Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 285 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780813234267
Content:
This edition with new appendix "The specification of action in St. Thomas"
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Ralph McInerny -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Analogy of Action -- A. The Equivocity of 'Action' and Analogical Equivocation -- B. The Order of Agents: Actions and Their Subjects -- C. The Analogy of 'Action' -- D. Common Features of Action -- Chapter 2. Agency as Efficacy -- Introduction: Action at Its Lowest Level -- A. The Act of the Agent is in the Patient -- B. What Do Actions Consist In? -- C. Motion as an Irreducible Event -- D. Actions as Events that Consist in Causations -- E. Agent and Patient in the Specification of Action -- Chapter 3. Agent-Causality and Finality -- A. Finality as a Common Feature of Action -- B. The Origin of the Notion of a Cause -- C. Active Power -- D. Action, Inclination and Causality -- E. Direct and Indirect Agency -- Chapter 4. The Agency of the Will -- A. Autonomy or Agency? -- B. Wanting as a Causal Disposition -- C. The Distinction of Understanding and Willing -- D. The Twofold Relation of the Will to Its Object -- E. The Will and Conduct -- Chapter 5. Praeter Intentionem -- Introduction: Some Terminology -- A. Indirect Objects of Intention and Act-specification -- B. The Diffusiveness and Non-divisiveness of Intention -- C. Evil as Praeter Intentionem -- D. Praeter Intentionem, the Involuntary through Ignorance, and the Specifiability of Action -- Appendix. The Specification of Action in St. Thomas: Nonmotivating Conditions in the Object of Intention -- Bibliography -- Index of References to the Works of St Thomas Aquinas -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813234250
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Brock, Stephen L., 1957 - Action and conduct Washington, DC : The Catholic University of America Press, 2021 ISBN 9780813234250
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0813234255
Language:
English
Keywords:
Akt
;
Intentionalität
;
Thomas von Aquin, Heiliger 1225-1274
Author information:
McInerny, Ralph M. 1929-2010
