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Reply to Objection 1. The will and the intellect mutually include one another: for the intellect understands the will, and the will wills theintellect to understand. So then, among things directed to the object of the will, are comprised also those that belong to the intellect; and conversely. Whence in the order of things desirable, good stands as the universal, and the true as the particular; whereas in theorder of intelligible things the converse of the case. From the fact, then, that the true is a kind of good, it follows that the good is prior in the order of things desirable; but not that it is prior absolutely.

Reply to Objection 2. A thing is prior logically in so far as it is prior to the intellect. Now the intellect apprehends primarily being itself; secondly, it apprehends that it understands being; and thirdly, it apprehends that it desires being. Hence the idea of being is first, that oftruth second, and the idea of good third, though good is in things.

Reply to Objection 3. The virtue which is called "truth" is not truth in general, but a certain kind of truth according to which man shows himself in deed and word as he really is. But truth as applied to "life" is used in a particular sense, inasmuch as a man fulfills in his life that to which he is ordained by the divine intellect, as it has been said that truth exists in other things (1). Whereas the truth of "justice" is found in man as he fulfills his duty to his neighbor, as ordained by law. Hence we cannot argue from these particular truths to truth in general.

►Albert the GreatM Führer - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2006 - plato.stanford.edu... own actions. This power, the liberum arbitrium, Albert believes is identifiedneither with the intellect nor the will. He holds ... Cited by 1 - Related articles - All 2 versions
Thomas Aquinas on the Will as Rational Appetite- ►jhu.edu [PDF] D Gallagher - Journal of the History of Philosophy, 1991 - muse.jhu.edu... cognition. Understandably enough, Thomas addresses himself to these issueswithin his discussions of liberum arbitrium. These terms ... Cited by 10 - Related articles - All 6 versions

The Scope of Deliberation: A Conflict in AquinasTH Irwin - The Review of Metaphysics, 1990 - jstor.orgPage 1. THE SCOPE OF DELIBERATION: A CONFLICT IN AQUINAS TH IRWIN I At hasoften been supposed that Aristotle's account of thought ... Cited by 2 - Related articles
[CITATION] The Will as King over the Powers of the Soul: Uses and Sources of an Image in the …RJ Teske - Vivarium, 1994 - BRILLCited by 3 - Related articles

Freedom? The Anthropological Concepts in Luther and Melanchthon ComparedO Bayer - The Harvard Theological Review, 1998 - jstor.org... '2See Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologica IQ 19, A. 10: "liberum arbitrium est facultasrationis et voluntatis, qua bonum et malum eligitur." '3"For the desires of ... Cited by 1 - Related articles - BL Direct
[PDF] ►Did Calvin Believe in Free Will?ANS Lane - Vooc Evangelica, 1981 - biblicalstudies.org.uk... Cf. G. Melles, Albertus Pighius en zijn strijd met Calvijn over het liberumarbitrium (Kampen, 1973), 17-53 for a summary of Pighius' case. ... Cited by 2 - Related articles - View as HTML

The Recovery of Free Agency in the Theology of St. AugustineJ Wetzel - The Harvard Theological Review, 1987 - jstor.org... gratiam? Absit, sed magis liberum arbitrium statuimus. ... possible. Liberumarbitrium seems generally to be reserved for describing the ... Cited by 5 - Related articles - All 3 versions
St. Augustine's Attitude to Religious CoercionPRL Brown - The Journal of Roman Studies, 1964 - jstor.orgPage 1. ST. AUGUSTINE'S ATTITUDE TO RELIGIOUS COERCION By PRL BROWN * Augustinehad to face the issue of religious coercion throughout his episcopate, and ... Cited by 22 - Related articles

[BOOK] The world as will and representationA Schopenhauer, 1966 - books.google.com... Schopenhauer uses the expression liberum arbitrium indifferentiae to convey themeaning of a will that is absolutely free in the meta- physical sense before it ... Cited by 360 - Related articles - All 4 versions
Kierkegaard and LeibnizR Grimsley - Journal of the History of Ideas, 1965 - jstor.org... trium is "nowhere to be found," Kierkegaard adds: "To let freedom begin asliberum arbitrium which is quite as free to choose the good ... Cited by 3 - Related articles
Melancthon's “Synergism.”FH Foster - Papers of the American Society of Church History, 2009 - Cambridge Univ Press... In Luther's favorite treatise, and elsewhere, he often makes the distinction betweenliberum arbitrium, the faculty of free will, which remains unchanged by ... Cited by 2 - Related articles

A LOGICAL FOUNDATION OF FUZZIBESS FOR THE APPLICATION TO HUMAN ACTIONSA ru Giuculescu - Fuzzy engineering toward human friendly systems, 1992 - books.google.com... ah (iiiJheterontmous and autotelic action hnat ha 2 (iv) heteron* mous and heterotelica* ti «n hnht h Ty^ eCi) is labeled" liberum arbitrium" and embodies a ... Cited by 3 - Related articles
[CITATION] … Reformation and Counter-Reformation? Bellarmine and Ames on liberum arbitriumE Dekker - Reformation and Scholasticism: An Ecumenical …Cited by 1 - Related articles
Toward the Understanding of KierkegaardP Merlan - The Journal of Religion, 1943 - jstor.orgPage 1. THE JOURNAL OF RELIGION Volume XXIII APRIL 1943 TOWARD THEUNDERSTANDING OF KIERKEGAARD PHILIP MERLAN I S REN KIERKEGAARD ... Cited by 2 - Related articles - All 2 versions
Free Will and Theodicy in Augustine: An Exposition and CritiqueF Berthold Jr - Religious Studies, 1981 - jstor.org... In addition to the general capacity of willing (voluntas) Augustine speaksof the free choice of the will (liberum arbitrium). This ... Cited by 2 - Related articles - All 3 versions

[CITATION] Freedom in MolinaG Smith, 1966 - Loyola University PressCited by 5 - Related articles
Augustine and medieval philosophyMWF Stone - The Cambridge Companion to Augustine, 2001 - books.google.com... While both Augustine and Aristotle are conspicuous in the disputes over liberumarbitrium (freedom of decision), this being the main forum in which discussions ... Cited by 4 - Related articles - All 2 versions
[PDF] ►Descartes's CompatibilismV Chappell - Reason, Will and Sensation. Studies in Descartes's … - courses.umass.edu... Indeed at several places in his text, Descartes uses the expression 'free decision'(liberum arbitrium) as the name of the faculty of will (Med iv: AT VII 56 ... Cited by 15 - Related articles - View as HTML - All 6 versions

Aquinas on Being, Goodness, and Divine SimplicityE Stump - Miscellanea Mediaevalia Band 30: Die Logik des … - reference-global.com... places. It is also clear that for Aquinas liberum arbitrium is the powerfor choosing among alternative possibilities. In addition ... Cited by 1 - Related articles

[PDF] ►Anselm's account of freedomT Williams, S Visser - Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2001 - shell.cas.usf.edu... Anselm uses libertas arbitrii and liberum arbitrium interchangeably. ... To say thatthey sinned per liberum arbitrium (through free choice), as Anselm does ... Cited by 1 - Related articles - View as HTML - BL Direct - All 3 versions

Letting Scotus speak for himselfMB Ingham - Medieval Philosophy and Theology, 2003 - Cambridge Univ Press... causandum actum volendi, ut sic breviter 'natura actu intelligens obiectum et libera'est causa velle et nolle; et in hoc consistit liberum arbitrium, sive in ... Cited by 2 - Related articles
Hobbes as Reformation Theologian: Implications of the Free-Will ControversyL Damrosch Jr - Journal of the History of Ideas, 1979 - jstor.org... Following Augustine, it was usual to speak of free choice rather than will, liberumarbitrium rather than voluntas, since the will of every fallen man is in ... Cited by 9 - Related articles - All 3 versions

European citizenship and the republican tradition- ►jhu.edu [PDF] D Jacobson, Z Kilic - The Good Society, 2003 - muse.jhu.edu... Public freedom was not "an inner realm into which men might escape at will fromthe pressures of the world, nor was it the liberum arbitrium which makes the ... Cited by 2 - Related articles - All 5 versions
[PDF] ►Castoriadis, Arendt, and the Problem of the NewLMG Zerilli - Constellations, 2002 - uchicago.edu... even those very few who believed in the liberum arbitrium have reduced it to a simple'choice' between two or several options, as though these options were ... Cited by 2 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
Kant on Free Will and ArbitrarinessEV Cherkasova - Philosophy and Literature, 2004 - muse.jhu.edu... wanting, desire), svoevolie (arbitrariness) etc.—the Underground Man is referringto what medieval scholastics would call liberum arbitrium indifferentiae. ... Cited by 1 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions

[CITATION] Liberum arbitrium and necessitas: a philosophical inquiry into Augustine's conception of the …E Rannikko, 1997 - Luther-Agricola-Society

[CITATION] Letter to dr. Chalmers on the liberum arbitrium, with additional remarks [by J. Johnstone?].J Johnstone, 1842
[CITATION] Human Action and Human Freedom: Four Theories of Liberum Arbitrium in the Early …CA McCluskey, 1997 - University of Iowa
[CITATION] … in relation to a settlement of the Church Question, on the footing of the Liberum Arbitrium …G Assembly - Hume Tracts, 1842 - null
[CITATION] Liberum arbitrium and necessitasE Rannikko - A philosophical inquiry into Augustine's concep
[CITATION] Clementia Liberum Arbitrium HabetM Bellincioni - Paideia, 1984

CITATION] ST. ANSELM AND THE WILL AS A POWERT Ekenberg - A Philosophical Smorgasbord: Essays on Action, Truth, …, 2003 - Dept. of Philosophy, Uppsala University
Jena:" Akrasia and incontinentia: The Problem of Weakness of Will in the Philosophy of the …J Müller, M Perkams - Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale, 2004 - Brepols Publishers... pursues what appears to be advantageous (commodum), ie, what promotes his or herhap- piness, and such a person, while possessing liberum arbitrium, does not ...


Liberty of decision in the philosophy of St. Thomas AquinasP Bolberitz - Verbum, 2005 - akademiai.com... to ap- pear first in the terminology of the Stoical philosophy as a free act ofwill with individual characteristics (liberum arbitrium), thus contradicting to ... Related articles

[PDF] ►The rationalist of Aquino: Rescuing Aquinas from intellective determinismS Kristinsson - skemman.is... that “...the very fact that a human being is rational makes it necessary that ahuman being be characterized by free decision (liberum arbitrium).” (ST I ... View as HTML - All 8 versions

Intellect and Will in Augustine's Confessions- ►unl.edu [PDF] DD Crawford - Religious studies, 1988 - jstor.org... Augustine's conception of the will - whether it functions as liberum arbitrium,capable of choosing between presented alternatives, or simply as the execu? ... Related articles - All 5 versions

Calvin, Bernard and the Freedom of the WillV Brümmer - Religious Studies, 1994 - jstor.org... (i) Freedom from necessity This freedom is the liberum arbitrium or freedom of choiceby which ... Why is our liberum arbitrium impotent in regard to this task? ... BL Direct - All 2 versions
[PDF] ►Bruno Dumont and Akademeia: The Place Iustitia Dei, Auto-exousia and Our Experience of …T Clark, Q Montréal - nfn-audiovideo.ca... to interpret it as auto-exousia rather than as liberum arbitrium. Rabbi MosheBen Maimon, in his commentary on the Hebrew term “tzelem ... Related articles - View as HTML

Decline and Fall of Virtue EthicsKL Forhan - The Review of Politics, 1997 - jstor.org... For example, her discussion of liberum arbitrium, its standard translation, "freewill," and her preferred alternative, "free decision," is itself lucid and ...

[CITATION] Erasmus on Free Will: An Issue Revisited1M Hoffmann - Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook, 1990 - BRILL

2. WillR Kane - The Significance of Free Will, 1999 - ingentaconnect.comIngentaConnect. ...

Aquinas.JT Eberl - The Review of Metaphysics, 2004 - questia.com... of Aquinas's account of human freedom in which several misunderstandings are corrected,such as the meaning of Aquinas's term liberum arbitrium, and the ...

Habitus fidei: an essay on the history of a concept- ►kuleuven.be [PDF] M Wisse - Scottish Journal of Theology, 2003 - Cambridge Univ Press... etext/gc.htm, III, 156: 'Sciendum tamen est quod, cum etiam ille qui gratiam habet,petat a Deo ut perseveret in bono; sicut liberum arbitrium non sufficit ad ... BL Direct - All 5 versions

[DOC] ►Free will and the soft constraints of reasonCF Costa - RATIO-OXFORD-, 2006 - filosofia.cchla.ufrn.br... His judgment (liberum arbitrium) is impaired, and therefore his subsequent decisionsand actions, which permits us to say that in a full sense of the word ... Cited by 1 - Related articles - View as HTML - BL Direct - All 4 versions

Augustine's rejection of the free-will defence: an overview of the late Augustine's theodicyJ Couenhoven - Religious Studies, 2007 - Cambridge Univ Press... But with that caveat in mind, let us consider Augustine's late view of the liberumarbitrium (free choice) Adam and Eve had before the Fall. ... Cited by 2 - Related articles - BL Direct

Baader: The Centrality of Original SinP Koslowski - Kierkegaard and his German contemporaries, 2007 - books.google.com... An intermediate term between sensuousness and free choice or liberum arbitrium ofgood and evil is needed, and that intermediate term is the concept of anxiety ... Cited by 1 - Related articles

The concept of will in early Latin philosophy- ►jhu.edu [PDF] NW Gilbert - Journal of the History of Philosophy, 1963 - muse.jhu.edu... the world. It is also significant that Lucretius does not speak of "freechoice" ("liberum arbitrium"). Cicero (106--43 BC). With ... Cited by 18 - Related articles - All 4 versions

Aquinas and Intellectual Determinism: The Test Case of Angelic SinT Hoffmann - Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 2007 - reference-global.com... Yet since the core problem of liberum arbi- trium – to explain how intellect ... thatevery creature endowed with the power of liberum arbitrium, including angels ... BL Direct - All 3 versions

8 Faith and the Kierkegaardian leapMJ Ferreira - The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard, 1998 - books.google.com... arbitrariness. But freedom, for Kierkegaard, never requires liberum arbitrium(freedom of indifference)(JP E 61-2; see also 74, 68). We ... Cited by 6 - Related articles

[BOOK] Henry of Ghent and the transformation of scholastic thought: studies in memory of Jos …G Guldentops, J Decorte, CG Steel, 2003 - books.google.com... that Henry's anthropology was developed in the context of a general polemic against'Aristotelian' or 'intellectualistic' theories of liberum arbitrium. ... Related articles - All 4 versions

Anselm's Definition of FreedomSG Kane - Religious Studies, 1973 - jstor.org... later writings, where they are generally, though not invariably, referred torespectively by the terms 'libertas' and 'liberum arbitrium'.2 Contrary to the ... Cited by 3 - Related articles

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Thomas Aquinas on the Will as Rational Appetite- ►jhu.edu [PDF] D Gallagher - Journal of the History of Philosophy, 1991 - muse.jhu.edu' For Thomas's understanding of nature and natural motion, seeJ. Weisheipl, "The Concept of Nature," in Nature and Motion in the Middle Ages, ed. W. Carroll (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 1985), 1-23. For ... Cited by 10 - Related articles - All 6 versions
[BOOK] Aquinas on mindAJP Kenny, 1993 - books.google.com... vii Abbreviations viii 1 Why read Aquinas? \ 2 Mind and metaphysics 15 3 Perceptionand imagination 31 4 The nature of the intellect 41 5 Appetite and will 59 ... Cited by 46 - Related articles - All 3 versions
Aquinas on our Responsibility for our EmotionsCE Murphy - Medieval Philosophy and Theology, 2001 - Cambridge Univ Press... 27 Moreover, since volitions are for the most part just appetitive responses tothe ... It seems to me, in light of Aquinas's own carelessness about his categories ... Cited by 6 - Related articles
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Rationalized Passion and Passionate Rationality: Thomas Aquinas on the Relation …E Uffenheimer-Lippens - The Review of Metaphysics, 2003 - questia.com... By the "passions of the soul" Thomas Aquinas understands all the movements of theappetitive power of the sensitive soul (46) including those with negative ... Cited by 4 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 2 versions

[BOOK] … knowledge & by love: charity and knowledge in the moral theology of St. Thomas AquinasMS Sherwin, 2005 - books.google.com... THOMAS AQUINAS M1CHA1'L S. SHI R\\'NOP Page 2. By Knowledge & By Love Page 3. ... THOMASAQUINAS THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA PRESS WASHINGTON, DC Page 5. ... Cited by 2 - Related articles

[CITATION] The threat of intellective determinismS Kristinsson
[PDF] ►The rationalist of Aquino: Rescuing Aquinas from intellective determinismS Kristinsson - skemman.is... The rational part of the soul, which Aquinas normally refers to as 'reason' (ratio),has two faculties, one cognitive and another appetitive. ... View as HTML - All 8 versions

►The Passions and the Moral Life: Appreciating the Originality of AquinasP Gondreau - THOMIST, 2007 - thomist.org... unique relationship between the lower sensitive appetite and the higher intellectualpowers, and the appetitive conflict accruing to it, Aquinas resorts to a ... View as HTML - BL Direct - All 2 versions
Aquinas on MindW read Aquinas - questia.com... Abbreviations, viii. 1 Why read Aquinas? 1. 2 Mind and metaphysics, 15. 3 Perceptionand imagination, 31. 4 The nature of the intellect, 41. 5 Appetite and will ...

►Is Aquinas an Act-Ethicist or an Agent-Ethicist?DA Horner - THOMIST, 2006 - thomist.org... He suggests in this statement the possibility of an end-directed rational shapingof appetitive response. For Aquinas, an agent can rationally choose to shape ... Cached - BL Direct - All 3 versions

[PDF] ►The Integral Feminism of St. Thomas AquinasJ Hartel - GREGORIANUM-ROMA-, 1996 - laici.org... 16 JACQUES MARITAIN. "The Humanism of St. Thomas Aquinas". Twentieth CenturyPhilosophy. Ed. ... These powers are both apprehensive and appetitive. ... Cited by 1 - Related articles - View as HTML - BL Direct - All 2 versions

CITATION] Natural appetite and the will in Saint Thomas AquinasRW Graf, 1980 - Philosophy), Niagara University
[CITATION] Wanting Something for Someone: Aquinas on Complex Motions of AppetiteK White - REVIEW OF METAPHYSICS, 2007 - CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICABL Direct
[CITATION] The role of the sense appetite in man's actions according to St. Thomas Aquinas.C Phung, 1957 - Marquette University
[BOOK] Right practical reason: Aristotle, action, and prudence in AquinasD Westberg, 1994 - books.google.comPage 1. OXFORD Right Practical Reason Aristotle, Action, and Prudence in AquinasDaniel Westberg Page 2. OXFORD THEOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS ... Cited by 37 - Related articles - All 2 versions
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Aquinas, Virtue and Recent EpistemologyV AQUINAS - Journal article by Thomas S. Hibbs; The Review of …, 1999 - questia.com... a verbal difference, since we usually mean by curiosity an appetite for knowledgeexhibited in persistent questioning, while Augustine and Aquinas mean by that ...

Aquinas on Concord:" Concord Is a Union of Wills, Not of Opinions".DS Porzecanski - The Review of Metaphysics, 2003 - questia.com... There Aquinas argues that when the appetite or affection (affectus) fixes itselfon an object apprehended as good, the loved good impresses its form on the ... Related articles - BL Direct - All 2 versions
AN INVESTIGATION ON AQUINA'S VIEW POINT ABOUT WILL AND FREE WILLG MOQIMI - NAMEH-YE-MOFID, 2003 - sid.ir... soul's nature. Aquinas accepted Aristotle's idea about the appetitive poweras a distinct power of the soul. In this Philosophical ... Cached

[BOOK] … Effects of Immortality on Intelligence According to St. Thomas Aquinas, a Metaphysical StudyJC Linehan, 2003 - books.google.com... Thomas Aquinas, a Metaphysical Study James Colman Linehan ... It deals principally withthe thought of Saint Thomas Aquinas on the subject-matter under treatment. ... Related articles

Martha Nussbaum and Thomas Aquinas on the Emotions.C Leget - Theological Studies, 2003 - questia.com... Love, hate, fear, and all other human emotions can be found in both parts of theappetitive faculty, but Aquinas carefully keeps them distinguished. ... BL Direct - All 3 versions
[PDF] ►Person and Ethics in Thomas AquinasD Gallagher - Acta Philosophica, 1995 - comcast.net... At this point the primacy of the person in Aquinas' "moral universe" is ... Thus theabsolutely first appetitive motion in rational beings is amor atnicitiae, the ... Cited by 2 - Related articles - View as HTML - All 2 versions

Liberty of decision in the philosophy of St. Thomas AquinasP Bolberitz - Verbum, 2005 - akademiai.com... Thomas declares that will, as an appetitive power (potentia appetitiva) andfree will are not two powers, but one. . ... thomas aquinas 33 ... Related articles
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[CITATION] The nature of the practical intellect according to Saint Thomas AquinasJE Naus, 1959 - Università gregorianaCited by 3 - Related articles

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[PDF] ►Thomas Aquinas and the Overlapping ConsensusD DiLeo - COMMMONWEALTH: A Journal of Political Science - house.state.pa.us... 7 passion, appetite, desire, pleasure and pain that we become what we are meantto be. 15 Aquinas even goes so far as to rebut explicitly Plato's claim that ... Related articles - View as HTML

[BOOK] Aquinas, ethics, and philosophy of religion: metaphysics and practiceTS Hibbs, 2007 - books.google.com... Page 2. Aquinas, Ethics, and Philosophy of Religion Page 3. ... ISBN 978-0-253-34881-4 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 12257-1274. 2. Ethics. ... Related articles - All 2 versions

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[PDF] ►The Psychology of Natural and Supernatural Knowledge according to St. Thomas AquinasT Riplinger - tobias-lib.ub.uni-tuebingen.de... ACCORDING TO ST. THOMAS AQUINAS Thomas Riplinger Tübingen 2003 Page 2. ii ... 1 THEPHENOMENOLOGY OF OGNITION A ORDING TO THOMAS AQUINAS Thomas Riplinger Overview ... Related articles - View as HTML - All 3 versions

Kant and Aquinas on the Priority of the GoodT Hinton - The Review of Metaphysics, 2002 - jstor.orgPage 1. KANT AND AQUINAS ON THE PRIORITY OF THE GOOD TIMOTHY HINTON I ... the ethicalviews of Kant and Aquinas. Both attach great significance to the role of ... Related articles - BL Direct
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Who discovered the Will?TH Irwin - Philosophical Perspectives, 1992 - jstor.org... First Aquinas claims that 'the appetitive (concupiscibilis) power, and every desiringpower, including the irascible power and the will, participate in some ... Cited by 16 - Related articles

Thomas Aquinas and Giles of Rome on the Will.PS Eardley - The Review of Metaphysics, 2003 - questia.com... Gallagher recognizes that, as a rational appetite, the will for Aquinas must alwayschoose the good, real or apparent, that practical reason has judged best. ... Cited by 3 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 2 versions

[BOOK] The nature of the practical intellect according to st. Thomas AquinasJE Naus, 1959 - books.google.com... The Nature of the Practical Intellect according to Saint Thomas Aquinas by JohnE ... the practical intellect means con- formity of the intellect to right appetite. ... Cited by 5 - Related articles

[PDF] ►Aquinas on the Object of the Human Act: A Reading in Light of the Texts and CommentatorsD Sousa-Lara - eticaepolitica.net... the De Malo generally follow that of On Evil: St Thomas Aquinas, trans. ... qui est debono apprehenso secundum rationem” (the rational appetite, that concerns ... View as HTML

St. Thomas Aquinas on the Immaterial Reception of Sensible FormsSM Cohen - The Philosophical Review, 1982 - jstor.org... visual sense images? Aquinas' discussion of appetite in ST, 80, Al containsan im- plied answer to this question. There he talks ... Cited by 13 - Related articles - All 2 versions

[BOOK] Living with God: Thomas Aquinas on the relation between life on earth and" life" after deathE Peters, C Leget, 1997 - books.google.comPage 1. LIVING WITH GOD Thomas Aquinas on the Relation between Life on Earth and'Life' after Death CARLO LEGET \ THOMAS INSTITUUT UTRECHT - PEETERS LEUVEN ... Related articles

►Intellective Appetite and the Freedom of Human ActionC McCluskey - THOMIST, 2002 - thomist.org... What is true is that Aquinas would locate synchronic contingency not in the ... if thiscontingency is a function of cognitive capacities or appetitive ones, as ... Cached - BL Direct - All 3 versions
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88 and 89

88.1 first concerns Averroes' opinion that "the greatest happiness" consists in somehow becoming one with the active intellect - and so it is interesting becuase it concerns the human good there. And when we come to 89 it is the same kind of thing - at least generally - insofar as 89.1 seems to be contending (even if it is not the main issue, at least in the background) with what is the good of the human being (intellectually speaking). And here's the body of hte argument
I answer that, The difficulty in solving this question arises from the fact that the soul united to the body can understand only by turning to the phantasms, as experience shows. Did this not proceed from the soul's very nature, but accidentally through its being bound up with the body, as the Platonists said, the difficulty would vanish; for in that case when the body was once removed, the soul would at once return to its own nature, and would understand intelligible things simply, without turning to the phantasms, as is exemplified in the case of other separate substances. In that case, however, the union of soul and body would not be for the soul's good, for evidently it would understand worse in the body than out of it; but for the good of the body, which would be unreasonable, since matter exists on account of the form, and not the form for the sake of matter. But if we admit that the nature of the soul requires it to understand by turning to the phantasms, it will seem, since death does not change its nature, that it can then naturally understand nothing; as the phantasms are wanting to which it may turn.
To solve this difficulty we must consider that as nothing acts except so far as it is actual, the mode of action in every agent follows from its mode of existence. Now the soul has one mode of being when in the body, and another when apart from it, its nature remaining always the same; but this does not mean that its union with the body is an accidental thing, for, on the contrary, such union belongs to its very nature, just as the nature of a light object is not changed, when it is in its proper place, which is natural to it, and outside its proper place, which is beside its nature. The soul, therefore, when united to the body, consistently with that mode of existence, has a mode of understanding, by turning to corporeal phantasms, which are in corporeal organs; but when it is separated from the body, it has a mode of understanding, by turning to simply intelligible objects, as is proper to other separate substances. Hence it is as natural for the soul to understand by turning to the phantasms as it is for it to be joined to the body; but to be separated from the body is not in accordance with its nature, and likewise to understand without turning to the phantasms is not natural to it; and hence it is united to the body in order that it may have an existence and an operation suitable to its nature. But here again a difficulty arises. For since nature is always ordered to what is best, and since it is better to understand by turning to simply intelligible objects than by turning to the phantasms; God should have ordered the soul's nature so that the nobler way of understanding would have been natural to it, and it would not have needed the body for that purpose.
In order to resolve this difficulty we must consider that while it is true that it is nobler in itself to understand by turning to something higher than to understand by turning to phantasms, nevertheless such a mode of understanding was not so perfect as regards what was possible to the soul. This will appear if we consider that every intellectual substance possesses intellective power by the influence of the Divine light, which is one and simple in its first principle, and the farther off intellectual creatures are from the first principle so much the more is the light divided and diversified, as is the case with lines radiating from the centre of a circle. Hence it is that God by His one Essence understands all things; while the superior intellectual substances understand by means of a number of species, which nevertheless are fewer and more universal and bestow a deeper comprehension of things, because of the efficaciousness of the intellectual power of such natures: whereas the inferior intellectual natures possess a greater number of species, which are less universal, and bestow a lower degree of comprehension, in proportion as they recede from the intellectual power of the higher natures. If, therefore, the inferior substances received species in the same degree of universality as the superior substances, since they are not so strong in understanding, the knowledge which they would derive through them would be imperfect, and of a general and confused nature. We can see this to a certain extent in man, for those who are of weaker intellect fail to acquire perfect knowledge through the universal conceptions of those who have a better understanding, unless things are explained to them singly and in detail. Now it is clear that in the natural order human souls hold the lowest place among intellectual substances. But the perfection of the universe required various grades of being. If, therefore, God had willed souls to understand in the same way as separate substances, it would follow that human knowledge, so far from being perfect, would be confused and general. Therefore to make it possible for human souls to possess perfect and proper knowledge, they were so made that their nature required them to be joined to bodies, and thus to receive the proper and adequate knowledge of sensible things from the sensible things themselves; thus we see in the case of uneducated men that they have to be taught by sensible examples.

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but to talk about intellection in the human being as a goal in treating of it as a science is NOT the same as treating will - we're using the gaze of our mind based on what we want to look at an dbased on what is good - there is this complex thing going on... and this is what aquinas identifies at some point when he talks about how it is that truth and good or being and good are the same

still more figuring out - centring 87

OPERATIONS: We consider the will in the second part of this work, which deals with morals. Here we treat of the acts of the intellect. How the soul, when united to the body, understands corporeal things beneath it: Specifically, through what (84) does it know them? How (85) does it know them? What (86) does it know in them? When united to the body, how does the soul know itself (87)? When united to the body, how does it know immaterial substances (88) which are above it? And how does the soul understand when separated from the body (89)?

Question 84. How the soul while united to the body understands corporeal things beneath it
Does the soul know bodies through the intellect?
Does it understand them through its essence, or through any species?
If through some species, are the species of all things intelligible naturally innate in the soul?
Are these species derived by the soul from certain separate immaterial forms?
Does our soul see in the eternal ideas all that it understands?
Does it acquire intellectual knowledge from the senses?
Can the intellect, through the species of which it is possessed, actually understand, without turning to the phantasms?
Is the judgment of the intellect hindered by an obstacle in the sensitive powers?

Question 85. The mode and order of understanding
Does our intellect understand by abstracting the species from the phantasms?
Are the intelligible species abstracted from the phantasms what our intellect understands, or that whereby it understands?
Does our intellect naturally first understand the more universal?
Can our intellect know many things at the same time?
Does our intellect understand by the process of composition and division?
Can the intellect err?
Can one intellect understand better than another?
Does our intellect understand the indivisible before the divisible?

Question 86. What our intellect knows in material things
Does it know singulars?
Does it know the infinite?
Does it know contingent things?
Does it know future things?

Question 87. How the intellectual soul knows itself and all within itself
Does the soul know itself by its own essence?
Does it know its own habits?
How does the intellect know its own act?
How does it know the act of the will?

Question 88. How the human soul knows what is above itself
Can the human soul in the present state of life understand the immaterial substances called angels, in themselves?
Can it arrive at the knowledge thereof by the knowledge of material things?
Is God the first object of our knowledge?

Question 89. The knowledge of the separated soul
Can the soul separated from the body understand?
Does it understand separate substances?
Does it understand all natural things?
Does it understand individuals and singulars?
Do the habits of knowledge acquired in this life remain?
Can the soul use the habit of knowledge here acquired?
Does local distance impede the separated soul's knowledge?
Do souls separated from the body know what happens here?


THE WILL COMES BACK IN 87 art.4


Article 4. Whether the intellect understands the act of the will?
Objection 1. It would seem that the intellect does not understand the act of the will. For nothing is known by the intellect, unless it be in some way present in the intellect. But the act of the will is not in the intellect; since the will and the intellect are distinct. Therefore the act of the will is not known by the intellect.
Objection 2. Further, the act is specified by the object. But the object of the will is not the same as the object of the intellect. Therefore the act of the will is specifically distinct from the object of the intellect, and therefore the act of the will is not known by the intellect.
Objection 3. Augustine (Confess. x, 17) says of the soul's affections that "they are known neither by images as bodies are known; nor by their presence, like the arts; but by certain notions." Now it does not seem that there can be in the soul any other notions of things but either the essences of things known or the likenesses thereof. Therefore it seems impossible for the intellect to known such affections of the soul as the acts of the will.
On the contrary, Augustine says (De Trin. x, 11), "I understand that I will."
I answer that, As stated above (Question 59, Article 1), the act of the will is nothing but an inclination consequent on the form understood; just as the natural appetite is an inclination consequent on the natural form. Now the inclination of a thing resides in it according to its mode of existence; and hence the natural inclination resides in a natural thing naturally, and the inclination called the sensible appetite is in the sensible thing sensibly; and likewise the intelligible inclination, which is the act of the will, is in the intelligent subject intelligibly as in its principle and proper subject. Hence the Philosopher expresses himself thus (De Anima iii, 9)--that "the will is in the reason." Now whatever is intelligibly in an intelligent subject, is understood by that subject. Therefore the act of the will is understood by the intellect, both inasmuch as one knows that one wills; and inasmuch as one knows the nature of this act, and consequently, the nature of its principle which is the habit or power.
Reply to Objection 1. This argument would hold good if the will and the intellect were in different subjects, as they are distinct powers; for then whatever was in the will would not be in the intellect. But as both are rooted in the same substance of the soul, and since one is in a certain way the principle of the other, consequently what is in the will is, in a certain way, also in the intellect.
Reply to Objection 2. The "good" and the "true" which are the objects of the will and of the intellect, differ logically, but one is contained in the other, as we have said above (82, 4, ad 1; 16, 4, ad 1); for the true is good and the good is true. Therefore the objects of the will fall under the intellect, and those of the intellect can fall under the will.
Reply to Objection 3. The affections of the soul are in the intellect not by similitude only, like bodies; nor by being present in their subject, as the arts; but as the thing caused is in its principle, which contains some notion of the thing caused. And so Augustine says that the soul's affections are in the memory by certain notions.


HERE ARE THE PREVIOUS ONES
Article 1. Whether the intellectual soul knows itself by its essence?
Objection 1. It would seem that the intellectual soul knows itself by its own essence. For Augustine says (De Trin. ix, 3), that "the mind knows itself, because it is incorporeal."
Objection 2. Further, both angels and human souls belong to the genus of intellectual substance. But an angel understands itself by its own essence. Therefore likewise does the human soul.
Objection 3. Further, "in things void of matter, the intellect and that which is understood are the same" (De Anima iii, 4). But the human mind is void of matter, not being the act of a body as stated above (Question 76, Article 1). Therefore the intellect and its object are the same in the human mind; and therefore the human mind understands itself by its own essence.
On the contrary, It is said (De Anima iii, 4) that "the intellect understands itself in the same way as it understands other things." But it understands other things, not by their essence, but by their similitudes. Therefore it does not understand itself by its own essence.
I answer that, Everything is knowable so far as it is in act, and not, so far as it is in potentiality (Metaph. ix, Did. viii, 9): for a thing is a being, and is true, and therefore knowable, according as it is actual. This is quite clear as regards sensible things, for the eye does not see what is potentially, but what is actually colored. In like manner it is clear that the intellect, so far as it knows material things, does not know save what is in act: and hence it does not know primary matter except as proportionate to form, as is stated Phys. i, 7. Consequently immaterial substances are intelligible by their own essence according as each one is actual by its own essence.
Therefore it is that the Essence of God, the pure and perfect act, is simply and perfectly in itself intelligible; and hence God by His own Essence knows Himself, and all other things also. The angelic essence belongs, indeed, to the genus of intelligible things as "act," but not as a "pure act," nor as a "complete act," and hence the angel's act of intelligence is not completed by his essence. For although an angel understands himself by his own essence, still he cannot understand all other things by his own essence; for he knows things other than himself by their likenesses. Now the human intellect is only a potentiality in the genus of intelligible beings, just as primary matter is a potentiality as regards sensible beings; and hence it is called "possible" [Possibilis--elsewhere in this translation rendered "passive"--Ed.]. Therefore in its essence the human mind is potentially understanding. Hence it has in itself the power to understand, but not to be understood, except as it is made actual. For even the Platonists asserted than an order of intelligible beings existed above the order of intellects, forasmuch as the intellect understands only by participation of the intelligible; for they said that the participator is below what it participates. If, therefore, the human intellect, as the Platonists held, became actual by participating separate intelligible forms, it would understand itself by such participation of incorporeal beings. But as in this life our intellect has material and sensible things for its proper natural object, as stated above (Question 84, Article 7), it understands itself according as it is made actual by the species abstracted from sensible things, through the light of the active intellect, which not only actuates the intelligible things themselves, but also, by their instrumentality, actuates the passive intellect. Therefore the intellect knows itself not by its essence, but by its act. This happens in two ways: In the first place, singularly, as when Socrates or Plato perceives that he has an intellectual soul because he perceives that he understands. In the second place, universally, as when we consider the nature of the human mind from knowledge of the intellectual act. It is true, however, that the judgment and force of this knowledge, whereby we know the nature of the soul, comes to us according to the derivation of our intellectual light from the Divine Truth which contains the types of all things as above stated (84, 5). Hence Augustine says (De Trin. ix, 6): "We gaze on the inviolable truth whence we can as perfectly as possible define, not what each man's mind is, but what it ought to be in the light of the eternal types." There is, however, a difference between these two kinds of knowledge, and it consists in this, that the mere presence of the mind suffices for the first; the mind itself being the principle of action whereby it perceives itself, and hence it is said to know itself by its own presence. But as regards the second kind of knowledge, the mere presence of the mind does not suffice, and there is further required a careful and subtle inquiry. Hence many are ignorant of the soul's nature, and many have erred about it. So Augustine says (De Trin. x, 9), concerning such mental inquiry: "Let the mind strive not to see itself as if it were absent, but to discern itself as present"--i.e. to know how it differs from other things; which is to know its essence and nature.
Reply to Objection 1. The mind knows itself by means of itself, because at length it acquires knowledge of itself, though led thereto by its own act: because it is itself that it knows since it loves itself, as he says in the same passage. For a thing can be called self-evident in two ways, either because we can know it by nothing else except itself, as first principles are called self-evident; or because it is not accidentally knowable, as color is visible of itself, whereas substance is visible by its accident.
Reply to Objection 2. The essence of an angel is an act in the genus of intelligible things, and therefore it is both intellect and the thing understood. Hence an angel apprehends his own essence through itself: not so the human mind, which is either altogether in potentiality to intelligible things--as is the passive intellect--or is the act of intelligible things abstracted from the phantasms--as is the active intellect.
Reply to Objection 3. This saying of the Philosopher is universally true in every kind of intellect. For as sense in act is the sensible in act, by reason of the sensible likeness which is the form of sense in act, so likewise the intellect in act is the object understood in act, by reason of the likeness of the thing understood, which is the form of the intellect in act. So the human intellect, which becomes actual by the species of the object understood, is itself understood by the same species as by its own form. Now to say that in "things without matter the intellect and what is understood are the same," is equal to saying that "as regards things actually understood the intellect and what is understood are the same." For a thing is actually understood in that it is immaterial. But a distinction must be drawn: since the essences of some things are immaterial--as the separate substances called angels, each of which is understood and understands, whereas there are other things whose essences are not wholly immaterial, but only the abstract likenesses thereof. Hence the Commentator says (De Anima iii) that the proposition quoted is true only of separate substances; because in a sense it is verified in their regard, and not in regard of other substances, as already stated (Reply to Objection 2).
Article 2. Whether our intellect knows the habits of the soul by their essence?
Objection 1. It would seem that our intellect knows the habits of the soul by their essence. For Augustine says (De Trin. xiii, 1): "Faith is not seen in the heart wherein it abides, as the soul of a man may be seen by another from the movement of the body; but we know most certainly that it is there, and conscience proclaims its existence"; and the same principle applies to the other habits of the soul. Therefore the habits of the soul are not known by their acts, but by themselves.
Objection 2. Further, material things outside the soul are known by their likeness being present in the soul, and are said therefore to be known by their likenesses. But the soul's habits are present by their essence in the soul. Therefore the habits of the soul are known by their essence.
Objection 3. Further, "whatever is the cause of a thing being such is still more so." But habits and intelligible species cause things to be known by the soul. Therefore they are still more known by the soul in themselves.
On the contrary, Habits like powers are the principles of acts. But as is said (De Anima ii, 4), "acts and operations are logically prior to powers." Therefore in the same way they are prior to habits; and thus habits, like the powers, are known by their acts.
I answer that, A habit is a kind of medium between mere power and mere act. Now, it has been said (1) that nothing is known but as it is actual: therefore so far as a habit fails in being a perfect act, it falls short in being of itself knowable, and can be known only by its act; thus, for example, anyone knows he has a habit from the fact that he can produce the act proper to that habit; or he may inquire into the nature and idea of the habit by considering the act. The first kind of knowledge of the habit arises from its being present, for the very fact of its presence causes the act whereby it is known. The second kind of knowledge of the habit arises from a careful inquiry, as is explained above of the mind (1).
Reply to Objection 1. Although faith is not known by external movement of the body, it is perceived by the subject wherein it resides, by the interior act of the heart. For no one knows that he has faith unless he knows that he believes.
Reply to Objection 2. Habits are present in our intellect, not as its object since, in the present state of life, our intellect's object is the nature of a material thing as stated above (Question 84, Article 7), but as that by which it understands.
Reply to Objection 3. The axiom, "whatever is the cause of a thing being such, is still more so," is true of things that are of the same order, for instance, of the same kind of cause; for example, we may say that health is desirable on account of life, and therefore life is more desirable still. But if we take things of different orders the axiom is not true: for we may say that health is caused by medicine, but it does not follow that medicine is more desirable than health, for health belongs to the order of final causes, whereas medicine belongs to the order of efficient causes. So of two things belonging essentially to the order of the objects of knowledge, the one which is the cause of the other being known, is the more known, as principles are more known than conclusions. But habit as such does not belong to the order of objects of knowledge; nor are things known on account of the habit, as on account of an object known, but as on account of a disposition or form whereby the subject knows: and therefore the argument does not prove.
Article 3. Whether our intellect knows its own act?
Objection 1. It would seem that our intellect does not know its own act. For what is known is the object of the knowing faculty. But the act differs from the object. Therefore the intellect does not know its own act.
Objection 2. Further, whatever is known is known by some act. If, then, the intellect knows its own act, it knows it by some act, and again it knows that act by some other act; this is to proceed indefinitely, which seems impossible.
Objection 3. Further, the intellect has the same relation to its act as sense has to its act. But the proper sense does not feel its own act, for this belongs to the common sense, as stated De Anima iii, 2. Therefore neither does the intellect understand its own act.
On the contrary, Augustine says (De Trin. x, 11), "I understand that I understand."
I answer that, As stated above (1,2) a thing is intelligible according as it is in act. Now the ultimate perfection of the intellect consists in its own operation: for this is not an act tending to something else in which lies the perfection of the work accomplished, as building is the perfection of the thing built; but it remains in the agent as its perfection and act, as is said Metaph. ix, Did. viii, 8. Therefore the first thing understood of the intellect is its own act of understanding. This occurs in different ways with different intellects. For there is an intellect, namely, the Divine, which is Its own act of intelligence, so that in God the understanding of His intelligence, and the understanding of His Essence, are one and the same act, because His Essence is His act of understanding. But there is another intellect, the angelic, which is not its own act of understanding, as we have said above (Question 79, Article 1), and yet the first object of that act is the angelic essence. Wherefore although there is a logical distinction between the act whereby he understands that he understands, and that whereby he understands his essence, yet he understands both by one and the same act; because to understand his own essence is the proper perfection of his essence, and by one and the same act is a thing, together with its perfection, understood. And there is yet another, namely, the human intellect, which neither is its own act of understanding, nor is its own essence the first object of its act of understanding, for this object is the nature of a material thing. And therefore that which is first known by the human intellect is an object of this kind, and that which is known secondarily is the act by which that object is known; and through the act the intellect itself is known, the perfection of which is this act of understanding. For this reason did the Philosopher assert that objects are known before acts, and acts before powers (De Anima ii, 4).
Reply to Objection 1. The object of the intellect is something universal, namely, "being" and "the true," in which the act also of understanding is comprised. Wherefore the intellect can understand its own act. But not primarily, since the first object of our intellect, in this state of life, is not every being and everything true, but "being" and "true," as considered in material things, as we have said above (Question 84, Article 7), from which it acquires knowledge of all other things.
Reply to Objection 2. The intelligent act of the human intellect is not the act and perfection of the material nature understood, as if the nature of the material thing and intelligent act could be understood by one act; just as a thing and its perfection are understood by one act. Hence the act whereby the intellect understands a stone is distinct from the act whereby it understands that it understands a stone; and so on. Nor is there any difficulty in the intellect being thus potentially infinite, as explained above (Question 86, Article 2).
Reply to Objection 3. The proper sense feels by reason of the immutation in the material organ caused by the external sensible. A material object, however, cannot immute itself; but one is immuted by another, and therefore the act of the proper sense is perceived by the common sense. The intellect, on the contrary, does not perform the act of understanding by the material immutation of an organ; and so there is no comparison.