Selected Writings by Thomas Aquinas & Ralph McInerny

Author:Thomas Aquinas & Ralph McInerny
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Catholicism, Philosophy, Christianity, Theology, Religion, Classics
ISBN: 9780140436327
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 1999-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

But with respect to things divinely revealed to them, nothing prevents their intellects from being in potency, because thus the heavenly bodies are sometimes potentially illumined by the sun. In the second way, the intellect of the angel can be in potency to the things it knows naturally, for it is not always considering everything that it naturally knows. With respect to knowledge of the Word, it is never in potency in this way, because it always actually intuits the Word and sees what is in the Word. In this vision their happiness consists and happiness consists in acting, not just having, as the Philosopher says in Ethics 1.8.

Ad 1. It should be said that motion is not taken there for the act of the imperfect, that is, of something potentially existing, but as the act of the perfected, that is, of something actually existing. It is thus that understanding and sensing are called motions, as is said in On the Soul 3.7.

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