336 1, 111 | called in respect of some act; and it is ~right that the "
1337 1, 114 | are acted upon, but do not act; ~such are bodies: there
1338 1, 114 | there are things that both act and are acted upon; these
1339 1, 114 | to prove that no bodies act, but that all the actions
1340 1, 114 | participation of visibility. But to act, which is nothing else than
1341 1, 114 | make something to be in act, is essentially proper to
1342 1, 114 | essentially proper to an act as such; ~wherefore every
1343 1, 114 | held that corporeal agents act through ~their accidental
1344 1, 114 | acts forasmuch as it is in act, on a ~body forasmuch as
1345 1, 114 | to it, on which it can act; as the spiritual nature
1346 1, 114 | which ~the other has in act.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[115] A[
1347 1, 114 | potentiality, just as God is pure act. Now a body is composed
1348 1, 114 | composed of ~potentiality and act; and therefore it is both
1349 1, 114 | reduced from potentiality to act.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[115] A[
1350 1, 114 | matter is ~not competent to act (A[1], ad 2,4). Therefore
1351 1, 114 | themselves sufficient to act. But to anyone who ~considers
1352 1, 114 | of itself sufficient to act. And therefore it ~is necessary
1353 1, 114 | above (Q[110], A[3]), they act by virtue thereof as ~their
1354 1, 114 | directly and of themselves act on ~bodies, as stated above (
1355 1, 114 | stated above (A[3]). They can act directly indeed on those ~
1356 1, 114 | heavenly bodies, do ~indeed act on corporeal things by means
1357 1, 114 | heavenly bodies; but they ~act immediately on the human
1358 1, 114 | Whether heavenly bodies can act on the demons?~Aquin.: SMT
1359 1, 114 | that heavenly bodies can act on the demons. For the ~
1360 1, 116 | him from ~potentiality to act, as the Philosopher says (
1361 1, 116 | Q[81], A[3]), it is the act of a corporeal organ. Therefore
1362 1, 117 | for thus an agent would act to its own destruction, ~
1363 1, 117 | matter from potentiality to act, through ~some corporeal
1364 1, 117 | as ~being more powerful, act so as to generate their
1365 1, 117 | with a medium - in the act of generation, because ~
1366 1, 117 | the inferior bodies also act ~towards the production
1367 1, 117 | beginning, not as to the second ~act, but as to the first act,
1368 1, 117 | act, but as to the first act, as the sensitive soul is
1369 1, 117 | it already operates ~in act. This matter therefore is
1370 1, 117 | soul of the begetter is the act of the body, making use ~
1371 1, 117 | thereof would be a being in act. For if the ~vegetative
1372 1, 118 | reduced ~from potentiality to act gradually: hence in things
1373 1, 118 | would be a small animal in act; and generation of animal
1374 2, 1 | Whether it belongs to man to act for an end?~(2) Whether
1375 2, 1 | Whether it belongs to man to act for an end?~Aquin.: SMT
1376 2, 1 | does not belong to man to act for an end. ~For a cause
1377 2, 1 | does not belong to ~man to act for an end.~Aquin.: SMT
1378 2, 1 | then does a man seem to act for an end, when he acts ~
1379 2, 1 | for ~instance the very act of willing. Now it is impossible
1380 2, 1 | impossible for the very act ~elicited by the will to
1381 2, 1 | first visible cannot be the act of seeing, because every
1382 2, 1 | of seeing, because every act of seeing is ~directed to
1383 2, 1 | end, ~cannot be the very act of willing. Consequently
1384 2, 1 | action of man, at least the act of willing, is for ~the
1385 2, 1 | to the rational nature to act for an end?~Aquin.: SMT
1386 2, 1 | to the rational nature to act for ~an end. For man, to
1387 2, 1 | man, to whom it belongs to act for an end, never acts for
1388 2, 1 | to the rational nature to act for an end.~Aquin.: SMT
1389 2, 1 | 1/1~OBJ 2: Further, to act for an end is to order one'
1390 2, 1 | Anima iii, 9). Therefore to act for an end ~belongs to none
1391 2, 1 | itself from potentiality to act. But an agent does not move
1392 2, 1 | afterwards. Therefore a human act ~does not derive its species
1393 2, 1 | species. But one ~and the same act may happen to be ordained
1394 2, 1 | species in respect of an act and ~not in respect of potentiality;
1395 2, 1 | receives its ~species from an act; action indeed from the
1396 2, 1 | action indeed from the act which is the principle of ~
1397 2, 1 | acting, and passion from the act which is the terminus of
1398 2, 1 | terminus: for the human act terminates at that ~which
1399 2, 1 | altogether extrinsic to the act, because it ~is related
1400 2, 1 | because it ~is related to the act as principle or terminus;
1401 2, 1 | that is essential to an act, viz. to proceed from something,
1402 2, 1 | species to the human or moral act.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[1] A[3]
1403 2, 1 | OBJ 3: One and the same act, in so far as it proceeds
1404 2, 1 | possible, however, that an act which is one ~in respect
1405 2, 1 | of the ~will: thus this act "to kill a man," which is
1406 2, 1 | a man," which is but one act in respect of ~its natural
1407 2, 1 | one way ~there will be an act of virtue, in another, an
1408 2, 1 | of virtue, in another, an act of vice. For a ~movement
1409 2, 2 | potentiality is for the sake of act as for its ~fulfilment,
1410 2, 2 | whether power, ~habit, or act. For that good which is
1411 2, 2 | not only power, habit, or act, but ~also the object of
1412 2, 3 | since potentiality without act is imperfect. Consequently ~
1413 2, 3 | must consist in man's last act. But it is evident that ~
1414 2, 3 | that ~operation is the last act of the operator, wherefore
1415 2, 3 | Philosopher ~calls it "second act" (De Anima ii, 1): because
1416 2, 3 | is ~a perfection and an act of the agent. And such an
1417 2, 3 | happiness consists in an act of the will. For ~Augustine
1418 2, 3 | love of God, which is an act of the ~will, is a more
1419 2, 3 | happiness consists in an act of the will.~Aquin.: SMT
1420 2, 3 | happiness consists in an act of the ~will.~Aquin.: SMT
1421 2, 3 | knowledge of God, which is an act of the intellect.~Aquin.:
1422 2, 3 | for it ~to consist in an act of the will. For it is evident
1423 2, 3 | not consist in the very act of ~the will. For the will
1424 2, 3 | to something else than an act ~of the will.~Aquin.: SMT
1425 2, 3 | of money were through an act of the will, the covetous
1426 2, 3 | made present to us by ~an act of the intellect; and then
1427 2, 3 | happiness consists in an act of the ~intellect: but the
1428 2, 3 | first object is not its act: just as neither is ~the
1429 2, 3 | not belong to it as its act.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[3] A[4]
1430 2, 3 | intelligible end by an act of the intellect; just as
1431 2, 3 | attain a ~sensible end by an act of sense.~Aquin.: SMT FS
1432 2, 3 | something other than the act of ~his will. But to desire
1433 2, 3 | happiness consists in an ~act of the practical intellect
1434 2, 3 | for its own sake. But the act of the practical intellect
1435 2, 3 | reduced from potentiality to act. But the ~human intellect
1436 2, 3 | intellect is reduced to act by the consideration of
1437 2, 3 | intellect is reduced to act, in a fashion, by the ~consideration
1438 2, 3 | to its final and perfect ~act.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[3] A[7]
1439 2, 4 | repose; for thus the very act ~of the will would be the
1440 2, 4 | 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: Every act of the will is preceded
1441 2, 4 | the will is preceded by an act of the ~intellect: but a
1442 2, 4 | intellect: but a certain act of the will precedes a certain
1443 2, 4 | will precedes a certain act of the ~intellect. For the
1444 2, 4 | will tends to the final act of the intellect which is ~
1445 2, 5 | object, ~which specifies the act, and not from the subject.~
1446 2, 5 | Happiness consists in an act of the intellect; and the ~
1447 2, 5 | from the virtue, in whose act that happiness ~principally
1448 2, 5 | there still remains an act of virtue, whereby man bears
1449 2, 5 | potentiality, can be reduced to ~act, by that which is such actually:
1450 2, 5 | of the ~virtue, in whose act it consists.~Aquin.: SMT
1451 2, 6 | 1) What makes a ~human act? (2) What distinguishes
1452 2, 6 | s appetite is ~moved to act, by the appetible object
1453 2, 6 | that acts voluntarily, can act of himself. But this ~is
1454 2, 6 | that "the voluntary ~is an act consisting in a rational
1455 2, 6 | itself the principle of its ~act, so that it not only acts,
1456 2, 6 | principle by which they not only act but also act for an end.
1457 2, 6 | they not only act but also act for an end. And ~consequently,
1458 2, 6 | principle, to wit, that ~they act and that they act for an
1459 2, 6 | they act and that they act for an end, the movements
1460 2, 6 | essential to the voluntary act that its principle be ~within
1461 2, 6 | nature of the ~voluntary act that this intrinsic principle
1462 2, 6 | essential to the voluntary act ~that its intrinsic principle
1463 2, 6 | principle of the voluntary act, i.e. ~the cognitive and
1464 2, 6 | OBJ 3: God moves man to act, not only by proposing the
1465 2, 6 | the essence of a voluntary act, that it proceed from God, ~
1466 2, 6 | their ~actions; for "they act not; rather are they acted
1467 2, 6 | such thing as a ~voluntary act in irrational animals.~Aquin.:
1468 2, 6 | essential to the voluntary ~act that its principle be within
1469 2, 6 | or the relationship of an act to the end. Such knowledge
1470 2, 6 | result of the voluntary act, ~wherein is the perfect
1471 2, 6 | voluntariness without any act?~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[6] A[3]
1472 2, 6 | voluntariness cannot be without any act. For ~that is voluntary
1473 2, 6 | will, except through some act, at least an act of the
1474 2, 6 | through some act, at least an act of the will. ~Therefore
1475 2, 6 | be voluntariness without act.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[6] A[3]
1476 2, 6 | one is said to wish by an act of the will, so ~when the
1477 2, 6 | of the will, so ~when the act of the will ceases, one
1478 2, 6 | nothing voluntary when the act of the will ceases.~Aquin.:
1479 2, 6 | But knowledge involves an act. Therefore voluntariness
1480 2, 6 | cannot ~be without some act.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[6] A[3]
1481 2, 6 | masters in respect of to act and not to act, to will ~
1482 2, 6 | respect of to act and not to act, to will ~and not to will.
1483 2, 6 | will. Therefore just as to act and to will are voluntary,
1484 2, 6 | voluntary, so ~also are not to act and not to will.~Aquin.:
1485 2, 6 | agent can and ought to act. For if the helmsman were
1486 2, 6 | the voluntary without an act; sometimes without ~outward
1487 2, 6 | sometimes without ~outward act, but with an interior act;
1488 2, 6 | act, but with an interior act; for instance, when one
1489 2, 6 | when one wills not ~to act; and sometimes without even
1490 2, 6 | without even an interior act, as when one does not ~will
1491 2, 6 | when one does not ~will to act.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[6] A[3]
1492 2, 6 | a sentence: and then no act of the will is affirmed.
1493 2, 6 | Voluntariness requires an act of knowledge in the same
1494 2, 6 | same way ~as it requires an act of will; namely, in order
1495 2, 6 | consider, to wish and to act. And then, just as not to
1496 2, 6 | not to wish, and not ~to act, when it is time to wish
1497 2, 6 | it is time to wish and to act, is voluntary, so is it ~
1498 2, 6 | will cannot be compelled to act.~Aquin.: SMT FS Q[6] A[4]
1499 2, 6 | 1/3~I answer that, The act of the will is twofold:
1500 2, 6 | twofold: one is its immediate act, ~as it were, elicited by
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