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501 1, 45 | the divine Persons are the cause of ~creation, as above explained.~
502 1, 45 | usually denotes a mediate cause, ~or "a principle from a
503 1, 45 | represents only its own cause. But the ~causality of creatures
504 1, 45 | some degree represents its cause, but ~diversely. For some
505 1, 45 | only the causality of the cause, ~but not its form; as smoke
506 1, 45 | Other effects represent the cause as regards the similitude
507 1, 45 | divine Persons as to their cause. For every creature subsists
508 1, 45 | substance, ~it represents the cause and principle; and so in
509 1, 45 | are also in some way the ~cause and type of creation; as
510 1, 45 | not more powerful than its cause. But in ~natural things
511 1, 46 | if there is a sufficient cause, there is an effect; for ~
512 1, 46 | there is an effect; for ~a cause to which there is no effect
513 1, 46 | no effect is an imperfect cause, requiring ~something else
514 1, 46 | But God is the sufficient cause ~of the world; being the
515 1, 46 | the world; being the final cause, by reason of His goodness,
516 1, 46 | goodness, the ~exemplar cause by reason of His wisdom,
517 1, 46 | wisdom, and the efficient cause, by ~reason of His power
518 1, 46 | that the will of God is the cause of things. Therefore things
519 1, 46 | on the necessity of the cause (Metaph. v, ~text 6). Now
520 1, 46 | the will of God, as on its cause. It is not ~therefore necessary
521 1, 46 | always manifestly has a ~cause; whereas this is not so
522 1, 46 | effect follows from the cause that acts by nature, ~according
523 1, 46 | eternity the sufficient cause of the ~world, we should
524 1, 46 | that God is the effective cause of the world; indeed this
525 1, 46 | father is the efficient cause of the son (Phys. ii, text
526 1, 46 | the part of the efficient ~cause, which acts by will. For
527 1, 46 | consider that the efficient cause, which acts by motion, of ~
528 1, 46 | necessarily ~if God is the active cause of the world, that He should
529 1, 46 | have the order of only one cause, their multiplication being
530 1, 47 | But God is the exemplar cause of His effect, as was said
531 1, 47 | philosophers, who admitted no cause but matter, attributed it
532 1, 47 | from matter to a higher cause. ~Secondly, because matter
533 1, 47 | it ~understood the first cause, produced the second intelligence;
534 1, 47 | the divine wisdom is the cause of the distinction of things, ~
535 1, 47 | and he said this ~was the cause of the creation and diversity
536 1, 47 | the wisdom of God is the cause of the ~distinction of things,
537 1, 47 | so the same wisdom is the cause of their ~inequality. This
538 1, 47 | the divine wisdom is the cause of the distinction ~of things
539 1, 47 | universe, so it is the ~cause of inequality. For the universe
540 1, 48 | inquire into evil and its cause.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[48] Out.
541 1, 48 | in the sense of the final cause, as the end is said ~to
542 1, 48 | by moving the efficient cause. But in these two ways evil
543 1, 49 | 49] Out. Para. 1/1 - THE CAUSE OF EVIL (THREE ARTICLES)~
544 1, 49 | We next inquire into the cause of evil. Concerning this
545 1, 49 | Whether good can be the cause of evil?~(2) Whether the
546 1, 49 | supreme good, God, is the cause of evil?~(3) Whether there
547 1, 49 | evil, which is the first cause of all ~evils?~Aquin.: SMT
548 1, 49 | Whether good can be the cause of evil?~Aquin.: SMT FP
549 1, 49 | that good cannot be the cause of evil. For it is ~said (
550 1, 49 | one contrary cannot be the cause of another. But evil is ~
551 1, 49 | Therefore good cannot be the cause of evil.~Aquin.: SMT FP
552 1, 49 | proceed only from a deficient ~cause. But evil is a deficient
553 1, 49 | deficient effect. Therefore its cause, if it has ~one, is deficient.
554 1, 49 | an evil. Therefore the ~cause of evil can only be evil.~
555 1, 49 | Nom. iv) that evil has no cause. ~Therefore good is not
556 1, 49 | Therefore good is not the cause of evil.~Aquin.: SMT FP
557 1, 49 | every evil in some way has a cause. ~For evil is the absence
558 1, 49 | can come only ~from some cause drawing it out of its proper
559 1, 49 | But only good can ~be a cause; because nothing can be
560 1, 49 | because nothing can be a cause except inasmuch as it is
561 1, 49 | good. Now that good is the cause of evil by way of the material ~
562 1, 49 | by way of the material ~cause was shown above (Q[48],
563 1, 49 | But evil has no formal cause, rather is it a privation ~
564 1, 49 | neither has it a final cause, but rather is it a ~privation
565 1, 49 | end. Evil, ~however, has a cause by way of an agent, not
566 1, 49 | has any but an accidental cause; and thus is good the ~cause
567 1, 49 | cause; and thus is good the ~cause of evil.~Aquin.: SMT FP
568 1, 49 | good; and ~thus good is the cause of evil.~Aquin.: SMT FP
569 1, 49 | Reply OBJ 2: Good does not cause that evil which is contrary
570 1, 49 | 3: Evil has a deficient cause in voluntary things otherwise ~
571 1, 49 | OBJ 4: Evil has no direct cause, but only an accidental
572 1, 49 | but only an accidental cause, as ~was said above.~Aquin.:
573 1, 49 | supreme good, God, is the cause of evil?~Aquin.: SMT FP
574 1, 49 | supreme good, God, is the cause of evil. ~For it is said (
575 1, 49 | effect of the secondary cause is reduced to the ~first
576 1, 49 | is reduced to the ~first cause. But good is the cause of
577 1, 49 | first cause. But good is the cause of evil, as was said above (
578 1, 49 | Therefore, since God is the cause of every good, as was shown
579 1, 49 | Phys. ii, text 30), the ~cause of both safety and danger
580 1, 49 | the same. But God is the ~cause of the safety of all things.
581 1, 49 | things. Therefore He is the cause of all ~perdition and of
582 1, 49 | evil because He is not the cause of tending to not-being."~
583 1, 49 | reduced to God ~as to its cause. ~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[49] A[
584 1, 49 | is reduced ~to God as the cause. And this appears as regards
585 1, 49 | the deficient secondary cause is reduced to ~the first
586 1, 49 | the first non-deficient cause as regards what it has of
587 1, 49 | is reduced to God as the cause; ~whereas whatever defect
588 1, 49 | the ~deficient secondary cause.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[49] A[
589 1, 49 | attributed to the sailor as the ~cause, from the fact that he does
590 1, 49 | supreme evil which is the cause of every evil?~Aquin.: SMT
591 1, 49 | supreme evil which is the cause ~of every evil. For contrary
592 1, 49 | is in nature, and is the cause of every good, as was shown ~
593 1, 49 | evil opposed to it as the cause of every evil.~Aquin.: SMT
594 1, 49 | essential evil, ~which is the cause of every evil.~Aquin.: SMT
595 1, 49 | But good is the accidental cause of evil. Therefore, we must
596 1, 49 | evil which is the "per se" cause of evils. Nor can it be ~
597 1, 49 | that evil has no "per se" cause, but only an accidental
598 1, 49 | but only an accidental cause; for ~it would then follow
599 1, 49 | reduced to the evil of the ~cause; because the deficient effect
600 1, 49 | comes from the deficient cause, as ~was said above (AA[
601 1, 49 | suppose one first evil as the cause of every ~evil.~Aquin.:
602 1, 49 | The supreme good is the cause of every being, as was ~
603 1, 49 | principle opposed to it as the cause of evils.~Aquin.: SMT FP
604 1, 49 | can be only an accidental cause, and thus it ~cannot be
605 1, 49 | it ~cannot be the first cause, for the accidental cause
606 1, 49 | cause, for the accidental cause is subsequent to the ~direct
607 1, 49 | subsequent to the ~direct cause.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[49] A[
608 1, 49 | this error from the same cause, whence also arose other ~
609 1, 49 | consider ~the universal cause of all being, and considered
610 1, 49 | to the universal common cause; and therefore ~they extended
611 1, 49 | to search ~for one common cause for them above their own
612 1, 49 | have contrary particular ~cause, nevertheless we must come
613 1, 49 | last to one first common cause.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[49] A[
614 1, 49 | only have an accidental cause, as was shown above ~(A[
615 1, 49 | reduction to any 'per se' cause of evil is impossible. And ~
616 1, 49 | reduce all evils to some good cause, whence evil follows accidentally.~
617 1, 50 | assimilation of an effect to ~a cause is accomplished when the
618 1, 50 | the effect imitates the cause according to ~that whereby
619 1, 50 | according to ~that whereby the cause produces the effect; as
620 1, 50 | hold that ~matter is the cause of the distinction of things;
621 1, 50 | angel's immateriality is the cause ~why it is incorruptible
622 1, 50 | necessary thing which has a cause of its necessity. Hence
623 1, 50 | existence on another as its cause. Therefore, when it is said
624 1, 50 | dependent ~upon God as its cause. For a thing is said to
625 1, 52 | which is the universal cause of all things, is ~infinite:
626 1, 54 | Para. 1/1~OBJ 2: Further, cause bears the same relation
627 1, 54 | bears the same relation to cause, as effect to ~effect. But
628 1, 55 | that the likeness is the cause ~of the thing; or else by
629 1, 55 | understanding must either be ~the cause of the object understood,
630 1, 55 | s ~knowledge is not the cause of existing things; that
631 1, 55 | but from God, Who is the cause of ~creatures, and in Whom
632 1, 56 | in so far as it is its cause." But one angel is not the
633 1, 56 | But one angel is not the cause of ~another. Therefore one
634 1, 56 | Reply OBJ 2: The nature of cause and effect does not lead
635 1, 56 | account of likeness, so far as cause and effect ~are alike. Therefore
636 1, 57 | individuation; ~since He is the cause of the entire substance
637 1, 57 | for ~His knowledge is the cause of a thing, as was shown
638 1, 57 | pre-exists in Him as in its cause whatever is to be found
639 1, 57 | it can be ~known in its cause. And thus, future events
640 1, 57 | other corporeal or spiritual cause. Since, ~therefore, the
641 1, 58 | effect, or from effect to cause.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[58] A[
642 1, 58 | Further, nescience is the cause of estimating falsely. But,
643 1, 58 | its being known in ~its cause. Nor, again, is there any
644 1, 59 | themselves; but only by their cause, or through the addition
645 1, 60 | 1/1~OBJ 2: Further, the cause is more powerful than the
646 1, 60 | whereof one is not the cause of the existence and goodness
647 1, 60 | But where one is the whole cause of the existence and goodness
648 1, 61 | Whether the angel has a cause of his existence? ~(2) Whether
649 1, 61 | Whether the angels have a cause of their existence?~Aquin.:
650 1, 61 | that the angels have no cause of their existence. ~For
651 1, 61 | unity of itself, and has no cause of its being and unity."
652 1, 61 | Therefore they ~have no cause of their being.~Aquin.:
653 1, 61 | the angels ~have no active cause.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[61] A[
654 1, 61 | subsisting forms have no 'formal' cause ~of their existence and
655 1, 61 | and unity, nor such active cause as produces its ~effect
656 1, 61 | actuality; ~but they have a cause productive of their entire
657 1, 61 | eternity. ~For God is the cause of the angel by His being:
658 1, 62 | free-will is not the sufficient cause of merit; and, ~consequently,
659 1, 63 | of the foremost angel the cause of the others sinning?~(
660 1, 63 | manner from envy. But, if the cause is granted, ~the effect
661 1, 63 | exists of itself is the cause of what exists of ~another,
662 1, 63 | comes of its productive cause. Therefore, if there be
663 1, 63 | nature from a defective cause, which can be the cause
664 1, 63 | cause, which can be the cause of a ~defective action,
665 1, 63 | namely, God, ~cannot be the cause of sin. Consequently it
666 1, 63 | the highest angel was the cause of the others sinning?~Aquin.:
667 1, 63 | highest angel was not the cause ~of the others sinning.
668 1, 63 | others sinning. For the cause precedes the effect. But,
669 1, 63 | the sin of one was not the cause of the others' sinning.~
670 1, 63 | angel ~would have been the cause of the others sinning, if
671 1, 63 | the ~highest angel was the cause of the others sinning.~Aquin.:
672 1, 63 | foremost angel ~was the cause of the others sinning, in
673 1, 63 | highest angel was not the cause of the others sinning.~Aquin.:
674 1, 63 | the highest angel was the cause of the others ~sinning;
675 1, 63 | sin of one could be the cause of the rest sinning. For
676 1, 64 | 2/3~We must seek for the cause of this obstinacy, not in
677 1, 64 | Body Para. 3/3~To find the cause, then, of this obstinacy,
678 1, 64 | suggestion, is not ~the whole cause of man's sin being pardonable.
679 1, 64 | Further, sorrow is the cause of fear, for those things
680 1, 64 | of fear, for those things cause fear ~while they are future,
681 1, 64 | while they are future, which cause sorrow when they are present.
682 1, 65 | point, there must be ~some cause for that agreement, since
683 1, 65 | one thing from some one cause, as different bodies that
684 1, 65 | mind that the higher the cause, the ~more numerous the
685 1, 65 | thing proceed from a ~higher cause. Thus the thing that underlies
686 1, 65 | causality of the supreme cause. Therefore no secondary ~
687 1, 65 | Therefore no secondary ~cause can produce anything, unless
688 1, 65 | that is caused by a higher cause. But creation is the ~production
689 1, 65 | alone, Who is the first cause. Therefore, in order to
690 1, 65 | by His wisdom He is the cause ~of diverse things as known
691 1, 65 | reason they are said to cause generation and corruption. ~
692 1, 65 | which is horse and ~the cause of all horses, whilst above
693 1, 65 | they term it, which is the cause of all life, and that above ~
694 1, 65 | being itself, which is the cause of ~all being. Avicenna,
695 1, 65 | in fact, ~sought for a cause of forms as though the form
696 1, 65 | we must not look for the cause ~of corporeal forms in any
697 1, 65 | referred to God as ~the first cause. But in the first production
698 1, 65 | obeys, as its own proper ~cause. To signify this, Moses
699 1, 66 | of God, as a ~secondary cause imitates a first cause.
700 1, 66 | secondary cause imitates a first cause. But in the working of nature ~
701 1, 66 | Altar. He could, therefore, cause matter to exist ~without
702 1, 67 | subject, though the active cause of the quality be ~removed,
703 1, 67 | Para. 1/1~OBJ 3: Further, a cause is more potent than its
704 1, 67 | the heavenly bodies is a cause of substantial forms of
705 1, 67 | disappearance of its active cause.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[67] A[
706 1, 67 | quality of the first corporeal cause of change, ~which is itself
707 1, 67 | fire, as an ~instrumental cause, by virtue of the substantial
708 1, 67 | darkness. First, as to the cause, forasmuch as ~in the substance
709 1, 67 | substance of the sun we have the cause of light, and in the opaque ~
710 1, 67 | nature of the earth the cause of darkness. Secondly, as
711 1, 67 | entire heaven, and is the cause of day and night. This,
712 1, 67 | by its variations is the cause of the succession of days, ~
713 1, 68 | the primary mobile, the cause of the daily revolution
714 1, 68 | zodiacal movement, is the cause whereby ~different bodies
715 1, 68 | divide the waters, as the cause of their destruction, ~but
716 1, 70 | other ~heavenly bodies. Now, cause precedes effect in the order
717 1, 70 | Thes. Para. 1/1~Whether the cause assigned for the production
718 1, 70 | It would seem that the cause assigned for the production
719 1, 70 | contradistinguished from cause. But the lights ~are the
720 1, 70 | But the lights ~are the cause of what takes place upon
721 1, 70 | nothing prevents a ~sensible cause from being a sign. But he
722 1, 70 | Para. 1/1~OBJ 3: Further, a cause is nobler than its effect.
723 1, 70 | moon, ~and stars are a cause of life, as is especially
724 1, 73 | first perfection is the cause of the ~second, because
725 1, 73 | first perfection is the cause of the second, as above ~
726 1, 74 | day," since light, the cause of day, ~is to be found
727 1, 75 | not moved, it ~must be the cause of eternal, unchanging movement,
728 1, 75 | accidentally; and such a mover can cause an ~invariable movement.
729 1, 75 | this reason ~it does not cause an invariable movement;
730 1, 75 | have no matter, have no cause of their ~existence, as
731 1, 75 | 6). But the ~soul has a cause of its existence, since
732 1, 75 | principle, nor has it a cause ~transmuting it from potentiality
733 1, 75 | form ~"there is no other cause but that which moves from
734 1, 76 | OBJ 2: Further, when the cause is removed, the effect is
735 1, 76 | and that one would ~not cause a diversity of intellectual
736 1, 76 | Nor is there any other cause of union ~except the agent,
737 1, 77 | 1~OBJ 3: Further, if the cause be removed, the effect is
738 1, 77 | that which of itself is the cause of anything, is the ~cause
739 1, 77 | cause of anything, is the ~cause thereof, wherever it is.
740 1, 77 | the principle and moving cause: for color is the principle
741 1, 77 | a thing proceeds is its cause. But the ~essence of the
742 1, 77 | cannot be said to be the cause of the powers; as is ~clear
743 1, 77 | But ~the subject is the cause of its proper accidents;
744 1, 77 | from its essence ~as their cause.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[77] A[
745 1, 77 | first in a genus is the cause in that genus, the ~substantial
746 1, 77 | subject is both the final cause, and in a way the ~active
747 1, 77 | and in a way the ~active cause, of its proper accident.
748 1, 77 | as it were the material ~cause, inasmuch as it is receptive
749 1, 77 | essence of the soul is the cause of all its powers, as ~their
750 1, 77 | order, as the first is the cause of all, so that which is
751 1, 77 | first is, in a way, the cause of those which are more
752 1, 37 | construed as denoting a cause, it seems to mean ~that
753 1, 37 | the relation of formal ~cause, because the Holy Ghost
754 1, 37 | having relation to the formal cause, although the garment is ~
755 1, 39 | the ~habitude of a formal cause, but rather the habitude
756 1, 39 | an efficient or ~material cause; which causes are in all
757 1, 39 | imply the relation ~of final cause, which is first among the
758 1, 39 | Therefore this relation ~of cause should be appropriated to
759 1, 39 | relation of the material cause; which has no place in God;
760 1, 39 | relation of the efficient cause, which can be ~applied to
761 1, 39 | designates an intermediate cause; thus we may say that a
762 1, 39 | the habitude of the final cause (though the first of causes)
763 1, 41 | of action is of itself to cause passion. But ~we do not
764 1, 41 | evidently arises from some cause. Hence action, in its primary ~
765 1, 41 | action proceeds from some cause ~or principle to what is
766 1, 41 | efficient and compelling cause, and thus necessary means ~
767 1, 41 | secondly, it means a final cause, when a thing is said ~to
768 1, 41 | is not the consubstantial cause. We can say, however, that ~
769 1, 42 | form is principally in the cause, and secondarily ~in the
770 1, 42 | again we have effect ~and cause. The tenth is the taking
771 1, 42 | according to each individual cause - so are there many kinds
772 1, 42 | consider the relations of cause and effect, or ~of the principle
773 1, 43 | denotes the habitude ~of some cause. But the divine person is
774 1, 43 | the divine person is the cause why the gift of ~sanctifying
775 1, 43 | one common mode, as the cause existing in the effects
776 1, 43 | forasmuch as man cannot cause the effect of grace.~
777 1, 45 | FROM GOD, AND OF THE FIRST CAUSE OF ALL ~THINGS (FOUR ARTICLES)~
778 1, 45 | considered: (1) the first cause ~of beings; (2) the mode
779 1, 45 | creatures from the first cause; ~(3) the principle of the
780 1, 45 | Whether God is the efficient cause of all beings?~(2) Whether
781 1, 45 | Whether God is the exemplar cause of beings or whether there
782 1, 45 | Whether He is the final cause of things?~Aquin.: SMT FP
783 1, 45 | the thing caused to its cause does ~not appear to be essential
784 1, 45 | thing requires an efficient cause in order to exist. ~Therefore
785 1, 45 | not require an efficient cause. ~But no necessary thing
786 1, 45 | whatever things have a cause, can be demonstrated by ~
787 1, 45 | be demonstrated by ~that cause. But in mathematics demonstration
788 1, 45 | not made by the efficient ~cause, as appears from the Philosopher (
789 1, 45 | as from their efficient cause.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[44] A[
790 1, 45 | greatest in truth, is the cause of every being and of every ~
791 1, 45 | greatest in heat is the cause of all heat.~Aquin.: SMT
792 1, 45 | Though the relation to its cause is not part of the ~definition
793 1, 45 | what is necessary ~has no cause (Phys. viii, text 46). But
794 1, 45 | necessary things which have a cause of their ~necessity. But
795 1, 45 | reason why an efficient cause is required is not ~merely
796 1, 45 | effect might ~not be if the cause were not. For this conditional
797 1, 45 | should have an efficient ~cause in proportion to its being.
798 1, 45 | mathematics has an efficient cause, still, its relation to
799 1, 45 | still, its relation to that cause is ~not the reason why it
800 1, 45 | object from its ~efficient cause.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[44] A[
801 1, 45 | being, and who assigned a ~cause to things, not as "these,"
802 1, 45 | Therefore whatever is the cause of things considered as
803 1, 45 | as beings, must be ~the cause of things, not only according
804 1, 45 | created by the ~universal cause of things. ~Aquin.: SMT
805 1, 45 | 1/1~Whether the exemplar cause is anything besides God?~
806 1, 45 | would seem that the exemplar cause is something besides God. ~
807 1, 45 | effect is like its exemplar cause. But creatures are far from ~
808 1, 45 | God is not their exemplar cause.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[44] A[
809 1, 45 | God is the first exemplar cause of all things. In proof ~
810 1, 45 | Whether God is the final cause of all things?~Aquin.: SMT
811 1, 45 | that God is not the final cause of all things. For ~to act
812 1, 45 | Therefore He is not the final cause of ~all things.~Aquin.:
813 1, 45 | OBJ 4: Further, the final cause is the first of causes.
814 1, 45 | therefore, ~God is the efficient cause and the final cause, it
815 1, 45 | efficient cause and the final cause, it follows that before ~
816 1, 45 | exemplar and the final ~cause of all things, and since
817 1, 46 | imports relation of some ~cause, and especially of the material
818 1, 46 | especially of the material cause; as when we say that a statue ~
819 1, 46 | being, nor in ~any way its cause. Therefore to create is
820 1, 46 | being from the universal cause, which is God; and this ~
821 1, 46 | not signify the material cause, but only ~order; as when
822 1, 46 | it imports the material cause, which is denied.~Aquin.:
823 1, 46 | God, Who is the universal cause of all being. Hence it is ~
824 1, 46 | made" import a relation of cause to the effect, and ~of effect
825 1, 46 | effect, and ~of effect to the cause, and imply change only as
826 1, 46 | being by the ~universal cause of all beings, which is
827 1, 46 | first and most universal ~cause, and that is God. Hence
828 1, 46 | proper act of the ~universal cause, still some inferior cause
829 1, 46 | cause, still some inferior cause acting by the power of the ~
830 1, 46 | the power of the ~first cause, can create. And thus Avicenna
831 1, 46 | the secondary instrumental cause ~does not participate the
832 1, 46 | the action of the superior cause, except inasmuch as ~by
833 1, 46 | individual man cannot be the cause of human nature ~absolutely,
834 1, 46 | because he would then be the cause of himself; but he is the ~
835 1, 46 | himself; but he is the ~cause of human nature being in
836 1, 46 | that no created being can cause ~anything, unless something
837 1, 46 | what ~comes first is the cause of what is after; and what
838 1, 46 | what is perfect is the ~cause of what is imperfect. But
839 1, 46 | the divine Persons are the cause of the processions of things,
840 1, 46 | is, properly speaking, to cause or produce the ~being of
841 1, 46 | will of God, God is the cause of things by His intellect
842 1, 46 | just as the craftsman is cause of the things made by his
843 1, 46 | the divine Persons are the cause of ~creation, as above explained.~
844 1, 46 | usually denotes a mediate cause, ~or "a principle from a
845 1, 46 | represents only its own cause. But the ~causality of creatures
846 1, 46 | some degree represents its cause, but ~diversely. For some
847 1, 46 | only the causality of the cause, ~but not its form; as smoke
848 1, 46 | Other effects represent the cause as regards the similitude
849 1, 46 | divine Persons as to their cause. For every creature subsists
850 1, 46 | substance, ~it represents the cause and principle; and so in
851 1, 46 | are also in some way the ~cause and type of creation; as
852 1, 46 | not more powerful than its cause. But in ~natural things
853 1, 47 | if there is a sufficient cause, there is an effect; for ~
854 1, 47 | there is an effect; for ~a cause to which there is no effect
855 1, 47 | no effect is an imperfect cause, requiring ~something else
856 1, 47 | But God is the sufficient cause ~of the world; being the
857 1, 47 | the world; being the final cause, by reason of His goodness,
858 1, 47 | goodness, the ~exemplar cause by reason of His wisdom,
859 1, 47 | wisdom, and the efficient cause, by ~reason of His power
860 1, 47 | that the will of God is the cause of things. Therefore things
861 1, 47 | on the necessity of the cause (Metaph. v, ~text 6). Now
862 1, 47 | the will of God, as on its cause. It is not ~therefore necessary
863 1, 47 | always manifestly has a ~cause; whereas this is not so
864 1, 47 | effect follows from the cause that acts by nature, ~according
865 1, 47 | eternity the sufficient cause of the ~world, we should
866 1, 47 | that God is the effective cause of the world; indeed this
867 1, 47 | father is the efficient cause of the son (Phys. ii, text
868 1, 47 | the part of the efficient ~cause, which acts by will. For
869 1, 47 | consider that the efficient cause, which acts by motion, of ~
870 1, 47 | necessarily ~if God is the active cause of the world, that He should
871 1, 47 | have the order of only one cause, their multiplication being
872 1, 48 | But ~God is the exemplar cause of His effect, as was said
873 1, 48 | philosophers, who admitted no cause but matter, attributed it
874 1, 48 | from matter to a higher cause. ~Secondly, because matter
875 1, 48 | it ~understood the first cause, produced the second intelligence;
876 1, 48 | the divine wisdom is the cause of the distinction of things, ~
877 1, 48 | and he said this ~was the cause of the creation and diversity
878 1, 48 | the wisdom of God is the cause of the ~distinction of things,
879 1, 48 | so the same wisdom is the cause of their ~inequality. This
880 1, 48 | the divine wisdom is the cause of the distinction ~of things
881 1, 48 | universe, so it is the ~cause of inequality. For the universe
882 1, 49 | inquire into evil and its cause.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[48] Out.
883 1, 49 | in the sense of the final cause, as the end is said ~to
884 1, 49 | by moving the efficient cause. But in these two ways evil
885 1, 50 | 49] Out. Para. 1/1 - THE CAUSE OF EVIL (THREE ARTICLES)~
886 1, 50 | We next inquire into the cause of evil. Concerning this
887 1, 50 | Whether good can be the cause of evil?~(2) Whether the
888 1, 50 | supreme good, God, is the cause of evil?~(3) Whether there
889 1, 50 | evil, which is the first cause of all ~evils?~Aquin.: SMT
890 1, 50 | Whether good can be the cause of evil?~Aquin.: SMT FP
891 1, 50 | that good cannot be the cause of evil. For it is ~said (
892 1, 50 | one contrary cannot be the cause of another. But evil is ~
893 1, 50 | Therefore good cannot be the cause of evil.~Aquin.: SMT FP
894 1, 50 | proceed only from a deficient ~cause. But evil is a deficient
895 1, 50 | deficient effect. Therefore its cause, if it has ~one, is deficient.
896 1, 50 | an evil. Therefore the ~cause of evil can only be evil.~
897 1, 50 | Nom. iv) that evil has no cause. ~Therefore good is not
898 1, 50 | Therefore good is not the cause of evil.~Aquin.: SMT FP
899 1, 50 | every evil in some way has a cause. ~For evil is the absence
900 1, 50 | can come only ~from some cause drawing it out of its proper
901 1, 50 | But only good can ~be a cause; because nothing can be
902 1, 50 | because nothing can be a cause except inasmuch as it is
903 1, 50 | good. Now that good is the cause of evil by way of the material ~
904 1, 50 | by way of the material ~cause was shown above (Q[48],
905 1, 50 | But evil has no formal cause, rather is it a privation ~
906 1, 50 | neither has it a final cause, but rather is it a ~privation
907 1, 50 | end. Evil, ~however, has a cause by way of an agent, not
908 1, 50 | has any but an accidental cause; and thus is good the ~cause
909 1, 50 | cause; and thus is good the ~cause of evil.~Aquin.: SMT FP
910 1, 50 | good; and ~thus good is the cause of evil.~Aquin.: SMT FP
911 1, 50 | Reply OBJ 2: Good does not cause that evil which is contrary
912 1, 50 | 3: Evil has a deficient cause in voluntary things otherwise ~
913 1, 50 | OBJ 4: Evil has no direct cause, but only an accidental
914 1, 50 | but only an accidental cause, as ~was said above.~Aquin.:
915 1, 50 | supreme good, God, is the cause of evil?~Aquin.: SMT FP
916 1, 50 | supreme good, God, is the cause of evil. ~For it is said (
917 1, 50 | effect of the secondary cause is reduced to the ~first
918 1, 50 | is reduced to the ~first cause. But good is the cause of
919 1, 50 | first cause. But good is the cause of evil, as was said above (
920 1, 50 | Therefore, since God is the cause of every good, as was shown
921 1, 50 | Phys. ii, text 30), the ~cause of both safety and danger
922 1, 50 | the same. But God is the ~cause of the safety of all things.
923 1, 50 | things. Therefore He is the cause of all ~perdition and of
924 1, 50 | evil because He is not the cause of tending to not-being."~
925 1, 50 | reduced to God ~as to its cause. ~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[49] A[
926 1, 50 | is reduced ~to God as the cause. And this appears as regards
927 1, 50 | the deficient secondary cause is reduced to ~the first
928 1, 50 | the first non-deficient cause as regards what it has of
929 1, 50 | is reduced to God as the cause; ~whereas whatever defect
930 1, 50 | the ~deficient secondary cause.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[49] A[
931 1, 50 | attributed to the sailor as the ~cause, from the fact that he does
932 1, 50 | supreme evil which is the cause of every evil?~Aquin.: SMT
933 1, 50 | supreme evil which is the cause ~of every evil. For contrary
934 1, 50 | is in nature, and is the cause of every good, as was shown ~
935 1, 50 | evil opposed to it as the cause of every evil.~Aquin.: SMT
936 1, 50 | essential evil, ~which is the cause of every evil.~Aquin.: SMT
937 1, 50 | But good is the accidental cause of evil. Therefore, we must
938 1, 50 | evil which is the "per se" cause of evils. Nor can it be ~
939 1, 50 | that evil has no "per se" cause, but only an accidental
940 1, 50 | but only an accidental cause; for ~it would then follow
941 1, 50 | reduced to the evil of the ~cause; because the deficient effect
942 1, 50 | comes from the deficient cause, as ~was said above (AA[
943 1, 50 | suppose one first evil as the cause of every ~evil.~Aquin.:
944 1, 50 | The supreme good is the cause of every being, as was ~
945 1, 50 | principle opposed to it as the cause of evils.~Aquin.: SMT FP
946 1, 50 | can be only an accidental cause, and thus it ~cannot be
947 1, 50 | it ~cannot be the first cause, for the accidental cause
948 1, 50 | cause, for the accidental cause is subsequent to the ~direct
949 1, 50 | subsequent to the ~direct cause.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[49] A[
950 1, 50 | this error from the same cause, whence also arose other ~
951 1, 50 | consider ~the universal cause of all being, and considered
952 1, 50 | to the universal common cause; and therefore ~they extended
953 1, 50 | to search ~for one common cause for them above their own
954 1, 50 | have contrary particular ~cause, nevertheless we must come
955 1, 50 | last to one first common cause.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[49] A[
956 1, 50 | only have an accidental cause, as was shown above ~(A[
957 1, 50 | reduction to any 'per se' cause of evil is impossible. And ~
958 1, 50 | reduce all evils to some good cause, whence evil follows accidentally.~
959 1, 51 | assimilation of an effect to ~a cause is accomplished when the
960 1, 51 | the effect imitates the cause according to ~that whereby
961 1, 51 | according to ~that whereby the cause produces the effect; as
962 1, 51 | hold that ~matter is the cause of the distinction of things;
963 1, 51 | angel's immateriality is the cause ~why it is incorruptible
964 1, 51 | necessary thing which has a cause of its necessity. Hence
965 1, 51 | existence on another as its cause. Therefore, when it is said
966 1, 51 | dependent ~upon God as its cause. For a thing is said to
967 1, 53 | which is the universal cause of all things, is ~infinite:
968 1, 55 | Para. 1/1~OBJ 2: Further, cause bears the same relation
969 1, 55 | bears the same relation to cause, as effect to ~effect. But
970 1, 56 | that the likeness is the cause ~of the thing; or else by
971 1, 56 | understanding must either be ~the cause of the object understood,
972 1, 56 | s ~knowledge is not the cause of existing things; that
973 1, 56 | but from God, Who is the cause of ~creatures, and in Whom
974 1, 57 | in so far as it is its cause." But one angel is not the
975 1, 57 | But one angel is not the cause of ~another. Therefore one
976 1, 57 | Reply OBJ 2: The nature of cause and effect does not lead
977 1, 57 | account of likeness, so far as cause and effect ~are alike. Therefore
978 1, 58 | individuation; ~since He is the cause of the entire substance
979 1, 58 | for ~His knowledge is the cause of a thing, as was shown
980 1, 58 | pre-exists in Him as in its cause whatever is to be found
981 1, 58 | it can be ~known in its cause. And thus, future events
982 1, 58 | other corporeal or spiritual cause. Since, ~therefore, the
983 1, 59 | effect, or from effect to cause.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[58] A[
984 1, 59 | Further, nescience is the cause of estimating falsely. But,
985 1, 59 | its being known in ~its cause. Nor, again, is there any
986 1, 60 | themselves; but only by their cause, or through the addition
987 1, 61 | 1/1~OBJ 2: Further, the cause is more powerful than the
988 1, 61 | whereof one is not the cause of the existence and goodness
989 1, 61 | But where one is the whole cause of the existence and goodness
990 1, 62 | Whether the angel has a cause of his existence? ~(2) Whether
991 1, 62 | Whether the angels have a cause of their existence?~Aquin.:
992 1, 62 | that the angels have no cause of their existence. ~For
993 1, 62 | unity of itself, and has no cause of its being and unity."
994 1, 62 | Therefore they ~have no cause of their being.~Aquin.:
995 1, 62 | the angels ~have no active cause.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[61] A[
996 1, 62 | subsisting forms have no 'formal' cause ~of their existence and
997 1, 62 | and unity, nor such active cause as produces its ~effect
998 1, 62 | actuality; ~but they have a cause productive of their entire
999 1, 62 | eternity. ~For God is the cause of the angel by His being:
1000 1, 63 | free-will is not the sufficient cause of merit; and, ~consequently,
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