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17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "but to be"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "as heat does not make a thing to be simply, but only to be hot. Therefore by the coming of the accidental form a thing is not said to be made or generated simply, but to be made such, or to be in some particular condition; and... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "; and that this potentiality"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whence it is clear that when the soul is called the act, the soul itself is included; as when we say that heat is the act of what is hot, and light of what is lucid; not as though lucid and light were two se... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "; and therefore in the mixture they are modified and reduced to an average, so that one form emerges from them. But this is even still more impossible. For the substantial being of each thing consists in something indivisible, and ev... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "that is, by fire,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We need not ask if the soul and body are one, as neither do we ask if wax and its shape are one."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is not necessary for the soul to be in each part of the body; it suffices that it be in some principle of the body causing the other parts to live, for each part has a natural movement of its own."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ": and (De Trin. x, 11), that"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "; which potentiality, however,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The soul is that by which we sense and understand primarily."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Therefore the sensitive power is in"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "is of necessity"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If an old man were given the eye of a young man, he would see even as well as a young man."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Remember that thou didst receive good things during thy lifetime"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In several ways a thing is said to live, and even if only one of these is present, the thing is said to live; as intellect and sense, local movement and rest, and lastly, movement of decrease and increase due to nourishment."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The eye des... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The powers are the vegetative, the sensitive, the appetitive, the locomotion, and the intellectual."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "for the vegetative power acts only on the body to which the soul is united. There is another genus in the powers of the soul, which genus regards a more universal object--namely, every sensible body, not only the body to which the soul is united. And there is yet another genus i... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is that inclination which each thing has, of its own nature, for something; wherefore by its natural appetite each power desires something suitable to itself. But the"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and (cf. _De Anima_ iii, 9)"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "are"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is no other besides the five senses."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "are midway between"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Therefore much less should we assign to the sensitive part a power, which they call the"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and the _common sense_ are appointed, and of their distinction we shall speak farther on (ad 1, 2). But for the retention and preservation of these forms, the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "or"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is appointed; which are the s... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "which by some sort of collation discovers these intentions. Wherefore it is also called the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "to which medical men assign a certain particular organ, namely, the middle part of the head: for it compares individual intentions, just as the ... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mind and spirit are not relative things, but denominate the essence."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But angels are called"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or an"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as the Philosopher says (De Anima iii, 4). This is made clear from the fact, that at first we are only in potentiality to understand, and afterwards we are made to understand actually. And so it is evident that with us to understand is"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Passive intellect is the name given by some to the sensitive appetite, in which are the passions of the soul; which appetite is also called"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "because it"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(Ethic. i, 13). Others give the name of ... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As in every nature, so in the soul is there something by which it becomes all things, and something by which it makes all things."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He was the true light that enlighteneth every man coming into this world."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "namely, the passive and active intellect,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The light of Thy countenance, O Lord, is signed upon us."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Knowledge in act is the same as the thing."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "; and another power, receptive of such species, which is called the"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now the passive intellect is said to be separate, because it is not the act of any corporeal organ. And in the same sense the active intellect is also called"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But memory is common to man and beast, for he says (De Trin. xii, 2, 3, 8) that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and that"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of the soul, by which the soul knows necessary things, is another principle, and another part from the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "part by which it knows contingent things. And he proves this from the principle that... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ": forasmuch as in contemplation it sees them in themselves, and in consultation it takes its rules of action from them. But he calls the lower reason that which"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now these two--namely, eternal and temporal--are related to our knowledge i... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "part, of which the Philosopher speaks, is not the same as the higher reason: for necessary truths are found even among temporal things, of which natural science and mathematics treat. And the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "human",
"valu... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "signifies an act of the intellect which leans to one side of a contradiction, whilst in fear of the other. While to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "or"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "[mensurare] is an act of the intellect, applying certain principles to e... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as the Philosopher says (De Anima ii, 4). But intelligence is an act separate from others attributed to the intellect. For Damascene says (De Fide Orth. ii) that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "properly signifies the intellect's very act, which is to understand. Howev... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Secondly, it directs what it apprehends to the knowledge of something else, or to some operation; and this is called"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And when it goes on in search of what it"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "it is called"
},
{
"from"... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is a special power, distinct from the others. For those things which fall under one division, seem to be of the same genus. But in the gloss of Jerome on Ezech. 1:6,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "is divided against the irascible, the concupiscible, and the rational,... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as to a habit. Wherefore we judge naturally both by our reason and by"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But in the soul, spirit designates a power--either the mind itself, according to the text (Eph. 4:13),"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Be ye renewed in t... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thy conscience knoweth that thou hast often spoken evil of others (Eccles. 7:23), and according to this, conscience is said to witness. In another way, so far as through the conscience we judge that something should be done or not done; and in this sense, conscience is said to i... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We ought to have the hatred of vice in the irascible power."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I see another law in my members fighting against the law of my mind."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We observe in an animal a despotic and a politic principle: for the soul dominates the body by a despotic power; but the intellect dominates the appetite by a politic and royal power."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is employed in many ways. For that which must be is necessary. Now that a thing must be may belong to it by an intrinsic principle--either material, as when we say that everything composed of contraries is of necessity corruptible--or formal, as when we say that it is necessary ... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I should know all mysteries, and if I should have all faith, and have not charity, I am nothing."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now a thing is considered to be such absolutely which is considered such in itself: but relatively as it is such with regard to something else. If therefore the intellect and will be considered with regard to themselves, then the in... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is in our power to learn an art or not, as we list."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "(to desire), and the irascible part from"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "(to be angry). But there is a concupiscence which cannot belong to the sensitive appetite, but only to the intellectual, which is the will; as the concupiscence of wisdom, of which it is said (Wi... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--namely, the irascible, concupiscible, and rational--"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For the good which I will I do not, but the evil which I will not, that I do."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is not of him that willeth --namely, to will--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as the Philosopher says (Metaph. i, 2). Therefore what is moved... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God made man from the beginning, and left him in the hand of his own counsel ; and the gloss adds:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is of his free-will."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Man's way is said"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But faculty denominates a facility of power, which is due to a habit. Therefore free-will is a habit. Moreover Bernard says (De Gratia et Lib. Arb. 1,2) that free-will is"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But (Ethic. iii, 3) he inclines to its being an intellectual appetite when he describes choice as"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "implies the simple appetite for something: wherefore the will is said to regard the end, which is desired for itself. But to"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--namely, not informed with such image--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ": and that this is the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And he says that the part which is informed with these images--namely, the imagin... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But angels understand all things through innate species: wherefore in the book _De Causis_ it is said that"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "from which, according to him, intelligible species flow into our souls, and sensible species into corporeal matter. And so Avicenna agrees with Plato in this, that the intelligible species of our intellect are derived from certain separate forms; but these Plato held to subsist ... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "from which it receives the species: neither is this a sufficient explanation. Because if it is natural for the soul to understand through species derived from the"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If we both see that what you say is true, and if we both see that what I say is true, where do we see this, I pray? Neither do I see it in you, nor do you see it in me: but we both see it in the unchangeable truth which is above our minds."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Many say: Who showeth us good things? which question the Psalmist answers,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The light of Thy countenance, O Lord, is signed upon us,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Although the philosophers prove by convincing arguments tha... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This he proves in two ways. First, because"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Secondly, because,"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We must not think that the body can make any impression on the spirit, as though the spirit were to supply the place of matter in regard to the body's action; for that which acts is in every way more excellent than that which it acts on. Whence he concludes that"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as Augustine says in his letter to Dioscorus (cxviii, 4). And Aristotle says (De Somn. et Vigil.) that Democritus held that knowledge is caused by a"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And he held the same in regard to all the operations of the sensitive part. Since, therefore, it is not unreasonable that the sensible objects which are outside the soul should produce some effect in the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aristotle agreed with Democritus... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And without doubt, according to the above opinion, in the imagination there must needs be not only a passive but also an active power. But if we hold, according to the opinion of Aristotle, that the action of the imagination is an action of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "refers to the thing understood; for the intellect is false when it understands a thing otherwise than as it is; and so the intellect would be false if it abstracted the species of a stone from its matter in such a way as to regard the species as not existing in matter, as Plato ... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or individual; common, such as flesh and bone; and individual, as this flesh and these bones. The intellect therefore abstracts the species of a natural thing from the individual sensible matter, but not from the common sensible matter; for example, it abstracts the species of m... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For they said that the soul knows the earth outside itself, by the earth within itself; and so of the rest. If, therefore, we take the species of the earth instead of the earth, according to Aristotle (De Anima iii, 8), who says"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "there is a double implication--the thing which is understood, and the fact that it is understood. In like manner the words"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is part of the definition of"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We must proceed from the universal to the singular and individual"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now it is evident that to know an object that comprises many things, without proper knowledge of each thing contained in it, is to know that thing confusedly. In this way... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is contained not only"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "but also"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As part, considering that the less common contains in its idea not only the more common, but also more; as"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "contains n... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "God moves the spiritual creature through time."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is truly what"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nevertheless composition of the intellect differs from composition of things; for in the latter the things are diverse, whereas composition of the intellect is a sign of the identity of the components. For the above composition of the intellect does not imply that"
},
{
... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And the Philosopher says (De Anima iii, 10), that"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whoever understands a thing otherwise than as it is, does not understand it at all. Hence it is clear that there is a perfect understanding, than which none other is more perfect: and therefore there are not infinite degrees of understanding a thing: nor can one person understan... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "be taken as determining the act of understanding as regards the thing understood; and thus, one cannot understand the same thing more than another, because to understand it otherwise than as it is, either better or worse, would entail being deceived, and such a one would not und... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as is said _Topic._ vi, 4. But the indivisible is part of the definition of the divisible; as a point comes into the definition of a line; for as Euclid says,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "; also unity comes into the definition of number, for"
},
{
"from": "... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then do we consider that we know, when we can resolve principles into their causes."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Socrates is a man"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Socrates is a man."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is a great affliction for man, because he is ignorant of things past; and things to come he cannot know by any messenger."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "[*Possibilis--elsewhere in this translation rendered"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "--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. Fo... |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is equal to saying that"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "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"
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I understand that I understand."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I understand that I will."
}
] |
17611 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and the"
}
] |
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