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3501 2, 42 | precepts were ~given about each act - about joy (Phil. 4:4): "
3502 2, 42 | For the mode of a virtuous act is not a ~matter of precept,
3503 2, 42 | about acts of virtue, an act is ~a matter of precept
3504 2, 42 | precept according as it is an act of virtue. Now it is ~requisite
3505 2, 42 | it is ~requisite for an act of virtue that not only
3506 2, 42 | commandment that prescribes an act of virtue does not ~prescribe
3507 2, 42 | observe that love is an act of the will which is here
3508 2, 42 | which is essential ~to an act of virtue comes under the
3509 2, 42 | prescribes that ~virtuous act. Now the order of charity
3510 2, 43 | in the intellect, whose act is to judge aright, as stated
3511 2, 43 | intellect exercises a twofold act, perception and ~judgment.
3512 2, 43 | Ghost, but they have not the act, on ~account of the bodily
3513 2, 45 | 8) Whether its proper act is command?~(9) Whether
3514 2, 45 | wisely." But choice is an act of the appetitive ~faculty,
3515 2, 45 | their acts. Now the first act of the appetitive faculty
3516 2, 45 | far as love moves to the ~act of prudence. Wherefore Augustine
3517 2, 45 | which application is an act of ~the will.~Aquin.: SMT
3518 2, 45 | also be replied that the act itself of the ~speculative
3519 2, 45 | comparison, a man may ~be said to act prudently in matters of
3520 2, 45 | each one that he should act ~according to reason.~Aquin.:
3521 2, 45 | Whether command is the chief act of prudence?~Aquin.: SMT
3522 2, 45 | command is not the chief act of prudence. For ~command
3523 2, 45 | 9) ~states that it is an act of prudence "to avoid ambushes."
3524 2, 45 | command is not the chief act of prudence.~Aquin.: SMT
3525 2, 45 | command is not the chief act of prudence.~Aquin.: SMT
3526 2, 45 | Therefore ~command is not an act of prudence.~Aquin.: SMT
3527 2, 45 | that which is the chief act of reason in regard to ~
3528 2, 45 | must needs be the chief act of prudence. Now there are
3529 2, 45 | discovery, for ~counsel is an act of inquiry, as stated above (
3530 2, 45 | 14], A[1]). The ~second act is "to judge of what one
3531 2, 45 | discovered," and this is an act ~of the speculative reason.
3532 2, 45 | goes further, and its third act is "to command," which act ~
3533 2, 45 | act is "to command," which act ~consists in applying to
3534 2, 45 | judged. And ~since this act approaches nearer to the
3535 2, 45 | follows that it is the chief act of the practical reason,
3536 2, 45 | be lacking in the chief act of prudence, ~viz. command,
3537 2, 45 | Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 1: The act of command extends both
3538 2, 45 | prudence, not as its chief act, but as an act of prudence ~
3539 2, 45 | its chief act, but as an act of prudence ~that does not
3540 2, 45 | ordering, wherefore it is an act of the ~reason, as stated
3541 2, 45 | to prudence, whose chief act is a ~command about what
3542 2, 45 | because ~he fails in the chief act of prudence, as when a man
3543 2, 45 | of a failing in the chief act, is only in the wicked.~
3544 2, 45 | neither in habit nor in act. On the ~other hand gratuitous
3545 2, 45 | as to habit but not as to act, even as in ~idiots; whereas
3546 2, 45 | reason, it is also ~as to act, with regard to things necessary
3547 2, 45 | animals of a same species act in ~like manner. But this
3548 2, 45 | knowledge alone, but ~also in an act of the appetite, because
3549 2, 45 | above (A[8]), its ~principal act is one of command, whereby
3550 2, 46 | to concur for the perfect act of a virtue, are called ~
3551 2, 46 | prudence" is ~about the chief act, viz. that of commanding.~
3552 2, 47 | OBJ 3: Further, the chief act of prudence is to command,
3553 2, 47 | command, while its ~secondary act is to judge and to take
3554 2, 48 | prudence after the ~principal act of a king which is to make
3555 2, 48 | respect of such diversity one act of virtue is ~principal
3556 2, 49 | consists in making a human act good. Now among the acts
3557 2, 49 | properly directed to ~an act which it renders good; and
3558 2, 49 | according to common law) whose ~act is judicial. Command considers
3559 2, 50 | is the first and ~lowest act of prudence, while command
3560 2, 50 | while command is its highest act, and judgment ~comes between,
3561 2, 51 | so far as the movement or act of ~reason is in opposition
3562 2, 51 | require ~consideration in the act of prudence. In this way
3563 2, 51 | not ~possible for a man to act against prudence, except
3564 2, 51 | teaching: whereas if he act beside the Law and without ~
3565 2, 51 | the rash ~man wills the act of imprudence, because he
3566 2, 51 | imprudence, because he wishes to act precipitately. ~Hence the
3567 2, 51 | habit, although the contrary act is taken away, wherein properly
3568 2, 51 | without some defect in an act of ~the directing reason,
3569 2, 51 | command" which is the proper act of prudence. Thirdly, this
3570 2, 51 | that, Thought signifies the act of the intellect in considering ~
3571 2, 51 | is due to a defect in the act of counsel, and ~thoughtlessness
3572 2, 51 | thoughtlessness to a defect in the act of judgment, so inconstancy
3573 2, 51 | arises ~from a defect in the act of command. For a man is
3574 2, 51 | Hence Terence says (Eunuch. act 1, sc. 1) that ~"love leads
3575 2, 52 | Now every lack ~of a due act is sinful: wherefore it
3576 2, 52 | according as ~solicitude is the act of a special virtue. For
3577 2, 52 | having a special kind of ~act which extends to all kinds
3578 2, 52 | all vices ~affecting an act of reason, since every act
3579 2, 52 | act of reason, since every act of reason extends to any
3580 2, 52 | solicitude is a special act of reason, as ~stated above (
3581 2, 52 | be a defect affecting an act ~of reason, for instance
3582 2, 52 | on account of a special act of reason ~which is omitted,
3583 2, 52 | of the lack of a special ~act of reason, namely solicitude,
3584 2, 52 | goodness, whether a ~due act be entirely omitted through
3585 2, 52 | imprudence relates to some act of reason. But negligence ~
3586 2, 52 | a defect in the internal act, to which choice ~also belongs:
3587 2, 52 | Omission regards the external act, for it consists in ~failing
3588 2, 52 | in ~failing to perform an act which is due. Hence it is
3589 2, 52 | Negligence regards the act of command, which solicitude ~
3590 2, 52 | fails in regard to this act otherwise ~than the inconstant
3591 2, 52 | negligence. ~If this be either an act or a circumstance necessary
3592 2, 52 | consists in the omission of an act or circumstance ~that is
3593 2, 53 | Further, it is not a sin to act prudently for an end which
3594 2, 53 | prudence is in the very act of reason. Therefore guile
3595 2, 53 | reason from exercising its ~act: whereas in the aforesaid
3596 2, 53 | magnanimous man wishes to act openly, as the ~Philosopher
3597 2, 54 | Old Testament about the ~act of prudence which is directed
3598 2, 54 | reason for prescribing an act of ~virtue as for prohibiting
3599 2, 54 | virtue as for prohibiting the act of a contrary vice. But
3600 2, 55 | when it is the term of an ~act of justice, without taking
3601 2, 56 | real mean?~(11) Whether the act of justice is to render
3602 2, 56 | denotes a power, or also an act. Therefore justice is unfittingly
3603 2, 56 | the ~principle of a good act, a virtue must needs be
3604 2, 56 | defined by means of the ~good act bearing on the matter proper
3605 2, 56 | further on (A[2]). Hence the act of ~justice in relation
3606 2, 56 | 2/3~Now in order that an act bearing upon any matter
3607 2, 56 | 4) that in order for an act to be virtuous it needs ~
3608 2, 56 | in order to show that the act of justice must be ~voluntary;
3609 2, 56 | indicate the firmness of the act.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[58] A[
3610 2, 56 | of justice; save that the act ~is mentioned instead of
3611 2, 56 | takes its species from that act, ~because habit implies
3612 2, 56 | habit implies relation to act. And if anyone would reduce
3613 2, 56 | 1: Will here denotes the act, not the power: and it is ~
3614 2, 56 | the ~part of the will's act which endures for ever,
3615 2, 56 | scarcely find a man willing to act unjustly in every case;
3616 2, 56 | imply perpetuity of the act of ~the will, it is not
3617 2, 56 | virtuous deed. And yet it is an act of ~justice. Therefore justice
3618 2, 56 | one "which renders a human act and man ~himself good" [*
3619 2, 56 | to justice. For a ~man's act is made good through attaining
3620 2, 56 | readily, and this is to act virtuously. Hence it is ~
3621 2, 56 | virtue is the power whose act that ~virtue aims at rectifying.
3622 2, 56 | not aim at directing an act ~of the cognitive power,
3623 2, 56 | Q[81], A[2]. Again the act of rendering his due to
3624 2, 56 | 1) defines justice by an act of the ~will, as may be
3625 2, 56 | that ~virtue directing its act to some higher end even
3626 2, 56 | the same even though its act be directed ~to a Divine
3627 2, 56 | seems that there can be no act of any virtue, that does
3628 2, 56 | strictly speaking directs its act to that ~virtue's proper
3629 2, 56 | Thes. Para. 1/1~Whether the act of justice is to render
3630 2, 56 | It would seem that the act of justice is not to render
3631 2, 56 | ascribes to justice the act ~of succoring the needy.
3632 2, 56 | but ours. Therefore the act of justice does not consist
3633 2, 56 | what is his. Therefore ~the act of justice does not consist
3634 2, 56 | of things. Therefore the act of justice is not ~sufficiently
3635 2, 56 | proportion. Therefore the proper act of justice is nothing ~else
3636 2, 57 | same relation to its proper act, ~and the same applies to
3637 2, 57 | compared by means of its proper act ~which is called an injustice.
3638 2, 57 | reference to those who act unjustly: "Whatever they
3639 2, 58 | Whether judgment is an act of justice?~(2) Whether
3640 2, 58 | 1~Whether judgment is an act of justice?~Aquin.: SMT
3641 2, 58 | that judgment is not an act of justice. The ~Philosopher
3642 2, 58 | only to judges. But the ~act of justice is to be found
3643 2, 58 | judgment is not the proper act of ~justice.~Aquin.: SMT
3644 2, 58 | Judgment properly denotes the act of a judge as such. Now ~
3645 2, 58 | this way, judgment is an act of ~reason, because it belongs
3646 2, 58 | Accordingly judgment is an act of justice in so far as
3647 2, 58 | lawful in so far as it is an act of justice. ~Now it follows
3648 2, 58 | for a judgment to be an act of justice: first, ~that
3649 2, 58 | injustice, since judgment is an act of justice, as stated above (
3650 2, 58 | internal to the external act, for instance as ~desire
3651 2, 59 | restitution would seem to be an act of commutative justice,
3652 2, 59 | 1/1~OBJ 2: Further, the act of justice is to render
3653 2, 59 | Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 3: The act of distributing the goods
3654 2, 59 | case ~of gifts, it is an act, not of justice but of liberality.
3655 2, 60 | inquiry:~(1) of what is it an act?~(2) Whether it is always
3656 2, 60 | Whether restitution is an act of commutative justice?~
3657 2, 60 | that restitution is not an act of commutative ~justice.
3658 2, 60 | restitution is not the act of any part of justice.~
3659 2, 60 | would not seem to be the act of a part of justice.~Aquin.:
3660 2, 60 | restitution is not more an act of commutative than of ~
3661 2, 60 | taking away. Now it is an act ~of commutative injustice
3662 2, 60 | Therefore ~to restore it is an act of that justice which directs
3663 2, 60 | Hence restitution is an ~act of commutative justice,
3664 2, 60 | stated above (A[1]) is an act of ~commutative justice,
3665 2, 60 | Further, restitution is an act of virtue, viz. of justice.
3666 2, 61 | A[1]), judgment is an act of ~justice, in as much
3667 2, 62 | killed themselves thinking to act from fortitude), ~yet it
3668 2, 62 | that, Nothing hinders one act from having two effects,
3669 2, 62 | A[1]). Accordingly the act of self-defense ~may have
3670 2, 62 | aggressor. Therefore this act, since one's intention is
3671 2, 62 | from a good intention, an act may be rendered unlawful,
3672 2, 62 | salvation that a ~man omit the act of moderate self-defense
3673 2, 62 | Irregularity results from the act though sinless of taking ~
3674 2, 62 | Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 4: The act of fornication or adultery
3675 2, 62 | one's own life, as is the act whence ~sometimes results
3676 2, 63 | unlawful to imprison a man. An act which deals with ~undue
3677 2, 64 | Reply OBJ 2: A man would not act unlawfully if by going beforehand
3678 2, 64 | manner a rich man does not ~act unlawfully if he anticipates
3679 2, 64 | sin, ~because he does not act against justice, since he
3680 2, 64 | public authority, is to act unlawfully and to be guilty
3681 2, 65 | 13]. Now it is a sin ~to act contrary to one's knowledge.
3682 2, 66 | Further, no man is bound to act against the fidelity which
3683 2, 67 | trial for his life, is an act of perfect ~virtue, since "
3684 2, 68 | Further, no man is bound to act deceitfully. Now it is written ~(
3685 2, 68 | man cannot be obliged ~to act on the plea that the matter
3686 2, 69 | from performing a ~certain act: first because it is impossible
3687 2, 69 | the man to whom a certain act is ~impossible, is absolutely
3688 2, 69 | performing it, he to whom an act ~is unbecoming is not debarred
3689 2, 69 | pleading or advice, he does not act against ~justice. The same
3690 2, 70 | For ~no mortal sin is an act of virtue. Now railing is
3691 2, 70 | virtue. Now railing is the act of a virtue, ~viz. of wittiness {
3692 2, 70 | Reply OBJ 3: It would be an act of revenge to keep silence
3693 2, 71 | not a mortal sin. For no act of ~virtue is a mortal sin.
3694 2, 71 | above (A[1], ad 3), is an act of the virtue of ~charity,
3695 2, 71 | amend: or else it is an act of justice, whereby a man
3696 2, 72 | sever friendship seems to act more directly against this ~
3697 2, 74 | in so far as the external act adds something to the act
3698 2, 74 | act adds something to the act of the ~will.~Aquin.: SMT
3699 2, 75 | offered him, does not seem to act ~contrary to justice through
3700 2, 77 | required for the perfect act of justice. ~For it belongs
3701 2, 77 | Doing good is the completive act of justice, and the ~principal
3702 2, 77 | evil is a more ~imperfect act, and a secondary part of
3703 2, 77 | properly ~speaking, is to act against a negative precept.~
3704 2, 77 | its special aspect of an act ~against a negative precept,
3705 2, 77 | may be ~altogether without act, as stated above (FS, Q[
3706 2, 77 | opposed, always requires ~an act, even in declining from
3707 2, 77 | may be altogether without act. Therefore omission is not
3708 2, 77 | not as though it ~had some act essential to it, but for
3709 2, 77 | much as the negation of an act ~is reduced to the genus
3710 2, 77 | reduced to the genus of act, and in this sense non-action
3711 2, 77 | and incompatible with the act to ~which he is bound. But
3712 2, 77 | more is required for an act ~to be virtuous and meritorious
3713 2, 77 | merit of justice requires an act, whereas an omission does
3714 2, 77 | transgression is contrary to an act of virtue, while omission
3715 2, 79 | their ~tribulation" is an act of religion as commanding,
3716 2, 79 | religion as commanding, and an act of mercy as ~eliciting;
3717 2, 79 | unspotted from this world" is an act of ~religion as commanding,
3718 2, 79 | God. But reverence is an act of fear ~which is a gift,
3719 2, 79 | possessor good, and his act good ~likewise," wherefore
3720 2, 79 | needs say that every good act belongs to a ~virtue. Now
3721 2, 79 | pay reverence to God is an act of the gift of fear. Now ~
3722 2, 79 | service to God ~may be an act of virtue, in so far as
3723 2, 79 | virtue there is seemingly one act, since habits ~are distinguished
3724 2, 79 | Reply OBJ 2: By the one same act man both serves and worships
3725 2, 79 | hope and ~charity have an act in reference to God as their
3726 2, 79 | command, they cause the act of religion, which ~performs
3727 2, 79 | religion has an external act?~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[81] A[
3728 2, 79 | religion has not an external act. It is ~written (Jn. 4:24): "
3729 2, 80 | Whether devotion is a special act?~(2) Whether it is an act
3730 2, 80 | act?~(2) Whether it is an act of religion?~(3) Of the
3731 2, 80 | Whether devotion is a special act?~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[82] A[
3732 2, 80 | devotion is not a special act. That which ~qualifies other
3733 2, 80 | seemingly not a special act. Now devotion seems ~to
3734 2, 80 | devotion is not a special act.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[82] A[
3735 2, 80 | Further, no special kind of act is common to various genera
3736 2, 80 | devotion is not a special act.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[82] A[
3737 2, 80 | Further, every special act belongs either to an appetitive
3738 2, 80 | devotion ~is not a special act.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[82] A[
3739 2, 80 | Therefore devotion ~is a special act.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[82] A[
3740 2, 80 | God is a special kind of act. ~Therefore devotion is
3741 2, 80 | Therefore devotion is a special act of the will.~Aquin.: SMT
3742 2, 80 | Wherefore, ~since devotion is an act of the will whereby a man
3743 2, 80 | Reply OBJ 3: Devotion is an act of the appetitive part of
3744 2, 80 | 1~Whether devotion is an act of religion?~Aquin.: SMT
3745 2, 80 | that devotion is not an act of religion. Devotion, ~
3746 2, 80 | Therefore devotion is an act of charity ~rather than
3747 2, 80 | Therefore devotion is not an act of religion.~Aquin.: SMT
3748 2, 80 | Therefore devotion is not an act of religion.~Aquin.: SMT
3749 2, 80 | A[1]). ~But a vow is an act of religion. Therefore devotion
3750 2, 80 | Therefore devotion is also an act of ~religion.~Aquin.: SMT
3751 2, 80 | evident that devotion is an act of religion.~Aquin.: SMT
3752 2, 80 | 1]) that devotion is an act of the will to the effect
3753 2, 80 | service of God. Now every act of the ~will proceeds from
3754 2, 80 | Dilectio,' the interior act of charity; cf. ~Q[27]]
3755 2, 80 | Dilectio,' the interior act of charity; cf. Q[27]] of ~
3756 2, 80 | dilectio,' the interior act of charity; cf. ~Q[27]]
3757 2, 81 | 1) Whether prayer is an act of the appetitive or of
3758 2, 81 | 3) Whether prayer is an act of religion?~(4) Whether
3759 2, 81 | 1/1~Whether prayer is an act of the appetitive power?~
3760 2, 81 | would seem that prayer is an act of the appetitive power.
3761 2, 81 | desire. But desire is an act of the appetitive power: ~
3762 2, 81 | Therefore prayer is an act, not of the ~appetitive,
3763 2, 81 | we speak of it now, is an act of reason.~Aquin.: SMT SS
3764 2, 81 | wherefore nothing hinders the act ~of reason, under the motion
3765 2, 81 | 1/1~Whether prayer is an act of religion?~Aquin.: SMT
3766 2, 81 | seem that prayer is not an act of religion. Since ~religion
3767 2, 81 | Therefore prayer seems to be an act, not of religion, but of
3768 2, 81 | 1/1~OBJ 2: Further, the act of "latria" falls under
3769 2, 81 | prayer seemingly is not an act of religion.~Aquin.: SMT
3770 2, 81 | Therefore prayer is not an act of religion.~Aquin.: SMT
3771 2, 81 | Therefore prayer ~is an act of religion.~Aquin.: SMT
3772 2, 81 | that prayer is properly an act of religion.~Aquin.: SMT
3773 2, 81 | God alone. Prayer is an ~act of religion, as stated above (
3774 2, 81 | is uttered by an interior act which God alone knows, ~
3775 2, 81 | To pray for another is an act of charity, as stated above ~(
3776 2, 81 | and to assist them, is an act of perfection.~Aquin.: SMT
3777 2, 81 | the contrary, Prayer is an act of reason, as stated above (
3778 2, 81 | above (A[1]) prayer is an act of reason, and ~consists
3779 2, 81 | superior; just as command is an act of reason, ~whereby an inferior
3780 2, 81 | prayer ~is not a meritorious act.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[83] A[
3781 2, 81 | prayer is not a meritorious act.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[83] A[
3782 2, 81 | prayer is not a meritorious act.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[83] A[
3783 2, 81 | like any other virtuous act, is efficacious in ~meriting,
3784 2, 81 | religion, of which prayer is an act, ~as stated above (A[3]),
3785 2, 81 | religion, for it is its ~first act and a necessary condition
3786 2, 81 | prayer nor any other virtuous act is meritorious ~without
3787 2, 81 | gratuitous gift, ~since the very act of praying is "a gift of
3788 2, 82 | Whether adoration is an act of latria?~(2) Whether adoration
3789 2, 82 | internal or an external act?~(3) Whether adoration requires
3790 2, 82 | Whether adoration is an act of latria or religion? ~
3791 2, 82 | that adoration is not an act of latria or religion. ~
3792 2, 82 | Therefore adoration is not an ~act of religion.~Aquin.: SMT
3793 2, 82 | Therefore adoration is not an act ~of latria.~Aquin.: SMT
3794 2, 82 | Therefore adoration is nol an act of latria.~Aquin.: SMT SS
3795 2, 82 | whereby we adore God is an act of religion.~Aquin.: SMT
3796 2, 82 | adoration does not denote an act of the body. ~It is written (
3797 2, 82 | has nothing to do with ~an act of the body. Therefore adoration
3798 2, 82 | adoration does not denote an act of the ~body.~Aquin.: SMT
3799 2, 82 | consists chiefly in an interior act, according to 1 Cor. 14:
3800 2, 82 | denotes chiefly a spiritual act.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[84] A[
3801 2, 82 | adoration ~does not denote an act of the body.~Aquin.: SMT
3802 2, 83 | a sacrifice is a special act of virtue?~(4) Whether all
3803 2, 83 | of sacrifice is a special act of virtue?~Aquin.: SMT SS
3804 2, 83 | sacrifice is not a special act ~of virtue. Augustine says (
3805 2, 83 | good work is a special act of some definite virtue.
3806 2, 83 | sacrifice is not a special act of a definite virtue.~Aquin.:
3807 2, 83 | sacrifice is not a special act of a definite ~virtue.~Aquin.:
3808 2, 83 | appear to be a special act of a definite virtue.~Aquin.:
3809 2, 83 | 18], AA[6],7), where an act of one ~virtue is directed
3810 2, 83 | sacrifice is a special ~act deserving of praise in that
3811 2, 83 | God: and consequently the act of any ~virtue assumes the
3812 2, 85 | property acquired by one's own act, for instance by ~commerce
3813 2, 86 | Of what virtue is it an act?~(6) Whether it is more
3814 2, 86 | Now to "purpose" is an act of the will, ~while to "
3815 2, 86 | while to "promise" is an act of the reason. Therefore
3816 2, 86 | vow consists in a ~mere act of the will.~Aquin.: SMT
3817 2, 86 | a promise, which ~is an act of the reason to which faculty
3818 2, 86 | deliberation, since ~it is the act of a deliberate will. Accordingly
3819 2, 86 | indifferent, but only some ~act of virtue, should be the
3820 2, 86 | except in so far as it is an act of ~virtue; and this depends
3821 2, 86 | 1/1~Whether a vow is an act of latria or religion?~Aquin.:
3822 2, 86 | seem that a vow is not an act of latria or religion. ~
3823 2, 86 | latria or religion. ~Every act of virtue is matter for
3824 2, 86 | Therefore, ~a vow is not an act of religion.~Aquin.: SMT
3825 2, 86 | Therefore, a vow is not an act of religion.~Aquin.: SMT
3826 2, 86 | worship of God is properly the act of ~religion or latria.
3827 2, 86 | Therefore, a vow is an act of latria or religion.~Aquin.:
3828 2, 86 | 81], A[1], ad 1), every act of virtue ~belongs to religion
3829 2, 86 | service of God is the proper act of latria.~Aquin.: SMT SS
3830 2, 86 | take a vow is properly an ~act of latria or religion. ~
3831 2, 86 | of a vow is sometimes the act of another virtue, ~as,
3832 2, 86 | while ~sometimes it is an act of religion, as offering
3833 2, 86 | far as it is a virtuous act. ~This is how we are to
3834 2, 86 | stated above (A[5]) is an act of religion which is the
3835 2, 86 | the deed. Wherefore the act of an inferior virtue is
3836 2, 86 | superior virtue, ~whose act it becomes through being
3837 2, 86 | commanded by it, just as the act of ~faith or hope is better
3838 2, 86 | instance, fasting, which is an act of ~abstinence; and being
3839 2, 86 | being continent, which is an act of chastity) are better ~
3840 2, 86 | God not ~only as to the act, but also as to the power,
3841 2, 86 | coercion which causes an act to be involuntary and excludes ~
3842 2, 86 | fulfilment of ~a vow is an act of religion which is a greater
3843 2, 86 | of ~which fasting is an act.~Aquin.: SMT SS Q[88] A[
3844 2, 86 | First Table since it is an act of ~religion. Therefore
3845 2, 86 | chastity. Now ~if a man vows an act of religion, e.g. to offer
3846 2, 86 | continency which is about an act of chastity.~Aquin.: SMT
3847 2, 86 | due, not to its being an act of chastity, but ~because
3848 2, 86 | profession it is already an act of religion.~Aquin.: SMT
3849 2, 87 | Of what virtue is it an act?~(5) Whether oaths are desirable,
3850 2, 87 | 53): and judgment is an act of justice, as ~stated above (
3851 2, 87 | 1~Whether an oath is an act of religion or latria?~Aquin.:
3852 2, 87 | seem that an oath is not an act of religion, or latria. ~
3853 2, 87 | Therefore swearing is not an act of religion or latria.~Aquin.:
3854 2, 87 | Therefore swearing is not an act of ~religion or latria.~
3855 2, 87 | Therefore swearing is not an act of religion.~Aquin.: SMT
3856 2, 87 | Therefore swearing is an act ~of religion.~Aquin.: SMT
3857 2, 87 | evident ~that an oath is an act of religion or latria.~Aquin.:
3858 2, 87 | good. Just as a vow is an act of religion, so is ~an oath.
3859 2, 87 | vow, ~because a vow is an act of religion, as stated above (
3860 2, 87 | very reason ~a vow is an act of religion. On the other
3861 2, 87 | for this reason, become an act of religion, ~since moral
3862 2, 87 | Further, an oath is an act of religion, as stated above (
3863 2, 87 | 22). Now ~an oath is an act of virtue, as stated above (
3864 2, 87 | in ~His name. Now every act of infidelity includes an
3865 2, 87 | regard not the matter but the act itself of the oath: ~so
3866 2, 87 | religion, or perform some act of ~kindness. In this case
3867 2, 89 | divine worship, for it is an ~act of religion. Now God is
3868 2, 92 | sense it ~may denote a human act pertaining to the worship
3869 2, 92 | the people believed him to act ~honestly."~Aquin.: SMT
3870 2, 93 | OBJ 2: Further, a human act takes it species from its
3871 2, 93 | reason is not a body, nor the act of a bodily organ, and consequently ~
3872 2, 93 | able, by his reason, to act counter to the inclination
3873 2, 93 | every power of which is the act of a bodily organ, their
3874 2, 93 | Apostles, Bede says (Super Act. ~Apost. i): "But if anyone,
3875 2, 93 | Wherefore, as Bede ~says (Super Act. Apost. i): "Before Pentecost
3876 2, 93 | on thee, thou couldst not act more justly than ~in choosing
3877 2, 95 | to God becomingly is an act of ~religion as stated above (
3878 2, 95 | as regards the ~material act which it pays just as religion
3879 2, 96 | which is best it is not an act of perjury, but ~contrary
3880 2, 96 | 4: An oath is a personal act, and so when a man becomes
3881 2, 96 | sinful is because it ~is an act of irreverence towards God.
3882 2, 97 | formally; although ~his act contains various kinds of
3883 2, 97 | other sins, through ~its act having no other deformity
3884 2, 98 | unbelief, like faith, is an act not of the will but of ~
3885 2, 98 | should not ~be defined as an act of the will.~Aquin.: SMT
3886 2, 98 | above (FS, Q[18], A[2]) an act is evil ~generically when
3887 2, 98 | relation to the will. This act ~is furthermore described
3888 2, 98 | them are ~likened to him in act. Those who sell them imitate,
3889 2, 98 | who sell them imitate, in act, Giezi the ~disciple of
3890 2, 98 | without being ~paid, one must act as though there were no
3891 2, 98 | things, ~as well as those who act as go-between, are sentenced
3892 2, 99 | one ~another, so that the act of one be excluded by the
3893 2, 99 | of one be excluded by the act of the other. Now, ~as stated
3894 2, 99 | FS, Q[18], A[3]), the act of every ~virtue is limited
3895 2, 99 | overstep ~them it will be an act no longer of virtue but
3896 2, 99 | it would no longer be an act of piety to pay worship
3897 2, 99 | God, then will it be an act of piety, and there will ~
3898 2, 101 | spiritual, since to revere is an act of fear, as stated above (
3899 2, 102 | 5], A[5]]. Again, ~this act has a special aspect of
3900 2, 102 | fortress, fulfils both an act of ~fortitude, by facing
3901 2, 102 | death for a good end, and an act of ~justice, by rendering
3902 2, 102 | obedience that one perform an act of justice or of some ~other
3903 2, 102 | the merit of a virtuous act consists in man ~contemning
3904 2, 102 | which is the principal act of religion. Wherefore from
3905 2, 102 | according as acts of virtue act causally ~or dispositively
3906 2, 102 | First, because though an act of virtue come under a precept,
3907 2, 102 | nevertheless perform that act of virtue without considering
3908 2, 104 | belongs ~to gratitude, is an act of justice. Therefore gratitude
3909 2, 104 | gratitude is a repayment of an act of grace. But some ~favors
3910 2, 104 | proper to a ~benefactor to act freely and quickly." Now
3911 2, 104 | Reply OBJ 1: Every moral act depends on the will. Hence
3912 2, 105 | special sin?~(3) Whether every act of ingratitude is a mortal
3913 2, 105 | as it removes a ~virtuous act of obedience to God.~Aquin.:
3914 2, 105 | charity, but ~excludes some act thereof.~Aquin.: SMT SS
3915 2, 105 | a favor must not at once act the part of a ~punisher
3916 2, 106 | special virtue, but is an act of commutative justice. ~
3917 2, 106 | a special virtue for an act ~to which a man is sufficiently
3918 2, 106 | of public justice, is an ~act of commutative justice;
3919 2, 106 | them as his own. Now every act of virtue proceeds from
3920 2, 106 | Further, ignorance makes an act involuntary. Now vengeance
3921 2, 106 | Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 4: An act done through compulsion
3922 2, 107 | precedes the habit ~and the act, it seems that truth is
3923 2, 107 | what is true is a ~good act: and virtue is "that which
3924 2, 107 | suffice ~for it to be an act of virtue, since it is requisite
3925 2, 107 | these ~be not observed, the act will be sinful. Accordingly
3926 2, 107 | secondly, on the part of the act. On the part of the object, ~
3927 2, 107 | truth. ~On the part of the act, to observe the mean is
3928 2, 107 | belongs to oneself is an act of truth ~as we understand
3929 2, 107 | is made known by its own act. Therefore truth is not
3930 2, 107 | the brave man intends to act bravely: and that he shows
3931 2, 107 | we have ~stated to be an act of truth, is directed to
3932 2, 107 | manifestation of the ~truth is an act of the will.~Aquin.: SMT
3933 2, 107 | This truth is a ~particular act of justice, and does not
3934 2, 108 | 5~I answer that, A moral act takes its species from two
3935 2, 108 | object of the voluntary act, and stands in ~relation
3936 2, 108 | relation to the will's act towards the end, as material
3937 2, 108 | manifestation or statement is an act of ~reason comparing sign
3938 2, 108 | comparison, which is the proper act of the ~reason. Wherefore
3939 2, 108 | or ~statement is a moral act, it must needs be voluntary,
3940 2, 108 | is a voluntary and ~moral act, it contains falseness essentially
3941 2, 108 | effect resulting from a moral act is ~something beside and
3942 2, 108 | accidental to the species of that act, so that an ~indefinite
3943 2, 108 | effects can result from one act. Now this division ~is made
3944 2, 108 | his promise, he seems to act without faith in ~changing
3945 2, 108 | Now it is a mortal sin to act against a precept. Therefore
3946 2, 108 | regard ~to the external act of lying. For thereby they
3947 2, 109 | simulating other persons act the parts of those they
3948 2, 109 | the very species of the act, and this species depends
3949 2, 109 | species depends on that act's ~proper object. Wherefore
3950 2, 110 | regard to the species of the act, and thus it is opposed
3951 2, 115 | is its matter?~(3) Of its act;~(4) Whether it pertains
3952 2, 115 | however, that the very act of giving away one's ~possessions
3953 2, 115 | liberally, in so far as it is an act of virtue, is directed ~
3954 2, 115 | Whether using money is the act of liberality?~Aquin.: SMT
3955 2, 115 | that using money is not the act of liberality. For ~different
3956 2, 115 | Therefore it is not the ~proper act of liberality.~Aquin.: SMT
3957 2, 115 | unsuitably assigned as the proper act of liberality.~Aquin.: SMT
3958 2, 115 | consequently is not an act of liberality: for Seneca
3959 2, 115 | good use of ~money is the act of liberality.~Aquin.: SMT
3960 2, 115 | that, The species of an act is taken from its object,
3961 2, 115 | liberality is a virtue, its act is consistent with money.
3962 2, 115 | s use. Hence the proper act of liberality is making
3963 2, 115 | them all the more ready to act liberally, because, not ~
3964 2, 115 | whatever is contrary to its act, and avoids whatever hinders ~
3965 2, 115 | avoids whatever hinders ~that act. Now two things are opposed
3966 2, 115 | more opposed to his proper act. For this reason, too, ~
3967 2, 115 | not give to all: since his act would be hindered were he
3968 2, 115 | by giving forth ~its own act: and the acts of certain
3969 2, 116 | of imperfection of the ~act, as stated above (Q[66],
3970 2, 116 | love of riches, fear not to act counter to the love ~of
3971 2, 118 | and law." Therefore the act of "epikeia" ~is unlawful:
3972 2, 119 | FS, Q[68], A[6]). But the act of piety cannot remain in
3973 2, 119 | unhappiness. And although this act has no place in ~heaven,
3974 2, 119 | exercise its ~principal act, which is to revere God
3975 2, 119 | then above all that this act will be fulfilled, according
3976 2, 120 | is one virtue, has one ~act. Yet in the first precept
3977 2, 120 | which, like ~error, is an act of unbelief. Now unbelief
3978 2, 120 | to exercise any spiritual act, such as teaching by word
3979 2, 120 | ways. First as ~denoting an act of the will, as in Wis.
3980 2, 120 | secondly, as denoting an act of the sensuality, as in
3981 2, 121 | itself; (2) its principal act, viz. martyrdom; (3) the
3982 2, 121 | Whether endurance is its chief act?~(7) Whether its action
3983 2, 121 | cases seem to pertain to act rather than to moral virtue, "
3984 2, 121 | But moral virtue does not act from passion but from choice,
3985 2, 121 | person performs the exterior act of a virtue ~without having
3986 2, 121 | Secondly, a man performs an act of fortitude without having
3987 2, 121 | requisite for every virtue to act firmly and immovably. Secondly, ~
3988 2, 121 | Whether endurance is the chief act of fortitude?~Aquin.: SMT
3989 2, 121 | endurance is not the chief act of fortitude. For ~virtue "
3990 2, 121 | endurance is not the ~chief act of fortitude.~Aquin.: SMT
3991 2, 121 | Further, to be able to act on another seems to argue
3992 2, 121 | another. Now to attack is to act on ~another, and to endure
3993 2, 121 | Therefore the principal act of ~fortitude is endurance,
3994 2, 121 | that the brave man does not act for the sake of the ~good
3995 2, 121 | last in execution. Now the act of fortitude, in the order ~
3996 2, 121 | impossible ~for the brave man to act for the sake of the good
3997 2, 121 | a virtue. Therefore ~the act of fortitude is directed
3998 2, 121 | Therefore the brave man does not act ~for the sake of the good
3999 2, 121 | habit, for he intends to act ~in accordance with his
4000 2, 121 | likeness of the habit in act, as stated. The other two
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