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Part, Question
1 1, 2 | the ~direction of a higher agent, whatever is done by nature
2 1, 3 | Thirdly, because every agent acts by its form; hence
3 1, 3 | manner in which it is an agent. ~Therefore whatever is
4 1, 3 | primarily and essentially an agent must be ~primarily and essentially
5 1, 3 | form. Now God is the first agent, since He is ~the first
6 1, 3 | to its cause; for every agent ~produces its like. But
7 1, 3 | species), or by some exterior agent - as heat is caused in water ~
8 1, 3 | either by some exterior agent or by its ~essential principles.
9 1, 4 | is merely potential, an agent, as such, is in the state ~
10 1, 4 | formality, if it is a univocal agent - as when man reproduces
11 1, 4 | degree, if it is an equivocal agent - thus in the sun is ~the
12 1, 4 | such is imperfect, and an agent as ~such is perfect; still
13 1, 4 | agents. For since every agent reproduces itself so ~far
14 1, 4 | itself so ~far as it is an agent, and everything acts according
15 1, 4 | resemble the form of the agent. If ~therefore the agent
16 1, 4 | agent. If ~therefore the agent is contained in the same
17 1, 4 | reproduces ~man. If, however, the agent and its effect are not contained
18 1, 4 | Therefore ~if there is an agent not contained in any "genus,"
19 1, 4 | reproduce the form of the agent, not, that is, so as to ~
20 1, 4 | participate in the likeness of the agent's form according to the
21 1, 5 | first among causes, since an agent does not act except for
22 1, 5 | for some ~end; and by an agent matter is moved to its form.
23 1, 5 | both of which move the agent to act; secondly, the action
24 1, 5 | secondly, the action of ~the agent moving to the form; thirdly,
25 1, 6 | certain ~likeness to the agent, since every agent makes
26 1, 6 | to the agent, since every agent makes its like; and hence
27 1, 6 | its like; and hence the ~agent itself is desirable and
28 1, 6 | Him as ~from a univocal agent, as shown above (Q[4], A[
29 1, 6 | A[2]); but as from an agent ~which does not agree with
30 1, 7 | of the Creator; for no ~agent acts aimlessly. Hence everything
31 1, 8 | Further, the more powerful an agent is, the more extended is
32 1, 8 | as an accident, but as an agent is present to that upon ~
33 1, 8 | which it works. For an agent must be joined to that wherein
34 1, 8 | Reply OBJ 3: No action of an agent, however powerful it may
35 1, 8 | another; hence by power the agent is ~related and applied
36 1, 8 | thing; thus by power an agent may be ~said to be present
37 1, 13 | it seems that the first ~agent to which all other agents
38 1, 13 | reduced, is an univocal agent: and ~thus what is said
39 1, 13 | receives the ~similitude of the agent not in its full degree,
40 1, 13 | effects ~resides in the agent simply, and in the same
41 1, 13 | actions, the non-univocal agent must precede the ~univocal
42 1, 13 | must precede the ~univocal agent. For the non-univocal agent
43 1, 13 | agent. For the non-univocal agent is the universal cause of
44 1, 13 | men; whereas the univocal agent is not the universal efficient
45 1, 13 | species is not an univocal ~agent; and the universal cause
46 1, 13 | cause. But ~this universal agent, whilst it is not univocal,
47 1, 13 | be called an analogical agent, as all univocal ~predications
48 1, 14 | abides in the ~intelligent agent, and will is in the one
49 1, 14 | an act, ~existing in the agent itself, of something perfect.
50 1, 15 | generation whatsoever. But an agent does not act on account
51 1, 15 | likeness of the form is in the agent, as may ~happen in two ways.
52 1, 15 | intention of the principal agent, as the order of an army (
53 1, 16 | of ~health, for here the agent is not univocal. In the
54 1, 17 | the impressions of the ~agent. Hence, for instance, it
55 1, 18 | place, the end moves the agent: and the principal ~agent
56 1, 18 | agent: and the principal ~agent is that which acts through
57 1, 18 | form, but of ~the principal agent, and does no more than execute
58 1, 18 | other kind remain in the agent, as to understand, to sense ~
59 1, 18 | the perfection not of the agent that moves, but of the thing
60 1, 18 | is the perfection of the agent. Hence, because ~movement
61 1, 18 | this kind is the act of the agent, although movement is an
62 1, 19 | Hence we see that every agent, in so far as it is perfect ~
63 1, 19 | exists." But every voluntary ~agent acts by reason and pre-election.
64 1, 19 | essence. But God is the first agent. Therefore He acts by His ~
65 1, 19 | Phys. ii, 49, the natural agent must have the end and the
66 1, 19 | intellectual and voluntary agent must precede the agent that
67 1, 19 | voluntary agent must precede the agent that acts by ~nature. Hence,
68 1, 19 | the character of a natural agent, of which ~the property
69 1, 19 | according to the nature of the agent; and hence as ~long as it
70 1, 19 | nature; for every natural agent has a determinate being.
71 1, 19 | effects proceed from the agent that causes them, in so
72 1, 19 | as they ~pre-exist in the agent; since every agent produces
73 1, 19 | in the agent; since every agent produces its like. Now effects ~
74 1, 19 | irrationally?" But to a voluntary agent, what is the reason of ~
75 1, 19 | effect is conformed to the agent ~according to its form,
76 1, 19 | appetites. For a natural ~agent intends not privation or
77 1, 22 | evident thus. For since every agent acts for an end, the ordering
78 1, 22 | causality of the first ~agent extends. Whence it happens
79 1, 22 | that in the effects of an agent ~something takes place which
80 1, 22 | outside the intention of the ~agent. But the causality of God,
81 1, 22 | of God, Who is the first agent, extends to all ~being,
82 1, 23 | actions remaining in the agent, as understanding and willing,
83 1, 23 | thing prepared; and of the agent to action, ~and this is
84 1, 23 | action, ~and this is in the agent. Such a preparation is predestination,
85 1, 23 | predestination, and as an ~agent by intellect is said to
86 1, 23 | must remember that every agent intends to make ~something
87 1, 25 | so God, who is the first agent, is to act. But primary
88 1, 25 | act. Therefore, the first ~agent - namely, God - is devoid
89 1, 25 | be infinite. For in every agent is it found that the ~more
90 1, 25 | that the ~more perfectly an agent has the form by which it
91 1, 25 | The power of a univocal agent is wholly manifested in
92 1, 25 | power of a non-univocal agent does not wholly ~manifest
93 1, 25 | that God is not a ~univocal agent. For nothing agrees with
94 1, 25 | moving another is a univocal agent; wherefore it follows ~that
95 1, 25 | that the whole power of the agent is made known in its motion.
96 1, 25 | however, is not a univocal agent; whence it is not ~necessary
97 1, 25 | remembered that since every agent produces an ~effect like
98 1, 27 | act remaining within the agent. ~This applies most conspicuously
99 1, 27 | remains in the intelligent agent. For whenever we understand,
100 1, 27 | instance, like heat from the agent to the thing made hot. Rather
101 1, 27 | united to the intelligent agent; since the intellect by
102 1, 27 | external, but ~remains in the agent itself. Such an action in
103 1, 27 | understood is in the intelligent agent. Hence, ~besides the procession
104 1, 27 | accomplished within the agent in ~an intellectual nature
105 1, 27 | which remain within the agent. In a nature which is intellectual, ~
106 1, 27 | an operation ~within the agent, takes place outside the
107 1, 28 | relations of the intelligent ~agent to the object understood;
108 1, 34 | out from the intelligent agent, but an act remaining in
109 1, 34 | an act remaining in the agent. ~Therefore when we say
110 1, 34 | habitude of the ~intelligent agent to the thing understood,
111 1, 34 | effect, ~but abides in the agent - as to know and to will:
112 1, 36 | action is a mean between the agent and ~the thing done, sometimes
113 1, 36 | as proceeding from the agent; and ~in that case it is
114 1, 36 | is the cause of why the agent acts, whether it be a final ~
115 1, 37 | such a way ~that in the agent itself they import a certain
116 1, 37 | from it, not only as an agent is from its action, but
117 1, 39 | the strong work done by an agent is its strength.~Aquin.:
118 1, 39 | of a form "by" which an agent works; thus we say that
119 1, 41 | assimilated to ~the form of the agent, whereby the latter acts.
120 1, 41 | depend on the ~quality of the agent, but on the agent's will
121 1, 41 | of the agent, but on the agent's will and understanding.
122 1, 41 | distinction of action and ~agent is one of reason only, otherwise
123 1, 41 | not possible. For in every agent, that is properly ~called
124 1, 41 | called power, by which the agent acts. Now, everything that
125 1, 41 | sense in which we call the ~agent a principle, but in the
126 1, 41 | being that by which the agent ~acts. Now the agent is
127 1, 41 | the agent ~acts. Now the agent is distinct from that which
128 1, 42 | is operation, for every agent acts through its form. Consequently
129 1, 42 | one ~on the part of the agent, and the other on the part
130 1, 42 | action. On the ~part of the agent this happens differently
131 1, 42 | of time; for as ~a free agent can choose the form it gives
132 1, 42 | the same happens from the agent not having ~its perfection
133 1, 42 | successive. So, given that an agent, as soon as it exists, begins
134 1, 43 | process flowing from the agent to the ~passive object.
135 1, 44 | 1~OBJ 3: Further, every agent produces its like, and thus,
136 1, 44 | and thus, since every ~agent acts in proportion to its
137 1, 44 | thing ~generated, and the agent cannot be identical (Phys.
138 1, 44 | generated. But God is the ~first agent producing all things. Therefore
139 1, 44 | 1/1~I answer that, Every agent acts for an end: otherwise
140 1, 44 | another from the action of the agent, unless it were ~by chance.
141 1, 44 | chance. Now the end of the agent and of the patient considered
142 1, 44 | the impression ~which the agent intends to produce, and
143 1, 44 | things, however, are both agent and ~patient at the same
144 1, 44 | not belong to the First Agent, Who is agent only, to act
145 1, 44 | the First Agent, Who is agent only, to act for the ~acquisition
146 1, 44 | belongs only to an imperfect agent, which ~by its nature is
147 1, 44 | which ~by its nature is both agent and patient. But this does
148 1, 45 | being from a particular agent, but also the ~emanation
149 1, 45 | effect of the ~principal agent. If therefore it effects
150 1, 45 | effect of the principal agent. Now ~the proper effect
151 1, 45 | action of the ~instrumental agent. So therefore it is impossible
152 1, 45 | the ~contrary resists the agent, inasmuch as it impedes
153 1, 45 | from ~the act which the agent intends to induce, as fire
154 1, 45 | power is required in the agent to reduce the matter ~to
155 1, 45 | power is required in the agent when no ~potentiality pre-exists.
156 1, 45 | power is required in the agent in ~proportion to the distance
157 1, 45 | the power of a natural ~agent, as there is no proportion
158 1, 45 | of things. And as every agent produces its like, the principle
159 1, 45 | which the ~intellectual agent acts; and therefore it is
160 1, 45 | natural things the only agent is the accidental form,
161 1, 45 | or caused by a separate ~agent by way of creation; and
162 1, 45 | properly made by ~the natural agent is the "composite," which
163 1, 45 | and therefore the natural agent not only produces its like ~
164 1, 45 | imperfect animals, a universal agent ~suffices, and this is to
165 1, 45 | are created by a separate agent. ~However, for the generation
166 1, 45 | perfect animals the universal agent does ~not suffice, but a
167 1, 45 | not suffice, but a proper agent is required, in the shape
168 1, 46 | 1~Reply OBJ 6: The first agent is a voluntary agent. And
169 1, 46 | first agent is a voluntary agent. And although He had ~the
170 1, 46 | difference between a particular agent, that presupposes ~something
171 1, 46 | else, and the universal agent, who ~produces the whole.
172 1, 46 | the whole. The particular agent produces the form, and ~
173 1, 46 | end. ~Now, a particular agent presupposes time just as
174 1, 46 | time. ~But the universal agent who produces the thing and
175 1, 46 | follows from the ~voluntary agent, according to the form preconceived
176 1, 46 | preconceived and determined by the ~agent, as appears from what was
177 1, 46 | of the action, and every agent must be the principle of
178 1, 47 | either by itself ~or with the agent. Democritus, for instance,
179 1, 47 | things to matter and to the agent together; ~and he said that
180 1, 47 | the intention of the first agent, but from the ~concurrence
181 1, 47 | the intention of the first agent, who is God. For He brought
182 1, 47 | Reply OBJ 1: The natural agent acts by the form which makes
183 1, 47 | only. But the voluntary agent, such as God is, as was
184 1, 47 | It is part of the best agent to produce an effect which
185 1, 47 | Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: No agent intends material plurality
186 1, 47 | intention of the divine ~agent; forasmuch as for the same
187 1, 48 | and nature and any other agent make what is best in the ~
188 1, 48 | thus is the action of the agent in the ~patient. And if
189 1, 48 | the idea of injury to the agent in ~himself, whereas the
190 1, 48 | the idea of injury to the ~agent in his operation; and thus
191 1, 48 | opposed to the good of the ~agent, while fault is opposed
192 1, 48 | action. Therefore, since ~the agent is better than the action,
193 1, 48 | more ~perfect good of the agent, since it is the second
194 1, 49 | impelling force; nor does an ~agent fail in its action except
195 1, 49 | causes, we see that the agent, ~the form, and the end,
196 1, 49 | has a cause by way of an agent, not directly, but accidentally.~
197 1, 49 | principal or the ~instrumental agent; thus the defect in the
198 1, 49 | the ~proper effect of the agent, sometimes by the power
199 1, 49 | sometimes by the power of the agent, ~sometimes by reason of
200 1, 49 | a defect, either of the agent or of the matter. It is
201 1, 49 | power or perfection of the agent when there ~necessarily
202 1, 49 | the form intended by the agent the privation of ~another
203 1, 49 | action of the ~fire, the agent. But this very fact that
204 1, 49 | things. For the natural agent produces the same kind of ~
205 1, 49 | other evil pre-exists in the agent or in the ~matter, as was
206 1, 49 | caused by the defect of the ~agent. But in God there is no
207 1, 49 | caused by defect of the agent, is not reduced to God ~
208 1, 49 | was said (A[1]) that some agent inasmuch as it ~produces
209 1, 50 | is not intended by the agent, but only specific ~multiplication,
210 1, 53 | the act of ~an imperfect agent. But the movement which
211 1, 54 | really a medium between the agent and the subject receiving ~
212 1, 54 | which remains within the agent, is not really a ~medium
213 1, 54 | really a ~medium between the agent and the object, but only
214 1, 54 | of the object with the ~agent. For the act of understanding
215 1, 54 | which remains within the agent, as to ~feel, to understand,
216 1, 54 | action takes place within the agent. It is quite clear ~regarding
217 1, 54 | action that it cannot be the agent's very ~existence: because
218 1, 54 | existence: because the agent's existence is signified
219 1, 54 | something as issuing from the agent into the ~thing done. But
220 1, 55 | is by ~the form that the agent acts. Now in order that
221 1, 55 | but receives from some agent, now one form, now ~another.
222 1, 56 | something separate from the agent, as the ~thing heated is
223 1, 56 | must be united with the agent; just as the sensible object
224 1, 59 | is the act of a perfect agent, as stated in De Anima ~
225 1, 59 | implanted by ~nature. Only an agent endowed with an intellect
226 1, 60 | something else ~except the First Agent, Who acts in such a manner
227 1, 60 | which remains within the agent, so ~also is it a movement
228 1, 60 | operation; for we behold ~every agent acting naturally for its
229 1, 61 | whatever is produced by any agent, from the very fact of ~
230 1, 61 | derive their form from any agent. Therefore the angels ~have
231 1, 62 | thereto by a ~supernatural agent. This is what we call the
232 1, 62 | beyond ~the power of the agent working for the end, as
233 1, 62 | beyond the capacity of the agent striving to attain it; wherefore
234 1, 63 | the very ~virtue of the agent, can never fall short of
235 1, 63 | existence comes of the ~agent from which it drew its nature;
236 1, 63 | at once to limp. ~But the agent which brought the angels
237 1, 65 | amount of the power of an agent is measured not only by ~
238 1, 65 | into act by some composite ~agent. But since the composite
239 1, 65 | But since the composite agent, which is a body, is moved
240 1, 66 | proves imperfection in the agent. ~But God is an agent absolutely
241 1, 66 | the agent. ~But God is an agent absolutely perfect; wherefore
242 1, 70 | which acts in virtue of the agent: and therefore ~since this
243 1, 70 | and therefore ~since this agent is a living substance the
244 1, 70 | life ~in virtue of that agent.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[70] A[
245 1, 75 | matter to be, and so does the agent; ~wherefore the agent causes
246 1, 75 | the agent; ~wherefore the agent causes matter to be, so
247 1, 76 | intellect remains in the agent, and does not pass into ~
248 1, 76 | supposing there is one principal agent, and two ~instruments, we
249 1, 76 | can say that there is one agent absolutely, but several ~
250 1, 76 | there is one principal agent, and one instrument, we ~
251 1, 76 | we ~say that there is one agent and one action, as when
252 1, 76 | follow that there ~is but one agent and one action: that is
253 1, 76 | intellect; since the same agent according to divers forms ~
254 1, 76 | of the form by which the agent acts, as heating is according
255 1, 76 | cause of union ~except the agent, which causes matter to
256 1, 77 | substantial form of the agent (for instance, heat compared
257 1, 77 | end is with ~regard to the agent. And the object, although
258 1, 77 | caused by an extrinsic agent. Secondly, substantial and
259 1, 77 | the body; and since the agent and the end are more perfect, ~
260 1, 37 | such a way ~that in the agent itself they import a certain
261 1, 37 | from it, not only as an agent is from its action, but
262 1, 39 | the strong work done by an agent is its strength.~Aquin.:
263 1, 39 | of a form "by" which an agent works; thus we say that
264 1, 41 | assimilated to ~the form of the agent, whereby the latter acts.
265 1, 41 | depend on the ~quality of the agent, but on the agent's will
266 1, 41 | of the agent, but on the agent's will and understanding.
267 1, 41 | distinction of action and ~agent is one of reason only, otherwise
268 1, 41 | not possible. For in every agent, that is properly ~called
269 1, 41 | called power, by which the agent acts. Now, everything that
270 1, 41 | sense in which we call the ~agent a principle, but in the
271 1, 41 | being that by which the agent ~acts. Now the agent is
272 1, 41 | the agent ~acts. Now the agent is distinct from that which
273 1, 42 | is operation, for every agent acts through its form. Consequently
274 1, 42 | one ~on the part of the agent, and the other on the part
275 1, 42 | action. On the ~part of the agent this happens differently
276 1, 42 | of time; for as ~a free agent can choose the form it gives
277 1, 42 | the same happens from the agent not having ~its perfection
278 1, 42 | successive. So, given that an agent, as soon as it exists, ~
279 1, 43 | process flowing from the agent to the ~passive object.
280 1, 45 | 1~OBJ 3: Further, every agent produces its like, and thus,
281 1, 45 | and thus, since every ~agent acts in proportion to its
282 1, 45 | thing ~generated, and the agent cannot be identical (Phys.
283 1, 45 | generated. But God is the ~first agent producing all things. Therefore
284 1, 45 | 1/1~I answer that, Every agent acts for an end: otherwise
285 1, 45 | another from the action of the agent, unless it were ~by chance.
286 1, 45 | chance. Now the end of the agent and of the patient considered
287 1, 45 | the impression ~which the agent intends to produce, and
288 1, 45 | things, however, are both agent and ~patient at the same
289 1, 45 | not belong to the First Agent, Who is agent only, to act
290 1, 45 | the First Agent, Who is agent only, to act for the ~acquisition
291 1, 45 | belongs only to an imperfect agent, which ~by its nature is
292 1, 45 | which ~by its nature is both agent and patient. But this does
293 1, 46 | being from a particular agent, but also the ~emanation
294 1, 46 | effect of the ~principal agent. If therefore it effects
295 1, 46 | effect of the principal agent. Now ~the proper effect
296 1, 46 | action of the ~instrumental agent. So therefore it is impossible
297 1, 46 | the ~contrary resists the agent, inasmuch as it impedes
298 1, 46 | from ~the act which the agent intends to induce, as fire
299 1, 46 | power is required in the agent to reduce the matter ~to
300 1, 46 | power is required in the agent when no ~potentiality pre-exists.
301 1, 46 | power is required in the agent in ~proportion to the distance
302 1, 46 | the power of a natural ~agent, as there is no proportion
303 1, 46 | of things. And as every agent produces its like, the principle
304 1, 46 | which the ~intellectual agent acts; and therefore it is
305 1, 46 | natural things the only agent is the accidental form,
306 1, 46 | or caused by a separate ~agent by way of creation; and
307 1, 46 | properly made by ~the natural agent is the "composite," which
308 1, 46 | and therefore the natural agent not only produces its like ~
309 1, 46 | imperfect animals, a universal agent ~suffices, and this is to
310 1, 46 | are created by a separate agent. ~However, for the generation
311 1, 46 | perfect animals the universal agent does ~not suffice, but a
312 1, 46 | not suffice, but a proper agent is required, in the shape
313 1, 47 | 1~Reply OBJ 6: The first agent is a voluntary agent. And
314 1, 47 | first agent is a voluntary agent. And although He had ~the
315 1, 47 | difference between a particular agent, that presupposes ~something
316 1, 47 | else, and the universal agent, who ~produces the whole.
317 1, 47 | the whole. The particular agent produces the form, and presupposes
318 1, 47 | end. ~Now, a particular agent presupposes time just as
319 1, 47 | time. ~But the universal agent who produces the thing and
320 1, 47 | follows from the ~voluntary agent, according to the form preconceived
321 1, 47 | preconceived and determined by the ~agent, as appears from what was
322 1, 47 | of the action, and every agent must be the principle of
323 1, 48 | either by itself ~or with the agent. Democritus, for instance,
324 1, 48 | things to matter and to the agent together; ~and he said that
325 1, 48 | the intention of the first agent, but from the ~concurrence
326 1, 48 | the intention of the first agent, who is God. For He brought
327 1, 48 | Reply OBJ 1: The natural agent acts by the form which makes
328 1, 48 | only. But the voluntary agent, such as God is, as was
329 1, 48 | It is part of the best agent to produce an effect which
330 1, 48 | Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 2: No agent intends material plurality
331 1, 48 | intention of the divine ~agent; forasmuch as for the same
332 1, 49 | and nature and any other agent make what is best in the ~
333 1, 49 | thus is the action of the agent in the ~patient. And if
334 1, 49 | the idea of injury to the agent in ~himself, whereas the
335 1, 49 | the idea of injury to the ~agent in his operation; and thus
336 1, 49 | opposed to the good of the ~agent, while fault is opposed
337 1, 49 | action. Therefore, since ~the agent is better than the action,
338 1, 49 | more ~perfect good of the agent, since it is the second
339 1, 50 | impelling force; nor does an ~agent fail in its action except
340 1, 50 | causes, we see that the agent, ~the form, and the end,
341 1, 50 | has a cause by way of an agent, not directly, but accidentally.~
342 1, 50 | principal or the ~instrumental agent; thus the defect in the
343 1, 50 | the ~proper effect of the agent, sometimes by the power
344 1, 50 | sometimes by the power of the agent, ~sometimes by reason of
345 1, 50 | a defect, either of the agent or of the matter. It ~is
346 1, 50 | power or perfection of the agent when there ~necessarily
347 1, 50 | the form intended by the agent the privation of ~another
348 1, 50 | action of the ~fire, the agent. But this very fact that
349 1, 50 | things. For the natural agent produces the same kind of ~
350 1, 50 | other evil pre-exists in the agent or in the ~matter, as was
351 1, 50 | caused by the defect of the ~agent. But in God there is no
352 1, 50 | caused by defect of the agent, is not reduced to God ~
353 1, 50 | was said (A[1]) that some agent inasmuch as it ~produces
354 1, 51 | is not intended by the agent, but only specific ~multiplication,
355 1, 54 | the act of ~an imperfect agent. But the movement which
356 1, 55 | really a medium between the agent and the subject receiving ~
357 1, 55 | which remains within the agent, is not really a ~medium
358 1, 55 | really a ~medium between the agent and the object, but only
359 1, 55 | of the object with the ~agent. For the act of understanding
360 1, 55 | which remains within the agent, as to ~feel, to understand,
361 1, 55 | action takes place within the agent. It is quite clear ~regarding
362 1, 55 | action that it cannot be the agent's very ~existence: because
363 1, 55 | existence: because the agent's existence is signified
364 1, 55 | something as issuing from the agent into the ~thing done. But
365 1, 56 | is by ~the form that the agent acts. Now in order that
366 1, 56 | but receives from some agent, now one form, now ~another.
367 1, 57 | something separate from the agent, as the ~thing heated is
368 1, 57 | must be united with the agent; just as the sensible object
369 1, 60 | is the act of a perfect agent, as stated in De Anima ~
370 1, 60 | implanted by ~nature. Only an agent endowed with an intellect
371 1, 61 | something else ~except the First Agent, Who acts in such a manner
372 1, 61 | which remains within the agent, so ~also is it a movement
373 1, 61 | operation; for we behold ~every agent acting naturally for its
374 1, 62 | whatever is produced by any agent, from the very fact of ~
375 1, 62 | derive their form from any agent. Therefore the angels ~have
376 1, 63 | thereto by a ~supernatural agent. This is what we call the
377 1, 63 | beyond ~the power of the agent working for the end, as
378 1, 63 | beyond the capacity of the agent striving to attain it; wherefore
379 1, 64 | the very ~virtue of the agent, can never fall short of
380 1, 64 | existence comes of the ~agent from which it drew its nature;
381 1, 64 | at once to limp. ~But the agent which brought the angels
382 1, 66 | amount of the power of an agent is measured not only by ~
383 1, 66 | into act by some composite ~agent. But since the composite
384 1, 66 | But since the composite agent, which is a body, is moved
385 1, 67 | proves imperfection in the agent. ~But God is an agent absolutely
386 1, 67 | the agent. ~But God is an agent absolutely perfect; wherefore
387 1, 71 | which acts in virtue of the agent: and therefore ~since this
388 1, 71 | and therefore ~since this agent is a living substance the
389 1, 71 | life ~in virtue of that agent.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[70] A[
390 1, 74 | matter to be, and so does the agent; ~wherefore the agent causes
391 1, 74 | the agent; ~wherefore the agent causes matter to be, so
392 1, 75 | intellect remains in the agent, and does not pass into ~
393 1, 75 | supposing there is one principal agent, and two ~instruments, we
394 1, 75 | can say that there is one agent absolutely, but several ~
395 1, 75 | there is one principal agent, and one instrument, we ~
396 1, 75 | we ~say that there is one agent and one action, as when
397 1, 75 | follow that there ~is but one agent and one action: that is
398 1, 75 | intellect; since the same agent according to divers forms ~
399 1, 75 | of the form by which the agent acts, as heating is according
400 1, 75 | cause of union ~except the agent, which causes matter to
401 1, 76 | substantial form of the agent (for instance, heat compared
402 1, 76 | end is with ~regard to the agent. And the object, although
403 1, 76 | caused by an extrinsic agent. Secondly, substantial and
404 1, 76 | the body; and since the agent and the end are more perfect, ~
405 1, 77 | determinate matter by an extrinsic agent; therefore it receives at
406 1, 78 | 1/1~OBJ 3: Further, the "agent is nobler than the patient,"
407 1, 78 | Para. 1/1~Reply OBJ 3: The agent is nobler than the patient,
408 1, 78 | Further, the likeness of the agent is received into the patient ~
409 1, 78 | 1/1~Reply OBJ 3: If the agent pre-exist, it may well happen
410 1, 78 | dispositions. But if the agent does not pre-exist, the
411 1, 78 | Para. 1/1~OBJ 3: Further, agent and patient suffice for
412 1, 78 | De Anima iii, 5), "the agent is more noble than the patient." ~
413 1, 81 | is either the end or the agent. On the part ~of the end,
414 1, 81 | utility." On the part of the agent, a thing must be, when ~
415 1, 81 | someone is forced by some agent, so that he is not able
416 1, 81 | because what moves is an agent, ~and "the agent is nobler
417 1, 81 | moves is an agent, ~and "the agent is nobler than the patient,"
418 1, 81 | say that the end moves the agent. In this way the ~intellect
419 1, 81 | thing is said to move as an ~agent, as what alters moves what
420 1, 81 | truth. Therefore the will as agent moves ~all the powers of
421 1, 83 | corresponds to the mode of the agent's form. Wherefore ~he concluded
422 1, 83 | noble is required, ~for "the agent is more noble than the patient,"
423 1, 83 | the higher ~and more noble agent which he calls the active
424 1, 83 | separate, namely, because ~"the agent is more noble than the patient."
425 1, 84 | one which remains ~in the agent; for instance, to see and
426 1, 84 | action remaining in the ~agent is the likeness of the object.
427 1, 86 | but it remains in the ~agent as its perfection and act,
428 1, 87 | either as ~the principal agent is to the instrument, or
429 1, 87 | two ways; to a ~principal agent and to an instrument, as
430 1, 87 | instrumentality, for the medium of an agent's formal action consists ~
431 1, 87 | form and act, since every agent acts according to its actuality, ~
432 1, 88 | mode of action in every agent follows from its ~mode of
433 1, 88 | gathered from the power of ~the agent. Thus that a person see
434 1, 89 | can create; for the first agent alone ~can act without presupposing
435 1, 89 | Q[75], A[3]): and every agent, that presupposes something
436 1, 90 | A[4]); and ~because the agent must be like its effect,
437 1, 90 | are ~for the action of the agent. I say, therefore, that
438 1, 91 | dignity than ~man; "for the agent is always more honorable
439 1, 91 | generated by some other specific agent, such as some ~plants and
440 1, 98 | 1~OBJ 2: Further, every agent produces its like, unless
441 1, 102 | operation ~exists in the agent. Therefore nothing extrinsic
442 1, 102 | archer. ~Wherefore every agent, whether natural or free,
443 1, 103 | powerful than any created agent. But a ~created agent, even
444 1, 103 | created agent. But a ~created agent, even after ceasing to act,
445 1, 103 | Now every action of an agent, if that action be efficacious, ~
446 1, 103 | we must observe that an agent may be the cause of ~the "
447 1, 103 | natural things. For if an agent is not the ~cause of a form
448 1, 103 | being," depends on the agent.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[104] A[
449 1, 103 | way as it exists in the agent: as ~may be seen clearly
450 1, 103 | them in species. Such an agent can ~be the cause of a form
451 1, 103 | when that action of ~the agent ceases which causes the "
452 1, 103 | after that action of the agent has ~ceased, which is the
453 1, 103 | is no comparison with an agent that is not ~the cause of '
454 1, 103 | hindered by some contrary agent from receiving the influx
455 1, 104 | 1/1~OBJ 2: Further, any agent inclined to several effects
456 1, 104 | by means of a particular agent.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[105] A[
457 1, 104 | Whether God works in every agent?~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[105] A[
458 1, 104 | God does not work in every agent. For we must ~not attribute
459 1, 104 | therefore God works in every ~agent, He works sufficiently in
460 1, 104 | superfluous ~for the created agent to work at all.~Aquin.:
461 1, 104 | understood God to work in every agent in such a ~way that no created
462 1, 104 | other hand, the end, the agent, and ~the form are principles
463 1, 104 | the end which moves the agent; the second is the ~agent;
464 1, 104 | agent; the second is the ~agent; the third is the form of
465 1, 104 | the form of that which the agent applies to action ~(although
466 1, 104 | to action ~(although the agent also acts through its own
467 1, 104 | the ~first; for the first agent moves the second to act.
468 1, 104 | cause of action in ~every agent. Thirdly, we must observe
469 1, 104 | sufficiently in things as First Agent, but it ~does not follow
470 1, 104 | primary ~and a secondary agent.~Aquin.: SMT FP Q[105] A[
471 1, 104 | happen by the action of an agent which did not ~give them
472 1, 104 | happen by ~the action of the agent on whom the natural inclination
473 1, 105 | power to will: just as that agent alone can ~change the natural
474 1, 105 | they can. So the more an agent is ~established in the share
475 1, 106 | as in natural things the agent is ordered to the patient,
476 1, 106 | passive is ~ordered to the agent, and in human speech the
477 1, 109 | maker, forasmuch as ~every agent makes its like. So whatever
478 1, 109 | or form some ~corporeal agent; but not immediately from
479 1, 109 | the power of a corporeal agent; for ~it is natural for
480 1, 111 | since He is the universal agent, His power reaches to all
481 1, 111 | however, ~as a particular agent, does not reach to the whole
482 1, 112 | For the more universal an agent is, the higher it is. Thus
483 1, 113 | indirectly. Indirectly as when an agent is the cause of a ~disposition
484 1, 114 | 1~OBJ 2: Further, every agent except the first agent requires
485 1, 114 | every agent except the first agent requires in its work ~a
486 1, 114 | power of action in every agent is according to its ~propinquity
487 1, 114 | Further, if a body is an agent, the term of its action
488 1, 114 | corporeal form is not an agent, but ~that it is not a universal
489 1, 114 | that it is not a universal agent. For in proportion as a
490 1, 114 | as such; ~wherefore every agent produces its like. So therefore
491 1, 114 | thing owes ~its being an agent indeterminate and universal:
492 1, 114 | matter, it owes its being an agent limited and ~particular.
493 1, 114 | atoms from the corporeal agent, while passion consists
494 1, 114 | but from being a universal agent, forasmuch as a ~form is
495 1, 114 | identical self from the ~agent to the patient; thus Democritus
496 1, 114 | production of anything, an agent and matter ~suffice. But
497 1, 114 | 1/1~OBJ 3: Further, the agent produces its like. Now it
498 1, 114 | heavenly bodies. But the "agent is superior to the patient,"
499 1, 114 | 1/1~OBJ 2: Further, an agent's effect results of necessity
500 1, 114 | when ~the power of the agent is such that it can subject
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