Treatise on Human Acts (part 2)
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- English
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- Clean text
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- ~93,700 words · 445 passages
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What it is about
The continuation: the passions, and how they belong inside a rational life.
Context and history
Against the notion that Aquinas distrusted feeling: he devotes more questions to it here than to anything else, and holds that a well-ordered passion **increases** the goodness of an act rather than diminishing it. A note on the edition: **this is a part of the Summa theologiae**, not an independent work. The title is the English editor's, who published the treatises separately. For citation, the Summa with its question and article number.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
Q. 26: Of the Passions of the Soul in Particular, and First, of Love Q. 27: Of the Cause of Love Q. 28: Of the Effects of Love Q. 29: Of Hatred Q. 30: Of Concupiscence Q. 31: Of Delight Considered In Itself Q. 32: Of the Cause of Pleasure Q. 33: Of the Effects of Pleasure Q. 34: Of the Goodness and Malice of Pleasures Q. 35: Of Pain or Sorrow, In Itself Q. 36: Of the Causes of Sorrow or Pain Q. 37: Of the Effects of Pain or Sorrow Q. 38: Of the Remedies of Sorrow or Pain Q. 39: Of the Goodness and Malice of Sorrow or Pain Q. 40: Of the Irascible Passions, and First, of Hope and Despair Q. 41: Of Fear, In Itself Q. 42: Of the Object of Fear Q. 43: Of the Cause of Fear Q. 44: Of the Effects of Fear Q. 45: Of Daring Q. 46: Of Anger, In Itself Q. 47: Of the Cause That Provokes Anger and the Remedies of Anger Q. 48. Of the Effects of Anger PROLOGUE ^TOC We must now consider the passions of the soul: first, in general [QQ. 22-25]; secondly, in particular [QQ. 26-48]. PASSIONS IN GENERAL ^TOC ^Prologue Taking them in general, there are four things to be considered: (1) Their subject: [Q. 22] (2) The difference between them: [Q. 23] (3) Their mutual relationship: [Q. 25] (4) Their malice and goodness [Q. 24] QUESTION 22: OF THE SUBJECT OF THE SOUL'S PASSIONS ^TOC ^Passions in General Under the first head there are three points of inquiry: (1) Whether there is any passion in the soul? (2) Whether passion is in the appetitive rather than in the apprehensive part? (3) Whether passion is in the sensitive appetite rather than in the intellectual appetite, which is called the will? Art. 1: Whether any passion is in the soul? It would seem that there is no passion in the soul. Obj. 1: Because passivity belongs to m
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