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4 <h2 id="FS.iii-p0.1">TREATISE ON THE PASSIONS (QQ[22]-48)</h2>
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8 <h3 id="FS_Q22-p0.1">OF THE SUBJECT OF THE SOUL'S PASSIONS (THREE ARTICLES)</h3>
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9 <p id="FS_Q22-p1"></p>
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10 <p id="FS_Q22-p2"> We must now consider the passions of the soul: first, in general; secondly, in particular. Taking them in general, there
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11 are four things to be considered: (1) Their subject: (2) The difference between them: (3) Their mutual relationship: (4) Their
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12 malice and goodness.
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13 </p>
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14 <p id="FS_Q22-p3"> Under the first head there are three points of inquiry:</p>
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15 <p id="FS_Q22-p4"> (1) Whether there is any passion in the soul?</p>
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16 <p id="FS_Q22-p5"> (2) Whether passion is in the appetitive rather than in the apprehensive part?</p>
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17 <p id="FS_Q22-p6"> (3) Whether passion is in the sensitive appetite rather than in the intellectual appetite, which is called the will?</p>
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20 <a href="summa.FS_Q22_A2.html"></a>
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21 <h4 id="FS_Q22_A1-p0.1">Whether any passion is in the soul?</h4>
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22 <p id="FS_Q22_A1-p1"></p>
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23 <p id="FS_Q22_A1-p2">
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24 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that there is no passion in the soul. Because passivity belongs to matter. But the soul is not composed of
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25 matter and form, as stated in the
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26 <a id="FS_Q22_A1-p2.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FP_Q75_A5.html">FP, Q[75], A[5]</a>. Therefore there is no passion in the soul.
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27 </p>
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28 <p id="FS_Q22_A1-p3">
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29 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, passion is movement, as is stated in Phys. iii, 3. But the soul is not moved, as is proved in De Anima i, 3. Therefore
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30 passion is not in the soul.
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31 </p>
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32 <p id="FS_Q22_A1-p4">
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33 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, passion is the road to corruption; since "every passion, when increased, alters the substance," as is stated in
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34 Topic. vi, 6. But the soul is incorruptible. Therefore no passion is in the soul.
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35 </p>
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36 <p id="FS_Q22_A1-p5">
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37 <b>On the contrary,</b> The Apostle says (
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38 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q22_A1-p5.1" href="./asv.html#Rom.7.5" target="asv">Rom. 7:5</a>): "When we were in the flesh, the passions of sins which were by the law, did the work in our members." Now sins are, properly
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39 speaking, in the soul. Therefore passions also, which are described as being "of sins," are in the soul.
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40 </p>
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41 <p id="FS_Q22_A1-p6">
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42 <b>I answer that,</b> The word "passive" is used in three ways. First, in a general way, according as whatever receives something is passive, although
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43 nothing is taken from it: thus we may say that the air is passive when it is lit up. But this is to be perfected rather than
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44 to be passive. Secondly, the word "passive" is employed in its proper sense, when something is received, while something else
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45 is taken away: and this happens in two ways. For sometimes that which is lost is
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46 unsuitable to the thing: thus when an animal's body is healed, and loses sickness. At other times the contrary occurs: thus
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47 to ail is to be passive; because the ailment is received and health is lost. And here we have passion in its most proper acceptation.
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48 For a thing is said to be passive from its being drawn to the agent: and when a thing recedes from what is suitable to it,
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49 then especially does it appear to be drawn to something else. Moreover in De Generat. i, 3 it is stated that when a
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50 more excellent thing is generated from a less excellent, we have generation simply, and corruption in a particular respect:
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51 whereas the reverse is the case, when from a more excellent thing, a less excellent is generated. In these three ways it happens
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52 that passions are in the soul. For in the sense of mere reception, we speak of "feeling and understanding as being a kind
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53 of passion" (De Anima i, 5). But passion, accompanied by the loss of something, is only in respect of a bodily
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54 transmutation; wherefore passion properly so called cannot be in the soul, save accidentally, in so far, to wit, as the "composite"
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55 is passive. But here again we find a difference; because when this transmutation is for the worse, it has more of the nature
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56 of a passion, than when it is for the better: hence sorrow is more properly a passion than joy.
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57 </p>
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58 <p id="FS_Q22_A1-p7">
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59 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> It belongs to matter to be passive in such a way as to lose something and to be transmuted: hence this happens only in those
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60 things that are composed of matter and form. But passivity, as implying mere reception, need not be in matter, but can be
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61 in anything that is in potentiality. Now, though the soul is not composed of matter and form, yet it has something of potentiality,
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62 in respect of which it is competent to receive or to be passive, according
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63 as the act of understanding is a kind of passion, as stated in De Anima iii, 4.
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64 </p>
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65 <p id="FS_Q22_A1-p8">
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66 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Although it does not belong to the soul in itself to be passive and to be moved, yet it belongs accidentally as stated in
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67 De Anima i, 3.
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68 </p>
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69 <p id="FS_Q22_A1-p9">
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70 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> This argument is true of passion accompanied by transmutation to something worse. And passion, in this sense, is not found
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71 in the soul, except accidentally: but the composite, which is corruptible, admits of it by reason of its own nature.
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72 </p>
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81 <h4 id="FS_Q22_A2-p0.1">Whether passion is in the appetitive rather than in the apprehensive part?</h4>
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82 <p id="FS_Q22_A2-p1"></p>
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83 <p id="FS_Q22_A2-p2">
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84 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that passion is in the apprehensive part of the soul rather than in the appetitive. Because that which is first
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85 in any genus, seems to rank first among all things that are in that genus, and to be their cause, as is stated in Metaph.
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86 ii, 1. Now passion is found to be in the apprehensive, before being in the appetitive part: for the appetitive part is not
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87 affected unless there be a previous passion in the apprehensive part. Therefore passion is in
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88 the apprehensive part more than in the appetitive.
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89 </p>
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90 <p id="FS_Q22_A2-p3">
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91 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, what is more active is less passive; for action is contrary to passion. Now the appetitive part is more active than
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92 the apprehensive part. Therefore it seems that passion is more in the apprehensive part.
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93 </p>
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94 <p id="FS_Q22_A2-p4">
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95 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, just as the sensitive appetite is the power of a corporeal organ, so is the power of sensitive apprehension. But
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96 passion in the soul occurs, properly speaking, in respect of a bodily transmutation. Therefore passion is not more in the
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97 sensitive appetitive than in the sensitive apprehensive part.
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98 </p>
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99 <p id="FS_Q22_A2-p5">
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100 <b>On the contrary,</b> Augustine says (De Civ. Dei ix, 4) that "the movement of the soul, which the Greeks called {pathe}, are styled by some of
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101 our writers, Cicero [*Those things which the Greeks call {pathe}, we prefer to call disturbances rather than diseases (Tusc.
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102 iv. 5)] for instance, disturbances; by some, affections or emotions; while others rendering the Greek more accurately, call
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103 them passions." From this it is evident that the passions of the soul are the same as
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104 affections. But affections manifestly belong to the appetitive, and not to the apprehensive part. Therefore the passions are
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105 in the appetitive rather than in the apprehensive part.
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106 </p>
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107 <p id="FS_Q22_A2-p6">
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108 <b>I answer that,</b> As we have already stated
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109 <a id="FS_Q22_A2-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q22_A1.html">(A[1])</a> the word "passion" implies that the patient is drawn to that which belongs to the agent. Now the soul is drawn to a thing
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110 by the appetitive power rather than by the apprehensive power: because the soul has, through its appetitive power, an order
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111 to things as they are in themselves: hence the Philosopher says (Metaph. vi, 4) that "good and evil," i.e. the objects of
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112 the appetitive power, "are in things
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113 themselves." On the other hand the apprehensive power is not drawn to a thing, as it is in itself; but knows it by reason
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114 of an "intention" of the thing, which "intention" it has in itself, or receives in its own way. Hence we find it stated (Metaph.
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115 vi, 4) that "the true and the false," which pertain to knowledge, "are not in things, but in the mind." Consequently it is
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116 evident that the nature of passion is consistent with the appetitive, rather than with the apprehensive part.
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117 </p>
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118 <p id="FS_Q22_A2-p7">
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119 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> In things relating to perfection the case is the opposite, in comparison to things that pertain to defect. Because in things
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120 relating to perfection, intensity is in proportion to the approach to one first principle; to which the nearer a thing approaches,
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121 the more intense it is. Thus the intensity of a thing possessed of light depends on its approach to something endowed with
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122 light in a supreme degree, to which the nearer a thing approaches the more
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123 light it possesses. But in things that relate to defect, intensity depends, not on approach to something supreme, but in receding
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124 from that which is perfect; because therein consists the very notion of privation and defect. Wherefore the less a thing recedes
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125 from that which stands first, the less intense it is: and the result is that at first we always find some small defect, which
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126 afterwards increases as it goes on. Now passion pertains to defect, because it belongs to a thing according as it
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127 is in potentiality. Wherefore in those things that approach to the Supreme Perfection, i.e. to God, there is but little potentiality
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128 and passion: while in other things, consequently, there is more. Hence also, in the supreme, i.e. the apprehensive, power
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129 of the soul, passion is found less than in the other powers.
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130 </p>
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131 <p id="FS_Q22_A2-p8">
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132 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> The appetitive power is said to be more active, because it is, more than the apprehensive power, the principle of the exterior
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133 action: and this for the same reason that it is more passive, namely, its being related to things as existing in themselves:
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134 since it is through the external action that we come into contact with things.
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135 </p>
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136 <p id="FS_Q22_A2-p9">
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137 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> As stated in the
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138 <a id="FS_Q22_A2-p9.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FP_Q78_A3.html">FP, Q[78], A[3]</a> the organs of the soul can be changed in two ways. First, by a spiritual change, in respect of which the organ receives an
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139 "intention" of the object. And this is essential to the act of the sensitive apprehension: thus is the eye changed by the
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140 object visible, not by being colored, but by receiving an intention of color. But the organs are receptive of another and
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141 natural change, which affects
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142 their natural disposition; for instance, when they become hot or cold, or undergo some similar change. And whereas this kind
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143 of change is accidental to the act of the sensitive apprehension; for instance, if the eye be wearied through gazing intently
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144 at something or be overcome by the intensity of the object: on the other hand, it is essential to the act of the sensitive
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145 appetite; wherefore the material element in the definitions of the movements of the appetitive part, is the natural change
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146 of
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147 the organ; for instance, "anger is" said to be "a kindling of the blood about the heart." Hence it is evident that the notion
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148 of passion is more consistent with the act of the sensitive appetite, than with that of the sensitive apprehension, although
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149 both are actions of a corporeal organ.
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150 </p>
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159 <h4 id="FS_Q22_A3-p0.1">Whether passion is in the sensitive appetite rather than in the intellectual appetite, which is called the will?</h4>
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160 <p id="FS_Q22_A3-p1"></p>
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161 <p id="FS_Q22_A3-p2">
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162 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that passion is not more in the sensitive than in the intellectual appetite. For Dionysius declares (Div. Nom.
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163 ii) Hierotheus "to be taught by a kind of yet more Godlike instruction; not only by learning Divine things, but also by suffering
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164 [patiens] them." But the sensitive appetite cannot "suffer" Divine things, since its object is the sensible good. Therefore
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165 passion is in the intellectual appetite, just as it is also in the sensitive
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166 appetite.
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167 </p>
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168 <p id="FS_Q22_A3-p3">
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169 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, the more powerful the active force, the more intense the passion. But the object of the intellectual appetite, which
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170 is the universal good, is a more powerful active force than the object of the sensitive appetite, which is a particular good.
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171 Therefore passion is more consistent with the intellectual than with the sensitive appetite.
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172 </p>
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173 <p id="FS_Q22_A3-p4">
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174 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, joy and love are said to be passions. But these are to be found in the intellectual and not only in the sensitive
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175 appetite: else they would not be ascribed by the Scriptures to God and the angels. Therefore the passions are not more in
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176 the sensitive than in the intellectual appetite.
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177 </p>
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178 <p id="FS_Q22_A3-p5">
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179 <b>On the contrary,</b> Damascene says (De Fide Orth. ii, 22), while describing the animal passions: "Passion is a movement of the sensitive appetite
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180 when we imagine good or evil: in other words, passion is a movement of the irrational soul, when we think of good or evil."
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181 </p>
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182 <p id="FS_Q22_A3-p6">
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183 <b>I answer that,</b> As stated above
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184 <a id="FS_Q22_A3-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q22_A1.html">(A[1])</a> passion is properly to be found where there is corporeal transmutation. This corporeal transmutation is found in the act
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185 of the sensitive appetite, and is not only spiritual, as in the sensitive apprehension, but also natural. Now there is no
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186 need for corporeal transmutation in the act of the intellectual appetite: because this appetite is not exercised by means
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187 of a corporeal organ. It is therefore evident
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188 that passion is more properly in the act of the sensitive appetite, than in that of the intellectual appetite; and this is
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189 again evident from the definitions of Damascene quoted above.
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190 </p>
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191 <p id="FS_Q22_A3-p7">
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192 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> By "suffering" Divine things is meant being well affected towards them, and united to them by love: and this takes place
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193 without any alteration in the body.
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194 </p>
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195 <p id="FS_Q22_A3-p8">
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196 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Intensity of passion depends not only on the power of the agent, but also on the passibility of the patient: because things
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197 that are disposed to passion, suffer much even from petty agents. Therefore although the object of the intellectual appetite
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198 has greater activity than the object of the sensitive appetite, yet the sensitive appetite is more passive.
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199 </p>
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200 <p id="FS_Q22_A3-p9">
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201 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> When love and joy and the like are ascribed to God or the angels, or to man in respect of his intellectual appetite, they
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202 signify simple acts of the will having like effects, but without passion. Hence Augustine says (De Civ. Dei ix, 5): "The holy
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203 angels feel no anger while they punish . . . no fellow-feeling with misery while they relieve the unhappy: and yet ordinary
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204 human speech is wont to ascribe to them also these passions by name, because,
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205 although they have none of our weakness, their acts bear a certain resemblance to ours."
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206 </p>
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218 <h3 id="FS_Q23-p0.1">HOW THE PASSIONS DIFFER FROM ONE ANOTHER (FOUR ARTICLES)</h3>
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219 <p id="FS_Q23-p1"></p>
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220 <p id="FS_Q23-p2"> We must now consider how the passions differ from one another: and under this head there are four points of inquiry:</p>
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221 <p id="FS_Q23-p3"> (1) Whether the passions of the concupiscible part are different from those of the irascible part?</p>
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222 <p id="FS_Q23-p4"> (2) Whether the contrariety of passions in the irascible part is based on the contrariety of good and evil?</p>
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223 <p id="FS_Q23-p5"> (3) Whether there is any passion that has no contrary?</p>
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224 <p id="FS_Q23-p6"> (4) Whether, in the same power, there are any passions, differing in species, but not contrary to one another?</p>
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228 <h4 id="FS_Q23_A1-p0.1">Whether the passions of the concupiscible part are different from those of the irascible part?</h4>
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229 <p id="FS_Q23_A1-p1"></p>
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230 <p id="FS_Q23_A1-p2">
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231 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that the same passions are in the irascible and concupiscible parts. For the Philosopher says (Ethic. ii, 5)
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232 that the passions of the soul are those emotions "which are followed by joy or sorrow." But joy and sorrow are in the concupiscible
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233 part. Therefore all the passions are in the concupiscible part, and not some in the irascible, others in the concupiscible
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234 part.
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235 </p>
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236 <p id="FS_Q23_A1-p3">
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237 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, on the words of
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238 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q23_A1-p3.1" href="./asv.html#Matt.13.33" target="asv"> Mat. 13:33, </a> "The kingdom of heaven is like to leaven," etc., Jerome's gloss says: "We should have prudence in the reason; hatred of vice
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239 in the irascible faculty; desire of virtue, in the concupiscible part." But hatred is in the concupiscible faculty, as also
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240 is love, of which it is the contrary, as is stated in Topic. ii, 7. Therefore the same passion is in the concupiscible and
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241 irascible faculties.
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242 </p>
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243 <p id="FS_Q23_A1-p4">
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244 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, passions and actions differ specifically according to their objects. But the objects of the irascible and concupiscible
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245 passions are the same, viz. good and evil. Therefore the same passions are in the irascible and concupiscible faculties.
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246 </p>
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247 <p id="FS_Q23_A1-p5">
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248 <b>On the contrary,</b> The acts of the different powers differ in species; for instance, to see, and to hear. But the irascible and the concupiscible
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249 are two powers into which the sensitive appetite is divided, as stated in the
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250 <a id="FS_Q23_A1-p5.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FP_Q81_A2.html">FP, Q[81], A[2]</a>. Therefore, since the passions are movements of the sensitive appetite, as stated above (Q[22], A[3]), the passions of the
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251 irascible faculty are specifically distinct from those of the concupiscible part.
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252 </p>
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253 <p id="FS_Q23_A1-p6">
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254 <b>I answer that,</b> The passions of the irascible part differ in species from those of the concupiscible faculty. For since different powers
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255 have different objects, as stated in the
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256 <a id="FS_Q23_A1-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FP_Q77_A3.html">FP, Q[77], A[3]</a>, the passions of different powers must of necessity be referred to different objects. Much more, therefore, do the passions
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257 of different faculties differ in species; since a greater difference in the object is required to diversify the species of
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258 the powers,
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259 than to diversify the species of passions or actions. For just as in the physical order, diversity of genus arises from diversity
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260 in the potentiality of matter, while diversity of species arises from diversity of form in the same matter; so in the acts
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261 of the soul, those that belong to different powers, differ not only in species but also in genus, while acts and passions
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262 regarding different specific objects, included under the one common object of a single power, differ as the species of that
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263 genus.
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264 </p>
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265 <p id="FS_Q23_A1-p7"> In order, therefore, to discern which passions are in the irascible, and which in the concupiscible, we must take the object
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266 of each of these powers. For we have stated in the
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267 <a id="FS_Q23_A1-p7.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FP_Q81_A2.html">FP, Q[81], A[2]</a>, that the object of the concupiscible power is sensible good or evil, simply apprehended as such, which causes pleasure or
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268 pain. But, since the soul must, of necessity, experience difficulty or struggle at times, in acquiring some such good, or
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269 in avoiding some such
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270 evil, in so far as such good or evil is more than our animal nature can easily acquire or avoid; therefore this very good
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271 or evil, inasmuch as it is of an arduous or difficult nature, is the object of the irascible faculty. Therefore whatever passions
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272 regard good or evil absolutely, belong to the concupiscible power; for instance, joy, sorrow, love, hatred, and such like:
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273 whereas those passions which regard good or bad as arduous, through being difficult to obtain or avoid, belong to the
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274 irascible faculty; such are daring, fear, hope and the like.
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275 </p>
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276 <p id="FS_Q23_A1-p8">
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277 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> As stated in the
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278 <a id="FS_Q23_A1-p8.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FP_Q81_A2.html">FP, Q[81], A[2]</a>, the irascible faculty is bestowed on animals, in order to remove the obstacles that hinder the concupiscible power from
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279 tending towards its object, either by making some good difficult to obtain, or by making some evil hard to avoid. The result
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280 is that all the irascible passions terminate in the concupiscible passions: and thus it is that even the passions which are
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281 in the irascible faculty
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282 are followed by joy and sadness which are in the concupiscible faculty.
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283 </p>
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284 <p id="FS_Q23_A1-p9">
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285 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Jerome ascribes hatred of vice to the irascible faculty, not by reason of hatred, which is properly a concupiscible passion;
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286 but on account of the struggle, which belongs to the irascible power.
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287 </p>
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288 <p id="FS_Q23_A1-p10">
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289 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Good, inasmuch as it is delightful, moves the concupiscible power. But if it prove difficult to obtain, from this very fact
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290 it has a certain contrariety to the concupiscible power: and hence the need of another power tending to that good. The same
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291 applies to evil. And this power is the irascible faculty. Consequently the concupiscible passions are specifically different
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292 from the irascible passions.
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293 </p>
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294 <p id="FS_Q23_A1-p11"></p>
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295 <p id="FS_Q23_A1-p12"></p>
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296 <a href="summa.FS_Q23.html"></a>
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297 <a href="summa.FS_Q23_A2.html"></a>
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298 </div>
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299 <div id="FS_Q23_A2" class="div4">
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300 <a href="summa.FS_Q23_A1.html"></a>
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301 <a href="summa.FS_Q23_A3.html"></a>
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302 <h4 id="FS_Q23_A2-p0.1">Whether the contrariety of the irascible passions is based on the contrariety of good and evil?</h4>
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303 <p id="FS_Q23_A2-p1"></p>
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304 <p id="FS_Q23_A2-p2">
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305 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that the contrariety of the irascible passions is based on no other contrariety than that of good and evil.
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306 For the irascible passions are ordained to the concupiscible passions, as stated above (A[1], ad 1). But the contrariety of
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307 the concupiscible passions is no other than that of good and evil; take, for instance, love and hatred, joy and sorrow. Therefore
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308 the same applies to the irascible passions.
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309 </p>
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310 <p id="FS_Q23_A2-p3">
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311 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, passions differ according to their objects; just as movements differ according to their termini. But there is no
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312 other contrariety of movements, except that of the termini, as is stated in Phys. v, 3. Therefore there is no other contrariety
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313 of passions, save that of the objects. Now the object of the appetite is good or evil. Therefore in no appetitive power can
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314 there be contrariety of passions other than that of good and evil.
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315 </p>
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316 <p id="FS_Q23_A2-p4">
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317 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, "every passion of the soul is by way of approach and withdrawal," as Avicenna declares in his sixth book of Physics.
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318 Now approach results from the apprehension of good; withdrawal, from the apprehension of evil: since just as "good is what
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319 all desire" (Ethic. i, 1), so evil is what all shun. Therefore, in the passions of the soul, there can be no other contrariety
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320 than that of good and evil.
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321 </p>
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322 <p id="FS_Q23_A2-p5">
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323 <b>On the contrary,</b> Fear and daring are contrary to one another, as stated in Ethic. iii, 7. But fear and daring do not differ in respect of
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324 good and evil: because each regards some kind of evil. Therefore not every contrariety of the irascible passions is that of
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325 good and evil.
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326 </p>
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327 <p id="FS_Q23_A2-p6">
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328 <b>I answer that,</b> Passion is a kind of movement, as stated in Phys. iii, 3. Therefore contrariety of passions is based on contrariety of movements
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329 or changes. Now there is a twofold contrariety in changes and movements, as stated in Phys. v, 5. One is according to approach
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330 and withdrawal in respect of the same term: and this contrariety belongs properly to changes, i.e. to generation, which is
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331 a change "to being," and to corruption, which is a change "from being." The other
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332 contrariety is according to opposition of termini, and belongs properly to movements: thus whitening, which is movement from
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333 black to white, is contrary to blackening, which is movement from white to black.
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334 </p>
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335 <p id="FS_Q23_A2-p7"> Accordingly there is a twofold contrariety in the passions of the soul: one, according to contrariety of objects, i.e. of
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336 good and evil; the other, according to approach and withdrawal in respect of the same term. In the concupiscible passions
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337 the former contrariety alone is to be found; viz. that which is based on the objects: whereas in the irascible passions, we
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338 find both forms of contrariety. The reason of this is that the object of the concupiscible faculty, as stated above
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339
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340 <a id="FS_Q23_A2-p7.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q23_A1.html">(A[1])</a>, is sensible good or evil considered absolutely. Now good, as such, cannot be a term wherefrom, but only a term whereto,
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341 since nothing shuns good as such; on the contrary, all things desire it. In like manner, nothing desires evil, as such; but
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342 all things shun it: wherefore evil cannot have the aspect of a term whereto, but only of a term wherefrom. Accordingly every
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343 concupiscible passion in respect of good, tends to it, as love, desire and joy; while every
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344 concupiscible passion in respect of evil, tends from it, as hatred, avoidance or dislike, and sorrow. Wherefore, in the concupiscible
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345 passions, there can be no contrariety of approach and withdrawal in respect of the same object.
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346 </p>
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347 <p id="FS_Q23_A2-p8"> On the other hand, the object of the irascible faculty is sensible good or evil, considered not absolutely, but under the
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348 aspect of difficulty or arduousness. Now the good which is difficult or arduous, considered as good, is of such a nature as
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349 to produce in us a tendency to it, which tendency pertains to the passion of "hope"; whereas, considered as arduous or difficult,
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350 it makes us turn from it; and this pertains to the passion of "despair." In like manner the arduous evil,
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351 considered as an evil, has the aspect of something to be shunned; and this belongs to the passion of "fear": but it also contains
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352 a reason for tending to it, as attempting something arduous, whereby to escape being subject to evil; and this tendency is
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353 called "daring." Consequently, in the irascible passions we find contrariety in respect of good and evil (as between hope
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354 and fear): and also contrariety according to approach and withdrawal in respect of the same term (as between daring and
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355 fear).
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356 </p>
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357 <p id="FS_Q23_A2-p9"> From what has been said the replies to the objections are evident.</p>
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358 <p id="FS_Q23_A2-p10"></p>
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359 <p id="FS_Q23_A2-p11"></p>
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360 <a href="summa.FS_Q23_A1.html"></a>
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361 <a href="summa.FS_Q23_A3.html"></a>
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362 </div>
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363 <div id="FS_Q23_A3" class="div4">
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364 <a href="summa.FS_Q23_A2.html"></a>
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365 <a href="summa.FS_Q23_A4.html"></a>
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366 <h4 id="FS_Q23_A3-p0.1">Whether any passion of the soul has no contrariety?</h4>
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367 <p id="FS_Q23_A3-p1"></p>
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368 <p id="FS_Q23_A3-p2">
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369 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that every passion of the soul has a contrary. For every passion of the soul is either in the irascible or
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370 in the concupiscible faculty, as stated above
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371 <a id="FS_Q23_A3-p2.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q23_A1.html">(A[1])</a>. But both kinds of passion have their respective modes of contrariety. Therefore every passion of the soul has its contrary.
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372 </p>
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373 <p id="FS_Q23_A3-p3">
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374 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, every passion of the soul has either good or evil for its object; for these are the common objects of the appetitive
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375 part. But a passion having good for its object, is contrary to a passion having evil for its object. Therefore every passion
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376 has a contrary.
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377 </p>
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378 <p id="FS_Q23_A3-p4">
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379 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, every passion of the soul is in respect of approach or withdrawal, as stated above
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380 <a id="FS_Q23_A3-p4.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q23_A2.html">(A[2])</a>. But every approach has a corresponding contrary withdrawal, and vice versa. Therefore every passion of the soul has a contrary.
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381 </p>
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382 <p id="FS_Q23_A3-p5">
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383 <b>On the contrary,</b> Anger is a passion of the soul. But no passion is set down as being contrary to anger, as stated in Ethic. iv, 5. Therefore
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384 not every passion has a contrary.
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385 </p>
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386 <p id="FS_Q23_A3-p6">
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387 <b>I answer that,</b> The passion of anger is peculiar in this, that it cannot have a contrary, either according to approach and withdrawal, or
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388 according to the contrariety of good and evil. For anger is caused by a difficult evil already present: and when such an evil
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389 is present, the appetite must needs either succumb, so that it does not go beyond the limits of "sadness," which is a concupiscible
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390 passion; or else it has a movement of attack on the hurtful evil, which movement
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391 is that of "anger." But it cannot have a movement of withdrawal: because the evil is supposed to be already present or past.
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392 Thus no passion is contrary to anger according to contrariety of approach and withdrawal.
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393 </p>
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394 <p id="FS_Q23_A3-p7"> In like manner neither can there be according to contrariety of good and evil. Because the opposite of present evil is good
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395 obtained, which can be no longer have the aspect of arduousness or difficulty. Nor, when once good is obtained, does there
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396 remain any other movement, except the appetite's repose in the good obtained; which repose belongs to joy, which is a passion
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397 of the concupiscible faculty.
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398 </p>
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399 <p id="FS_Q23_A3-p8"> Accordingly no movement of the soul can be contrary to the movement of anger, and nothing else than cessation from its movement
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400 is contrary thereto; thus the Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 3) that "calm is contrary to anger," by opposition not of contrariety
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401 but of negation or privation.
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402 </p>
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403 <p id="FS_Q23_A3-p9"> From what has been said the replies to the objections are evident.</p>
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404 <p id="FS_Q23_A3-p10"></p>
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405 <p id="FS_Q23_A3-p11"></p>
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406 <a href="summa.FS_Q23_A2.html"></a>
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407 <a href="summa.FS_Q23_A4.html"></a>
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408 </div>
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409 <div id="FS_Q23_A4" class="div4">
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410 <a href="summa.FS_Q23_A3.html"></a>
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411 <a href="summa.FS_Q24.html"></a>
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412 <h4 id="FS_Q23_A4-p0.1">Whether in the same power, there are any passions, specifically different, but not contrary to one another?</h4>
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413 <p id="FS_Q23_A4-p1"></p>
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414 <p id="FS_Q23_A4-p2">
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415 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that there cannot be, in the same power, specifically different passions that are not contrary to one another.
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416 For the passions of the soul differ according to their objects. Now the objects of the soul's passions are good and evil;
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417 and on this distinction is based the contrariety of the passions. Therefore no passions of the same power, that are not contrary
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418 to one another, differ specifically.
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419 </p>
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420 <p id="FS_Q23_A4-p3">
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421 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, difference of species implies a difference of form. But every difference of form is in respect of some contrariety,
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422 as stated in Metaph. x, 8. Therefore passions of the same power, that are not contrary to one another, do not differ specifically.
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423 </p>
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424 <p id="FS_Q23_A4-p4">
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425 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, since every passion of the soul consists in approach or withdrawal in respect of good or evil, it seems that every
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426 difference in the passions of the soul must needs arise from the difference of good and evil; or from the difference of approach
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427 and withdrawal; or from degrees in approach or withdrawal. Now the first two differences cause contrariety in the passions
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428 of the soul, as stated above
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429 <a id="FS_Q23_A4-p4.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q23_A2.html">(A[2])</a>: whereas the third
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430 difference does not diversify the species; else the species of the soul's passions would be infinite. Therefore it is not
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431 possible for passions of the same power to differ in species, without being contrary to one another.
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432 </p>
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433 <p id="FS_Q23_A4-p5">
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434 <b>On the contrary,</b> Love and joy differ in species, and are in the concupiscible power; and yet they are not contrary to one another; rather,
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435 in fact, one causes the other. Therefore in the same power there are passions that differ in species without being contrary
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436 to one another.
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437 </p>
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438 <p id="FS_Q23_A4-p6">
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439 <b>I answer that,</b> Passions differ in accordance with their active causes, which, in the case of the passions of the soul, are their objects.
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440 Now, the difference in active causes may be considered in two ways: first, from the point of view of their species or nature,
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441 as fire differs from water; secondly, from the point of view of the difference in their active power. In the passions of the
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442 soul we can treat the difference of their active or motive causes in respect of their
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443 motive power, as if they were natural agents. For every mover, in a fashion, either draws the patient to itself, or repels
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444 it from itself. Now in drawing it to itself, it does three things in the patient. Because, in the first place, it gives the
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445 patient an inclination or aptitude to tend to the mover: thus a light body, which is above, bestows lightness on the body
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446 generated, so that it has an inclination or aptitude to be above. Secondly, if the generated body be outside its proper place,
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447 the
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448 mover gives it movement towards that place. Thirdly, it makes it to rest, when it shall have come to its proper place: since
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449 to the same cause are due, both rest in a place, and the movement to that place. The same applies to the cause of repulsion.
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450 </p>
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451 <p id="FS_Q23_A4-p7"> Now, in the movements of the appetitive faculty, good has, as it were, a force of attraction, while evil has a force of repulsion.
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452 In the first place, therefore, good causes, in the appetitive power, a certain inclination, aptitude or connaturalness in
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453 respect of good: and this belongs to the passion of "love": the corresponding contrary of which is "hatred" in respect of
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454 evil. Secondly, if the good be not yet possessed, it causes in the appetite a movement towards the
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455 attainment of the good beloved: and this belongs to the passion of "desire" or "concupiscence": and contrary to it, in respect
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456 of evil, is the passion of "aversion" or "dislike." Thirdly, when the good is obtained, it causes the appetite to rest, as
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457 it were, in the good obtained: and this belongs to the passion of "delight" or "joy"; the contrary of which, in respect of
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458 evil, is "sorrow" or "sadness."
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459 </p>
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460 <p id="FS_Q23_A4-p8"> On the other hand, in the irascible passions, the aptitude, or inclination to seek good, or to shun evil, is presupposed
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461 as arising from the concupiscible faculty, which regards good or evil absolutely. And in respect of good not yet obtained,
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462 we have "hope" and "despair." In respect of evil not yet present we have "fear" and "daring." But in respect of good obtained
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463 there is no irascible passion: because it is no longer considered in the light of something arduous, as stated
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464 above
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465 <a id="FS_Q23_A4-p8.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q23_A3.html">(A[3])</a>. But evil already present gives rise to the passion of "anger."
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466 </p>
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467 <p id="FS_Q23_A4-p9"> Accordingly it is clear that in the concupiscible faculty there are three couples of passions; viz. love and hatred, desire
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468 and aversion, joy and sadness. In like manner there are three groups in the irascible faculty; viz. hope and despair, fear
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469 and daring, and anger which has not contrary passion.
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470 </p>
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471 <p id="FS_Q23_A4-p10"> Consequently there are altogether eleven passions differing specifically; six in the concupiscible faculty, and five in the
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472 irascible; and under these all the passions of the soul are contained.
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473 </p>
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474 <p id="FS_Q23_A4-p11"> From this the replies to the objections are evident.</p>
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475 <p id="FS_Q23_A4-p12"></p>
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476 <p id="FS_Q23_A4-p13"></p>
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477 <a href="summa.FS_Q23_A3.html"></a>
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478 <a href="summa.FS_Q24.html"></a>
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479 </div>
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480 <a href="summa.FS_Q22_A3.html"></a>
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482 </div>
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483 <div id="FS_Q24" class="div3">
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486 <h3 id="FS_Q24-p0.1">OF GOOD AND EVIL IN THE PASSIONS OF THE SOUL (FOUR ARTICLES)</h3>
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487 <p id="FS_Q24-p1"></p>
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488 <p id="FS_Q24-p2"> We must now consider good and evil in the passions of the soul: and under this head there are four points of inquiry:</p>
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489 <p id="FS_Q24-p3"> (1) Whether moral good and evil can be found in the passions of the soul?</p>
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490 <p id="FS_Q24-p4"> (2) Whether every passion of the soul is morally evil?</p>
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491 <p id="FS_Q24-p5"> (3) Whether every passion increases or decreases the goodness of malice of an act?</p>
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492 <p id="FS_Q24-p6"> (4) Whether any passion is good or evil specifically?</p>
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494 <a href="summa.FS_Q24.html"></a>
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495 <a href="summa.FS_Q24_A2.html"></a>
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496 <h4 id="FS_Q24_A1-p0.1">Whether moral good and evil can be found in the passions of the soul?</h4>
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497 <p id="FS_Q24_A1-p1"></p>
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498 <p id="FS_Q24_A1-p2">
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499 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that no passion of the soul is morally good or evil. For moral good and evil are proper to man: since "morals
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500 are properly predicated of man," as Ambrose says (Super Luc. Prolog.). But passions are not proper to man, for he has them
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501 in common with other animals. Therefore no passion of the soul is morally good or evil.
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502 </p>
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503 <p id="FS_Q24_A1-p3">
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504 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, the good or evil of man consists in "being in accord, or in disaccord with reason," as Dionysius says (Div. Nom.
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505 iv). Now the passions of the soul are not in the reason, but in the sensitive appetite, as stated above (
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506 <a id="FS_Q24_A1-p3.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q22_A3.html">Q[22], A[3]</a>). Therefore they have no connection with human, i.e. moral, good or evil.
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507 </p>
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508 <p id="FS_Q24_A1-p4">
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509 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, the Philosopher says (Ethic. ii, 5) that "we are neither praised nor blamed for our passions." But we are praised
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510 and blamed for moral good and evil. Therefore the passions are not morally good or evil.
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511 </p>
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512 <p id="FS_Q24_A1-p5">
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513 <b>On the contrary,</b> Augustine says (De Civ. Dei xiv, 7) while speaking of the passions of the soul: "They are evil if our love is evil; good
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514 if our love is good."
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515 </p>
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516 <p id="FS_Q24_A1-p6">
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517 <b>I answer that,</b> We may consider the passions of the soul in two ways: first, in themselves; secondly, as being subject to the command of
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518 the reason and will. If then the passions be considered in themselves, to wit, as movements of the irrational appetite, thus
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519 there is no moral good or evil in them, since this depends on the reason, as stated above (
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520 <a id="FS_Q24_A1-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q18_A5.html">Q[18] , A[5]</a>). If, however, they be considered as subject to the command of the reason and will,
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521 then moral good and evil are in them. Because the sensitive appetite is nearer than the outward members to the reason and
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522 will; and yet the movements and actions of the outward members are morally good or evil, inasmuch as they are voluntary. Much
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523 more, therefore, may the passions, in so far as they are voluntary, be called morally good or evil. And they are said to be
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524 voluntary, either from being commanded by the will, or from not being checked by the will.
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525 </p>
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526 <p id="FS_Q24_A1-p7">
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527 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> These passions, considered in themselves, are common to man and other animals: but, as commanded by the reason, they are
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528 proper to man.
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529 </p>
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530 <p id="FS_Q24_A1-p8">
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531 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Even the lower appetitive powers are called rational, in so far as "they partake of reason in some sort" (Ethic. i, 13).
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532 </p>
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533 <p id="FS_Q24_A1-p9">
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534 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> The Philosopher says that we are neither praised nor blamed for our passions considered absolutely; but he does not exclude
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535 their becoming worthy of praise or blame, in so far as they are subordinate to reason. Hence he continues: "For the man who
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536 fears or is angry, is not praised . . . or blamed, but the man who is angry in a certain way, i.e. according to, or against
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537 reason."
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538 </p>
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539 <p id="FS_Q24_A1-p10"></p>
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540 <p id="FS_Q24_A1-p11"></p>
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543 </div>
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547 <h4 id="FS_Q24_A2-p0.1">Whether every passion of the soul is evil morally?</h4>
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548 <p id="FS_Q24_A2-p1"></p>
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549 <p id="FS_Q24_A2-p2">
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550 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that all the passions of the soul are morally evil. For Augustine says (De Civ. Dei ix, 4) that "some call
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551 the soul's passions diseases or disturbances of the soul" [*Those things which the Greeks call {pathe}, we prefer to call
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552 disturbances rather than diseases (Tusc. iv. 5)]. But every disease or disturbance of the soul is morally evil. Therefore
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553 every passion of the soul is evil morally.
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554 </p>
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555 <p id="FS_Q24_A2-p3">
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556 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, Damascene says (De Fide Orth. ii, 22) that "movement in accord with nature is an action, but movement contrary to
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557 nature is passion." But in movements of the soul, what is against nature is sinful and morally evil: hence he says elsewhere
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558 (De Fide Orth. ii, 4) that "the devil turned from that which is in accord with nature to that which is against nature." Therefore
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559 these passions are morally evil.
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560 </p>
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561 <p id="FS_Q24_A2-p4">
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562 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, whatever leads to sin, has an aspect of evil. But these passions lead to sin: wherefore they are called "the passions
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563 of sins" (
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564 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q24_A2-p4.1" href="./asv.html#Rom.7.5" target="asv">Rom. 7:5</a>). Therefore it seems that they are morally evil.
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565 </p>
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566 <p id="FS_Q24_A2-p5">
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567 <b>On the contrary,</b> Augustine says (De Civ. Dei xiv, 9) that "all these emotions are right in those whose love is rightly placed . . . For they
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568 fear to sin, they desire to persevere; they grieve for sin, they rejoice in good works."
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569 </p>
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570 <p id="FS_Q24_A2-p6">
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571 <b>I answer that,</b> On this question the opinion of the Stoics differed from that of the Peripatetics: for the Stoics held that all passions
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572 are evil, while the Peripatetics maintained that moderate passions are good. This difference, although it appears great in
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573 words, is nevertheless, in reality, none at all, or but little, if we consider the intent of either school. For the Stoics
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574 did not discern between sense and intellect; and consequently neither between the intellectual
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575 and sensitive appetite. Hence they did not discriminate the passions of the soul from the movements of the will, in so far
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576 as the passions of the soul are in the sensitive appetite, while the simple movements of the will are in the intellectual
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577 appetite: but every rational movement of the appetitive part they call will, while they called passion, a movement that exceeds
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578 the limits of reason. Wherefore Cicero, following their opinion (De Tusc. Quaest. iii, 4) calls all passions "diseases of
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579 the
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580 soul": whence he argues that "those who are diseased are unsound; and those who are unsound are wanting in sense." Hence we
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581 speak of those who are wanting in sense of being "unsound."
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582 </p>
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583 <p id="FS_Q24_A2-p7"> On the other hand, the Peripatetics give the name of "passions" to all the movements of the sensitive appetite. Wherefore
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584 they esteem them good, when they are controlled by reason; and evil when they are not controlled by reason. Hence it is evident
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585 that Cicero was wrong in disapproving (De Tusc. Quaest. iii, 4) of the Peripatetic theory of a mean in the passions, when
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586 he says that "every evil, though moderate, should be shunned; for, just as a body, though it be moderately
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587 ailing, is not sound; so, this mean in the diseases or passions of the soul, is not sound." For passions are not called "diseases"
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588 or "disturbances" of the soul, save when they are not controlled by reason.
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589 </p>
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590 <p id="FS_Q24_A2-p8"> Hence the reply to the First Objection is evident.</p>
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591 <p id="FS_Q24_A2-p9">
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592 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> In every passion there is an increase or decrease in the natural movement of the heart, according as the heart is moved more
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593 or less intensely by contraction and dilatation; and hence it derives the character of passion. But there is no need for passion
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594 to deviate always from the order of natural reason.
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595 </p>
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596 <p id="FS_Q24_A2-p10">
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597 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> The passions of the soul, in so far as they are contrary to the order of reason, incline us to sin: but in so far as they
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598 are controlled by reason, they pertain to virtue.
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599 </p>
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600 <p id="FS_Q24_A2-p11"></p>
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601 <p id="FS_Q24_A2-p12"></p>
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604 </div>
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607 <a href="summa.FS_Q24_A4.html"></a>
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608 <h4 id="FS_Q24_A3-p0.1">Whether passion increases or decreases the goodness or malice of an act?</h4>
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609 <p id="FS_Q24_A3-p1"></p>
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610 <p id="FS_Q24_A3-p2">
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611 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that every passion decreases the goodness of a moral action. For anything that hinders the judgment of reason,
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612 on which depends the goodness of a moral act, consequently decreases the goodness of the moral act. But every passion hinders
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613 the judgment of reason: for Sallust says (Catilin.): "All those that take counsel about matters of doubt, should be free from
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614 hatred, anger, friendship and pity." Therefore passion decreases the goodness of a
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615 moral act.
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616 </p>
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617 <p id="FS_Q24_A3-p3">
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618 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, the more a man's action is like to God, the better it is: hence the Apostle says (
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619 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q24_A3-p3.1" href="./asv.html#Eph.5.1" target="asv">Eph. 5:1</a>): "Be ye followers of God, as most dear children." But "God and the holy angels feel no anger when they punish . . . no fellow-feeling
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620 with misery when they relieve the unhappy," as Augustine says (De Civ. Dei ix, 5). Therefore it is better to do such like
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621 deeds without than with a passion of the soul.
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622 </p>
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623 <p id="FS_Q24_A3-p4">
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624 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, just as moral evil depends on its relation to reason, so also does moral good. But moral evil is lessened by passion:
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625 for he sins less, who sins from passion, than he who sins deliberately. Therefore he does a better deed, who does well without
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626 passion, than he who does with passion.
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627 </p>
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628 <p id="FS_Q24_A3-p5">
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629 <b>On the contrary,</b> Augustine says (De Civ. Dei ix, 5) that "the passion of pity is obedient to reason, when pity is bestowed without violating
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630 right, as when the poor are relieved, or the penitent forgiven." But nothing that is obedient to reason lessens the moral
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631 good. Therefore a passion of the soul does not lessen moral good.
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632 </p>
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633 <p id="FS_Q24_A3-p6">
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634 <b>I answer that,</b> As the Stoics held that every passion of the soul is evil, they consequently held that every passion of the soul lessens
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635 the goodness of an act; since the admixture of evil either destroys good altogether, or makes it to be less good. And this
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636 is true indeed, if by passions we understand none but the inordinate movements of the sensitive appetite, considered as disturbances
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637 or ailments. But if we give the name of passions to all the movements of the
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638 sensitive appetite, then it belongs to the perfection of man's good that his passions be moderated by reason. For since man's
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639 good is founded on reason as its root, that good will be all the more perfect, according as it extends to more things pertaining
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640 to man. Wherefore no one questions the fact that it belongs to the perfection of moral good, that the actions of the outward
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641 members be controlled by the law of reason. Hence, since the sensitive appetite can obey reason, as stated above (
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642 <a id="FS_Q24_A3-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q17_A7.html">Q[17], A[7]</a>), it belongs to the perfection of moral or human good, that the passions themselves also should be controlled by reason.
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643 </p>
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644 <p id="FS_Q24_A3-p7"> Accordingly just as it is better that man should both will good and do it in his external act; so also does it belong to
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645 the perfection of moral good, that man should be moved unto good, not only in respect of his will, but also in respect of
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646 his sensitive appetite; according to
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647 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q24_A3-p7.1" href="./asv.html#Ps.83.3" target="asv"> Ps. 83:3</a>: "My heart and my flesh have rejoiced in the living God": where by "heart" we are to understand the intellectual appetite,
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648 and by "flesh" the sensitive appetite.
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649 </p>
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650 <p id="FS_Q24_A3-p8">
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651 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> The passions of the soul may stand in a twofold relation to the judgment of reason. First, antecedently: and thus, since
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652 they obscure the judgment of reason, on which the goodness of the moral act depends, they diminish the goodness of the act;
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653 for it is more praiseworthy to do a work of charity from the judgment of reason than from the mere passion of pity. In the
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654 second place, consequently: and this in two ways. First, by way of redundance: because,
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655 to wit, when the higher part of the soul is intensely moved to anything, the lower part also follows that movement: and thus
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656 the passion that results in consequence, in the sensitive appetite, is a sign of the intensity of the will, and so indicates
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657 greater moral goodness. Secondly, by way of choice; when, to wit, a man, by the judgment of his reason, chooses to be affected
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658 by a passion in order to work more promptly with the co-operation of the sensitive appetite. And thus a passion of the
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659 soul increases the goodness of an action.
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660 </p>
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661 <p id="FS_Q24_A3-p9">
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662 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> In God and the angels there is no sensitive appetite, nor again bodily members: and so in them good does not depend on the
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663 right ordering of passions or of bodily actions, as it does in us.
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664 </p>
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665 <p id="FS_Q24_A3-p10">
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666 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> A passion that tends to evil, and precedes the judgment of reason, diminishes sin; but if it be consequent in either of the
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667 ways mentioned above (Reply OBJ 1), it aggravates the sin, or else it is a sign of its being more grievous.
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668 </p>
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670 <p id="FS_Q24_A3-p12"></p>
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677 <h4 id="FS_Q24_A4-p0.1">Whether any passion is good or evil in its species?</h4>
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678 <p id="FS_Q24_A4-p1"></p>
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679 <p id="FS_Q24_A4-p2">
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680 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that no passion of the soul is good or evil morally according to its species. Because moral good and evil depend
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681 on reason. But the passions are in the sensitive appetite; so that accordance with reason is accidental to them. Since, therefore,
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682 nothing accidental belongs to a thing's species, it seems that no passion is good or evil according to its species.
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683 </p>
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684 <p id="FS_Q24_A4-p3">
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685 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, acts and passions take their species from their object. If, therefore, any passion were good or evil, according
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686 to its species, it would follow that those passions the object of which is good, are specifically good, such as love, desire
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687 and joy: and that those passions, the object of which is evil, are specifically evil, as hatred, fear and sadness. But this
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688 is clearly false. Therefore no passion is good or evil according to its species.
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689 </p>
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690 <p id="FS_Q24_A4-p4">
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691 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, there is no species of passion that is not to be found in other animals. But moral good is in man alone. Therefore
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692 no passion of the soul is good or evil according to its species.
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693 </p>
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694 <p id="FS_Q24_A4-p5">
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695 <b>On the contrary,</b> Augustine says (De Civ. Dei ix, 5) that "pity is a kind of virtue." Moreover, the Philosopher says (Ethic. ii, 7) that modesty
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696 is a praiseworthy passion. Therefore some passions are good or evil according to their species.
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697 </p>
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698 <p id="FS_Q24_A4-p6">
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699 <b>I answer that,</b> We ought, seemingly, to apply to passions what has been said in regard to acts (
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700 <a id="FS_Q24_A4-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q18_A5.html">Q[18], AA[5]</a>,6;
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701 <a id="FS_Q24_A4-p6.2" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q20_A1.html"> Q[20], A[1]</a>)---viz. that the species of a passion, as the species of an act, can be considered from two points of view. First, according
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702 to its natural genus; and thus moral good and evil have no connection with the species of an act or passion. Secondly, according
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703 to its moral genus, inasmuch as it is voluntary
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704 and controlled by reason. In this way moral good and evil can belong to the species of a passion, in so far as the object
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705 to which a passion tends, is, of itself, in harmony or in discord with reason: as is clear in the case of "shame" which is
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706 base fear; and of "envy" which is sorrow for another's good: for thus passions belong to the same species as the external
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707 act.
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708 </p>
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709 <p id="FS_Q24_A4-p7">
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710 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> This argument considers the passions in their natural species, in so far as the sensitive appetite is considered in itself.
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711 But in so far as the sensitive appetite obeys reason, good and evil of reason are no longer accidentally in the passions of
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712 the appetite, but essentially.
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713 </p>
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714 <p id="FS_Q24_A4-p8">
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715 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Passions having a tendency to good, are themselves good, if they tend to that which is truly good, and in like manner, if
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716 they turn away from that which is truly evil. On the other hand, those passions which consist in aversion from good, and a
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717 tendency to evil, are themselves evil.
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718 </p>
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719 <p id="FS_Q24_A4-p9">
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720 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> In irrational animals the sensitive appetite does not obey reason. Nevertheless, in so far as they are led by a kind of estimative
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721 power, which is subject to a higher, i.e. the Divine reason, there is a certain likeness of moral good in them, in regard
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722 to the soul's passions.
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723 </p>
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724 <p id="FS_Q24_A4-p10"></p>
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731 </div>
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732 <div id="FS_Q25" class="div3">
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733 <a href="summa.FS_Q24_A4.html"></a>
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734 <a href="summa.FS_Q25_A1.html"></a>
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735 <h3 id="FS_Q25-p0.1">OF THE ORDER OF THE PASSIONS TO ONE ANOTHER (FOUR ARTICLES)</h3>
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736 <p id="FS_Q25-p1"></p>
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737 <p id="FS_Q25-p2"> We must now consider the order of the passions to one another: and under this head there are four points of inquiry:</p>
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738 <p id="FS_Q25-p3"> (1) The relation of the irascible passions to the concupiscible passions;</p>
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739 <p id="FS_Q25-p4"> (2) The relation of the concupiscible passions to one another;</p>
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740 <p id="FS_Q25-p5"> (3) The relation of the irascible passions to one another;</p>
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741 <p id="FS_Q25-p6"> (4) The four principal passions.</p>
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742 <div id="FS_Q25_A1" class="div4">
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743 <a href="summa.FS_Q25.html"></a>
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744 <a href="summa.FS_Q25_A2.html"></a>
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745 <h4 id="FS_Q25_A1-p0.1">Whether the irascible passions precede the concupiscible passions, or vice versa?</h4>
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746 <p id="FS_Q25_A1-p1"></p>
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747 <p id="FS_Q25_A1-p2">
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748 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that the irascible passions precede the concupiscible passions. For the order of the passions is that of their
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749 objects. But the object of the irascible faculty is the difficult good, which seems to be the highest good. Therefore the
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750 irascible passions seem to precede the concupiscible passions.
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751 </p>
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752 <p id="FS_Q25_A1-p3">
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753 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, the mover precedes that which is moved. But the irascible faculty is compared to the concupiscible, as mover to
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754 that which is moved: since it is given to animals, for the purposed of removing the obstacles that hinder the concupiscible
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755 faculty from enjoying its object, as stated above (Q[23], A[1], ad 1;
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756 <a id="FS_Q25_A1-p3.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FP_Q81_A2.html">FP, Q[81], A[2]</a> ). Now "that which removes an obstacle, is a kind of mover" (Phys. viii, 4). Therefore the irascible
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757 passions precede the concupiscible passions.
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758 </p>
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759 <p id="FS_Q25_A1-p4">
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760 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, joy and sadness are concupiscible passions. But joy and sadness succeed to the irascible passions: for the Philosopher
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761 says (Ethic. iv, 5) that"retaliation causes anger to cease, because it produces pleasure instead of the previous pain." Therefore
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762 the concupiscible passions follow the irascible passions.
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763 </p>
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764 <p id="FS_Q25_A1-p5">
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765 <b>On the contrary,</b> The concupiscible passions regard the absolute good, while the irascible passions regard a restricted, viz. the difficult,
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766 good. Since, therefore, the absolute good precedes the restricted good, it seems that the concupiscible passions precede the
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767 irascible.
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768 </p>
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769 <p id="FS_Q25_A1-p6">
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770 <b>I answer that,</b> In the concupiscible passions there is more diversity than in the passions of the irascible faculty. For in the former we
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771 find something relating to movement---e.g. desire; and something belonging to repose, e.g. joy and sadness. But in the irascible
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772 passions there is nothing pertaining to repose, and only that which belongs to movement. The reason of this is that when we
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773 find rest in a thing, we no longer look upon it as something difficult or arduous;
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774 whereas such is the object of the irascible faculty.
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775 </p>
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776 <p id="FS_Q25_A1-p7"> Now since rest is the end of movement, it is first in the order of intention, but last in the order of execution. If, therefore,
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777 we compare the passions of the irascible faculty with those concupiscible passions that denote rest in good, it is evident
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778 that in the order of execution, the irascible passions take precedence of such like passions of the concupiscible faculty:
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779 thus hope precedes joy, and hence causes it, according to the Apostle (
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780 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q25_A1-p7.1" href="./asv.html#Rom.12.12" target="asv">Rom. 12:12</a>):
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781 "Rejoicing in hope." But the concupiscible passion which denotes rest in evil, viz. sadness, comes between two irascible passions:
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782 because it follows fear; since we become sad when we are confronted by the evil that we feared: while it precedes the movement
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783 of anger; since the movement of self-vindication, that results from sadness, is the movement of anger. And because it is looked
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784 upon as a good thing to pay back the evil done to us; when the angry man has achieved this he rejoices. Thus it
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785 is evident that every passion of the irascible faculty terminates in a concupiscible passion denoting rest, viz. either in
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786 joy or in sadness.
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787 </p>
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788 <p id="FS_Q25_A1-p8"> But if we compare the irascible passions to those concupiscible passions that denote movement, then it is clear that the
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789 latter take precedence: because the passions of the irascible faculty add something to those of the concupiscible faculty;
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790 just as the object of the irascible adds the aspect of arduousness or difficulty to the object of the concupiscible faculty.
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791 Thus hope adds to desire a certain effort, and a certain raising of the spirits to the realization of the arduous
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792 good. In like manner fear adds to aversion or detestation a certain lowness of spirits, on account of difficulty in shunning
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793 the evil.
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794 </p>
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795 <p id="FS_Q25_A1-p9"> Accordingly the passions of the irascible faculty stand between those concupiscible passions that denote movement towards
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796 good or evil, and those concupiscible passions that denote rest in good or evil. And it is therefore evident that the irascible
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797 passions both arise from and terminate in the passions of the concupiscible faculty.
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798 </p>
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799 <p id="FS_Q25_A1-p10">
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800 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> This argument would prove, if the formal object of the concupiscible faculty were something contrary to the arduous, just
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801 as the formal object of the irascible faculty is that which is arduous. But because the object of the concupiscible faculty
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802 is good absolutely, it naturally precedes the object of the irascible, as the common precedes the proper.
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803 </p>
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804 <p id="FS_Q25_A1-p11">
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805 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> The remover of an obstacle is not a direct but an accidental mover: and here we are speaking of passions as directly related
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806 to one another. Moreover, the irascible passion removes the obstacle that hinders the concupiscible from resting in its object.
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807 Wherefore it only follows that the irascible passions precede those concupiscible passions that connote rest. The third object
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808 leads to the same conclusion.
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809 </p>
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810 <p id="FS_Q25_A1-p12"></p>
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811 <p id="FS_Q25_A1-p13"></p>
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812 <a href="summa.FS_Q25.html"></a>
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813 <a href="summa.FS_Q25_A2.html"></a>
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814 </div>
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815 <div id="FS_Q25_A2" class="div4">
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816 <a href="summa.FS_Q25_A1.html"></a>
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817 <a href="summa.FS_Q25_A3.html"></a>
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818 <h4 id="FS_Q25_A2-p0.1">Whether love is the first of the concupiscible passions?</h4>
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819 <p id="FS_Q25_A2-p1"></p>
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820 <p id="FS_Q25_A2-p2">
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821 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that love is not the first of the concupiscible passions. For the concupiscible faculty is so called from concupiscence,
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822 which is the same passion as desire. But "things are named from their chief characteristic" (De Anima ii, 4). Therefore desire
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823 takes precedence of love.
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824 </p>
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825 <p id="FS_Q25_A2-p3">
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826 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, love implies a certain union; since it is a "uniting and binding force," as Dionysius says (Div. Nom. iv). But concupiscence
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827 or desire is a movement towards union with the thing coveted or desired. Therefore desire precedes love.
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828 </p>
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829 <p id="FS_Q25_A2-p4">
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830 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, the cause precedes its effect. But pleasure is sometimes the cause of love: since some love on account of pleasure
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831 (Ethic. viii, 3,4). Therefore pleasure precedes love; and consequently love is not the first of the concupiscible passions.
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832 </p>
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833 <p id="FS_Q25_A2-p5">
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834 <b>On the contrary,</b> Augustine says (De Civ. Dei xiv, 7,9) that all the passions are caused by love: since "love yearning for the beloved object,
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835 is desire; and, having and enjoying it, is joy." Therefore love is the first of the concupiscible passions.
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836 </p>
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837 <p id="FS_Q25_A2-p6">
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838 <b>I answer that,</b> Good and evil are the object of the concupiscible faculty. Now good naturally precedes evil; since evil is privation of good.
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839 Wherefore all the passions, the object of which is good, are naturally before those, the object of which is evil---that is
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840 to say, each precedes its contrary passion: because the quest of a good is the reason for shunning the opposite evil.
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841 </p>
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842 <p id="FS_Q25_A2-p7"> Now good has the aspect of an end, and the end is indeed first in the order of intention, but last in the order of execution.
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843 Consequently the order of the concupiscible passions can be considered either in the order of intention or in the order of
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844 execution. In the order of execution, the first place belongs to that which takes place first in the thing that tends to the
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845 end. Now it is evident that whatever tends to an end, has, in the first place, an aptitude or proportion to
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846 that end, for nothing tends to a disproportionate end; secondly, it is moved to that end; thirdly, it rests in the end, after
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847 having attained it. And this very aptitude or proportion of the appetite to good is love, which is complacency in good; while
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848 movement towards good is desire or concupiscence; and rest in good is joy or pleasure. Accordingly in this order, love precedes
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849 desire, and desire precedes pleasure. But in the order of intention, it is the reverse: because the pleasure intended
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850 causes desire and love. For pleasure is the enjoyment of the good, which enjoyment is, in a way, the end, just as the good
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851 itself is, as stated above (
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852 <a id="FS_Q25_A2-p7.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q11_A3.html">Q[11], A[3]</a>, ad 3).
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853 </p>
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854 <p id="FS_Q25_A2-p8">
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855 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> We name a thing as we understand it, for "words are signs of thoughts," as the Philosopher states (Peri Herm. i, 1). Now
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856 in most cases we know a cause by its effect. But the effect of love, when the beloved object is possessed, is pleasure: when
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857 it is not possessed, it is desire or concupiscence: and, as Augustine says (De Trin. x, 12), "we are more sensible to love,
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858 when we lack that which we love." Consequently of all the concupiscible passions,
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859 concupiscence is felt most; and for this reason the power is named after it.
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860 </p>
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861 <p id="FS_Q25_A2-p9">
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862 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> The union of lover and beloved is twofold. There is real union, consisting in the conjunction of one with the other. This
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863 union belongs to joy or pleasure, which follows desire. There is also an affective union, consisting in an aptitude or proportion,
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864 in so far as one thing, from the very fact of its having an aptitude for and an inclination to another, partakes of it: and
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865 love betokens such a union. This union precedes the movement of desire.
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866 </p>
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867 <p id="FS_Q25_A2-p10">
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868 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Pleasure causes love, in so far as it precedes love in the order of intention.
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869 </p>
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870 <p id="FS_Q25_A2-p11"></p>
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871 <p id="FS_Q25_A2-p12"></p>
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872 <a href="summa.FS_Q25_A1.html"></a>
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873 <a href="summa.FS_Q25_A3.html"></a>
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874 </div>
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875 <div id="FS_Q25_A3" class="div4">
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876 <a href="summa.FS_Q25_A2.html"></a>
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877 <a href="summa.FS_Q25_A4.html"></a>
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878 <h4 id="FS_Q25_A3-p0.1">Whether hope is the first of the irascible passions?</h4>
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879 <p id="FS_Q25_A3-p1"></p>
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880 <p id="FS_Q25_A3-p2">
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881 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that hope is not the first of the irascible passions. Because the irascible faculty is denominated from anger.
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882 Since, therefore, "things are names from their chief characteristic" (cf. A[2], OBJ[1]), it seems that anger precedes and
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883 surpasses hope.
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884 </p>
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885 <p id="FS_Q25_A3-p3">
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886 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, the object of the irascible faculty is something arduous. Now it seems more arduous to strive to overcome a contrary
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887 evil that threatens soon to overtake us, which pertains to daring; or an evil actually present, which pertains to anger; than
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888 to strive simply to obtain some good. Again, it seems more arduous to strive to overcome a present evil, than a future evil.
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889 Therefore anger seems to be a stronger passion than daring, and daring, than hope. And
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890 consequently it seems that hope does not precede them.
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891 </p>
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892 <p id="FS_Q25_A3-p4">
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893 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, when a thing is moved towards an end, the movement of withdrawal precedes the movement of approach. But fear and
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894 despair imply withdrawal from something; while daring and hope imply approach towards something. Therefore fear and despair
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895 precede hope and daring.
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896 </p>
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897 <p id="FS_Q25_A3-p5">
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898 <b>On the contrary,</b> The nearer a thing is to the first, the more it precedes others. But hope is nearer to love, which is the first of the passions.
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899 Therefore hope is the first of the passions in the irascible faculty.
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900 </p>
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901 <p id="FS_Q25_A3-p6">
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902 <b>I answer that,</b> As stated above
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903 <a id="FS_Q25_A3-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q25_A1.html">(A[1])</a> all irascible passions imply movement towards something. Now this movement of the irascible faculty towards something may
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904 be due to two causes: one is the mere aptitude or proportion to the end; and this pertains to love or hatred, those whose
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905 object is good, or evil; and this belongs to sadness or joy. As a matter of fact, the presence of good produces no passion
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906 in the irascible, as stated above (Q[23],
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907 AA[3],4); but the presence of evil gives rise to the passion of anger.
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908 </p>
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909 <p id="FS_Q25_A3-p7"> Since then in order of generation or execution, proportion or aptitude to the end precedes the achievement of the end; it
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910 follows that, of all the irascible passions, anger is the last in the order of generation. And among the other passions of
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911 the irascible faculty, which imply a movement arising from love of good or hatred of evil, those whose object is good, viz.
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912 hope and despair, must naturally precede those whose object is evil, viz. daring and fear: yet so that hope
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913 precedes despair; since hope is a movement towards good as such, which is essentially attractive, so that hope tends to good
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914 directly; whereas despair is a movement away from good, a movement which is consistent with good, not as such, but in respect
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915 of something else, wherefore its tendency from good is accidental, as it were. In like manner fear, through being a movement
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916 from evil, precedes daring. And that hope and despair naturally precede fear and daring is evident from this---that as the
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917 desire of good is the reason for avoiding evil, so hope and despair are the reason for fear and daring: because daring arises
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918 from the hope of victory, and fear arises from the despair of overcoming. Lastly, anger arises from daring: for no one is
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919 angry while seeking vengeance, unless he dare to avenge himself, as Avicenna observes in the sixth book of his Physics. Accordingly,
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920 it is evident that hope is the first of all the irascible passions.
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921 </p>
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922 <p id="FS_Q25_A3-p8"> And if we wish to know the order of all the passions in the way of generation, love and hatred are first; desire and aversion,
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923 second; hope and despair, third; fear and daring, fourth; anger, fifth; sixth and last, joy and sadness, which follow from
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924 all the passions, as stated in Ethic. ii, 5: yet so that love precedes hatred; desire precedes aversion; hope precedes despair;
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925 fear precedes daring; and joy precedes sadness, as may be gathered from what has been stated above.
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926 </p>
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927 <p id="FS_Q25_A3-p9">
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928 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Because anger arises from the other passions, as an effect from the causes that precede it, it is from anger, as being more
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929 manifest than the other passions, that the power takes its name.
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930 </p>
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931 <p id="FS_Q25_A3-p10">
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932 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> It is not the arduousness but the good that is the reason for approach or desire. Consequently hope, which regards good more
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933 directly, takes precedence: although at times daring or even anger regards something more arduous.
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934 </p>
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935 <p id="FS_Q25_A3-p11">
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936 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> The movement of the appetite is essentially and directly towards the good as towards its proper object; its movement from
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937 evil results from this. For the movement of the appetitive part is in proportion, not to natural movement, but to the intention
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938 of nature, which intends the end before intending the removal of a contrary, which removal is desired only for the sake of
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939 obtaining the end.
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940 </p>
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941 <p id="FS_Q25_A3-p12"></p>
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942 <p id="FS_Q25_A3-p13"></p>
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943 <a href="summa.FS_Q25_A2.html"></a>
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944 <a href="summa.FS_Q25_A4.html"></a>
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945 </div>
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946 <div id="FS_Q25_A4" class="div4">
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947 <a href="summa.FS_Q25_A3.html"></a>
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948 <a href="summa.FS_Q26.html"></a>
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949 <h4 id="FS_Q25_A4-p0.1">Whether these are the four principal passions: joy, sadness, hope and fear?</h4>
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950 <p id="FS_Q25_A4-p1"></p>
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951 <p id="FS_Q25_A4-p2">
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952 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that joy, sadness, hope and fear are not the four principal passions. For Augustine (De Civ. Dei xiv, 3,[7]
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953 sqq.) omits hope and puts desire in its place.
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954 </p>
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955 <p id="FS_Q25_A4-p3">
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956 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, there is a twofold order in the passions of the soul: the order of intention, and the order of execution or generation.
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957 The principal passions should therefore be taken, either in the order of intention; and thus joy and sadness, which are the
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958 final passions, will be the principal passions; or in the order of execution or generation, and thus love will be the principal
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959 passion. Therefore joy and sadness, hope and fear should in no way be called the
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960 four principal passions.
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961 </p>
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962 <p id="FS_Q25_A4-p4">
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963 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, just as daring is caused by hope, so fear is caused by despair. Either, therefore, hope and despair should be reckoned
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964 as principal passions, since they cause others: or hope and daring, from being akin to one another.
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965 </p>
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966 <p id="FS_Q25_A4-p5">
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967 <b>On the contrary,</b> Boethius (De Consol. i) in enumerating the four principal passions, says:
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968 </p>
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969 <p id="FS_Q25_A4-p6"> "Banish joys: banish fears:</p>
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970 <p id="FS_Q25_A4-p7"> Away with hope: away with tears."</p>
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971 <p id="FS_Q25_A4-p8">
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972 <b>I answer that,</b> These four are commonly called the principal passions. Two of them, viz. joy and sadness, are said to be principal because
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973 in them all the other passions have their completion and end; wherefore they arise from all the other passions, as is stated
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974 in Ethic. ii, 5. Fear and hope are principal passions, not because they complete the others simply, but because they complete
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975 them as regards the movement of the appetite towards something: for in respect of good,
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976 movement begins in love, goes forward to desire, and ends in hope; while in respect of evil, it begins in hatred, goes on
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977 to aversion, and ends in fear. Hence it is customary to distinguish these four passions in relation to the present and the
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978 future: for movement regards the future, while rest is in something present: so that joy relates to present good, sadness
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979 relates to present evil; hope regards future good, and fear, future evil.
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980 </p>
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981 <p id="FS_Q25_A4-p9"> As to the other passions that regard good or evil, present or future, they all culminate in these four. For this reason some
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982 have said that these four are the principal passions, because they are general passions; and this is true, provided that by
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983 hope and fear we understand the appetite's common tendency to desire or shun something.
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984 </p>
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985 <p id="FS_Q25_A4-p10">
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986 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Augustine puts desire or covetousness in place of hope, in so far as they seem to regard the same object, viz. some future
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987 good.
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988 </p>
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989 <p id="FS_Q25_A4-p11">
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990 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> These are called principal passions, in the order of intention and completion. And though fear and hope are not the last
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991 passions simply, yet they are the last of those passions that tend towards something as future. Nor can the argument be pressed
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992 any further except in the case of anger: yet neither can anger be reckoned a principal passion, because it is an effect of
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993 daring, which cannot be a principal passion, as we shall state further on (Reply
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994 OBJ 3).
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995 </p>
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996 <p id="FS_Q25_A4-p12">
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997 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Despair implies movement away from good; and this is, as it were, accidental: and daring implies movement towards evil; and
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998 this too is accidental. Consequently these cannot be principal passions; because that which is accidental cannot be said to
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999 be principal. And so neither can anger be called a principal passion, because it arises from daring.
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1000 </p>
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1001 <p id="FS_Q25_A4-p13"></p>
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1002 <p id="FS_Q25_A4-p14"></p>
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1003 <a href="summa.FS_Q25_A3.html"></a>
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1004 <a href="summa.FS_Q26.html"></a>
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1005 </div>
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1006 <a href="summa.FS_Q24_A4.html"></a>
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1007 <a href="summa.FS_Q25_A1.html"></a>
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1008 </div>
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1009 <div id="FS_Q26" class="div3">
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1010 <a href="summa.FS_Q25_A4.html"></a>
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1011 <a href="summa.FS_Q26_A1.html"></a>
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1012 <h3 id="FS_Q26-p0.1">OF THE PASSIONS OF THE SOUL IN PARTICULAR: AND FIRST, OF LOVE (FOUR ARTICLES)</h3>
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1013 <p id="FS_Q26-p1"></p>
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1014 <p id="FS_Q26-p2"> We have now to consider the soul's passions in particular, and (1) the passions of the concupiscible faculty; (2) the passions
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1015 of the irascible faculty.
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1016 </p>
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1017 <p id="FS_Q26-p3"> The first of these considerations will be threefold: since we shall consider (1) Love and hatred; (2) Desire and aversion;
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1018 (3) Pleasure and sadness.
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1019 </p>
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1020 <p id="FS_Q26-p4"> Concerning love, three points must be considered: (1) Love itself; (2) The cause of love; (3) The effects of love. Under
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1021 the first head there are four points of inquiry:
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1022 </p>
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1023 <p id="FS_Q26-p5"> (1) Whether love is in the concupiscible power?</p>
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1024 <p id="FS_Q26-p6"> (2) Whether love is a passion?</p>
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1025 <p id="FS_Q26-p7"> (3) Whether love is the same as dilection?</p>
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1026 <p id="FS_Q26-p8"> (4) Whether love is properly divided into love of friendship, and love of concupiscence?</p>
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1027 <div id="FS_Q26_A1" class="div4">
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1028 <a href="summa.FS_Q26.html"></a>
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1029 <a href="summa.FS_Q26_A2.html"></a>
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1030 <h4 id="FS_Q26_A1-p0.1">Whether love is in the concupiscible power?</h4>
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1031 <p id="FS_Q26_A1-p1"></p>
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1032 <p id="FS_Q26_A1-p2">
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1033 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that love is not in the concupiscible power. For it is written (
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1034 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q26_A1-p2.1" href="./asv.html#Wis.8.2" target="asv">Wis. 8:2</a>): "Her," namely wisdom, "have I loved, and have sought her out from my youth." But the concupiscible power, being a part
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1035 of the sensitive appetite, cannot tend to wisdom, which is not apprehended by the senses. Therefore love is not in the concupiscible
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1036 power.
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1037 </p>
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1038 <p id="FS_Q26_A1-p3">
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1039 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, love seems to be identified with every passion: for Augustine says (De Civ. Dei xiv, 7): "Love, yearning for the
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1040 object beloved, is desire; having and enjoying it, is joy; fleeing what is contrary to it, is fear; and feeling what is contrary
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1041 to it, is sadness." But not every passion is in the concupiscible power; indeed, fear, which is mentioned in this passage,
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1042 is in the irascible power. Therefore we must not say absolutely that love is in the
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1043 concupiscible power.
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1044 </p>
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1045 <p id="FS_Q26_A1-p4">
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1046 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, Dionysius (Div. Nom. iv) mentions a "natural love." But natural love seems to pertain rather to the natural powers,
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1047 which belong to the vegetal soul. Therefore love is not simply in the concupiscible power.
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1048 </p>
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1049 <p id="FS_Q26_A1-p5">
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1050 <b>On the contrary,</b> The Philosopher says (Topic. ii, 7) that "love is in the concupiscible power."
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1051 </p>
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1052 <p id="FS_Q26_A1-p6">
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1053 <b>I answer that,</b> Love is something pertaining to the appetite; since good is the object of both. Wherefore love differs according to the difference
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1054 of appetites. For there is an appetite which arises from an apprehension existing, not in the subject of the appetite, but
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1055 in some other: and this is called the "natural appetite." Because natural things seek what is suitable to them according to
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1056 their nature, by reason of an apprehension which is not in them, but in the Author
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1057 of their nature, as stated in the
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1058 <a id="FS_Q26_A1-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FP_Q6_A1.html">FP, Q[6], A[1]</a>, ad 2;
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1059 <a id="FS_Q26_A1-p6.2" shape="rect" href="summa.FP_Q103_A1.html">FP, Q[103], A[1]</a>, ad 1,3. And there is another appetite arising from an apprehension in the subject of the appetite, but from necessity and
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1060 not from free-will. Such is, in irrational animals, the "sensitive appetite," which, however, in man, has a certain share
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1061 of liberty, in so far as it obeys reason. Again, there is another appetite following freely from an apprehension in the subject
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1062 of
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1063 the appetite. And this is the rational or intellectual appetite, which is called the "will."
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1064 </p>
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1065 <p id="FS_Q26_A1-p7"> Now in each of these appetites, the name "love" is given to the principle movement towards the end loved. In the natural
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1066 appetite the principle of this movement is the appetitive subject's connaturalness with the thing to which it tends, and may
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1067 be called "natural love": thus the connaturalness of a heavy body for the centre, is by reason of its weight and may be called
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1068 "natural love." In like manner the aptitude of the sensitive appetite or of the will to some good, that is to
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1069 say, its very complacency in good is called "sensitive love," or "intellectual" or "rational love." So that sensitive love
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1070 is in the sensitive appetite, just as intellectual love is in the intellectual appetite. And it belongs to the concupiscible
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1071 power, because it regards good absolutely, and not under the aspect of difficulty, which is the object of the irascible faculty.
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1072 </p>
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1073 <p id="FS_Q26_A1-p8">
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1074 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> The words quoted refer to intellectual or rational love.
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1075 </p>
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1076 <p id="FS_Q26_A1-p9">
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1077 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Love is spoken of as being fear, joy, desire and sadness, not essentially but causally.
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1078 </p>
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1079 <p id="FS_Q26_A1-p10">
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1080 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Natural love is not only in the powers of the vegetal soul, but in all the soul's powers, and also in all the parts of the
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1081 body, and universally in all things: because, as Dionysius says (Div. Nom. iv), "Beauty and goodness are beloved by all things";
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1082 since each single thing has a connaturalness with that which is naturally suitable to it.
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1083 </p>
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1084 <p id="FS_Q26_A1-p11"></p>
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1085 <p id="FS_Q26_A1-p12"></p>
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1086 <a href="summa.FS_Q26.html"></a>
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1087 <a href="summa.FS_Q26_A2.html"></a>
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1088 </div>
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1089 <div id="FS_Q26_A2" class="div4">
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1090 <a href="summa.FS_Q26_A1.html"></a>
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1091 <a href="summa.FS_Q26_A3.html"></a>
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1092 <h4 id="FS_Q26_A2-p0.1">Whether love is a passion?</h4>
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1093 <p id="FS_Q26_A2-p1"></p>
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1094 <p id="FS_Q26_A2-p2">
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1095 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that love is not a passion. For no power is a passion. But every love is a power, as Dionysius says (Div. Nom.
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1096 iv). Therefore love is not a passion.
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1097 </p>
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1098 <p id="FS_Q26_A2-p3">
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1099 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, love is a kind of union or bond, as Augustine says (De Trin. viii, 10). But a union or bond is not a passion, but
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1100 rather a relation. Therefore love is not a passion.
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1101 </p>
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1102 <p id="FS_Q26_A2-p4">
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1103 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, Damascene says (De Fide Orth. ii, 22) that passion is a movement. But love does not imply the movement of the appetite;
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1104 for this is desire, of which movement love is the principle. Therefore love is not a passion.
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1105 </p>
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1106 <p id="FS_Q26_A2-p5">
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1107 <b>On the contrary,</b> The Philosopher says (Ethic. viii, 5) that "love is a passion."
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1108 </p>
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1109 <p id="FS_Q26_A2-p6">
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1110 <b>I answer that,</b> Passion is the effect of the agent on the patient. Now a natural agent produces a twofold effect on the patient: for in the
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1111 first place it gives it the form; and secondly it gives it the movement that results from the form. Thus the generator gives
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1112 the generated body both weight and the movement resulting from weight: so that weight, from being the principle of movement
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1113 to the place, which is connatural to that body by reason of its weight, can, in a way, be
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1114 called "natural love." In the same way the appetible object gives the appetite, first, a certain adaptation to itself, which
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1115 consists in complacency in that object; and from this follows movement towards the appetible object. For "the appetitive movement
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1116 is circular," as stated in De Anima iii, 10; because the appetible object moves the appetite, introducing itself, as it were,
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1117 into its intention; while the appetite moves towards the realization of the appetible object, so that the movement
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1118 ends where it began. Accordingly, the first change wrought in the appetite by the appetible object is called "love," and is
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1119 nothing else than complacency in that object; and from this complacency results a movement towards that same object, and this
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1120 movement is "desire"; and lastly, there is rest which is "joy." Since, therefore, love consists in a change wrought in the
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1121 appetite by the appetible object, it is evident that love is a passion: properly so called, according as it is in the
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1122 concupiscible faculty; in a wider and extended sense, according as it is in the will.
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1123 </p>
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1124 <p id="FS_Q26_A2-p7">
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1125 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Since power denotes a principle of movement or action, Dionysius calls love a power, in so far as it is a principle of movement
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1126 in the appetite.
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1127 </p>
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1128 <p id="FS_Q26_A2-p8">
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1129 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Union belongs to love in so far as by reason of the complacency of the appetite, the lover stands in relation to that which
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1130 he loves, as though it were himself or part of himself. Hence it is clear that love is not the very relation of union, but
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1131 that union is a result of love. Hence, too, Dionysius says that "love is a unitive force" (Div. Nom. iv), and the Philosopher
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1132 says (Polit. ii, 1) that union is the work of love.
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1133 </p>
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1134 <p id="FS_Q26_A2-p9">
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1135 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Although love does not denote the movement of the appetite in tending towards the appetible object, yet it denotes that movement
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1136 whereby the appetite is changed by the appetible object, so as to have complacency therein.
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1137 </p>
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1138 <p id="FS_Q26_A2-p10"></p>
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1139 <p id="FS_Q26_A2-p11"></p>
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1140 <a href="summa.FS_Q26_A1.html"></a>
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1141 <a href="summa.FS_Q26_A3.html"></a>
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1142 </div>
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1143 <div id="FS_Q26_A3" class="div4">
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1144 <a href="summa.FS_Q26_A2.html"></a>
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1145 <a href="summa.FS_Q26_A4.html"></a>
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1146 <h4 id="FS_Q26_A3-p0.1">Whether love is the same as dilection?</h4>
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1147 <p id="FS_Q26_A3-p1"></p>
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1148 <p id="FS_Q26_A3-p2">
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1149 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that love is the same as dilection. For Dionysius says (Div. Nom. iv) that love is to dilection, "as four is
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1150 to twice two, and as a rectilinear figure is to one composed of straight lines." But these have the same meaning. Therefore
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1151 love and dilection denote the same thing.
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1152 </p>
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1153 <p id="FS_Q26_A3-p3">
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1154 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, the movements of the appetite differ by reason of their objects. But the objects of dilection and love are the same.
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1155 Therefore these are the same.
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1156 </p>
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1157 <p id="FS_Q26_A3-p4">
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1158 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, if dilection and love differ, it seems that it is chiefly in the fact that "dilection refers to good things, love
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1159 to evil things, as some have maintained," according to Augustine (De Civ. Dei xiv, 7). But they do not differ thus; because
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1160 as Augustine says (De Civ. Dei xiv, 7) the holy Scripture uses both words in reference to either good or bad things. Therefore
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1161 love and dilection do not differ: thus indeed Augustine concludes (De Civ. Dei xiv, 7)
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1162 that "it is not one thing to speak of love, and another to speak of dilection."
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1163 </p>
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1164 <p id="FS_Q26_A3-p5">
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1165 <b>On the contrary,</b> Dionysius says (Div. Nom. iv) that "some holy men have held that love means something more Godlike than dilection does."
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1166 </p>
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1167 <p id="FS_Q26_A3-p6">
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1168 <b>I answer that,</b> We find four words referring in a way, to the same thing: viz. love, dilection, charity and friendship. They differ, however,
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1169 in this, that "friendship," according to the Philosopher (Ethic. viii, 5), "is like a habit," whereas "love" and "dilection"
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1170 are expressed by way of act or passion; and "charity" can be taken either way.
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1171 </p>
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1172 <p id="FS_Q26_A3-p7"> Moreover these three express act in different ways. For love has a wider signification than the others, since every dilection
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1173 or charity is love, but not vice versa. Because dilection implies, in addition to love, a choice [electionem] made beforehand,
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1174 as the very word denotes: and therefore dilection is not in the concupiscible power, but only in the will, and only in the
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1175 rational nature. Charity denotes, in addition to love, a certain perfection of love, in so far as that
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1176 which is loved is held to be of great price, as the word itself implies [*Referring to the Latin "carus" (dear)].
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1177 </p>
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1178 <p id="FS_Q26_A3-p8">
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1179 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Dionysius is speaking of love and dilection, in so far as they are in the intellectual appetite; for thus love is the same
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1180 as dilection.
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1181 </p>
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1182 <p id="FS_Q26_A3-p9">
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1183 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> The object of love is more general than the object of dilection: because love extends to more than dilection does, as stated
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1184 above.
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1185 </p>
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1186 <p id="FS_Q26_A3-p10">
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1187 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Love and dilection differ, not in respect of good and evil, but as stated. Yet in the intellectual faculty love is the same
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1188 as dilection. And it is in this sense that Augustine speaks of love in the passage quoted: hence a little further on he adds
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1189 that "a right will is well-directed love, and a wrong will is ill-directed love." However, the fact that love, which is concupiscible
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1190 passion, inclines many to evil, is the reason why some assigned the
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1191 difference spoken of.
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1192 </p>
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1193 <p id="FS_Q26_A3-p11">
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1194 <b>Reply to Objection 4:</b> The reason why some held that, even when applied to the will itself, the word "love" signifies something more Godlike than
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1195 "dilection," was because love denotes a passion, especially in so far as it is in the sensitive appetite; whereas dilection
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1196 presupposes the judgment of reason. But it is possible for man to tend to God by love, being as it were passively drawn by
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1197 Him, more than he can possibly be drawn thereto by his reason, which pertains to the
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1198 nature of dilection, as stated above. And consequently love is more Godlike than dilection.
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1199 </p>
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1200 <p id="FS_Q26_A3-p12"></p>
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1201 <p id="FS_Q26_A3-p13"></p>
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1202 <a href="summa.FS_Q26_A2.html"></a>
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1203 <a href="summa.FS_Q26_A4.html"></a>
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1204 </div>
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1205 <div id="FS_Q26_A4" class="div4">
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1206 <a href="summa.FS_Q26_A3.html"></a>
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1207 <a href="summa.FS_Q27.html"></a>
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1208 <h4 id="FS_Q26_A4-p0.1">Whether love is properly divided into love of friendship and love of concupiscence?</h4>
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1209 <p id="FS_Q26_A4-p1"></p>
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1210 <p id="FS_Q26_A4-p2">
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1211 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that love is not properly divided into love of friendship and love of concupiscence. For "love is a passion,
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1212 while friendship is a habit," according to the Philosopher (Ethic. viii, 5). But habit cannot be the member of a division
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1213 of passions. Therefore love is not properly divided into love of concupiscence and love of friendship.
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1214 </p>
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1215 <p id="FS_Q26_A4-p3">
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1216 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, a thing cannot be divided by another member of the same division; for man is not a member of the same division as
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1217 "animal." But concupiscence is a member of the same division as love, as a passion distinct from love. Therefore concupiscence
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1218 is not a division of love.
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1219 </p>
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1220 <p id="FS_Q26_A4-p4">
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1221 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, according to the Philosopher (Ethic. viii, 3) friendship is threefold, that which is founded on "usefulness," that
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1222 which is founded on "pleasure," and that which is founded on "goodness." But useful and pleasant friendship are not without
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1223 concupiscence. Therefore concupiscence should not be contrasted with friendship.
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1224 </p>
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1225 <p id="FS_Q26_A4-p5">
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1226 <b>On the contrary,</b> We are said to love certain things, because we desire them: thus "a man is said to love wine, on account of its sweetness
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1227 which he desires"; as stated in Topic. ii, 3. But we have no friendship for wine and suchlike things, as stated in Ethic.
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1228 viii, 2. Therefore love of concupiscence is distinct from love of friendship.
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1229 </p>
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1230 <p id="FS_Q26_A4-p6">
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1231 <b>I answer that,</b> As the Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 4), "to love is to wish good to someone." Hence the movement of love has a twofold tendency:
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1232 towards the good which a man wishes to someone (to himself or to another) and towards that to which he wishes some good. Accordingly,
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1233 man has love of concupiscence towards the good that he wishes to another, and love of friendship towards him to whom he wishes
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1234 good.
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1235 </p>
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1236 <p id="FS_Q26_A4-p7"> Now the members of this division are related as primary and secondary: since that which is loved with the love of friendship
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1237 is loved simply and for itself; whereas that which is loved with the love of concupiscence, is loved, not simply and for itself,
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1238 but for something else. For just as that which has existence, is a being simply, while that which exists in another is a relative
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1239 being; so, because good is convertible with being, the good, which itself has goodness, is good
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1240 simply; but that which is another's good, is a relative good. Consequently the love with which a thing is loved, that it may
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1241 have some good, is love simply; while the love, with which a thing is loved, that it may be another's good, is relative love.
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1242 </p>
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1243 <p id="FS_Q26_A4-p8">
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1244 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Love is not divided into friendship and concupiscence, but into love of friendship, and love of concupiscence. For a friend
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1245 is, properly speaking, one to whom we wish good: while we are said to desire, what we wish for ourselves.
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1246 </p>
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1247 <p id="FS_Q26_A4-p9"> Hence the Reply to the Second Objection.</p>
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1248 <p id="FS_Q26_A4-p10">
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1249 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> When friendship is based on usefulness or pleasure, a man does indeed wish his friend some good: and in this respect the
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1250 character of friendship is preserved. But since he refers this good further to his own pleasure or use, the result is that
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1251 friendship of the useful or pleasant, in so far as it is connected with love of concupiscence, loses the character to true
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1252 friendship.
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1253 </p>
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1254 <p id="FS_Q26_A4-p11"></p>
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1255 <p id="FS_Q26_A4-p12"></p>
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1256 <a href="summa.FS_Q26_A3.html"></a>
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1257 <a href="summa.FS_Q27.html"></a>
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1258 </div>
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1259 <a href="summa.FS_Q25_A4.html"></a>
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1260 <a href="summa.FS_Q26_A1.html"></a>
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1261 </div>
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1262 <div id="FS_Q27" class="div3">
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1263 <a href="summa.FS_Q26_A4.html"></a>
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1264 <a href="summa.FS_Q27_A1.html"></a>
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1265 <h3 id="FS_Q27-p0.1">OF THE CAUSE OF LOVE (FOUR ARTICLES)</h3>
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1266 <p id="FS_Q27-p1"></p>
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1267 <p id="FS_Q27-p2"> We must now consider the cause of love: and under this head there are four points of inquiry:</p>
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1268 <p id="FS_Q27-p3"> (1) Whether good is the only cause of love?</p>
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1269 <p id="FS_Q27-p4"> (2) Whether knowledge is a cause of love?</p>
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1270 <p id="FS_Q27-p5"> (3) Whether likeness is a cause of love?</p>
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1271 <p id="FS_Q27-p6"> (4) Whether any other passion of the soul is a cause of love?</p>
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1272 <div id="FS_Q27_A1" class="div4">
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1273 <a href="summa.FS_Q27.html"></a>
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1274 <a href="summa.FS_Q27_A2.html"></a>
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1275 <h4 id="FS_Q27_A1-p0.1">Whether good is the only cause of love?</h4>
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1276 <p id="FS_Q27_A1-p1"></p>
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1277 <p id="FS_Q27_A1-p2">
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1278 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that good is not the only cause of love. For good does not cause love, except because it is loved. But it happens
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1279 that evil also is loved, according to
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1280 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q27_A1-p2.1" href="./asv.html#Ps.10.6" target="asv"> Ps. 10:6</a>: "He that loveth iniquity, hateth his own soul": else, every love would be good. Therefore good is not the only cause of
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1281 love.
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1282 </p>
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1283 <p id="FS_Q27_A1-p3">
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1284 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, the Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 4) that "we love those who acknowledge their evils." Therefore it seems that evil
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1285 is the cause of love.
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1286 </p>
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1287 <p id="FS_Q27_A1-p4">
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1288 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, Dionysius says (Div. Nom. iv) that not "the good" only but also "the beautiful is beloved by all."
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1289 </p>
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1290 <p id="FS_Q27_A1-p5">
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1291 <b>On the contrary,</b> Augustine says (De Trin. viii, 3): "Assuredly the good alone is beloved." Therefore good alone is the cause of love.
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1292 </p>
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1293 <p id="FS_Q27_A1-p6">
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1294 <b>I answer that,</b> As stated above (
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1295 <a id="FS_Q27_A1-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q26_A1.html">Q[26], A[1]</a>), Love belongs to the appetitive power which is a passive faculty. Wherefore its object stands in relation to it as the cause
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1296 of its movement or act. Therefore the cause of love must needs be love's object. Now the proper object of love is the good;
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1297 because, as stated above (
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1298 <a id="FS_Q27_A1-p6.2" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q26_A1.html">Q[26], AA[1]</a>,2), love implies a certain connaturalness or complacency of the lover for the thing beloved,
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1299 and to everything, that thing is a good, which is akin and proportionate to it. It follows, therefore, that good is the proper
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1300 cause of love.
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1301 </p>
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1302 <p id="FS_Q27_A1-p7">
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1303 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Evil is never loved except under the aspect of good, that is to say, in so far as it is good in some respect, and is considered
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1304 as being good simply. And thus a certain love is evil, in so far as it tends to that which is not simply a true good. It is
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1305 in this way that man "loves iniquity," inasmuch as, by means of iniquity, some good is gained; pleasure, for instance, or
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1306 money, or such like.
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1307 </p>
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1308 <p id="FS_Q27_A1-p8">
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1309 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Those who acknowledge their evils, are beloved, not for their evils, but because they acknowledge them, for it is a good
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1310 thing to acknowledge one's faults, in so far as it excludes insincerity or hypocrisy.
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1311 </p>
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1312 <p id="FS_Q27_A1-p9">
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1313 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> The beautiful is the same as the good, and they differ in aspect only. For since good is what all seek, the notion of good
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1314 is that which calms the desire; while the notion of the beautiful is that which calms the desire, by being seen or known.
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1315 Consequently those senses chiefly regard the beautiful, which are the most cognitive, viz. sight and hearing, as ministering
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1316 to reason; for we speak of beautiful sights and beautiful sounds. But in reference to
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1317 the other objects of the other senses, we do not use the expression "beautiful," for we do not speak of beautiful tastes,
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1318 and beautiful odors. Thus it is evident that beauty adds to goodness a relation to the cognitive faculty: so that "good" means
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1319 that which simply pleases the appetite; while the "beautiful" is something pleasant to apprehend.
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1320 </p>
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1321 <p id="FS_Q27_A1-p10"></p>
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1322 <p id="FS_Q27_A1-p11"></p>
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1323 <a href="summa.FS_Q27.html"></a>
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1324 <a href="summa.FS_Q27_A2.html"></a>
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1325 </div>
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1326 <div id="FS_Q27_A2" class="div4">
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1327 <a href="summa.FS_Q27_A1.html"></a>
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1328 <a href="summa.FS_Q27_A3.html"></a>
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1329 <h4 id="FS_Q27_A2-p0.1">Whether knowledge is a cause of love?</h4>
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1330 <p id="FS_Q27_A2-p1"></p>
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1331 <p id="FS_Q27_A2-p2">
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1332 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that knowledge is not a cause of love. For it is due to love that a thing is sought. But some things are sought
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1333 without being known, for instance, the sciences; for since "to have them is the same as to know them," as Augustine says (QQ[83],
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1334 qu. 35), if we knew them we should have them, and should not seek them. Therefore knowledge is not the cause of love.
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1335 </p>
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1336 <p id="FS_Q27_A2-p3">
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1337 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, to love what we know not seems like loving something more than we know it. But some things are loved more than they
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1338 are known: thus in this life God can be loved in Himself, but cannot be known in Himself. Therefore knowledge is not the cause
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1339 of love.
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1340 </p>
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1341 <p id="FS_Q27_A2-p4">
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1342 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, if knowledge were the cause of love, there would be no love, where there is no knowledge. But in all things there
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1343 is love, as Dionysius says (Div. Nom. iv); whereas there is not knowledge in all things. Therefore knowledge is not the cause
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1344 of love.
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1345 </p>
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1346 <p id="FS_Q27_A2-p5">
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1347 <b>On the contrary,</b> Augustine proves (De Trin. x, 1,2) that "none can love what he does not know."
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1348 </p>
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1349 <p id="FS_Q27_A2-p6">
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1350 <b>I answer that,</b> As stated above
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1351 <a id="FS_Q27_A2-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q27_A1.html">(A[1])</a>, good is the cause of love, as being its object. But good is not the object of the appetite, except as apprehended. And therefore
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1352 love demands some apprehension of the good that is loved. For this reason the Philosopher (Ethic. ix, 5,12) says that bodily
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1353 sight is the beginning of sensitive love: and in like manner the contemplation of spiritual beauty or goodness is the beginning
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1354 of spiritual love. Accordingly
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1355 knowledge is the cause of love for the same reason as good is, which can be loved only if known.
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1356 </p>
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1357 <p id="FS_Q27_A2-p7">
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1358 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> He who seeks science, is not entirely without knowledge thereof: but knows something about it already in some respect, either
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1359 in a general way, or in some one of its effects, or from having heard it commended, as Augustine says (De Trin. x, 1,2). But
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1360 to have it is not to know it thus, but to know it perfectly.
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1361 </p>
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1362 <p id="FS_Q27_A2-p8">
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1363 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Something is required for the perfection of knowledge, that is not requisite for the perfection of love. For knowledge belongs
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1364 to the reason, whose function it is to distinguish things which in reality are united, and to unite together, after a fashion,
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1365 things that are distinct, by comparing one with another. Consequently the perfection of knowledge requires that man should
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1366 know distinctly all that is in a thing, such as its parts, powers, and
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1367 properties. On the other hand, love is in the appetitive power, which regards a thing as it is in itself: wherefore it suffices,
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1368 for the perfection of love, that a thing be loved according as it is known in itself. Hence it is, therefore, that a thing
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1369 is loved more than it is known; since it can be loved perfectly, even without being perfectly known. This is most evident
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1370 in regard to the sciences, which some love through having a certain general knowledge of them: for instance, they know that
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1371 rhetoric is a science that enables man to persuade others; and this is what they love in rhetoric. The same applies to the
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1372 love of God.
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1373 </p>
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1374 <p id="FS_Q27_A2-p9">
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1375 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Even natural love, which is in all things, is caused by a kind of knowledge, not indeed existing in natural things themselves,
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1376 but in Him Who created their nature, as stated above (Q[26], A[1]; cf.
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1377 <a id="FS_Q27_A2-p9.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FP_Q6_A1.html">FP, Q[6], A[1]</a>, ad 2).
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1378 </p>
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1379 <p id="FS_Q27_A2-p10"></p>
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1380 <p id="FS_Q27_A2-p11"></p>
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1381 <a href="summa.FS_Q27_A1.html"></a>
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1382 <a href="summa.FS_Q27_A3.html"></a>
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1383 </div>
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1384 <div id="FS_Q27_A3" class="div4">
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1385 <a href="summa.FS_Q27_A2.html"></a>
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1386 <a href="summa.FS_Q27_A4.html"></a>
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1387 <h4 id="FS_Q27_A3-p0.1">Whether likeness is a cause of love?</h4>
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1388 <p id="FS_Q27_A3-p1"></p>
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1389 <p id="FS_Q27_A3-p2">
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1390 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that likeness is not a cause of love. For the same thing is not the cause of contraries. But likeness is the
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1391 cause of hatred; for it is written (
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1392 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q27_A3-p2.1" href="./asv.html#Prov.13.10" target="asv">Prov. 13:10</a>) that "among the proud there are always contentions"; and the Philosopher says (Ethic. viii, 1) that "potters quarrel with
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1393 one another." Therefore likeness is not a cause of love.
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1394 </p>
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1395 <p id="FS_Q27_A3-p3">
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1396 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, Augustine says (Confess. iv, 14) that "a man loves in another that which he would not be himself: thus he loves
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1397 an actor, but would not himself be an actor." But it would not be so, if likeness were the proper cause of love; for in that
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1398 case a man would love in another, that which he possesses himself, or would like to possess. Therefore likeness is not a cause
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1399 of love.
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1400 </p>
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1401 <p id="FS_Q27_A3-p4">
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1402 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, everyone loves that which he needs, even if he have it not: thus a sick man loves health, and a poor man loves riches.
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1403 But in so far as he needs them and lacks them, he is unlike them. Therefore not only likeness but also unlikeness is a cause
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1404 of love.
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1405 </p>
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1406 <p id="FS_Q27_A3-p5">
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1407 <b>Objection 4:</b> Further, the Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 4) that "we love those who bestow money and health on us; and also those who retain
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1408 their friendship for the dead." But all are not such. Therefore likeness is not a cause of love.
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1409 </p>
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1410 <p id="FS_Q27_A3-p6">
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1411 <b>On the contrary,</b> It is written (
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1412 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q27_A3-p6.1" href="./asv.html#Sir.13.19" target="asv">Ecclus. 13:19</a>): "Every beast loveth its like."
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1413 </p>
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1414 <p id="FS_Q27_A3-p7">
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1415 <b>I answer that,</b> Likeness, properly speaking, is a cause of love. But it must be observed that likeness between things is twofold. One kind
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1416 of likeness arises from each thing having the same quality actually: for example, two things possessing the quality of whiteness
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1417 are said to be alike. Another kind of likeness arises from one thing having potentially and by way of inclination, a quality
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1418 which the other has actually: thus we may say that a heavy body existing outside its
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1419 proper place is like another heavy body that exists in its proper place: or again, according as potentiality bears a resemblance
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1420 to its act; since act is contained, in a manner, in the potentiality itself.
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1421 </p>
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1422 <p id="FS_Q27_A3-p8"> Accordingly the first kind of likeness causes love of friendship or well-being. For the very fact that two men are alike,
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1423 having, as it were, one form, makes them to be, in a manner, one in that form: thus two men are one thing in the species of
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1424 humanity, and two white men are one thing in whiteness. Hence the affections of one tend to the other, as being one with him;
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1425 and he wishes good to him as to himself. But the second kind of likeness causes love of concupiscence, or
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1426 friendship founded on usefulness or pleasure: because whatever is in potentiality, as such, has the desire for its act; and
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1427 it takes pleasure in its realization, if it be a sentient and cognitive being.
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1428 </p>
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1429 <p id="FS_Q27_A3-p9"> Now it has been stated above (
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1430 <a id="FS_Q27_A3-p9.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q26_A4.html">Q[26], A[4]</a>), that in the love of concupiscence, the lover, properly speaking, loves himself, in willing the good that he desires. But
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1431 a man loves himself more than another: because he is one with himself substantially, whereas with another he is one only in
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1432 the likeness of some form. Consequently, if this other's likeness to him arising from the participation of a form, hinders
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1433 him from gaining the good that he loves, he
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1434 becomes hateful to him, not for being like him, but for hindering him from gaining his own good. This is why "potters quarrel
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1435 among themselves," because they hinder one another's gain: and why "there are contentions among the proud," because they hinder
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1436 one another in attaining the position they covet.
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1437 </p>
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1438 <p id="FS_Q27_A3-p10"> Hence the Reply to the First Objection is evident.</p>
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1439 <p id="FS_Q27_A3-p11">
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1440 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Even when a man loves in another what he loves not in himself, there is a certain likeness of proportion: because as the
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1441 latter is to that which is loved in him, so is the former to that which he loves in himself: for instance, if a good singer
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1442 love a good writer, we can see a likeness of proportion, inasmuch as each one has that which is becoming to him in respect
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1443 of his art.
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1444 </p>
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1445 <p id="FS_Q27_A3-p12">
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1446 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> He that loves what he needs, bears a likeness to what he loves, as potentiality bears a likeness to its act, as stated above.
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1447 </p>
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1448 <p id="FS_Q27_A3-p13">
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1449 <b>Reply to Objection 4:</b> According to the same likeness of potentiality to its act, the illiberal man loves the man who is liberal, in so far as he
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1450 expects from him something which he desires. The same applies to the man who is constant in his friendship as compared to
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1451 one who is inconstant. For in either case friendship seems to be based on usefulness. We might also say that although not
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1452 all men have these virtues in the complete habit, yet they have them according to
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1453 certain seminal principles in the reason, in force of which principles the man who is not virtuous loves the virtuous man,
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1454 as being in conformity with his own natural reason.
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1455 </p>
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1456 <p id="FS_Q27_A3-p14"></p>
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1457 <p id="FS_Q27_A3-p15"></p>
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1458 <a href="summa.FS_Q27_A2.html"></a>
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1459 <a href="summa.FS_Q27_A4.html"></a>
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1460 </div>
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1461 <div id="FS_Q27_A4" class="div4">
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1462 <a href="summa.FS_Q27_A3.html"></a>
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1463 <a href="summa.FS_Q28.html"></a>
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1464 <h4 id="FS_Q27_A4-p0.1">Whether any other passion of the soul is a cause of love?</h4>
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1465 <p id="FS_Q27_A4-p1"></p>
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1466 <p id="FS_Q27_A4-p2">
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1467 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that some other passion can be the cause of love. For the Philosopher (Ethic. viii, 3) says that some are loved
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1468 for the sake of the pleasure they give. But pleasure is a passion. Therefore another passion is a cause of love.
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1469 </p>
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1470 <p id="FS_Q27_A4-p3">
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1471 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, desire is a passion. But we love some because we desire to receive something from them: as happens in every friendship
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1472 based on usefulness. Therefore another passion is a cause of love.
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1473 </p>
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1474 <p id="FS_Q27_A4-p4">
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1475 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, Augustine says (De Trin. x, 1): "When we have no hope of getting a thing, we love it but half-heartedly or not at
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1476 all, even if we see how beautiful it is." Therefore hope too is a cause of love.
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1477 </p>
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1478 <p id="FS_Q27_A4-p5">
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1479 <b>On the contrary,</b> All the other emotions of the soul are caused by love, as Augustine says (De Civ. Dei xiv, 7,9).
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1480 </p>
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1481 <p id="FS_Q27_A4-p6">
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1482 <b>I answer that,</b> There is no other passion of the soul that does not presuppose love of some kind. The reason is that every other passion
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1483 of the soul implies either movement towards something, or rest in something. Now every movement towards something, or rest
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1484 in something, arises from some kinship or aptness to that thing; and in this does love consist. Therefore it is not possible
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1485 for any other passion of the soul to be universally the cause of every love. But it may
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1486 happen that some other passion is the cause of some particular love: just as one good is the cause of another.
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1487 </p>
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1488 <p id="FS_Q27_A4-p7">
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1489 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> When a man loves a thing for the pleasure it affords, his love is indeed caused by pleasure; but that very pleasure is caused,
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1490 in its turn, by another preceding love; for none takes pleasure save in that which is loved in some way.
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1491 </p>
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1492 <p id="FS_Q27_A4-p8">
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1493 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Desire for a thing always presupposes love for that thing. But desire of one thing can be the cause of another thing's being
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1494 loved; thus he that desires money, for this reason loves him from whom he receives it.
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1495 </p>
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1496 <p id="FS_Q27_A4-p9">
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1497 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Hope causes or increases love; both by reason of pleasure, because it causes pleasure; and by reason of desire, because hope
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1498 strengthens desire, since we do not desire so intensely that which we have no hope of receiving. Nevertheless hope itself
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1499 is of a good that is loved.
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1500 </p>
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1501 <p id="FS_Q27_A4-p10"></p>
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1502 <p id="FS_Q27_A4-p11"></p>
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1503 <a href="summa.FS_Q27_A3.html"></a>
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1504 <a href="summa.FS_Q28.html"></a>
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1505 </div>
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1506 <a href="summa.FS_Q26_A4.html"></a>
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1507 <a href="summa.FS_Q27_A1.html"></a>
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1508 </div>
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1509 <div id="FS_Q28" class="div3">
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1510 <a href="summa.FS_Q27_A4.html"></a>
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1511 <a href="summa.FS_Q28_A1.html"></a>
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1512 <h3 id="FS_Q28-p0.1">OF THE EFFECTS OF LOVE (SIX ARTICLES)</h3>
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1513 <p id="FS_Q28-p1"></p>
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1514 <p id="FS_Q28-p2"> We now have to consider the effects of love: under which head there are six points of inquiry:</p>
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1515 <p id="FS_Q28-p3"> (1) Whether union is an effect of love?</p>
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1516 <p id="FS_Q28-p4"> (2) Whether mutual indwelling is an effect of love?</p>
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1517 <p id="FS_Q28-p5"> (3) Whether ecstasy is an effect of love?</p>
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1518 <p id="FS_Q28-p6"> (4) Whether zeal is an effect of love?</p>
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1519 <p id="FS_Q28-p7"> (5) Whether love is a passion that is hurtful to the lover?</p>
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1520 <p id="FS_Q28-p8"> (6) Whether love is cause of all that the lover does?</p>
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1521 <div id="FS_Q28_A1" class="div4">
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1522 <a href="summa.FS_Q28.html"></a>
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1523 <a href="summa.FS_Q28_A2.html"></a>
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1524 <h4 id="FS_Q28_A1-p0.1">Whether union is an effect of love?</h4>
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1525 <p id="FS_Q28_A1-p1"></p>
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1526 <p id="FS_Q28_A1-p2">
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1527 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that union is not an effect of love. For absence is incompatible with union. But love is compatible with absence;
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1528 for the Apostle says (
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1529 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q28_A1-p2.1" href="./asv.html#Gal.4.18" target="asv">Gal. 4:18</a>): "Be zealous for that which is good in a good thing always" (speaking of himself, according to a gloss), "and not only when
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1530 I am present with you." Therefore union is not an effect of love.
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1531 </p>
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1532 <p id="FS_Q28_A1-p3">
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1533 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, every union is either according to essence, thus form is united to matter, accident to subject, and a part to the
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1534 whole, or to another part in order to make up the whole: or according to likeness, in genus, species, or accident. But love
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1535 does not cause union of essence; else love could not be between things essentially distinct. On the other hand, love does
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1536 not cause union of likeness, but rather is caused by it, as stated above (
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1537 <a id="FS_Q28_A1-p3.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q27_A3.html">Q[27], A[3]</a>). Therefore union is not an effect of love.
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1538 </p>
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1539 <p id="FS_Q28_A1-p4">
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1540 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, the sense in act is the sensible in act, and the intellect in act is the thing actually understood. But the lover
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1541 in act is not the beloved in act. Therefore union is the effect of knowledge rather than of love.
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1542 </p>
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1543 <p id="FS_Q28_A1-p5">
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1544 <b>On the contrary,</b> Dionysius says (Div. Nom. iv) that every love is a "unitive love."
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1545 </p>
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1546 <p id="FS_Q28_A1-p6">
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1547 <b>I answer that,</b> The union of lover and beloved is twofold. The first is real union; for instance, when the beloved is present with the lover.
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1548 The second is union of affection: and this union must be considered in relation to the preceding apprehension; since movement
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1549 of the appetite follows apprehension. Now love being twofold, viz. love of concupiscence and love of friendship; each of these
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1550 arises from a kind of apprehension of the oneness of the thing loved with the
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1551 lover. For when we love a thing, by desiring it, we apprehend it as belonging to our well-being. In like manner when a man
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1552 loves another with the love of friendship, he wills good to him, just as he wills good to himself: wherefore he apprehends
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1553 him as his other self, in so far, to wit, as he wills good to him as to himself. Hence a friend is called a man's "other self"
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1554 (Ethic. ix, 4), and Augustine says (Confess. iv, 6), "Well did one say to his friend: Thou half of my soul."
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1555 </p>
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1556 <p id="FS_Q28_A1-p7"> The first of these unions is caused "effectively" by love; because love moves man to desire and seek the presence of the
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1557 beloved, as of something suitable and belonging to him. The second union is caused "formally" by love; because love itself
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1558 is this union or bond. In this sense Augustine says (De Trin. viii, 10) that "love is a vital principle uniting, or seeking
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1559 to unite two together, the lover, to wit, and the beloved." For in describing it as "uniting" he refers to the
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1560 union of affection, without which there is no love: and in saying that "it seeks to unite," he refers to real union.
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1561 </p>
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1562 <p id="FS_Q28_A1-p8">
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1563 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> This argument is true of real union. That is necessary to pleasure as being its cause; desire implies the real absence of
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1564 the beloved: but love remains whether the beloved be absent or present.
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1565 </p>
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1566 <p id="FS_Q28_A1-p9">
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1567 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Union has a threefold relation to love. There is union which causes love; and this is substantial union, as regards the love
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1568 with which one loves oneself; while as regards the love wherewith one loves other things, it is the union of likeness, as
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1569 stated above (
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1570 <a id="FS_Q28_A1-p9.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q27_A3.html">Q[27], A[3]</a>). There is also a union which is essentially love itself. This union is according to a bond of affection, and is likened
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1571 to substantial union, inasmuch as
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1572 the lover stands to the object of his love, as to himself, if it be love of friendship; as to something belonging to himself,
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1573 if it be love of concupiscence. Again there is a union, which is the effect of love. This is real union, which the lover seeks
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1574 with the object of his love. Moreover this union is in keeping with the demands of love: for as the Philosopher relates (Polit.
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1575 ii, 1), "Aristophanes stated that lovers would wish to be united both into one," but since "this would result in
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1576 either one or both being destroyed," they seek a suitable and becoming union---to live together, speak together, and be united
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1577 together in other like things.
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1578 </p>
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1579 <p id="FS_Q28_A1-p10">
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1580 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Knowledge is perfected by the thing known being united, through its likeness, to the knower. But the effect of love is that
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1581 the thing itself which is loved, is, in a way, united to the lover, as stated above. Consequently the union caused by love
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1582 is closer than that which is caused by knowledge.
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1583 </p>
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1584 <p id="FS_Q28_A1-p11"></p>
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1585 <p id="FS_Q28_A1-p12"></p>
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1586 <a href="summa.FS_Q28.html"></a>
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1587 <a href="summa.FS_Q28_A2.html"></a>
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1588 </div>
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1589 <div id="FS_Q28_A2" class="div4">
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1590 <a href="summa.FS_Q28_A1.html"></a>
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1591 <a href="summa.FS_Q28_A3.html"></a>
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1592 <h4 id="FS_Q28_A2-p0.1">Whether mutual indwelling is an effect of love?</h4>
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1593 <p id="FS_Q28_A2-p1"></p>
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1594 <p id="FS_Q28_A2-p2">
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1595 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that love does not cause mutual indwelling, so that the lover be in the beloved and vice versa. For that which
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1596 is in another is contained in it. But the same cannot be container and contents. Therefore love cannot cause mutual indwelling,
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1597 so that the lover be in the beloved and vice versa.
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1598 </p>
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1599 <p id="FS_Q28_A2-p3">
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1600 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, nothing can penetrate within a whole, except by means of a division of the whole. But it is the function of the
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1601 reason, not of the appetite where love resides, to divide things that are really united. Therefore mutual indwelling is not
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1602 an effect of love.
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1603 </p>
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1604 <p id="FS_Q28_A2-p4">
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1605 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, if love involves the lover being in the beloved and vice versa, it follows that the beloved is united to the lover,
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1606 in the same way as the lover is united to the beloved. But the union itself is love, as stated above
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1607 <a id="FS_Q28_A2-p4.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q28_A1.html">(A[1])</a>. Therefore it follows that the lover is always loved by the object of his love; which is evidently false. Therefore mutual
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1608 indwelling is not an effect of love.
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1609 </p>
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1610 <p id="FS_Q28_A2-p5">
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1611 <b>On the contrary,</b> It is written (
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1612 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q28_A2-p5.1" href="./asv.html#iJohn.4.16" target="asv">1 Jn. 4:16</a>): "He that abideth in charity abideth in God, and God in him." Now charity is the love of God. Therefore, for the same reason,
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1613 every love makes the beloved to be in the lover, and vice versa.
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1614 </p>
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1615 <p id="FS_Q28_A2-p6">
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1616 <b>I answer that,</b> This effect of mutual indwelling may be understood as referring both to the apprehensive and to the appetitive power. Because,
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1617 as to the apprehensive power, the beloved is said to be in the lover, inasmuch as the beloved abides in the apprehension of
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1618 the lover, according to
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1619 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q28_A2-p6.1" href="./asv.html#Phil.1.7" target="asv"> Phil. 1:7, </a> "For that I have you in my heart": while the lover is said to be in the beloved, according to apprehension, inasmuch as the
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1620 lover is not satisfied with a
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1621 superficial apprehension of the beloved, but strives to gain an intimate knowledge of everything pertaining to the beloved,
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1622 so as to penetrate into his very soul. Thus it is written concerning the Holy Ghost, Who is God's Love, that He "searcheth
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1623 all things, yea the deep things of God" (
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1624 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q28_A2-p6.2" href="./asv.html#iCor.2.10" target="asv">1 Cor. 2:10</a>).
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1625 </p>
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1626 <p id="FS_Q28_A2-p7"> As the appetitive power, the object loved is said to be in the lover, inasmuch as it is in his affections, by a kind of complacency:
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1627 causing him either to take pleasure in it, or in its good, when present; or, in the absence of the object loved, by his longing,
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1628 to tend towards it with the love of concupiscence, or towards the good that he wills to the beloved, with the love of friendship:
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1629 not indeed from any extrinsic cause (as when we desire one thing on account of another, or
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1630 wish good to another on account of something else), but because the complacency in the beloved is rooted in the lover's heart.
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1631 For this reason we speak of love as being "intimate"; and "of the bowels of charity." On the other hand, the lover is in the
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1632 beloved, by the love of concupiscence and by the love of friendship, but not in the same way. For the love of concupiscence
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1633 is not satisfied with any external or superficial possession or enjoyment of the beloved; but seeks to possess the beloved
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1634 perfectly, by penetrating into his heart, as it were. Whereas, in the love of friendship, the lover is in the beloved, inasmuch
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1635 as he reckons what is good or evil to his friend, as being so to himself; and his friend's will as his own, so that it seems
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1636 as though he felt the good or suffered the evil in the person of his friend. Hence it is proper to friends "to desire the
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1637 same things, and to grieve and rejoice at the same," as the Philosopher says (Ethic. ix, 3 and Rhet. ii, 4). Consequently
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1638 in
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1639 so far as he reckons what affects his friend as affecting himself, the lover seems to be in the beloved, as though he were
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1640 become one with him: but in so far as, on the other hand, he wills and acts for his friend's sake as for his own sake, looking
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1641 on his friend as identified with himself, thus the beloved is in the lover.
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1642 </p>
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1643 <p id="FS_Q28_A2-p8"> In yet a third way, mutual indwelling in the love of friendship can be understood in regard to reciprocal love: inasmuch
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1644 as friends return love for love, and both desire and do good things for one another.
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1645 </p>
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1646 <p id="FS_Q28_A2-p9">
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1647 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> The beloved is contained in the lover, by being impressed on his heart and thus becoming the object of his complacency. On
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1648 the other hand, the lover is contained in the beloved, inasmuch as the lover penetrates, so to speak, into the beloved. For
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1649 nothing hinders a thing from being both container and contents in different ways: just as a genus is contained in its species,
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1650 and vice versa.
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1651 </p>
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1652 <p id="FS_Q28_A2-p10">
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1653 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> The apprehension of the reason precedes the movement of love. Consequently, just as the reason divides, so does the movement
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1654 of love penetrate into the beloved, as was explained above.
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1655 </p>
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1656 <p id="FS_Q28_A2-p11">
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1657 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> This argument is true of the third kind of mutual indwelling, which is not to be found in every kind of love.
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1658 </p>
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1659 <p id="FS_Q28_A2-p12"></p>
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1660 <p id="FS_Q28_A2-p13"></p>
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1661 <a href="summa.FS_Q28_A1.html"></a>
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1662 <a href="summa.FS_Q28_A3.html"></a>
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1663 </div>
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1664 <div id="FS_Q28_A3" class="div4">
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1665 <a href="summa.FS_Q28_A2.html"></a>
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1666 <a href="summa.FS_Q28_A4.html"></a>
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1667 <h4 id="FS_Q28_A3-p0.1">Whether ecstasy is an effect of love?</h4>
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1668 <p id="FS_Q28_A3-p1"></p>
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1669 <p id="FS_Q28_A3-p2">
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1670 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that ecstasy is not an effect of love. For ecstasy seems to imply loss of reason. But love does not always
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1671 result in loss of reason: for lovers are masters of themselves at times. Therefore love does not cause ecstasy.
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1672 </p>
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1673 <p id="FS_Q28_A3-p3">
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1674 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, the lover desires the beloved to be united to him. Therefore he draws the beloved to himself, rather than betakes
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1675 himself into the beloved, going forth out from himself as it were.
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1676 </p>
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1677 <p id="FS_Q28_A3-p4">
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1678 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, love unites the beloved to the lover, as stated above
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1679 <a id="FS_Q28_A3-p4.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q28_A1.html">(A[1])</a>. If, therefore, the lover goes out from himself, in order to betake himself into the beloved, it follows that the lover always
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1680 loves the beloved more than himself: which is evidently false. Therefore ecstasy is not an effect of love.
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1681 </p>
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1682 <p id="FS_Q28_A3-p5">
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1683 <b>On the contrary,</b> Dionysius says (Div. Nom. iv) that "the Divine love produces ecstasy," and that "God Himself suffered ecstasy through love."
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1684 Since therefore according to the same author (Div. Nom. iv), every love is a participated likeness of the Divine Love, it
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1685 seems that every love causes ecstasy.
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1686 </p>
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1687 <p id="FS_Q28_A3-p6">
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1688 <b>I answer that,</b> To suffer ecstasy means to be placed outside oneself. This happens as to the apprehensive power and as to the appetitive
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1689 power. As to the apprehensive power, a man is said to be placed outside himself, when he is placed outside the knowledge proper
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1690 to him. This may be due to his being raised to a higher knowledge; thus, a man is said to suffer ecstasy, inasmuch as he is
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1691 placed outside the connatural apprehension of his sense and reason, when he is raised up
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1692 so as to comprehend things that surpass sense and reason: or it may be due to his being cast down into a state of debasement;
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1693 thus a man may be said to suffer ecstasy, when he is overcome by violent passion or madness. As to the appetitive power, a
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1694 man is said to suffer ecstasy, when that power is borne towards something else, so that it goes forth out from itself, as
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1695 it were.
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1696 </p>
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1697 <p id="FS_Q28_A3-p7"> The first of these ecstasies is caused by love dispositively in so far, namely, as love makes the lover dwell on the beloved,
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1698 as stated above
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1699 <a id="FS_Q28_A3-p7.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q28_A2.html">(A[2])</a>, and to dwell intently on one thing draws the mind from other things. The second ecstasy is caused by love directly; by love
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1700 of friendship, simply; by love of concupiscence not simply but in a restricted sense. Because in love of concupiscence, the
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1701 lover is carried out of himself, in a certain sense; in so
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1702 far, namely, as not being satisfied with enjoying the good that he has, he seeks to enjoy something outside himself. But since
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1703 he seeks to have this extrinsic good for himself, he does not go out from himself simply, and this movement remains finally
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1704 within him. On the other hand, in the love of friendship, a man's affection goes out from itself simply; because he wishes
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1705 and does good to his friend, by caring and providing for him, for his sake.
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1706 </p>
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1707 <p id="FS_Q28_A3-p8">
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1708 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> This argument is true of the first kind of ecstasy.
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1709 </p>
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1710 <p id="FS_Q28_A3-p9">
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1711 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> This argument applies to love of concupiscence, which, as stated above, does not cause ecstasy simply.
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1712 </p>
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1713 <p id="FS_Q28_A3-p10">
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1714 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> He who loves, goes out from himself, in so far as he wills the good of his friend and works for it. Yet he does not will
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1715 the good of his friend more than his own good: and so it does not follow that he loves another more than himself.
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1716 </p>
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1717 <p id="FS_Q28_A3-p11"></p>
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1718 <p id="FS_Q28_A3-p12"></p>
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1719 <a href="summa.FS_Q28_A2.html"></a>
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1720 <a href="summa.FS_Q28_A4.html"></a>
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1721 </div>
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1722 <div id="FS_Q28_A4" class="div4">
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1723 <a href="summa.FS_Q28_A3.html"></a>
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1724 <a href="summa.FS_Q28_A5.html"></a>
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1725 <h4 id="FS_Q28_A4-p0.1">Whether zeal is an effect of love?</h4>
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1726 <p id="FS_Q28_A4-p1"></p>
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1727 <p id="FS_Q28_A4-p2">
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1728 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention; wherefore it is written (
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1729 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q28_A4-p2.1" href="./asv.html#iCor.3.3" target="asv">1 Cor. 3:3</a>): "Whereas there is among you zeal [Douay: 'envying'] and contention," etc. But contention is incompatible with love. Therefore
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1730 zeal is not an effect of love.
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1731 </p>
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1732 <p id="FS_Q28_A4-p3">
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1733 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, the object of love is the good, which communicates itself to others. But zeal is opposed to communication; since
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1734 it seems an effect of zeal, that a man refuses to share the object of his love with another: thus husbands are said to be
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1735 jealous of [zelare] their wives, because they will not share them with others. Therefore zeal is not an effect of love.
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1736 </p>
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1737 <p id="FS_Q28_A4-p4">
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1738 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, there is no zeal without hatred, as neither is there without love: for it is written (
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1739 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q28_A4-p4.1" href="./asv.html#Ps.72.3" target="asv">Ps. 72:3</a>): "I had a zeal on occasion of the wicked." Therefore it should not be set down as an effect of love any more than of hatred.
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1740 </p>
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1741 <p id="FS_Q28_A4-p5">
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1742 <b>On the contrary,</b> Dionysius says (Div. Nom. iv): "God is said to be a zealot, on account of his great love for all things."
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1743 </p>
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1744 <p id="FS_Q28_A4-p6">
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1745 <b>I answer that,</b> Zeal, whatever way we take it, arises from the intensity of love. For it is evident that the more intensely a power tends
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1746 to anything, the more vigorously it withstands opposition or resistance. Since therefore love is "a movement towards the object
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1747 loved," as Augustine says (QQ. 83, qu. 35), an intense love seeks to remove everything that opposes it.
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1748 </p>
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1749 <p id="FS_Q28_A4-p7"> But this happens in different ways according to love of concupiscence, and love of friendship. For in love of concupiscence
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1750 he who desires something intensely, is moved against all that hinders his gaining or quietly enjoying the object of his love.
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1751 It is thus that husbands are said to be jealous of their wives, lest association with others prove a hindrance to their exclusive
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1752 individual rights. In like manner those who seek to excel, are moved against those who seem to excel,
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1753 as though these were a hindrance to their excelling. And this is the zeal of envy, of which it is written (
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1754 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q28_A4-p7.1" href="./asv.html#Ps.36.1" target="asv">Ps. 36:1</a>): "Be not emulous of evil doers, nor envy [zelaveris] them that work iniquity."
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1755 </p>
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1756 <p id="FS_Q28_A4-p8"> On the other hand, love of friendship seeks the friend's good: wherefore, when it is intense, it causes a man to be moved
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1757 against everything that opposes the friend's good. In this respect, a man is said to be zealous on behalf of his friend, when
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1758 he makes a point of repelling whatever may be said or done against the friend's good. In this way, too, a man is said to be
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1759 zealous on God's behalf, when he endeavors, to the best of his means, to repel whatever is contrary to the
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1760 honor or will of God; according to
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1761 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q28_A4-p8.1" href="./asv.html#." target="asv">3 Kings 19:14</a>: "With zeal I have been zealous for the Lord of hosts." Again on the words of
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1762 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q28_A4-p8.2" href="./asv.html#John.2.17" target="asv"> Jn. 2:17</a>: "The zeal of Thy house hath eaten me up," a gloss says that "a man is eaten up with a good zeal, who strives to remedy whatever
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1763 evil he perceives; and if he cannot, bears with it and laments it."
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1764 </p>
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1765 <p id="FS_Q28_A4-p9">
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1766 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> The Apostle is speaking in this passage of the zeal of envy; which is indeed the cause of contention, not against the object
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1767 of love, but for it, and against that which is opposed to it.
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1768 </p>
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1769 <p id="FS_Q28_A4-p10">
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1770 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Good is loved inasmuch as it can be communicated to the lover. Consequently whatever hinders the perfection of this communication,
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1771 becomes hateful. Thus zeal arises from love of good. But through defect of goodness, it happens that certain small goods cannot,
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1772 in their entirety, be possessed by many at the same time: and from the love of such things arises the zeal of envy. But it
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1773 does not arise, properly speaking, in the case of those things which, in
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1774 their entirety, can be possessed by many: for no one envies another the knowledge of truth, which can be known entirely by
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1775 many; except perhaps one may envy another his superiority in the knowledge of it.
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1776 </p>
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1777 <p id="FS_Q28_A4-p11">
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1778 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> The very fact that a man hates whatever is opposed to the object of his love, is the effect of love. Hence zeal is set down
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1779 as an effect of love rather than of hatred.
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1780 </p>
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1781 <p id="FS_Q28_A4-p12"></p>
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1782 <p id="FS_Q28_A4-p13"></p>
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1783 <a href="summa.FS_Q28_A3.html"></a>
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1784 <a href="summa.FS_Q28_A5.html"></a>
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1785 </div>
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1786 <div id="FS_Q28_A5" class="div4">
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1787 <a href="summa.FS_Q28_A4.html"></a>
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1788 <a href="summa.FS_Q28_A6.html"></a>
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1789 <h4 id="FS_Q28_A5-p0.1">Whether love is a passion that wounds the lover?</h4>
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1790 <p id="FS_Q28_A5-p1"></p>
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1791 <p id="FS_Q28_A5-p2">
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1792 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that love wounds the lover. For languor denotes a hurt in the one that languishes. But love causes languor:
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1793 for it is written (
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1794 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q28_A5-p2.1" href="./asv.html#Song.2.5" target="asv">Cant 2:5</a>): "Stay me up with flowers, compass me about with apples; because I languish with love." Therefore love is a wounding passion.
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1795 </p>
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1796 <p id="FS_Q28_A5-p3">
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1797 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, melting is a kind of dissolution. But love melts that in which it is: for it is written (
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1798 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q28_A5-p3.1" href="./asv.html#Song.5.6" target="asv">Cant 5:6</a>): "My soul melted when my beloved spoke." Therefore love is a dissolvent: therefore it is a corruptive and a wounding passion.
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1799 </p>
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1800 <p id="FS_Q28_A5-p4">
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1801 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, fervor denotes a certain excess of heat; which excess has a corruptive effect. But love causes fervor: for Dionysius
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1802 (Coel. Hier. vii) in reckoning the properties belonging to the Seraphim's love, includes "hot" and "piercing" and "most fervent."
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1803 Moreover it is said of love (
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1804 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q28_A5-p4.1" href="./asv.html#Song.8.6" target="asv">Cant 8:6</a>) that "its lamps are fire and flames." Therefore love is a wounding and corruptive passion.
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1805 </p>
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1806 <p id="FS_Q28_A5-p5">
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1807 <b>On the contrary,</b> Dionysius says (Div. Nom. iv) that "everything loves itself with a love that holds it together," i.e. that preserves it.
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1808 Therefore love is not a wounding passion, but rather one that preserves and perfects.
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1809 </p>
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1810 <p id="FS_Q28_A5-p6">
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1811 <b>I answer that,</b> As stated above (
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1812 <a id="FS_Q28_A5-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q26_A1.html">Q[26], AA[1]</a>,2;
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1813 <a id="FS_Q28_A5-p6.2" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q27_A1.html"> Q[27], A[1]</a>), love denotes a certain adapting of the appetitive power to some good. Now nothing is hurt by being adapted to that which
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1814 is suitable to it; rather, if possible, it is perfected and bettered. But if a thing be adapted to that which is not suitable
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1815 to it, it is hurt and made worse thereby. Consequently love of a suitable good perfects and betters the lover; but
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1816 love of a good which is unsuitable to the lover, wounds and worsens him. Wherefore man is perfected and bettered chiefly by
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1817 the love of God: but is wounded and worsened by the love of sin, according to
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1818 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q28_A5-p6.3" href="./asv.html#Hos.9.10" target="asv"> Osee 9:10</a>: "They became abominable, as those things which they loved."
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1819 </p>
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1820 <p id="FS_Q28_A5-p7"> And let this be understood as applying to love in respect of its formal element, i.e. in regard to the appetite. But in respect
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1821 of the material element in the passion of love, i.e. a certain bodily change, it happens that love is hurtful, by reason of
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1822 this change being excessive: just as it happens in the senses, and in every act of a power of the soul that is exercised through
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1823 the change of some bodily organ.
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1824 </p>
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1825 <p id="FS_Q28_A5-p8"> In reply to the objections, it is to be observed that four proximate effects may be ascribed to love: viz. melting, enjoyment,
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1826 languor, and fervor. Of these the first is "melting," which is opposed to freezing. For things that are frozen, are closely
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1827 bound together, so as to be hard to pierce. But it belongs to love that the appetite is fitted to receive the good which is
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1828 loved, inasmuch as the object loved is in the lover, as stated above
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1829 <a id="FS_Q28_A5-p8.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q28_A2.html">(A[2])</a>.
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1830 Consequently the freezing or hardening of the heart is a disposition incompatible with love: while melting denotes a softening
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1831 of the heart, whereby the heart shows itself to be ready for the entrance of the beloved. If, then, the beloved is present
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1832 and possessed, pleasure or enjoyment ensues. But if the beloved be absent, two passions arise; viz. sadness at its absence,
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1833 which is denoted by "languor" (hence Cicero in De Tusc. Quaest. iii, 11 applies the term "ailment" chiefly to sadness); and
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1834 an intense desire to possess the beloved, which is signified by "fervor." And these are the effects of love considered formally,
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1835 according to the relation of the appetitive power to its object. But in the passion of love, other effects ensue, proportionate
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1836 to the above, in respect of a change in the organ.
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1837 </p>
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1838 <p id="FS_Q28_A5-p9"></p>
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1839 <p id="FS_Q28_A5-p10"></p>
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1840 <a href="summa.FS_Q28_A4.html"></a>
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1841 <a href="summa.FS_Q28_A6.html"></a>
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1842 </div>
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1843 <div id="FS_Q28_A6" class="div4">
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1844 <a href="summa.FS_Q28_A5.html"></a>
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1845 <a href="summa.FS_Q29.html"></a>
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1846 <h4 id="FS_Q28_A6-p0.1">Whether love is cause of all that the lover does?</h4>
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1847 <p id="FS_Q28_A6-p1"></p>
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1848 <p id="FS_Q28_A6-p2">
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1849 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that the lover does not do everything from love. For love is a passion, as stated above (
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1850 <a id="FS_Q28_A6-p2.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q26_A2.html">Q[26], A[2]</a>). But man does not do everything from passion: but some things he does from choice, and some things from ignorance, as stated
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1851 in Ethic. v, 8. Therefore not everything that a man does, is done from love.
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1852 </p>
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1853 <p id="FS_Q28_A6-p3">
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1854 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, the appetite is a principle of movement and action in all animals, as stated in De Anima iii, 10. If, therefore,
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1855 whatever a man does is done from love, the other passions of the appetitive faculty are superfluous.
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1856 </p>
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1857 <p id="FS_Q28_A6-p4">
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1858 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, nothing is produced at one and the same time by contrary causes. But some things are done from hatred. Therefore
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1859 all things are not done from love.
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1860 </p>
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1861 <p id="FS_Q28_A6-p5">
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1862 <b>On the contrary,</b> Dionysius says (Div. Nom. iv) that "all things, whatever they do, they do for the love of good."
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1863 </p>
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1864 <p id="FS_Q28_A6-p6">
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1865 <b>I answer that,</b> Every agent acts for an end, as stated above (
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1866 <a id="FS_Q28_A6-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q1_A2.html">Q[1], A[2]</a> ). Now the end is the good desired and loved by each one. Wherefore it is evident that every agent, whatever it be, does
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1867 every action from love of some kind.
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1868 </p>
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1869 <p id="FS_Q28_A6-p7">
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1870 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> This objection takes love as a passion existing in the sensitive appetite. But here we are speaking of love in a general
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1871 sense, inasmuch as it includes intellectual, rational, animal, and natural love: for it is in this sense that Dionysius speaks
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1872 of love in chapter iv of De Divinis Nominibus.
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1873 </p>
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1874 <p id="FS_Q28_A6-p8">
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1875 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> As stated above
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1876 <a id="FS_Q28_A6-p8.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q28_A5.html">(A[5];</a> Q[27], A[4]) desire, sadness and pleasure, and consequently all the other passions of the soul, result from love. Wherefore
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1877 every act proceeds from any passion, proceeds also from love as from a first cause: and so the other passions, which are proximate
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1878 causes, are not superfluous.
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1879 </p>
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1880 <p id="FS_Q28_A6-p9">
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1881 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Hatred also is a result of love, as we shall state further on (
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1882 <a id="FS_Q28_A6-p9.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q29_A2.html">Q[29], A[2]</a>).
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1883 </p>
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1884 <p id="FS_Q28_A6-p10"></p>
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1885 <p id="FS_Q28_A6-p11"></p>
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1886 <a href="summa.FS_Q28_A5.html"></a>
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1887 <a href="summa.FS_Q29.html"></a>
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1888 </div>
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1889 <a href="summa.FS_Q27_A4.html"></a>
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1890 <a href="summa.FS_Q28_A1.html"></a>
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1891 </div>
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1892 <div id="FS_Q29" class="div3">
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1893 <a href="summa.FS_Q28_A6.html"></a>
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1894 <a href="summa.FS_Q29_A1.html"></a>
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1895 <h3 id="FS_Q29-p0.1">OF HATRED (SIX ARTICLES)</h3>
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1896 <p id="FS_Q29-p1"></p>
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1897 <p id="FS_Q29-p2"> We must now consider hatred: concerning which there are six points of inquiry:</p>
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1898 <p id="FS_Q29-p3"> (1) Whether evil is the cause and the object of hatred?</p>
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1899 <p id="FS_Q29-p4"> (2) Whether love is the cause of hatred?</p>
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1900 <p id="FS_Q29-p5"> (3) Whether hatred is stronger than love?</p>
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1901 <p id="FS_Q29-p6"> (4) Whether a man can hate himself?</p>
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1902 <p id="FS_Q29-p7"> (5) Whether a man can hate the truth?</p>
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1903 <p id="FS_Q29-p8"> (6) Whether a thing can be the object of universal hatred?</p>
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1904 <div id="FS_Q29_A1" class="div4">
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1905 <a href="summa.FS_Q29.html"></a>
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1906 <a href="summa.FS_Q29_A2.html"></a>
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1907 <h4 id="FS_Q29_A1-p0.1">Whether evil is the cause and object of hatred?</h4>
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1908 <p id="FS_Q29_A1-p1"></p>
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1909 <p id="FS_Q29_A1-p2">
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1910 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that evil is not the object and cause of hatred. For everything that exists, as such, is good. If therefore
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1911 evil be the object of hatred, it follows that nothing but the lack of something can be the object of hatred: which is clearly
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1912 untrue.
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1913 </p>
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1914 <p id="FS_Q29_A1-p3">
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1915 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, hatred of evil is praise-worthy; hence (
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1916 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q29_A1-p3.1" href="./asv.html#iiMacc.3.1" target="asv">2 Macc 3:1</a>) some are praised for that "the laws were very well kept, because of the godliness of Onias the high-priest, and the hatred
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1917 of their souls [Douay: 'his soul'] had no evil." If, therefore, nothing but evil be the object of hatred, it would follow
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1918 that all hatred is commendable: and this is clearly false.
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1919 </p>
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1920 <p id="FS_Q29_A1-p4">
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1921 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, the same thing is not at the same time both good and evil. But the same thing is lovable and hateful to different
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1922 subjects. Therefore hatred is not only of evil, but also of good.
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1923 </p>
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1924 <p id="FS_Q29_A1-p5">
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1925 <b>On the contrary,</b> Hatred is the opposite of love. But the object of love is good, as stated above (
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1926 <a id="FS_Q29_A1-p5.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q26_A1.html">Q[26], A[1]</a>;
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1927 <a id="FS_Q29_A1-p5.2" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q27_A1.html"> Q[27], A[1]</a>). Therefore the object of hatred is evil.
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1928 </p>
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1929 <p id="FS_Q29_A1-p6">
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1930 <b>I answer that,</b> Since the natural appetite is the result of apprehension (though this apprehension is not in the same subject as the natural
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1931 appetite), it seems that what applies to the inclination of the natural appetite, applies also to the animal appetite, which
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1932 does result from an apprehension in the same subject, as stated above (
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1933 <a id="FS_Q29_A1-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q26_A1.html">Q[26], A[1]</a>). Now, with regard to the natural appetite, it is evident, that just as each thing is naturally attuned
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1934 and adapted to that which is suitable to it, wherein consists natural love; so has it a natural dissonance from that which
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1935 opposes and destroys it; and this is natural hatred. So, therefore, in the animal appetite, or in the intellectual appetite,
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1936 love is a certain harmony of the appetite with that which is apprehended as suitable; while hatred is dissonance of the appetite
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1937 from that which is apprehended as repugnant and hurtful. Now, just as whatever is suitable, as such, bears the aspect of
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1938 good; so whatever is repugnant, as such, bears the aspect of evil. And therefore, just as good is the object of love, so evil
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1939 is the object of hatred.
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1940 </p>
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1941 <p id="FS_Q29_A1-p7">
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1942 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Being, as such, has not the aspect of repugnance but only of fittingness; because being is common to all things. But being,
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1943 inasmuch as it is this determinate being, has an aspect of repugnance to some determinate being. And in this way, one being
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1944 is hateful to another, and is evil; though not in itself, but by comparison with something else.
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1945 </p>
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1946 <p id="FS_Q29_A1-p8">
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1947 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Just as a thing may be apprehended as good, when it is not truly good; so a thing may be apprehended as evil, whereas it
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1948 is not truly evil. Hence it happens sometimes that neither hatred of evil nor love of good is good.
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1949 </p>
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1950 <p id="FS_Q29_A1-p9">
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1951 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> To different things the same thing may be lovable or hateful: in respect of the natural appetite, owing to one and the same
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1952 thing being naturally suitable to one thing, and naturally unsuitable to another: thus heat is becoming to fire and unbecoming
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1953 to water: and in respect of the animal appetite, owing to one and the same thing being apprehended by one as good, by another
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1954 as bad.
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1955 </p>
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1956 <p id="FS_Q29_A1-p10"></p>
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1957 <p id="FS_Q29_A1-p11"></p>
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1958 <a href="summa.FS_Q29.html"></a>
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1959 <a href="summa.FS_Q29_A2.html"></a>
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1960 </div>
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1961 <div id="FS_Q29_A2" class="div4">
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1962 <a href="summa.FS_Q29_A1.html"></a>
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1963 <a href="summa.FS_Q29_A3.html"></a>
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1964 <h4 id="FS_Q29_A2-p0.1">Whether love is a cause of hatred?</h4>
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1965 <p id="FS_Q29_A2-p1"></p>
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1966 <p id="FS_Q29_A2-p2">
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1967 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that love is not a cause of hatred. For "the opposite members of a division are naturally simultaneous" (Praedic.
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1968 x). But love and hatred are opposite members of a division, since they are contrary to one another. Therefore they are naturally
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1969 simultaneous. Therefore love is not the cause of hatred.
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1970 </p>
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1971 <p id="FS_Q29_A2-p3">
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1972 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, of two contraries, one is not the cause of the other. But love and hatred are contraries. Therefore love is not
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1973 the cause of hatred.
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1974 </p>
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1975 <p id="FS_Q29_A2-p4">
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1976 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, that which follows is not the cause of that which precedes. But hatred precedes love, seemingly: since hatred implies
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1977 a turning away from evil, whereas love implies a turning towards good. Therefore love is not the cause of hatred.
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1978 </p>
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1979 <p id="FS_Q29_A2-p5">
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1980 <b>On the contrary,</b> Augustine says (De Civ. Dei xiv, 7,9) that all emotions are caused by love. Therefore hatred also, since it is an emotion
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1981 of the soul, is caused by love.
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1982 </p>
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1983 <p id="FS_Q29_A2-p6">
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1984 <b>I answer that,</b> As stated above
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1985 <a id="FS_Q29_A2-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q29_A1.html">(A[1])</a>, love consists in a certain agreement of the lover with the object loved, while hatred consists in a certain disagreement
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1986 or dissonance. Now we should consider in each thing, what agrees with it, before that which disagrees: since a thing disagrees
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1987 with another, through destroying or hindering that which agrees with it. Consequently love must needs precede hatred; and
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1988 nothing is hated, save through being
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1989 contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love.
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1990 </p>
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1991 <p id="FS_Q29_A2-p7">
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1992 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> The opposite members of a division are sometimes naturally simultaneous, both really and logically; e.g. two species of animal,
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1993 or two species of color. Sometimes they are simultaneous logically, while, in reality, one precedes, and causes the other;
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1994 e.g. the species of numbers, figures and movements. Sometimes they are not simultaneous either really or logically; e.g. substance
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1995 and accident; for substance is in reality the cause of accident; and
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1996 being is predicated of substance before it is predicated of accident, by a priority of reason, because it is not predicated
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1997 of accident except inasmuch as the latter is in substance. Now love and hatred are naturally simultaneous, logically but not
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1998 really. Wherefore nothing hinders love from being the cause of hatred.
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1999 </p>
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2000 <p id="FS_Q29_A2-p8">
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2001 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Love and hatred are contraries if considered in respect of the same thing. But if taken in respect of contraries, they are
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2002 not themselves contrary, but consequent to one another: for it amounts to the same that one love a certain thing, or that
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2003 one hate its contrary. Thus love of one thing is the cause of one's hating its contrary.
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2004 </p>
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2005 <p id="FS_Q29_A2-p9">
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2006 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> In the order of execution, the turning away from one term precedes the turning towards the other. But the reverse is the
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2007 case in the order of intention: since approach to one term is the reason for turning away from the other. Now the appetitive
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2008 movement belongs rather to the order of intention than to that of execution. Wherefore love precedes hatred: because each
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2009 is an appetitive movement.
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2010 </p>
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2011 <p id="FS_Q29_A2-p10"></p>
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2012 <p id="FS_Q29_A2-p11"></p>
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2013 <a href="summa.FS_Q29_A1.html"></a>
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2014 <a href="summa.FS_Q29_A3.html"></a>
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2015 </div>
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2016 <div id="FS_Q29_A3" class="div4">
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2017 <a href="summa.FS_Q29_A2.html"></a>
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2018 <a href="summa.FS_Q29_A4.html"></a>
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2019 <h4 id="FS_Q29_A3-p0.1">Whether hatred is stronger than love?</h4>
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2020 <p id="FS_Q29_A3-p1"></p>
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2021 <p id="FS_Q29_A3-p2">
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2022 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that hatred is stronger than love. For Augustine says (QQ. 83, qu. 36): "There is no one who does not flee
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2023 from pain, more than he desires pleasure." But flight from pain pertains to hatred; while desire for pleasure belongs to love.
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2024 Therefore hatred is stronger than love.
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2025 </p>
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2026 <p id="FS_Q29_A3-p3">
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2027 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, the weaker is overcome by the stronger. But love is overcome by hatred: when, that is to say, love is turned into
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2028 hatred. Therefore hatred is stronger than love.
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2029 </p>
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2030 <p id="FS_Q29_A3-p4">
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2031 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, the emotions of the soul are shown by their effects. But man insists more on repelling what is hateful, than on
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2032 seeking what is pleasant: thus also irrational animals refrain from pleasure for fear of the whip, as Augustine instances
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2033 (QQ. 83, qu. 36). Therefore hatred is stronger than love.
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2034 </p>
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2035 <p id="FS_Q29_A3-p5">
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2036 <b>On the contrary,</b> Good is stronger than evil; because "evil does nothing except in virtue of good," as Dionysius says (Div. Nom. iv). But hatred
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2037 and love differ according to the difference of good and evil. Therefore love is stronger than hatred.
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2038 </p>
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2039 <p id="FS_Q29_A3-p6">
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2040 <b>I answer that,</b> It is impossible for an effect to be stronger than its cause. Now every hatred arises from some love as its cause, as above
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2041 stated
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2042 <a id="FS_Q29_A3-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q29_A2.html">(A[2])</a>. Therefore it is impossible for hatred to be stronger than love absolutely.
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2043 </p>
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2044 <p id="FS_Q29_A3-p7"> But furthermore, love must needs be, absolutely speaking, stronger than hatred. Because a thing is moved to the end more
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2045 strongly than to the means. Now turning away from evil is directed as a means to the gaining of good. Wherefore, absolutely
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2046 speaking, the soul's movement in respect of good is stronger than its movement in respect of evil.
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2047 </p>
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2048 <p id="FS_Q29_A3-p8"> Nevertheless hatred sometimes seems to be stronger than love, for two reasons. First, because hatred is more keenly felt
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2049 than love. For, since the sensitive perception is accompanied by a certain impression; when once the impression has been received
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2050 it is not felt so keenly as in the moment of receiving it. Hence the heat of a hectic fever, though greater, is nevertheless
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2051 not felt so much as the heat of tertian fever; because the heat of the hectic fever is habitual and like a
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2052 second nature. For this reason, love is felt more keenly in the absence of the object loved; thus Augustine says (De Trin.
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2053 x, 12) that "love is felt more keenly when we lack what we love." And for the same reason, the unbecomingness of that which
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2054 is hated is felt more keenly than the becomingness of that which is loved. Secondly, because comparison is made between a
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2055 hatred and a love which are not mutually corresponding. Because, according to different degrees of good there are different
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2056 degrees of love to which correspond different degrees of hatred. Wherefore a hatred that corresponds to a greater love, moves
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2057 us more than a lesser love.
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2058 </p>
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2059 <p id="FS_Q29_A3-p9"> Hence it is clear how to reply to the First Objection. For the love of pleasure is less than the love of self-preservation,
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2060 to which corresponds flight from pain. Wherefore we flee from pain more than we love pleasure.
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2061 </p>
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2062 <p id="FS_Q29_A3-p10"></p>
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2063 <p id="FS_Q29_A3-p11"></p>
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2064 <a href="summa.FS_Q29_A2.html"></a>
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2065 <a href="summa.FS_Q29_A4.html"></a>
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2066 </div>
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2067 <div id="FS_Q29_A4" class="div4">
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2068 <a href="summa.FS_Q29_A3.html"></a>
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2069 <a href="summa.FS_Q29_A5.html"></a>
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2070 <h4 id="FS_Q29_A4-p0.1">Whether a man can hate himself?</h4>
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2071 <p id="FS_Q29_A4-p1"></p>
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2072 <p id="FS_Q29_A4-p2">
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2073 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that a man can hate himself. For it is written (
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2074 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q29_A4-p2.1" href="./asv.html#Ps.10.6" target="asv">Ps. 10:6</a>): "He that loveth iniquity, hateth his own soul." But many love iniquity. Therefore many hate themselves.
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2075 </p>
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2076 <p id="FS_Q29_A4-p3">
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2077 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, him we hate, to whom we wish and work evil. But sometimes a man wishes and works evil to himself, e.g. a man who
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2078 kills himself. Therefore some men hate themselves.
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2079 </p>
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2080 <p id="FS_Q29_A4-p4">
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2081 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, Boethius says (De Consol. ii) that "avarice makes a man hateful"; whence we may conclude that everyone hates a miser.
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2082 But some men are misers. Therefore they hate themselves.
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2083 </p>
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2084 <p id="FS_Q29_A4-p5">
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2085 <b>On the contrary,</b> The Apostle says (
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2086 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q29_A4-p5.1" href="./asv.html#Eph.5.29" target="asv">Eph. 5:29</a>) that "no man ever hated his own flesh."
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2087 </p>
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2088 <p id="FS_Q29_A4-p6">
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2089 <b>I answer that,</b> Properly speaking, it is impossible for a man to hate himself. For everything naturally desires good, nor can anyone desire
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2090 anything for himself, save under the aspect of good: for "evil is outside the scope of the will," as Dionysius says (Div.
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2091 Nom. iv). Now to love a man is to will good to him, as stated above (
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2092 <a id="FS_Q29_A4-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q26_A4.html">Q[26], A[4]</a>). Consequently, a man must, of necessity, love himself; and it is impossible for a man to hate himself,
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2093 properly speaking.
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2094 </p>
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2095 <p id="FS_Q29_A4-p7"> But accidentally it happens that a man hates himself: and this in two ways. First, on the part of the good which a man wills
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2096 to himself. For it happens sometimes that what is desired as good in some particular respect, is simply evil; and in this
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2097 way, a man accidentally wills evil to himself; and thus hates himself. Secondly, in regard to himself, to whom he wills good.
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2098 For each thing is that which is predominant in it; wherefore the state is said to do what the king does, as if
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2099 the king were the whole state. Now it is clear that man is principally the mind of man. And it happens that some men account
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2100 themselves as being principally that which they are in their material and sensitive nature. Wherefore they love themselves
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2101 according to what they take themselves to be, while they hate that which they really are, by desiring what is contrary to
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2102 reason. And in both these ways, "he that loveth iniquity hateth" not only "his own soul," but also himself.
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2103 </p>
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2104 <p id="FS_Q29_A4-p8"> Wherefore the reply to the First Objection is evident.</p>
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2105 <p id="FS_Q29_A4-p9">
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2106 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> No man wills and works evil to himself, except he apprehend it under the aspect of good. For even they who kill themselves,
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2107 apprehend death itself as a good, considered as putting an end to some unhappiness or pain.
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2108 </p>
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2109 <p id="FS_Q29_A4-p10">
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2110 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> The miser hates something accidental to himself, but not for that reason does he hate himself: thus a sick man hates his
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2111 sickness for the very reason that he loves himself. Or we may say that avarice makes man hateful to others, but not to himself.
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2112 In fact, it is caused by inordinate self-love, in respect of which, man desires temporal goods for himself more than he should.
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2113 </p>
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2114 <p id="FS_Q29_A4-p11"></p>
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2115 <p id="FS_Q29_A4-p12"></p>
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2116 <a href="summa.FS_Q29_A3.html"></a>
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2117 <a href="summa.FS_Q29_A5.html"></a>
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2118 </div>
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2119 <div id="FS_Q29_A5" class="div4">
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2120 <a href="summa.FS_Q29_A4.html"></a>
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2121 <a href="summa.FS_Q29_A6.html"></a>
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2122 <h4 id="FS_Q29_A5-p0.1">Whether a man can hate the truth?</h4>
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2123 <p id="FS_Q29_A5-p1"></p>
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2124 <p id="FS_Q29_A5-p2">
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2125 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that a man cannot hate the truth. For good, true, and being are convertible. But a man cannot hate good. Neither,
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2126 therefore, can he hate the truth.
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2127 </p>
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2128 <p id="FS_Q29_A5-p3">
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2129 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, "All men have a natural desire for knowledge," as stated in the beginning of the Metaphysics i, 1. But knowledge
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2130 is only of truth. Therefore truth is naturally desired and loved. But that which is in a thing naturally, is always in it.
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2131 Therefore no man can hate the truth.
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2132 </p>
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2133 <p id="FS_Q29_A5-p4">
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2134 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, the Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 4) that "men love those who are straightforward." But there can be no other motive
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2135 for this save truth. Therefore man loves the truth naturally. Therefore he cannot hate it.
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2136 </p>
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2137 <p id="FS_Q29_A5-p5">
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2138 <b>On the contrary,</b> The Apostle says (
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2139 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q29_A5-p5.1" href="./asv.html#Gal.4.16" target="asv">Gal. 4:16</a>): "Am I become your enemy because I tell you the truth?" [*St. Thomas quotes the passage, probably from memory, as though
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2140 it were an assertion: "I am become," etc.]
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2141 </p>
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2142 <p id="FS_Q29_A5-p6">
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2143 <b>I answer that,</b> Good, true and being are the same in reality, but differ as considered by reason. For good is considered in the light of
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2144 something desirable, while being and true are not so considered: because good is "what all things seek." Wherefore good, as
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2145 such, cannot be the object of hatred, neither in general nor in particular. Being and truth in general cannot be the object
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2146 of hatred: because disagreement is the cause of hatred, and agreement is the cause of love;
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2147 while being and truth are common to all things. But nothing hinders some particular being or some particular truth being an
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2148 object of hatred, in so far as it is considered as hurtful and repugnant; since hurtfulness and repugnance are not incompatible
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2149 with the notion of being and truth, as they are with the notion of good.
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2150 </p>
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2151 <p id="FS_Q29_A5-p7"> Now it may happen in three ways that some particular truth is repugnant or hurtful to the good we love. First, according
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2152 as truth is in things as in its cause and origin. And thus man sometimes hates a particular truth, when he wishes that what
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2153 is true were not true. Secondly, according as truth is in man's knowledge, which hinders him from gaining the object loved:
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2154 such is the case of those who wish not to know the truth of faith, that they may sin freely; in whose person it is
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2155 said (
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2156 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q29_A5-p7.1" href="./asv.html#Job.21.14" target="asv">Job 21:14</a>): "We desire not the knowledge of Thy ways." Thirdly, a particular truth is hated, as being repugnant, inasmuch as it is
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2157 in the intellect of another man: as, for instance, when a man wishes to remain hidden in his sin, he hates that anyone should
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2158 know the truth about his sin. In this respect, Augustine says (Confess. x, 23) that men "love truth when it enlightens, they
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2159 hate it when it reproves." This suffices for the Reply to the First Objection.
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2160 </p>
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2161 <p id="FS_Q29_A5-p8">
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2162 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> The knowledge of truth is lovable in itself: hence Augustine says that men love it when it enlightens. But accidentally,
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2163 the knowledge of truth may become hateful, in so far as it hinders one from accomplishing one's desire.
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2164 </p>
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2165 <p id="FS_Q29_A5-p9">
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2166 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> The reason why we love those who are straightforward is that they make known the truth, and the knowledge of the truth, considered
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2167 in itself, is a desirable thing.
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2168 </p>
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2169 <p id="FS_Q29_A5-p10"></p>
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2170 <p id="FS_Q29_A5-p11"></p>
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2171 <a href="summa.FS_Q29_A4.html"></a>
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2172 <a href="summa.FS_Q29_A6.html"></a>
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2173 </div>
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2174 <div id="FS_Q29_A6" class="div4">
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2175 <a href="summa.FS_Q29_A5.html"></a>
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2176 <a href="summa.FS_Q30.html"></a>
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2177 <h4 id="FS_Q29_A6-p0.1">Whether anything can be an object of universal hatred?</h4>
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2178 <p id="FS_Q29_A6-p1"></p>
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2179 <p id="FS_Q29_A6-p2">
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2180 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that a thing cannot be an object of universal hatred. Because hatred is a passion of the sensitive appetite,
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2181 which is moved by an apprehension in the senses. But the senses cannot apprehend the universal. Therefore a thing cannot be
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2182 an object of universal hatred.
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2183 </p>
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2184 <p id="FS_Q29_A6-p3">
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2185 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, hatred is caused by disagreement; and where there is disagreement, there is nothing in common. But the notion of
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2186 universality implies something in common. Therefore nothing can be the object of universal hatred.
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2187 </p>
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2188 <p id="FS_Q29_A6-p4">
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2189 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, the object of hatred is evil. But "evil is in things, and not in the mind" (Metaph. vi, 4). Since therefore the
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2190 universal is in the mind only, which abstracts the universal from the particular, it would seem that hatred cannot have a
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2191 universal object.
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2192 </p>
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2193 <p id="FS_Q29_A6-p5">
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2194 <b>On the contrary,</b> The Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 4) that "anger is directed to something singular, whereas hatred is also directed to a thing
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2195 in general; for everybody hates the thief and the backbiter."
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2196 </p>
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2197 <p id="FS_Q29_A6-p6">
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2198 <b>I answer that,</b> There are two ways of speaking of the universal: first, as considered under the aspect of universality; secondly, as considered
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2199 in the nature to which it is ascribed: for it is one thing to consider the universal man, and another to consider a man as
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2200 man. If, therefore, we take the universal, in the first way, no sensitive power, whether of apprehension or of appetite, can
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2201 attain the universal: because the universal is obtained by abstraction from individual
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2202 matter, on which every sensitive power is based.
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2203 </p>
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2204 <p id="FS_Q29_A6-p7"> Nevertheless the sensitive powers, both of apprehension and of appetite, can tend to something universally. Thus we say that
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2205 the object of sight is color considered generically; not that the sight is cognizant of universal color, but because the fact
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2206 that color is cognizant by the sight, is attributed to color, not as being this particular color, but simply because it is
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2207 color. Accordingly hatred in the sensitive faculty can regard something universally: because this thing, by
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2208 reason of its common nature, and not merely as an individual, is hostile to the animal---for instance, a wolf in regard to
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2209 a sheep. Hence a sheep hates the wolf universally. On the other hand, anger is always caused by something in particular: because
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2210 it is caused by some action of the one that hurts us; and actions proceed from individuals. For this reason the Philosopher
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2211 says (Rhet. ii, 4) that "anger is always directed to something singular, whereas hatred can be directed to a thing in
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2212 general."
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2213 </p>
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2214 <p id="FS_Q29_A6-p8"> But according as hatred is in the intellectual part, since it arises from the universal apprehension of the intellect, it
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2215 can regard the universal in both ways.
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2216 </p>
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2217 <p id="FS_Q29_A6-p9">
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2218 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> The senses do not apprehend the universal, as such: but they apprehend something to which the character of universality is
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2219 given by abstraction.
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2220 </p>
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2221 <p id="FS_Q29_A6-p10">
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2222 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> That which is common to all cannot be a reason of hatred. But nothing hinders a thing from being common to many, and at variance
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2223 with others, so as to be hateful to them.
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2224 </p>
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2225 <p id="FS_Q29_A6-p11">
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2226 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> This argument considers the universal under the aspect of universality: and thus it does not come under the sensitive apprehension
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2227 or appetite.
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2228 </p>
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2229 <p id="FS_Q29_A6-p12"></p>
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2230 <p id="FS_Q29_A6-p13"></p>
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2231 <a href="summa.FS_Q29_A5.html"></a>
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2232 <a href="summa.FS_Q30.html"></a>
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2233 </div>
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2234 <a href="summa.FS_Q28_A6.html"></a>
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2235 <a href="summa.FS_Q29_A1.html"></a>
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2236 </div>
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2237 <div id="FS_Q30" class="div3">
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2238 <a href="summa.FS_Q29_A6.html"></a>
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2239 <a href="summa.FS_Q30_A1.html"></a>
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2240 <h3 id="FS_Q30-p0.1">OF CONCUPISCENCE (FOUR ARTICLES)</h3>
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2241 <p id="FS_Q30-p1"></p>
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2242 <p id="FS_Q30-p2"> We have now to consider concupiscence: under which head there are four points of inquiry:</p>
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2243 <p id="FS_Q30-p3"> (1) Whether concupiscence is in the sensitive appetite only?</p>
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2244 <p id="FS_Q30-p4"> (2) Whether concupiscence is a specific passion?</p>
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2245 <p id="FS_Q30-p5"> (3) Whether some concupiscences are natural, and some not natural?</p>
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2246 <p id="FS_Q30-p6"> (4) Whether concupiscence is infinite?</p>
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2247 <div id="FS_Q30_A1" class="div4">
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2248 <a href="summa.FS_Q30.html"></a>
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2249 <a href="summa.FS_Q30_A2.html"></a>
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2250 <h4 id="FS_Q30_A1-p0.1">Whether concupiscence is in the sensitive appetite only?</h4>
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2251 <p id="FS_Q30_A1-p1"></p>
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2252 <p id="FS_Q30_A1-p2">
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2253 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that concupiscence is not only in the sensitive appetite. For there is a concupiscence of wisdom, according
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2254 to
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2255 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q30_A1-p2.1" href="./asv.html#Wis.6.21" target="asv"> Wis. 6:21</a>: "The concupiscence [Douay: 'desire'] of wisdom bringeth to the everlasting kingdom." But the sensitive appetite can have
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2256 no tendency to wisdom. Therefore concupiscence is not only in the sensitive appetite.
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2257 </p>
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2258 <p id="FS_Q30_A1-p3">
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2259 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, the desire for the commandments of God is not in the sensitive appetite: in fact the Apostle says (
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2260 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q30_A1-p3.1" href="./asv.html#Rom.7.18" target="asv">Rom. 7:18</a>): "There dwelleth not in me, that is to say, in my flesh, that which is good." But desire for God's commandments is an act
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2261 of concupiscence, according to
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2262 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q30_A1-p3.2" href="./asv.html#Ps.118.20" target="asv"> Ps. 118:20</a>: "My soul hath coveted [concupivit] to long for thy justifications." Therefore concupiscence is not only in the sensitive
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2263 appetite.
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2264 </p>
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2265 <p id="FS_Q30_A1-p4">
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2266 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, to each power, its proper good is a matter of concupiscence. Therefore concupiscence is in each power of the soul,
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2267 and not only in the sensitive appetite.
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2268 </p>
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2269 <p id="FS_Q30_A1-p5">
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2270 <b>On the contrary,</b> Damascene says (De Fide Orth. ii, 12) that "the irrational part which is subject and amenable to reason, is divided into
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2271 the faculties of concupiscence and anger. This is the irrational part of the soul, passive and appetitive." Therefore concupiscence
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2272 is in the sensitive appetite.
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2273 </p>
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2274 <p id="FS_Q30_A1-p6">
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2275 <b>I answer that,</b> As the Philosopher says (Rhet. i, 11), "concupiscence is a craving for that which is pleasant." Now pleasure is twofold,
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2276 as we shall state later on (
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2277 <a id="FS_Q30_A1-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q31_A3.html">Q[31], AA[3]</a>,4): one is in the intelligible good, which is the good of reason; the other is in good perceptible to the senses. The former
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2278 pleasure seems to belong to soul alone: whereas the latter belongs to both soul and body: because the sense is a power seated
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2279 in a bodily organ:
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2280 wherefore sensible good is the good of the whole composite. Now concupiscence seems to be the craving for this latter pleasure,
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2281 since it belongs to the united soul and body, as is implied by the Latin word "concupiscentia." Therefore, properly speaking,
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2282 concupiscence is in the sensitive appetite, and in the concupiscible faculty, which takes its name from it.
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2283 </p>
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2284 <p id="FS_Q30_A1-p7">
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2285 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> The craving for wisdom, or other spiritual goods, is sometimes called concupiscence; either by reason of a certain likeness;
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2286 or on account of the craving in the higher part of the soul being so vehement that it overflows into the lower appetite, so
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2287 that the latter also, in its own way, tends to the spiritual good, following the lead of the higher appetite, the result being
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2288 that the body itself renders its service in spiritual matters, according
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2289 to
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2290 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q30_A1-p7.1" href="./asv.html#Ps.83.3" target="asv"> Ps. 83:3</a>: "My heart and my flesh have rejoiced in the living God."
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2291 </p>
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2292 <p id="FS_Q30_A1-p8">
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2293 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Properly speaking, desire may be not only in the lower, but also in the higher appetite. For it does not imply fellowship
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2294 in craving, as concupiscence does; but simply movement towards the thing desired.
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2295 </p>
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2296 <p id="FS_Q30_A1-p9">
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2297 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> It belongs to each power of the soul to seek its proper good by the natural appetite, which does not arise from apprehension.
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2298 But the craving for good, by the animal appetite, which arises from apprehension, belongs to the appetitive power alone. And
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2299 to crave a thing under the aspect of something delightful to the senses, wherein concupiscence properly consists, belongs
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2300 to the concupiscible power.
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2301 </p>
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2302 <p id="FS_Q30_A1-p10"></p>
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2303 <p id="FS_Q30_A1-p11"></p>
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2304 <a href="summa.FS_Q30.html"></a>
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2305 <a href="summa.FS_Q30_A2.html"></a>
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2306 </div>
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2307 <div id="FS_Q30_A2" class="div4">
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2308 <a href="summa.FS_Q30_A1.html"></a>
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2309 <a href="summa.FS_Q30_A3.html"></a>
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2310 <h4 id="FS_Q30_A2-p0.1">Whether concupiscence is a specific passion?</h4>
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2311 <p id="FS_Q30_A2-p1"></p>
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2312 <p id="FS_Q30_A2-p2">
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2313 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that concupiscence is not a specific passion of the concupiscible power. For passions are distinguished by
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2314 their objects. But the object of the concupiscible power is something delightful to the senses; and this is also the object
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2315 of concupiscence, as the Philosopher declares (Rhet. i, 11). Therefore concupiscence is not a specific passion of the concupiscible
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2316 faculty.
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2317 </p>
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2318 <p id="FS_Q30_A2-p3">
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2319 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, Augustine says (QQ. 83, qu. 33) that "covetousness is the love of transitory things": so that it is not distinct
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2320 from love. But all specific passions are distinct from one another. Therefore concupiscence is not a specific passion in the
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2321 concupiscible faculty.
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2322 </p>
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2323 <p id="FS_Q30_A2-p4">
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2324 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, to each passion of the concupiscible faculty there is a specific contrary passion in that faculty, as stated above
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2325 (
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2326 <a id="FS_Q30_A2-p4.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q23_A4.html">Q[23], A[4]</a>). But no specific passion of the concupiscible faculty is contrary to concupiscence. For Damascene says (De Fide Orth. ii,
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2327 12) that "good when desired gives rise to concupiscence; when present, it gives joy: in like manner, the evil we apprehend
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2328 makes us fear, the evil that is present makes us sad":
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2329 from which we gather that as sadness is contrary to joy, so is fear contrary to concupiscence. But fear is not in the concupiscible,
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2330 but in the irascible part. Therefore concupiscence is not a specific passion of the concupiscible faculty.
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2331 </p>
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2332 <p id="FS_Q30_A2-p5">
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2333 <b>On the contrary,</b> Concupiscence is caused by love, and tends to pleasure, both of which are passions of the concupiscible faculty. Hence it
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2334 is distinguished from the other concupiscible passions, as a specific passion.
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2335 </p>
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2336 <p id="FS_Q30_A2-p6">
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2337 <b>I answer that,</b> As stated above
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2338 <a id="FS_Q30_A2-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q30_A1.html">(A[1];</a> Q[23], A[1]), the good which gives pleasure to the senses is the common object of the concupiscible faculty. Hence the various
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2339 concupiscible passions are distinguished according to the differences of that good. Now the diversity of this object can arise
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2340 from the very nature of the object, or from a diversity in its active power. The diversity, derived from the nature of the
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2341 active object, causes a material
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2342 difference of passions: while the difference in regard to its active power causes a formal diversity of passions, in respect
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2343 of which the passions differ specifically.
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2344 </p>
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2345 <p id="FS_Q30_A2-p7"> Now the nature of the motive power of the end or of the good, differs according as it is really present, or absent: because,
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2346 according as it is present, it causes the faculty to find rest in it; whereas, according as it is absent, it causes the faculty
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2347 to be moved towards it. Wherefore the object of sensible pleasure causes love, inasmuch as, so to speak, it attunes and conforms
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2348 the appetite to itself; it causes concupiscence, inasmuch as, when absent, it draws the faculty to
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2349 itself; and it causes pleasure, inasmuch as, when present, it makes the faculty to find rest in itself. Accordingly, concupiscence
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2350 is a passion differing "in species" from both love and pleasure. But concupiscences of this or that pleasurable object differ
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2351 "in number."
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2352 </p>
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2353 <p id="FS_Q30_A2-p8">
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2354 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Pleasurable good is the object of concupiscence, not absolutely, but considered as absent: just as the sensible, considered
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2355 as past, is the object of memory. For these particular conditions diversify the species of passions, and even of the powers
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2356 of the sensitive part, which regards particular things.
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2357 </p>
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2358 <p id="FS_Q30_A2-p9">
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2359 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> In the passage quoted we have causal, not essential predication: for covetousness is not essentially love, but an effect
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2360 of love. We may also say that Augustine is taking covetousness in a wide sense, for any movement of the appetite in respect
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2361 of good to come: so that it includes both love and hope.
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2362 </p>
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2363 <p id="FS_Q30_A2-p10">
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2364 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> The passion which is directly contrary to concupiscence has no name, and stands in relation to evil, as concupiscence in
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2365 regard to good. But since, like fear, it regards the absent evil; sometimes it goes by the name of fear, just as hope is sometimes
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2366 called covetousness. For a small good or evil is reckoned as though it were nothing: and consequently every movement of the
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2367 appetite in future good or evil is called hope or fear, which regard good and
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2368 evil as arduous.
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2369 </p>
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2370 <p id="FS_Q30_A2-p11"></p>
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2371 <p id="FS_Q30_A2-p12"></p>
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2372 <a href="summa.FS_Q30_A1.html"></a>
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2373 <a href="summa.FS_Q30_A3.html"></a>
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2374 </div>
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2375 <div id="FS_Q30_A3" class="div4">
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2376 <a href="summa.FS_Q30_A2.html"></a>
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2377 <a href="summa.FS_Q30_A4.html"></a>
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2378 <h4 id="FS_Q30_A3-p0.1">Whether some concupiscences are natural, and some not natural?</h4>
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2379 <p id="FS_Q30_A3-p1"></p>
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2380 <p id="FS_Q30_A3-p2">
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2381 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that concupiscences are not divided into those which are natural and those which are not. For concupiscence
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2382 belongs to the animal appetite, as stated above (A[1], ad 3). But the natural appetite is contrasted with the animal appetite.
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2383 Therefore no concupiscence is natural.
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2384 </p>
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2385 <p id="FS_Q30_A3-p3">
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2386 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, material differences makes no difference of species, but only numerical difference; a difference which is outside
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2387 the purview of science. But if some concupiscences are natural, and some not, they differ only in respect of their objects;
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2388 which amounts to a material difference, which is one of number only. Therefore concupiscences should not be divided into those
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2389 that are natural and those that are not.
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2390 </p>
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2391 <p id="FS_Q30_A3-p4">
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2392 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, reason is contrasted with nature, as stated in Phys. ii, 5. If therefore in man there is a concupiscence which is
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2393 not natural, it must needs be rational. But this is impossible: because, since concupiscence is a passion, it belongs to the
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2394 sensitive appetite, and not to the will, which is the rational appetite. Therefore there are no concupiscences which are not
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2395 natural.
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2396 </p>
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2397 <p id="FS_Q30_A3-p5">
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2398 <b>On the contrary,</b> The Philosopher (Ethic. iii, 11 and Rhetor. i, 11) distinguishes natural concupiscences from those that are not natural.
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2399 </p>
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2400 <p id="FS_Q30_A3-p6">
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2401 <b>I answer that,</b> As stated above
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2402 <a id="FS_Q30_A3-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q30_A1.html">(A[1])</a>, concupiscence is the craving for pleasurable good. Now a thing is pleasurable in two ways. First, because it is suitable
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2403 to the nature of the animal; for example, food, drink, and the like: and concupiscence of such pleasurable things is said
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2404 to be natural. Secondly, a thing is pleasurable because it is apprehended as suitable to the animal: as when one apprehends
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2405 something as good and suitable, and
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2406 consequently takes pleasure in it: and concupiscence of such pleasurable things is said to be not natural, and is more wont
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2407 to be called "cupidity."
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2408 </p>
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2409 <p id="FS_Q30_A3-p7"> Accordingly concupiscences of the first kind, or natural concupiscences, are common to men and other animals: because to
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2410 both is there something suitable and pleasurable according to nature: and in these all men agree; wherefore the Philosopher
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2411 (Ethic. iii, 11) calls them "common" and "necessary." But concupiscences of the second kind are proper to men, to whom it
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2412 is proper to devise something as good and suitable, beyond that which nature requires. Hence the Philosopher says
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2413 (Rhet. i, 11) that the former concupiscences are "irrational," but the latter, "rational." And because different men reason
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2414 differently, therefore the latter are also called (Ethic. iii, 11) "peculiar and acquired," i.e. in addition to those that
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2415 are natural.
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2416 </p>
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2417 <p id="FS_Q30_A3-p8">
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2418 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> The same thing that is the object of the natural appetite, may be the object of the animal appetite, once it is apprehended.
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2419 And in this way there may be an animal concupiscence of food, drink, and the like, which are objects of the natural appetite.
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2420 </p>
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2421 <p id="FS_Q30_A3-p9">
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2422 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> The difference between those concupiscences that are natural and those that are not, is not merely a material difference;
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2423 it is also, in a way, formal, in so far as it arises from a difference in the active object. Now the object of the appetite
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2424 is the apprehended good. Hence diversity of the active object follows from diversity of apprehension: according as a thing
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2425 is apprehended as suitable, either by absolute apprehension, whence arise natural
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2426 concupiscences, which the Philosopher calls "irrational" (Rhet. i, 11); or by apprehension together with deliberation, whence
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2427 arise those concupiscences that are not natural, and which for this very reason the Philosopher calls "rational" (Rhet. i,
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2428 11).
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2429 </p>
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2430 <p id="FS_Q30_A3-p10">
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2431 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Man has not only universal reason, pertaining to the intellectual faculty; but also particular reason pertaining to the sensitive
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2432 faculty, as stated in the
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2433 <a id="FS_Q30_A3-p10.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FP_Q78_A4.html">FP, Q[78], A[4]</a>;
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2434 <a id="FS_Q30_A3-p10.2" shape="rect" href="summa.FP_Q81_A3.html">FP, Q[81], A[3]</a>: so that even rational concupiscence may pertain to the sensitive appetite. Moreover the sensitive appetite can be moved
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2435 by the universal reason also, through the medium of the particular imagination.
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2436 </p>
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2437 <p id="FS_Q30_A3-p11"></p>
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2438 <p id="FS_Q30_A3-p12"></p>
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2439 <a href="summa.FS_Q30_A2.html"></a>
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2440 <a href="summa.FS_Q30_A4.html"></a>
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2441 </div>
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2442 <div id="FS_Q30_A4" class="div4">
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2443 <a href="summa.FS_Q30_A3.html"></a>
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2444 <a href="summa.FS_Q31.html"></a>
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2445 <h4 id="FS_Q30_A4-p0.1">Whether concupiscence is infinite?</h4>
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2446 <p id="FS_Q30_A4-p1"></p>
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2447 <p id="FS_Q30_A4-p2">
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2448 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that concupiscence is not infinite. For the object of concupiscence is good, which has the aspect of an end.
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2449 But where there is infinity there is no end (Metaph. ii, 2). Therefore concupiscence cannot be infinite.
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2450 </p>
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2451 <p id="FS_Q30_A4-p3">
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2452 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, concupiscence is of the fitting good, since it proceeds from love. But the infinite is without proportion, and therefore
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2453 unfitting. Therefore concupiscence cannot be infinite.
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2454 </p>
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2455 <p id="FS_Q30_A4-p4">
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2456 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, there is no passing through infinite things: and thus there is no reaching an ultimate term in them. But the subject
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2457 of concupiscence is not delighted until he attain the ultimate term. Therefore, if concupiscence were infinite, no delight
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2458 would ever ensue.
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2459 </p>
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2460 <p id="FS_Q30_A4-p5">
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2461 <b>On the contrary,</b> The Philosopher says (Polit. i, 3) that "since concupiscence is infinite, men desire an infinite number of things."
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2462 </p>
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2463 <p id="FS_Q30_A4-p6">
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2464 <b>I answer that,</b> As stated above
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2465 <a id="FS_Q30_A4-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q30_A3.html">(A[3])</a>, concupiscence is twofold; one is natural, the other is not natural. Natural concupiscence cannot be actually infinite: because
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2466 it is of that which nature requires; and nature ever tends to something finite and fixed. Hence man never desires infinite
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2467 meat, or infinite drink. But just as in nature there is potential successive infinity, so can this kind of concupiscence be
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2468 infinite successively; so that, for
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2469 instance, after getting food, a man may desire food yet again; and so of anything else that nature requires: because these
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2470 bodily goods, when obtained, do not last for ever, but fail. Hence Our Lord said to the woman of Samaria (
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2471 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q30_A4-p6.2" href="./asv.html#John.4.13" target="asv">Jn. 4:13</a>): "Whosever drinketh of this water, shall thirst again."
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2472 </p>
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2473 <p id="FS_Q30_A4-p7"> But non-natural concupiscence is altogether infinite. Because, as stated above
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2474 <a id="FS_Q30_A4-p7.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q30_A3.html">(A[3])</a>, it follows from the reason, and it belongs to the reason to proceed to infinity. Hence he that desires riches, may desire
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2475 to be rich, not up to a certain limit, but to be simply as rich as possible.
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2476 </p>
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2477 <p id="FS_Q30_A4-p8"> Another reason may be assigned, according to the Philosopher (Polit. i, 3), why a certain concupiscence is finite, and another
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2478 infinite. Because concupiscence of the end is always infinite: since the end is desired for its own sake, e.g. health: and
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2479 thus greater health is more desired, and so on to infinity; just as, if a white thing of itself dilates the sight, that which
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2480 is more white dilates yet more. On the other hand, concupiscence of the means is not infinite, because the
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2481 concupiscence of the means is in suitable proportion to the end. Consequently those who place their end in riches have an
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2482 infinite concupiscence of riches; whereas those who desire riches, on account of the necessities of life, desire a finite
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2483 measure of riches, sufficient for the necessities of life, as the Philosopher says (Polit. i, 3). The same applies to the
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2484 concupiscence of any other things.
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2485 </p>
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2486 <p id="FS_Q30_A4-p9">
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2487 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Every object of concupiscence is taken as something finite: either because it is finite in reality, as being once actually
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2488 desired; or because it is finite as apprehended. For it cannot be apprehended as infinite, since the infinite is that "from
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2489 which, however much we may take, there always remains something to be taken" (Phys. iii, 6).
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2490 </p>
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2491 <p id="FS_Q30_A4-p10">
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2492 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> The reason is possessed of infinite power, in a certain sense, in so far as it can consider a thing infinitely, as appears
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2493 in the addition of numbers and lines. Consequently, the infinite, taken in a certain way, is proportionate to reason. In fact
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2494 the universal which the reason apprehends, is infinite in a sense, inasmuch as it contains potentially an infinite number
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2495 of singulars.
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2496 </p>
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2497 <p id="FS_Q30_A4-p11">
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2498 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> In order that a man be delighted, there is no need for him to realize all that he desires: for he delights in the realization
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2499 of each object of his concupiscence.
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2500 </p>
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2501 <p id="FS_Q30_A4-p12"></p>
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2502 <p id="FS_Q30_A4-p13"></p>
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2503 <a href="summa.FS_Q30_A3.html"></a>
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2504 <a href="summa.FS_Q31.html"></a>
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2505 </div>
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2506 <a href="summa.FS_Q29_A6.html"></a>
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2507 <a href="summa.FS_Q30_A1.html"></a>
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2508 </div>
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2509 <div id="FS_Q31" class="div3">
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2510 <a href="summa.FS_Q30_A4.html"></a>
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2511 <a href="summa.FS_Q31_A1.html"></a>
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2512 <h3 id="FS_Q31-p0.1">OF DELIGHT CONSIDERED IN ITSELF [*Or, Pleasure] (EIGHT ARTICLES)</h3>
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2513 <p id="FS_Q31-p1"></p>
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2514 <p id="FS_Q31-p2"> We must now consider delight and sadness. Concerning delight four things must be considered: (1) Delight in itself; (2) The
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2515 causes of delight; (3) Its effects; (4) Its goodness and malice.
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2516 </p>
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2517 <p id="FS_Q31-p3"> Under the first head there are eight points of inquiry:</p>
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2518 <p id="FS_Q31-p4"> (1) Whether delight is a passion?</p>
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2519 <p id="FS_Q31-p5"> (2) Whether delight is subject to time?</p>
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2520 <p id="FS_Q31-p6"> (3) Whether it differs from joy?</p>
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2521 <p id="FS_Q31-p7"> (4) Whether it is in the intellectual appetite?</p>
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2522 <p id="FS_Q31-p8"> (5) Of the delights of the higher appetite compared with the delight of the lower;</p>
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2523 <p id="FS_Q31-p9"> (6) Of sensible delights compared with one another;</p>
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2524 <p id="FS_Q31-p10"> (7) Whether any delight is non-natural?</p>
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2525 <p id="FS_Q31-p11"> (8) Whether one delight can be contrary to another?</p>
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2526 <div id="FS_Q31_A1" class="div4">
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2527 <a href="summa.FS_Q31.html"></a>
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2528 <a href="summa.FS_Q31_A2.html"></a>
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2529 <h4 id="FS_Q31_A1-p0.1">Whether delight is a passion?</h4>
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2530 <p id="FS_Q31_A1-p1"></p>
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2531 <p id="FS_Q31_A1-p2">
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2532 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that delight is not a passion. For Damascene (De Fide Orth. ii, 22) distinguishes operation from passion, and
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2533 says that "operation is a movement in accord with nature, while passion is a movement contrary to nature." But delight is
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2534 an operation, according to the Philosopher (Ethic. vii, 12; x, 5). Therefore delight is not a passion.
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2535 </p>
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2536 <p id="FS_Q31_A1-p3">
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2537 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, "To be passive is to be moved," as stated in Phys. iii, 3. But delight does not consist in being moved, but in having
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2538 been moved; for it arises from good already gained. Therefore delight is not a passion.
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2539 </p>
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2540 <p id="FS_Q31_A1-p4">
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2541 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, delight is a kind of a perfection of the one who is delighted; since it "perfects operation," as stated in Ethic.
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2542 x, 4,5. But to be perfected does not consist in being passive or in being altered, as stated in Phys. vii, 3 and De Anima
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2543 ii, 5. Therefore delight is not a passion.
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2544 </p>
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2545 <p id="FS_Q31_A1-p5">
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2546 <b>On the contrary,</b> Augustine (De Civ. Dei ix, 2; xiv, 5 seqq) reckons delight, joy, or gladness among the other passions of the soul.
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2547 </p>
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2548 <p id="FS_Q31_A1-p6">
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2549 <b>I answer that,</b> The movements of the sensitive appetite, are properly called passions, as stated above (
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2550 <a id="FS_Q31_A1-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q22_A3.html">Q[22], A[3]</a>). Now every emotion arising from a sensitive apprehension, is a movement of the sensitive appetite: and this must needs be
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2551 said of delight, since, according to the Philosopher (Rhet. i, 11) "delight is a certain movement of the soul and a sensible
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2552 establishing thereof all at once, in keeping with the nature of the thing."
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2553 </p>
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2554 <p id="FS_Q31_A1-p7"> In order to understand this, we must observe that just as in natural things some happen to attain to their natural perfections,
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2555 so does this happen in animals. And though movement towards perfection does not occur all at once, yet the attainment of natural
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2556 perfection does occur all at once. Now there is this difference between animals and other natural things, that when these
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2557 latter are established in the state becoming their nature, they do not perceive it, whereas animals do.
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2558 And from this perception there arises a certain movement of the soul in the sensitive appetite; which movement is called delight.
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2559 Accordingly by saying that delight is "a movement of the soul," we designate its genus. By saying that it is "an establishing
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2560 in keeping with the thing's nature," i.e. with that which exists in the thing, we assign the cause of delight, viz. the presence
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2561 of a becoming good. By saying that this establishing is "all at once," we mean that this establishing is to be
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2562 understood not as in the process of establishment, but as in the fact of complete establishment, in the term of the movement,
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2563 as it were: for delight is not a "becoming" as Plato [*Phileb. 32,33] maintained, but a "complete fact," as stated in Ethic.
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2564 vii, 12. Lastly, by saying that this establishing is "sensible," we exclude the perfections of insensible things wherein there
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2565 is no delight. It is therefore evident that, since delight is a movement of the animal appetite arising from an
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2566 apprehension of sense, it is a passion of the soul.
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2567 </p>
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2568 <p id="FS_Q31_A1-p8">
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2569 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Connatural operation, which is unhindered, is a second perfection, as stated in De Anima ii, 1: and therefore when a thing
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2570 is established in its proper connatural and unhindered operation, delight follows, which consists in a state of completion,
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2571 as observed above. Accordingly when we say that delight is an operation, we designate, not its essence, but its cause.
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2572 </p>
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2573 <p id="FS_Q31_A1-p9">
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2574 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> A twofold movement is to be observed in an animal: one, according to the intention of the end, and this belongs to the appetite;
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2575 the other, according to the execution, and this belongs to the external operation. And so, although in him who has already
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2576 gained the good in which he delights, the movement of execution ceases, by which the tends to the end; yet the movement of
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2577 the appetitive faculty does not cease, since, just as before it desired that
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2578 which it had not, so afterwards does it delight in that which is possesses. For though delight is a certain repose of the
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2579 appetite, if we consider the presence of the pleasurable good that satisfies the appetite, nevertheless there remains the
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2580 impression made on the appetite by its object, by reason of which delight is a kind of movement.
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2581 </p>
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2582 <p id="FS_Q31_A1-p10">
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2583 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Although the name of passion is more appropriate to those passions which have a corruptive and evil tendency, such as bodily
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2584 ailments, as also sadness and fear in the soul; yet some passions have a tendency to something good, as stated above (
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2585 <a id="FS_Q31_A1-p10.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q23_A1.html">Q[23], AA[1]</a>,4): and in this sense delight is called a passion.
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2586 </p>
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2587 <p id="FS_Q31_A1-p11"></p>
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2588 <p id="FS_Q31_A1-p12"></p>
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2589 <a href="summa.FS_Q31.html"></a>
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2590 <a href="summa.FS_Q31_A2.html"></a>
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2591 </div>
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2592 <div id="FS_Q31_A2" class="div4">
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2593 <a href="summa.FS_Q31_A1.html"></a>
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2594 <a href="summa.FS_Q31_A3.html"></a>
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2595 <h4 id="FS_Q31_A2-p0.1">Whether delight is in time?</h4>
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2596 <p id="FS_Q31_A2-p1"></p>
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2597 <p id="FS_Q31_A2-p2">
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2598 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that delight is in time. For "delight is a kind of movement," as the Philosopher says (Rhet. i, 11). But all
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2599 movement is in time. Therefore delight is in time.
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2600 </p>
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2601 <p id="FS_Q31_A2-p3">
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2602 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, a thing is said to last long and to be morose in respect of time. But some pleasures are called morose. Therefore
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2603 pleasure is in time.
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2604 </p>
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2605 <p id="FS_Q31_A2-p4">
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2606 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, the passions of the soul are of one same genus. But some passions of the soul are in time. Therefore delight is
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2607 too.
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2608 </p>
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2609 <p id="FS_Q31_A2-p5">
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2610 <b>On the contrary,</b> The Philosopher says (Ethic. x, 4) that "no one takes pleasure according to time."
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2611 </p>
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2612 <p id="FS_Q31_A2-p6">
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2613 <b>I answer that,</b> A thing may be in time in two ways: first, by itself; secondly, by reason of something else, and accidentally as it were.
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2614 For since time is the measure of successive things, those things are of themselves said to be in time, to which succession
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2615 or something pertaining to succession is essential: such are movement, repose, speech and such like. On the other hand, those
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2616 things are said to be in time, by reason of something else and not of themselves, to which
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2617 succession is not essential, but which are subject to something successive. Thus the fact of being a man is not essentially
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2618 something successive; since it is not a movement, but the term of a movement or change, viz. of this being begotten: yet,
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2619 because human being is subject to changeable causes, in this respect, to be a man is in time.
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2620 </p>
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2621 <p id="FS_Q31_A2-p7"> Accordingly, we must say that delight, of itself indeed, is not in time: for it regards good already gained, which is, as
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2622 it were, the term of the movement. But if this good gained be subject to change, the delight therein will be in time accidentally:
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2623 whereas if it be altogether unchangeable, the delight therein will not be in time, either by reason of itself or accidentally.
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2624 </p>
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2625 <p id="FS_Q31_A2-p8">
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2626 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> As stated in De Anima iii, 7, movement is twofold. One is "the act of something imperfect, i.e. of something existing in
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2627 potentiality, as such": this movement is successive and is in time. Another movement is "the act of something perfect, i.e.
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2628 of something existing in act," e.g. to understand, to feel, and to will and such like, also to have delight. This movement
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2629 is not successive, nor is it of itself in time.
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2630 </p>
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2631 <p id="FS_Q31_A2-p9">
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2632 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Delight is said to be long lasting or morose, according as it is accidentally in time.
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2633 </p>
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2634 <p id="FS_Q31_A2-p10">
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2635 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Other passions have not for their object a good obtained, as delight has. Wherefore there is more of the movement of the
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2636 imperfect in them than in delight. And consequently it belongs more to delight not to be in time.
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2637 </p>
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2638 <p id="FS_Q31_A2-p11"></p>
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2639 <p id="FS_Q31_A2-p12"></p>
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2640 <a href="summa.FS_Q31_A1.html"></a>
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2641 <a href="summa.FS_Q31_A3.html"></a>
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2642 </div>
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2643 <div id="FS_Q31_A3" class="div4">
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2644 <a href="summa.FS_Q31_A2.html"></a>
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2645 <a href="summa.FS_Q31_A4.html"></a>
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2646 <h4 id="FS_Q31_A3-p0.1">Whether delight differs from joy?</h4>
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2647 <p id="FS_Q31_A3-p1"></p>
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2648 <p id="FS_Q31_A3-p2">
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2649 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that delight is altogether the same as joy. Because the passions of the soul differ according to their objects.
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2650 But delight and joy have the same object, namely, a good obtained. Therefore joy is altogether the same as delight.
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2651 </p>
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2652 <p id="FS_Q31_A3-p3">
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2653 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, one movement does not end in two terms. But one and the same movement, that of desire, ends in joy and delight.
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2654 Therefore delight and joy are altogether the same.
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2655 </p>
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2656 <p id="FS_Q31_A3-p4">
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2657 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, if joy differs from delight, it seems that there is equal reason for distinguishing gladness, exultation, and cheerfulness
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2658 from delight, so that they would all be various passions of the soul. But this seems to be untrue. Therefore joy does not
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2659 differ from delight.
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2660 </p>
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2661 <p id="FS_Q31_A3-p5">
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2662 <b>On the contrary,</b> We do not speak of joy in irrational animals; whereas we do speak of delight in them. Therefore joy is not the same as delight.
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2663 </p>
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2664 <p id="FS_Q31_A3-p6">
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2665 <b>I answer that,</b> Joy, as Avicenna states (De Anima iv), is a kind of delight. For we must observe that, just as some concupiscences are natural,
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2666 and some not natural, but consequent to reason, as stated above (
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2667 <a id="FS_Q31_A3-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q30_A3.html">Q[30], A[3]</a>), so also some delights are natural, and some are not natural but rational. Or, as Damascene (De Fide Orth. ii, 13) and Gregory
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2668 of Nyssa [*Nemesius, De Nat. Hom. xviii.] put it, "some delights are of the body, some are of the soul";
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2669 which amounts to the same. For we take delight both in those things which we desire naturally, when we get them, and in those
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2670 things which we desire as a result of reason. But we do not speak of joy except when delight follows reason; and so we do
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2671 not ascribe joy to irrational animals, but only delight.
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2672 </p>
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2673 <p id="FS_Q31_A3-p7"> Now whatever we desire naturally, can also be the object of reasoned desire and delight, but not vice versa. Consequently
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2674 whatever can be the object of delight, can also be the object of joy in rational beings. And yet everything is not always
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2675 the object of joy; since sometimes one feels a certain delight in the body, without rejoicing thereat according to reason.
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2676 And accordingly delight extends to more things than does joy.
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2677 </p>
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2678 <p id="FS_Q31_A3-p8">
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2679 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Since the object of the appetite of the soul is an apprehended good, diversity of apprehension pertains, in a way, to diversity
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2680 of the object. And so delights of the soul, which are also called joys, are distinct from bodily delights, which are not called
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2681 otherwise than delights: as we have observed above in regard to concupiscences (
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2682 <a id="FS_Q31_A3-p8.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q30_A3.html">Q[30], A[3]</a>, ad 2).
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2683 </p>
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2684 <p id="FS_Q31_A3-p9">
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2685 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> A like difference is to be observed in concupiscences also: so that delight corresponds to concupiscence, while joy corresponds
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2686 to desire, which seems to pertain more to concupiscence of the soul. Hence there is a difference of repose corresponding to
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2687 the difference of movement.
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2688 </p>
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2689 <p id="FS_Q31_A3-p10">
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2690 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> These other names pertaining to delight are derived from the effects of delight; for "laetitia" [gladness] is derived from
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2691 the "dilation" of the heart, as if one were to say "latitia"; "exultation" is derived from the exterior signs of inward delight,
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2692 which appear outwardly in so far as the inward joy breaks forth from its bounds; and "cheerfulness" is so called from certain
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2693 special signs and effects of gladness. Yet all these names seem to belong to
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2694 joy; for we do not employ them save in speaking of rational beings.
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2695 </p>
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2696 <p id="FS_Q31_A3-p11"></p>
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2697 <p id="FS_Q31_A3-p12"></p>
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2698 <a href="summa.FS_Q31_A2.html"></a>
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2699 <a href="summa.FS_Q31_A4.html"></a>
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2700 </div>
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2701 <div id="FS_Q31_A4" class="div4">
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2702 <a href="summa.FS_Q31_A3.html"></a>
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2703 <a href="summa.FS_Q31_A5.html"></a>
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2704 <h4 id="FS_Q31_A4-p0.1">Whether delight is in the intellectual appetite?</h4>
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2705 <p id="FS_Q31_A4-p1"></p>
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2706 <p id="FS_Q31_A4-p2">
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2707 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that delight is not in the intellectual appetite. Because the Philosopher says (Rhet. i, 11) that "delight
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2708 is a sensible movement." But sensible movement is not in an intellectual power. Therefore delight is not in the intellectual
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2709 appetite.
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2710 </p>
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2711 <p id="FS_Q31_A4-p3">
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2712 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, delight is a passion. But every passion is in the sensitive appetite. Therefore delight is only in the sensitive
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2713 appetite.
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2714 </p>
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2715 <p id="FS_Q31_A4-p4">
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2716 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, delight is common to us and to the irrational animals. Therefore it is not elsewhere than in that power which we
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2717 have in common with irrational animals.
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2718 </p>
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2719 <p id="FS_Q31_A4-p5">
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2720 <b>On the contrary,</b> It is written (
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2721 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q31_A4-p5.1" href="./asv.html#Ps.36.4" target="asv">Ps. 36:4</a>): "Delight in the Lord." But the sensitive appetite cannot reach to God; only the intellectual appetite can. Therefore delight
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2722 can be in the intellectual appetite.
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2723 </p>
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2724 <p id="FS_Q31_A4-p6">
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2725 <b>I answer that,</b> As stated above
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2726 <a id="FS_Q31_A4-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q31_A3.html">(A[3])</a>, a certain delight arises from the apprehension of the reason. Now on the reason apprehending something, not only the sensitive
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2727 appetite is moved, as regards its application to some particular thing, but also the intellectual appetite, which is called
|
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2728 the will. And accordingly in the intellectual appetite or will there is that delight which is called joy, but not bodily delight.
|
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2729 </p>
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2730 <p id="FS_Q31_A4-p7"> However, there is this difference of delight in either power, that delight of the sensitive appetite is accompanied by a
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2731 bodily transmutation, whereas delight of the intellectual appetite is nothing but the mere movement of the will. Hence Augustine
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2732 says (De Civ. Dei xiv, 6) that "desire and joy are nothing else but a volition of consent to the things we wish."
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2733 </p>
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2734 <p id="FS_Q31_A4-p8">
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2735 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> In this definition of the Philosopher, he uses the word "sensible" in its wide acceptation for any kind of perception. For
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2736 he says (Ethic. x, 4) that "delight is attendant upon every sense, as it is also upon every act of the intellect and contemplation."
|
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2737 Or we may say that he is defining delight of the sensitive appetite.
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2738 </p>
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2739 <p id="FS_Q31_A4-p9">
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2740 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Delight has the character of passion, properly speaking, when accompanied by bodily transmutation. It is not thus in the
|
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2741 intellectual appetite, but according to simple movement: for thus it is also in God and the angels. Hence the Philosopher
|
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2742 says (Ethic. vii, 14) that "God rejoices by one simple act": and Dionysius says at the end of De Coel. Hier., that "the angels
|
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2743 are not susceptible to our passible delight, but rejoice together with God with the
|
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2744 gladness of incorruption."
|
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2745 </p>
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2746 <p id="FS_Q31_A4-p10">
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2747 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> In us there is delight, not only in common with dumb animals, but also in common with angels. Wherefore Dionysius says (De
|
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2748 Coel. Hier.) that "holy men often take part in the angelic delights." Accordingly we have delight, not only in the sensitive
|
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2749 appetite, which we have in common with dumb animals, but also in the intellectual appetite, which we have in common with the
|
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2750 angels.
|
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2751 </p>
|
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2752 <p id="FS_Q31_A4-p11"></p>
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2753 <p id="FS_Q31_A4-p12"></p>
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2754 <a href="summa.FS_Q31_A3.html"></a>
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2755 <a href="summa.FS_Q31_A5.html"></a>
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2756 </div>
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2757 <div id="FS_Q31_A5" class="div4">
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2758 <a href="summa.FS_Q31_A4.html"></a>
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2759 <a href="summa.FS_Q31_A6.html"></a>
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2760 <h4 id="FS_Q31_A5-p0.1">Whether bodily and sensible pleasures are greater than spiritual and intellectual pleasures?</h4>
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2761 <p id="FS_Q31_A5-p1"></p>
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2762 <p id="FS_Q31_A5-p2">
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2763 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that bodily and sensible pleasures are greater than spiritual and intelligible pleasures. For all men seek
|
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2764 some pleasure, according to the Philosopher (Ethic. x, 2,4). But more seek sensible pleasures, than intelligible spiritual
|
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2765 pleasures. Therefore bodily pleasures are greater.
|
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2766 </p>
|
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2767 <p id="FS_Q31_A5-p3">
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2768 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, the greatness of a cause is known by its effect. But bodily pleasures have greater effects; since "they alter the
|
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2769 state of the body, and in some they cause madness" (Ethic. vii, 3). Therefore bodily pleasures are greater.
|
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2770 </p>
|
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2771 <p id="FS_Q31_A5-p4">
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2772 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, bodily pleasures need to be tempered and checked, by reason of their vehemence: whereas there is no need to check
|
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2773 spiritual pleasures. Therefore bodily pleasures are greater.
|
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2774 </p>
|
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2775 <p id="FS_Q31_A5-p5">
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2776 <b>On the contrary,</b> It is written (
|
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|
2777 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q31_A5-p5.1" href="./asv.html#Ps.118.103" target="asv">Ps. 118:103</a>): "How sweet are Thy words to my palate; more than honey to my mouth!" And the Philosopher says (Ethic. x, 7) that "the greatest
|
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2778 pleasure is derived from the operation of wisdom."
|
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|
2779 </p>
|
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2780 <p id="FS_Q31_A5-p6">
|
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2781 <b>I answer that,</b> As stated above
|
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2782 <a id="FS_Q31_A5-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q31_A1.html">(A[1])</a>, pleasure arises from union with a suitable object perceived or known. Now, in the operations of the soul, especially of
|
|
|
2783 the sensitive and intellectual soul, it must be noted that, since they do not pass into outward matter, they are acts or perfections
|
|
|
2784 of the agent, e.g. to understand, to feel, to will and the like: because actions which pass into outward matter, are actions
|
|
|
2785 and perfections rather of the
|
|
|
2786 matter transformed; for "movement is the act produced by the mover in the thing moved" (Phys. iii, 3). Accordingly the aforesaid
|
|
|
2787 actions of the sensitive and intellectual soul, are themselves a certain good of the agent, and are known by sense and intellect.
|
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2788 Wherefore from them also does pleasure arise, and not only from their objects.
|
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|
2789 </p>
|
|
|
2790 <p id="FS_Q31_A5-p7"> If therefore we compare intellectual pleasures with sensible pleasures, according as we delight in the very actions, for
|
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2791 instance in sensitive and in intellectual knowledge; without doubt intellectual pleasures are much greater than sensible pleasures.
|
|
|
2792 For man takes much more delight in knowing something, by understanding it, than in knowing something by perceiving it with
|
|
|
2793 his sense. Because intellectual knowledge is more perfect; and because it is better known, since the
|
|
|
2794 intellect reflects on its own act more than sense does. Moreover intellectual knowledge is more beloved: for there is no one
|
|
|
2795 who would not forfeit his bodily sight rather than his intellectual vision, as beasts or fools are deprived thereof, as Augustine
|
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|
2796 says in De Civ. Dei (De Trin. xiv, 14).
|
|
|
2797 </p>
|
|
|
2798 <p id="FS_Q31_A5-p8"> If, however, intellectual spiritual pleasures be compared with sensible bodily pleasures, then, in themselves and absolutely
|
|
|
2799 speaking, spiritual pleasures are greater. And this appears from the consideration of the three things needed for pleasure,
|
|
|
2800 viz. the good which is brought into conjunction, that to which it is conjoined, and the conjunction itself. For spiritual
|
|
|
2801 good is both greater and more beloved than bodily good: a sign whereof is that men abstain from even the
|
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|
2802 greatest bodily pleasures, rather than suffer loss of honor which is an intellectual good. Likewise the intellectual faculty
|
|
|
2803 is much more noble and more knowing than the sensitive faculty. Also the conjunction is more intimate, more perfect and more
|
|
|
2804 firm. More intimate, because the senses stop at the outward accidents of a thing, whereas the intellect penetrates to the
|
|
|
2805 essence; for the object of the intellect is "what a thing is." More perfect, because the conjunction of the sensible to the
|
|
|
2806 sense implies movement, which is an imperfect act: wherefore sensible pleasures are not perceived all at once, but some part
|
|
|
2807 of them is passing away, while some other part is looked forward to as yet to be realized, as is manifest in pleasures of
|
|
|
2808 the table and in sexual pleasures: whereas intelligible things are without movement: hence pleasures of this kind are realized
|
|
|
2809 all at once. More firm; because the objects of bodily pleasure are corruptible, and soon pass away; whereas spiritual goods
|
|
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2810 are incorruptible.
|
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|
2811 </p>
|
|
|
2812 <p id="FS_Q31_A5-p9"> On the other hand, in relation to us, bodily pleasures are more vehement, for three reasons. First, because sensible things
|
|
|
2813 are more known to us, than intelligible things. Secondly, because sensible pleasures, through being passions of the sensitive
|
|
|
2814 appetite, are accompanied by some alteration in the body: whereas this does not occur in spiritual pleasures, save by reason
|
|
|
2815 of a certain reaction of the superior appetite on the lower. Thirdly, because bodily pleasures are sought as
|
|
|
2816 remedies for bodily defects or troubles, whence various griefs arise. Wherefore bodily pleasures, by reason of their succeeding
|
|
|
2817 griefs of this kind, are felt the more, and consequently are welcomed more than spiritual pleasures, which have no contrary
|
|
|
2818 griefs, as we shall state farther on (
|
|
|
2819 <a id="FS_Q31_A5-p9.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q35_A5.html">Q[35], A[5]</a>).
|
|
|
2820 </p>
|
|
|
2821 <p id="FS_Q31_A5-p10">
|
|
|
2822 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> The reason why more seek bodily pleasures is because sensible goods are known better and more generally: and, again, because
|
|
|
2823 men need pleasures as remedies for many kinds of sorrow and sadness: and since the majority cannot attain spiritual pleasures,
|
|
|
2824 which are proper to the virtuous, hence it is that they turn aside to seek those of the body.
|
|
|
2825 </p>
|
|
|
2826 <p id="FS_Q31_A5-p11">
|
|
|
2827 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Bodily transmutation arises more from bodily pleasures, inasmuch as they are passions of the sensitive appetite.
|
|
|
2828 </p>
|
|
|
2829 <p id="FS_Q31_A5-p12">
|
|
|
2830 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Bodily pleasures are realized in the sensitive faculty which is governed by reason: wherefore they need to be tempered and
|
|
|
2831 checked by reason. But spiritual pleasures are in the mind, which is itself the rule: wherefore they are in themselves both
|
|
|
2832 sober and moderate.
|
|
|
2833 </p>
|
|
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2834 <p id="FS_Q31_A5-p13"></p>
|
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2835 <p id="FS_Q31_A5-p14"></p>
|
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2836 <a href="summa.FS_Q31_A4.html"></a>
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2837 <a href="summa.FS_Q31_A6.html"></a>
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2838 </div>
|
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2839 <div id="FS_Q31_A6" class="div4">
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2840 <a href="summa.FS_Q31_A5.html"></a>
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2841 <a href="summa.FS_Q31_A7.html"></a>
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2842 <h4 id="FS_Q31_A6-p0.1">Whether the pleasures of touch are greater than the pleasures afforded by the other senses?</h4>
|
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2843 <p id="FS_Q31_A6-p1"></p>
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2844 <p id="FS_Q31_A6-p2">
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2845 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that the pleasures of touch are not greater than the pleasures afforded by the other senses. Because the greatest
|
|
|
2846 pleasure seems to be that without which all joy is at an end. But such is the pleasure afforded by the sight, according to
|
|
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2847 the words of
|
|
|
2848 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q31_A6-p2.1" href="./asv.html#Tob.5.12" target="asv"> Tob. 5:12</a>: "What manner of joy shall be to me, who sit in darkness, and see not the light of heaven?" Therefore the pleasure afforded
|
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2849 by the sight is the greatest of sensible
|
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2850 pleasures.
|
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2851 </p>
|
|
|
2852 <p id="FS_Q31_A6-p3">
|
|
|
2853 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, "every one finds treasure in what he loves," as the Philosopher says (Rhet. i, 11). But "of all the senses the sight
|
|
|
2854 is loved most" [*Metaph. i, 1]. Therefore the greatest pleasure seems to be afforded by sight.
|
|
|
2855 </p>
|
|
|
2856 <p id="FS_Q31_A6-p4">
|
|
|
2857 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, the beginning of friendship which is for the sake of the pleasant is principally sight. But pleasure is the cause
|
|
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2858 of such friendship. Therefore the greatest pleasure seems to be afforded by sight.
|
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|
2859 </p>
|
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|
2860 <p id="FS_Q31_A6-p5">
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|
2861 <b>On the contrary,</b> The Philosopher says (Ethic. iii, 10), that the greatest pleasures are those which are afforded by the touch.
|
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2862 </p>
|
|
|
2863 <p id="FS_Q31_A6-p6">
|
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|
2864 <b>I answer that,</b> As stated above (
|
|
|
2865 <a id="FS_Q31_A6-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q25_A2.html">Q[25], A[2]</a>, ad 1;
|
|
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2866 <a id="FS_Q31_A6-p6.2" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q27_A4.html"> Q[27], A[4]</a>, ad 1), everything gives pleasure according as it is loved. Now, as stated in Metaph. i, 1, the senses are loved for two
|
|
|
2867 reasons: for the purpose of knowledge, and on account of their usefulness. Wherefore the senses afford pleasure in both these
|
|
|
2868 ways. But because it is proper to man to apprehend knowledge itself as something good, it follows that the former
|
|
|
2869 pleasures of the senses, i.e. those which arise from knowledge, are proper to man: whereas pleasures of the senses, as loved
|
|
|
2870 for their usefulness, are common to all animals.
|
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2871 </p>
|
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|
2872 <p id="FS_Q31_A6-p7"> If therefore we speak of that sensible pleasure by which reason of knowledge, it is evident that the sight affords greater
|
|
|
2873 pleasure than any other sense. On the other hand, if we speak of that sensible pleasure which is by reason of usefulness,
|
|
|
2874 then the greatest pleasure is afforded by the touch. For the usefulness of sensible things is gauged by their relation to
|
|
|
2875 the preservation of the animal's nature. Now the sensible objects of touch bear the closest relation to this
|
|
|
2876 usefulness: for the touch takes cognizance of those things which are vital to an animal, namely, of things hot and cold and
|
|
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2877 the like. Wherefore in this respect, the pleasures of touch are greater as being more closely related to the end. For this
|
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2878 reason, too, other animals which do not experience sensible pleasure save by reason of usefulness, derive no pleasure from
|
|
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2879 the other senses except as subordinated to the sensible objects of the touch: "for dogs do not take delight in the smell of
|
|
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2880 hares, but in eating them; . . . nor does the lion feel pleasure in the lowing of an ox, but in devouring it" (Ethic. iii,
|
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2881 10).
|
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2882 </p>
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2883 <p id="FS_Q31_A6-p8"> Since then the pleasure afforded by touch is the greatest in respect of usefulness, and the pleasure afforded by sight the
|
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|
2884 greatest in respect of knowledge; if anyone wish to compare these two, he will find that the pleasure of touch is, absolutely
|
|
|
2885 speaking, greater than the pleasure of sight, so far as the latter remains within the limits of sensible pleasure. Because
|
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|
2886 it is evident that in everything, that which is natural is most powerful: and it is to these pleasures of the
|
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2887 touch that the natural concupiscences, such as those of food, sexual union, and the like, are ordained. If, however, we consider
|
|
|
2888 the pleasures of sight, inasmuch sight is the handmaid of the mind, then the pleasures of sight are greater, forasmuch as
|
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2889 intellectual pleasures are greater than sensible.
|
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|
2890 </p>
|
|
|
2891 <p id="FS_Q31_A6-p9">
|
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|
2892 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Joy, as stated above
|
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|
2893 <a id="FS_Q31_A6-p9.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q31_A3.html">(A[3])</a>, denotes pleasure of the soul; and this belongs principally to the sight. But natural pleasure belongs principally to the
|
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2894 touch.
|
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2895 </p>
|
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2896 <p id="FS_Q31_A6-p10">
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2897 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> The sight is loved most, "on account of knowledge, because it helps us to distinguish many things," as is stated in the same
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2898 passage (Metaph. i, 1).
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2899 </p>
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2900 <p id="FS_Q31_A6-p11">
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2901 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Pleasure causes carnal love in one way; the sight, in another. For pleasure, especially that which is afforded by the touch,
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2902 is the final cause of the friendship which is for the sake of the pleasant: whereas the sight is a cause like that from which
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2903 a movement has its beginning, inasmuch as the beholder on seeing the lovable object receives an impression of its image, which
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2904 entices him to love it and to seek its delight.
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2905 </p>
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2906 <p id="FS_Q31_A6-p12"></p>
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2907 <p id="FS_Q31_A6-p13"></p>
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2908 <a href="summa.FS_Q31_A5.html"></a>
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2909 <a href="summa.FS_Q31_A7.html"></a>
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2910 </div>
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2911 <div id="FS_Q31_A7" class="div4">
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2912 <a href="summa.FS_Q31_A6.html"></a>
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2913 <a href="summa.FS_Q31_A8.html"></a>
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2914 <h4 id="FS_Q31_A7-p0.1">Whether any pleasure is not natural?</h4>
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2915 <p id="FS_Q31_A7-p1"></p>
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2916 <p id="FS_Q31_A7-p2">
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2917 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that no pleasure is not natural. For pleasure is to the emotions of the soul what repose is to bodies. But
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2918 the appetite of a natural body does not repose save in a connatural place. Neither, therefore, can the repose of the animal
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2919 appetite, which is pleasure, be elsewhere than in something connatural. Therefore no pleasure is non-natural.
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2920 </p>
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2921 <p id="FS_Q31_A7-p3">
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2922 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, what is against nature is violent. But "whatever is violent causes grief" (Metaph. v, 5). Therefore nothing which
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2923 is unnatural can give pleasure.
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2924 </p>
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2925 <p id="FS_Q31_A7-p4">
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2926 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, the fact of being established in one's own nature, if perceived, gives rise to pleasure, as is evident from the
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2927 Philosopher's definition quoted above
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2928 <a id="FS_Q31_A7-p4.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q31_A1.html">(A[1])</a>. But it is natural to every thing to be established in its nature; because natural movement tends to a natural end. Therefore
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2929 every pleasure is natural.
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2930 </p>
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2931 <p id="FS_Q31_A7-p5">
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2932 <b>On the contrary,</b> The Philosopher says (Ethic. vii, 5,6) that some things are pleasant "not from nature but from disease."
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2933 </p>
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2934 <p id="FS_Q31_A7-p6">
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2935 <b>I answer that,</b> We speak of that as being natural, which is in accord with nature, as stated in Phys. ii, 1. Now, in man, nature can be taken
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2936 in two ways. First, inasmuch as intellect and reason is the principal part of man's nature, since in respect thereof he has
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2937 his own specific nature. And in this sense, those pleasures may be called natural to man, which are derived from things pertaining
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2938 to man in respect of his reason: for instance, it is natural to man to take
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2939 pleasure in contemplating the truth and in doing works of virtue. Secondly, nature in man may be taken as contrasted with
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2940 reason, and as denoting that which is common to man and other animals, especially that part of man which does not obey reason.
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2941 And in this sense, that which pertains to the preservation of the body, either as regards the individual, as food, drink,
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2942 sleep, and the like, or as regards the species, as sexual intercourse, are said to afford man natural pleasure. Under each
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2943 kind
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2944 of pleasures, we find some that are "not natural" speaking absolutely, and yet "connatural" in some respect. For it happens
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2945 in an individual that some one of the natural principles of the species is corrupted, so that something which is contrary
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2946 to the specific nature, becomes accidentally natural to this individual: thus it is natural to this hot water to give heat.
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2947 Consequently it happens that something which is not natural to man, either in regard to reason, or in regard to the preservation
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2948 of the body, becomes connatural to this individual man, on account of there being some corruption of nature in him. And this
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2949 corruption may be either on the part of the body---from some ailment; thus to a man suffering from fever, sweet things seem
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2950 bitter, and vice versa---or from an evil temperament; thus some take pleasure in eating earth and coals and the like; or on
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2951 the part of the soul; thus from custom some take pleasure in cannibalism or in the unnatural intercourse of man and beast,
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2952 or
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2953 other such things, which are not in accord with human nature.
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2954 </p>
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2955 <p id="FS_Q31_A7-p7"> This suffices for the answers to the objections.</p>
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2956 <p id="FS_Q31_A7-p8"></p>
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2957 <p id="FS_Q31_A7-p9"></p>
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2958 <a href="summa.FS_Q31_A6.html"></a>
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2959 <a href="summa.FS_Q31_A8.html"></a>
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2960 </div>
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2961 <div id="FS_Q31_A8" class="div4">
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2962 <a href="summa.FS_Q31_A7.html"></a>
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2963 <a href="summa.FS_Q32.html"></a>
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2964 <h4 id="FS_Q31_A8-p0.1">Whether one pleasure can be contrary to another?</h4>
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2965 <p id="FS_Q31_A8-p1"></p>
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2966 <p id="FS_Q31_A8-p2">
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2967 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that one pleasure cannot be contrary to another. Because the passions of the soul derive their species and
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2968 contrariety from their objects. Now the object of pleasure is the good. Since therefore good is not contrary to good, but
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2969 "good is contrary to evil, and evil to good," as stated in Praedic. viii; it seems that one pleasure is not contrary to another.
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2970 </p>
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2971 <p id="FS_Q31_A8-p3">
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2972 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, to one thing there is one contrary, as is proved in Metaph. x, 4. But sadness is contrary to pleasure. Therefore
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2973 pleasure is not contrary to pleasure.
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2974 </p>
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2975 <p id="FS_Q31_A8-p4">
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2976 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, if one pleasure is contrary to another, this is only on account of the contrariety of the things which give pleasure.
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2977 But this difference is material: whereas contrariety is a difference of form, as stated in Metaph. x, 4. Therefore there is
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2978 no contrariety between one pleasure and another.
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2979 </p>
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2980 <p id="FS_Q31_A8-p5">
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2981 <b>On the contrary,</b> Things of the same genus that impede one another are contraries, as the Philosopher states (Phys. viii, 8). But some pleasures
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2982 impede one another, as stated in Ethic. x, 5. Therefore some pleasures are contrary to one another.
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2983 </p>
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2984 <p id="FS_Q31_A8-p6">
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2985 <b>I answer that,</b> Pleasure, in the emotions of the soul, is likened to repose in natural bodies, as stated above (
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2986 <a id="FS_Q31_A8-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q23_A4.html">Q[23], A[4]</a>). Now one repose is said to be contrary to another when they are in contrary termini; thus, "repose in a high place is contrary
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2987 to repose in a low place" (Phys. v, 6). Wherefore it happens in the emotions of the soul that one pleasure is contrary to
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2988 another.
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2989 </p>
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2990 <p id="FS_Q31_A8-p7">
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2991 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> This saying of the Philosopher is to be understood of good and evil as applied to virtues and vices: because one vice may
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2992 be contrary to another vice, whereas no virtue can be contrary to another virtue. But in other things nothing prevents one
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2993 good from being contrary to another, such as hot and cold, of which the former is good in relation to fire, the latter, in
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2994 relation to water. And in this way one pleasure can be contrary to another. That this
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2995 is impossible with regard to the good of virtue, is due to the fact that virtue's good depends on fittingness in relation
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2996 to some one thing---i.e. the reason.
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2997 </p>
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2998 <p id="FS_Q31_A8-p8">
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2999 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Pleasure, in the emotions of the soul, is likened to natural repose in bodies: because its object is something suitable and
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3000 connatural, so to speak. But sadness is like a violent repose; because its object is disagreeable to the animal appetite,
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3001 just as the place of violent repose is disagreeable to the natural appetite. Now natural repose is contrary both to violent
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3002 repose of the same body, and to the natural repose of another, as stated in Phys. v,
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3003 6. Wherefore pleasure is contrary to both to another pleasure and to sadness.
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3004 </p>
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3005 <p id="FS_Q31_A8-p9">
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3006 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> The things in which we take pleasure, since they are the objects of pleasure, cause not only a material, but also a formal
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3007 difference, if the formality of pleasurableness be different. Because difference in the formal object causes a specific difference
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3008 in acts and passions, as stated above (
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3009 <a id="FS_Q31_A8-p9.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q23_A1.html">Q[23], AA[1]</a>,4;
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3010 <a id="FS_Q31_A8-p9.2" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q30_A2.html"> Q[30], A[2]</a>).
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3011 </p>
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3012 <p id="FS_Q31_A8-p10"></p>
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3013 <p id="FS_Q31_A8-p11"></p>
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3014 <a href="summa.FS_Q31_A7.html"></a>
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3015 <a href="summa.FS_Q32.html"></a>
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3016 </div>
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3017 <a href="summa.FS_Q30_A4.html"></a>
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3018 <a href="summa.FS_Q31_A1.html"></a>
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3019 </div>
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3020 <div id="FS_Q32" class="div3">
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3021 <a href="summa.FS_Q31_A8.html"></a>
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3022 <a href="summa.FS_Q32_A1.html"></a>
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3023 <h3 id="FS_Q32-p0.1">OF THE CAUSE OF PLEASURE (EIGHT ARTICLES)</h3>
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3024 <p id="FS_Q32-p1"></p>
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3025 <p id="FS_Q32-p2"> We must now consider the causes of pleasure: and under this head there are eight points of inquiry:</p>
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3026 <p id="FS_Q32-p3"> (1) Whether operation is the proper cause of pleasure?</p>
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3027 <p id="FS_Q32-p4"> (2) Whether movement is a cause of pleasure?</p>
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3028 <p id="FS_Q32-p5"> (3) Whether hope and memory cause pleasure?</p>
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3029 <p id="FS_Q32-p6"> (4) Whether sadness causes pleasure?</p>
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3030 <p id="FS_Q32-p7"> (5) Whether the actions of others are a cause of pleasure to us?</p>
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3031 <p id="FS_Q32-p8"> (6) Whether doing good to another is a cause of pleasure?</p>
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3032 <p id="FS_Q32-p9"> (7) Whether likeness is a cause of pleasure?</p>
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3033 <p id="FS_Q32-p10"> (8) Whether wonder is a cause of pleasure?</p>
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3034 <div id="FS_Q32_A1" class="div4">
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3035 <a href="summa.FS_Q32.html"></a>
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3036 <a href="summa.FS_Q32_A2.html"></a>
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3037 <h4 id="FS_Q32_A1-p0.1">Whether operation is the proper cause of pleasure?</h4>
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3038 <p id="FS_Q32_A1-p1"></p>
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3039 <p id="FS_Q32_A1-p2">
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3040 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that operation is not the proper and first cause of pleasure. For, as the Philosopher says (Rhet. i, 11), "pleasure
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3041 consists in a perception of the senses," since knowledge is requisite for pleasure, as stated above (
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3042 <a id="FS_Q32_A1-p2.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q31_A1.html">Q[31], A[1]</a>). But the objects of operations are knowable before the operations themselves. Therefore operation is not the proper cause
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3043 of pleasure.
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3044 </p>
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3045 <p id="FS_Q32_A1-p3">
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3046 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, pleasure consists especially in an end gained: since it is this that is chiefly desired. But the end is not always
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3047 an operation, but is sometimes the effect of the operation. Therefore operation is not the proper and direct cause of pleasure.
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3048 </p>
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3049 <p id="FS_Q32_A1-p4">
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3050 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, leisure and rest consist in cessation from work: and they are objects of pleasure (Rhet. i, 11). Therefore operation
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3051 is not the proper cause of pleasure.
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3052 </p>
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3053 <p id="FS_Q32_A1-p5">
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3054 <b>On the contrary,</b> The Philosopher says (Ethic. vii, 12,13; x, 4) that "pleasure is a connatural and uninterrupted operation."
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3055 </p>
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3056 <p id="FS_Q32_A1-p6">
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3057 <b>I answer that,</b> As stated above (
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3058 <a id="FS_Q32_A1-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q31_A1.html">Q[31], A[1]</a>), two things are requisite for pleasure: namely, the attainment of the suitable good, and knowledge of this attainment. Now
|
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3059 each of these consists in a kind of operation: because actual knowledge is an operation; and the attainment of the suitable
|
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3060 good is by means of an operation. Moreover, the proper operation itself is a suitable good. Wherefore every pleasure must
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3061 needs be the result of some
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3062 operation.
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3063 </p>
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3064 <p id="FS_Q32_A1-p7">
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3065 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> The objects of operations are not pleasurable save inasmuch as they are united to us; either by knowledge alone, as when
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3066 we take pleasure in thinking of or looking at certain things; or in some other way in addition to knowledge; as when a man
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3067 takes pleasure in knowing that he has something good--riches, honor, or the like; which would not be pleasurable unless they
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3068 were apprehended as possessed. For as the Philosopher observes (Polit. ii, 2) "we take
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3069 great pleasure in looking upon a thing as our own, by reason of the natural love we have for ourselves." Now to have such
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3070 like things is nothing else but to use them or to be able to use them: and this is through some operation. Wherefore it is
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3071 evident that every pleasure is traced to some operation as its cause.
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3072 </p>
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3073 <p id="FS_Q32_A1-p8">
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3074 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Even when it is not an operation, but the effect of an operation, that is the end, this effect is pleasant in so far as possessed
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3075 or effected: and this implies use or operation.
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3076 </p>
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3077 <p id="FS_Q32_A1-p9">
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3078 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Operations are pleasant, in so far as they are proportionate and connatural to the agent. Now, since human power is finite,
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3079 operation is proportionate thereto according to a certain measure. Wherefore if it exceed that measure, it will be no longer
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3080 proportionate or pleasant, but, on the contrary, painful and irksome. And in this sense, leisure and play and other things
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3081 pertaining to repose, are pleasant, inasmuch as they banish sadness which results
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3082 from labor.
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3083 </p>
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3084 <p id="FS_Q32_A1-p10"></p>
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3085 <p id="FS_Q32_A1-p11"></p>
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3086 <a href="summa.FS_Q32.html"></a>
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3087 <a href="summa.FS_Q32_A2.html"></a>
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3088 </div>
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3089 <div id="FS_Q32_A2" class="div4">
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3090 <a href="summa.FS_Q32_A1.html"></a>
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3091 <a href="summa.FS_Q32_A3.html"></a>
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3092 <h4 id="FS_Q32_A2-p0.1">Whether movement is a cause of pleasure?</h4>
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3093 <p id="FS_Q32_A2-p1"></p>
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3094 <p id="FS_Q32_A2-p2">
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3095 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that movement is not a cause of pleasure. Because, as stated above (
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3096 <a id="FS_Q32_A2-p2.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q31_A1.html">Q[31], A[1]</a>), the good which is obtained and is actually possessed, is the cause of pleasure: wherefore the Philosopher says (Ethic.
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3097 vii, 12) that pleasure is not compared with generation, but with the operation of a thing already in existence. Now that which
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3098 is being moved towards something has it not as yet; but, so to speak, is being generated in its
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3099 regard, forasmuch as generation or corruption are united to every movement, as stated in Phys. viii, 3. Therefore movement
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3100 is not a cause of pleasure.
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3101 </p>
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3102 <p id="FS_Q32_A2-p3">
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3103 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, movement is the chief cause of toil and fatigue in our works. But operations through being toilsome and fatiguing
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3104 are not pleasant but disagreeable. Therefore movement is not a cause of pleasure.
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3105 </p>
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3106 <p id="FS_Q32_A2-p4">
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3107 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, movement implies a certain innovation, which is the opposite of custom. But things "which we are accustomed to,
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3108 are pleasant," as the Philosopher says (Rhet. i, 11). Therefore movement is not a cause of pleasure.
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3109 </p>
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3110 <p id="FS_Q32_A2-p5">
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3111 <b>On the contrary,</b> Augustine says (Confess. viii, 3): "What means this, O Lord my God, whereas Thou art everlasting joy to Thyself, and some
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3112 things around Thee evermore rejoice in Thee? What means this, that this portion of things ebbs and flows alternately displeased
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3113 and reconciled?" From these words we gather that man rejoices and takes pleasure in some kind of alterations: and therefore
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3114 movement seems to cause pleasure.
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3115 </p>
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3116 <p id="FS_Q32_A2-p6">
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3117 <b>I answer that,</b> Three things are requisite for pleasure; two, i.e. the one that is pleased and the pleasurable object conjoined to him; and
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3118 a third, which is knowledge of this conjunction: and in respect of these three, movement is pleasant, as the Philosopher says
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3119 (Ethic. vii, 14 and Rhetor. i, 11). For as far as we who feel pleasure are concerned, change is pleasant to us because our
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3120 nature is changeable: for which reason that which is suitable to us at one time is not
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3121 suitable at another; thus to warm himself at a fire is suitable to man in winter but not in summer. Again, on the part of
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3122 the pleasing good which is united to us, change is pleasant. Because the continued action of an agent increases its effect:
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3123 thus the longer a person remains near the fire, the more he is warmed and dried. Now the natural mode of being consists in
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3124 a certain measure; and therefore when the continued presence of a pleasant object exceeds the measure of one's natural mode
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3125 of
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3126 being, the removal of that object becomes pleasant. On the part of the knowledge itself (change becomes pleasant), because
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3127 man desires to know something whole and perfect: when therefore a thing cannot be apprehended all at once as a whole, change
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3128 in such a thing is pleasant, so that one part may pass and another succeed, and thus the whole be perceived. Hence Augustine
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3129 says (Confess. iv, 11): "Thou wouldst not have the syllables stay, but fly away, that others may come, and thou hear the
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3130 whole. And so whenever any one thing is made up of many, all of which do not exist together, all would please collectively
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3131 more than they do severally, if all could be perceived collectively."
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3132 </p>
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3133 <p id="FS_Q32_A2-p7"> If therefore there be any thing, whose nature is unchangeable; the natural mode of whose being cannot be exceeded by the
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3134 continuation of any pleasing object; and which can behold the whole object of its delight at once---to such a one change will
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3135 afford no delight. And the more any pleasures approach to this, the more are they capable of being continual.
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3136 </p>
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3137 <p id="FS_Q32_A2-p8">
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3138 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Although the subject of movement has not yet perfectly that to which it is moved, nevertheless it is beginning to have something
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3139 thereof: and in this respect movement itself has something of pleasure. But it falls short of the perfection of pleasure;
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3140 because the more perfect pleasures regard things that are unchangeable. Moreover movement becomes the cause of pleasure, in
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3141 so far as thereby something which previously was unsuitable, becomes suitable or
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3142 ceases to be, as stated above.
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3143 </p>
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3144 <p id="FS_Q32_A2-p9">
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3145 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Movement causes toil and fatigue, when it exceeds our natural aptitude. It is not thus that it causes pleasure, but by removing
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3146 the obstacles to our natural aptitude.
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3147 </p>
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3148 <p id="FS_Q32_A2-p10">
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3149 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> What is customary becomes pleasant, in so far as it becomes natural: because custom is like a second nature. But the movement
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3150 which gives pleasure is not that which departs from custom, but rather that which prevents the corruption of the natural mode
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3151 of being, that might result from continued operation. And thus from the same cause of connaturalness, both custom and movement
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3152 become pleasant.
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3153 </p>
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3154 <p id="FS_Q32_A2-p11"></p>
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3155 <p id="FS_Q32_A2-p12"></p>
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3156 <a href="summa.FS_Q32_A1.html"></a>
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3157 <a href="summa.FS_Q32_A3.html"></a>
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3158 </div>
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3159 <div id="FS_Q32_A3" class="div4">
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3160 <a href="summa.FS_Q32_A2.html"></a>
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3161 <a href="summa.FS_Q32_A4.html"></a>
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3162 <h4 id="FS_Q32_A3-p0.1">Whether hope and memory causes pleasure?</h4>
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3163 <p id="FS_Q32_A3-p1"></p>
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3164 <p id="FS_Q32_A3-p2">
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3165 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that memory and hope do not cause pleasure. Because pleasure is caused by present good, as Damascene says (De
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3166 Fide Orth. ii, 12). But hope and memory regard what is absent: since memory is of the past, and hope of the future. Therefore
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3167 memory and hope do not cause pleasure.
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3168 </p>
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3169 <p id="FS_Q32_A3-p3">
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3170 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, the same thing is not the cause of contraries. But hope causes affliction, according to
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3171 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q32_A3-p3.1" href="./asv.html#Prov.13.12" target="asv"> Prov. 13:12</a>: "Hope that is deferred afflicteth the soul." Therefore hope does not cause pleasure.
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3172 </p>
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3173 <p id="FS_Q32_A3-p4">
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3174 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, just as hope agrees with pleasure in regarding good, so also do desire and love. Therefore hope should not be assigned
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3175 as a cause of pleasure, any more than desire or love.
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3176 </p>
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3177 <p id="FS_Q32_A3-p5">
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3178 <b>On the contrary,</b> It is written (
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3179 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q32_A3-p5.1" href="./asv.html#Rom.12.12" target="asv">Rom. 12:12</a>): "Rejoicing in hope"; and (
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3180 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q32_A3-p5.2" href="./asv.html#Ps.76.4" target="asv">Ps. 76:4</a>): "I remembered God, and was delighted."
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3181 </p>
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3182 <p id="FS_Q32_A3-p6">
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3183 <b>I answer that,</b> Pleasure is caused by the presence of suitable good, in so far as it is felt, or perceived in any way. Now a thing is present
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3184 to us in two ways. First, in knowledge---i.e. according as the thing known is in the knower by its likeness; secondly, in
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3185 reality---i.e. according as one thing is in real conjunction of any kind with another, either actually or potentially. And
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3186 since real conjunction is greater than conjunction by likeness, which is the conjunction of
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3187 knowledge; and again, since actual is greater than potential conjunction: therefore the greatest pleasure is that which arises
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3188 from sensation which requires the presence of the sensible object. The second place belongs to the pleasure of hope, wherein
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3189 there is pleasurable conjunction, not only in respect of apprehension, but also in respect of the faculty or power of obtaining
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3190 the pleasurable object. The third place belongs to the pleasure of memory, which has only the conjunction of
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3191 apprehension.
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3192 </p>
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3193 <p id="FS_Q32_A3-p7">
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3194 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Hope and memory are indeed of things which, absolutely speaking, are absent: and yet those are, after a fashion, present,
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3195 i.e. either according to apprehension only; or according to apprehension and possibility, at least supposed, of attainment.
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3196 </p>
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3197 <p id="FS_Q32_A3-p8">
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3198 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Nothing prevents the same thing, in different ways, being the cause of contraries. And so hope, inasmuch as it implies a
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3199 present appraising of a future good, causes pleasure; whereas, inasmuch as it implies absence of that good, it causes affliction.
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3200 </p>
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3201 <p id="FS_Q32_A3-p9">
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3202 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Love and concupiscence also cause pleasure. For everything that is loved becomes pleasing to the lover, since love is a kind
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3203 of union or connaturalness of lover and beloved. In like manner every object of desire is pleasing to the one that desires,
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3204 since desire is chiefly a craving for pleasure. However hope, as implying a certainty of the real presence of the pleasing
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3205 good, that is not implied either by love or by concupiscence, is reckoned in
|
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3206 preference to them as causing pleasure; and also in preference to memory, which is of that which has already passed away.
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3207 </p>
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3208 <p id="FS_Q32_A3-p10"></p>
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3209 <p id="FS_Q32_A3-p11"></p>
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3210 <a href="summa.FS_Q32_A2.html"></a>
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3211 <a href="summa.FS_Q32_A4.html"></a>
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3212 </div>
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3213 <div id="FS_Q32_A4" class="div4">
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3214 <a href="summa.FS_Q32_A3.html"></a>
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3215 <a href="summa.FS_Q32_A5.html"></a>
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3216 <h4 id="FS_Q32_A4-p0.1">Whether sadness causes pleasure?</h4>
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3217 <p id="FS_Q32_A4-p1"></p>
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3218 <p id="FS_Q32_A4-p2">
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3219 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that sadness does not cause pleasure. For nothing causes its own contrary. But sadness is contrary to pleasure.
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3220 Therefore it does not cause it.
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3221 </p>
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3222 <p id="FS_Q32_A4-p3">
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3223 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, contraries have contrary effects. But pleasures, when called to mind, cause pleasure. Therefore sad things, when
|
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3224 remembered, cause sorrow and not pleasure.
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3225 </p>
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3226 <p id="FS_Q32_A4-p4">
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3227 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, as sadness is to pleasure, so is hatred to love. But hatred does not cause love, but rather the other way about,
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3228 as stated above (
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3229 <a id="FS_Q32_A4-p4.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q29_A2.html">Q[29], A[2]</a>). Therefore sadness does not cause pleasure.
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3230 </p>
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3231 <p id="FS_Q32_A4-p5">
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3232 <b>On the contrary,</b> It is written (
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3233 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q32_A4-p5.1" href="./asv.html#Ps.41.4" target="asv">Ps. 41:4</a>): "My tears have been my bread day and night": where bread denotes the refreshment of pleasure. Therefore tears, which arise
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3234 from sadness, can give pleasure.
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3235 </p>
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3236 <p id="FS_Q32_A4-p6">
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3237 <b>I answer that,</b> Sadness may be considered in two ways: as existing actually, and as existing in the memory: and in both ways sadness can
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3238 cause pleasure. Because sadness, as actually existing, causes pleasure, inasmuch as it brings to mind that which is loved,
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3239 the absence of which causes sadness; and yet the mere thought of it gives pleasure. The recollection of sadness becomes a
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3240 cause of pleasure, on account of the deliverance which ensued: because absence of evil is looked
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3241 upon as something good; wherefore so far as a man thinks that he has been delivered from that which caused him sorrow and
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3242 pain, so much reason has he to rejoice. Hence Augustine says in De Civ. Dei xxii, 31 [*Gregory, Moral. iv.] that "oftentimes
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3243 in joy we call to mind sad things . . . and in the season of health we recall past pains without feeling pain . . . and in
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3244 proportion are the more filled with joy and gladness": and again (Confess. viii, 3) he says that "the more peril there was
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3245 in the
|
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3246 battle, so much the more joy will there be in the triumph."
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3247 </p>
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3248 <p id="FS_Q32_A4-p7">
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3249 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Sometimes accidentally a thing is the cause of its contrary: thus "that which is cold sometimes causes heat," as stated in
|
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3250 Phys. viii, 1. In like manner sadness is the accidental cause of pleasure, in so far as it gives rise to the apprehension
|
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3251 of something pleasant.
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3252 </p>
|
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3253 <p id="FS_Q32_A4-p8">
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3254 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Sad things, called to mind, cause pleasure, not in so far as they are sad and contrary to pleasant things; but in so far
|
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3255 as man is delivered from them. In like manner the recollection of pleasant things, by reason of these being lost, may cause
|
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3256 sadness.
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3257 </p>
|
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3258 <p id="FS_Q32_A4-p9">
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3259 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Hatred also can be the accidental cause of love: i.e. so far as some love one another, inasmuch as they agree in hating one
|
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3260 and the same thing.
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3261 </p>
|
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3262 <p id="FS_Q32_A4-p10"></p>
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3263 <p id="FS_Q32_A4-p11"></p>
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3264 <a href="summa.FS_Q32_A3.html"></a>
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3265 <a href="summa.FS_Q32_A5.html"></a>
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3266 </div>
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3267 <div id="FS_Q32_A5" class="div4">
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3268 <a href="summa.FS_Q32_A4.html"></a>
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3269 <a href="summa.FS_Q32_A6.html"></a>
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3270 <h4 id="FS_Q32_A5-p0.1">Whether the actions of others are a cause of pleasure to us?</h4>
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3271 <p id="FS_Q32_A5-p1"></p>
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3272 <p id="FS_Q32_A5-p2">
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3273 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that the actions of others are not a cause of pleasure to us. Because the cause of pleasure is our own good
|
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3274 when conjoined to us. But the actions of others are not conjoined to us. Therefore they are not a cause of pleasure to us.
|
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|
3275 </p>
|
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3276 <p id="FS_Q32_A5-p3">
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3277 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, the action is the agent's own good. If, therefore, the actions of others are a cause of pleasure to us, for the
|
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3278 same reason all goods belonging to others will be pleasing to us: which is evidently untrue.
|
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|
3279 </p>
|
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|
3280 <p id="FS_Q32_A5-p4">
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|
3281 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, action is pleasant through proceeding from an innate habit; hence it is stated in Ethic. ii, 3 that "we must reckon
|
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3282 the pleasure which follows after action, as being the sign of a habit existing in us." But the actions of others do not proceed
|
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3283 from habits existing in us, but, sometimes, from habits existing in the agents. Therefore the actions of others are not pleasing
|
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3284 to us, but to the agents themselves.
|
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|
3285 </p>
|
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3286 <p id="FS_Q32_A5-p5">
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3287 <b>On the contrary,</b> It is written in the second canonical epistle of John (verse 4): "I was exceeding glad that I found thy children walking
|
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3288 in truth."
|
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3289 </p>
|
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|
3290 <p id="FS_Q32_A5-p6">
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3291 <b>I answer that,</b> As stated above
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3292 <a id="FS_Q32_A5-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q32_A1.html">(A[1];</a> Q[31], A[1]), two things are requisite for pleasure, namely, the attainment of one's proper good, and the knowledge of having
|
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3293 obtained it. Wherefore the action of another may cause pleasure to us in three ways. First, from the fact that we obtain some
|
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|
3294 good through the action of another. And in this way, the actions of those who do some good to us, are pleasing to us: since
|
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3295 it is pleasant to be benefited by
|
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|
3296 another. Secondly, from the fact that another's action makes us to know or appreciate our own good: and for this reason men
|
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3297 take pleasure in being praised or honored by others, because, to wit, they thus become aware of some good existing in themselves.
|
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|
3298 And since this appreciation receives greater weight from the testimony of good and wise men, hence men take greater pleasure
|
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3299 in being praised and honored by them. And because a flatterer appears to praise, therefore flattery is pleasing to some.
|
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3300 And as love is for something good, while admiration is for something great, so it is pleasant to be loved and admired by others,
|
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|
3301 inasmuch as a man thus becomes aware of his own goodness or greatness, through their giving pleasure to others. Thirdly, from
|
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|
3302 the fact that another's actions, if they be good, are reckoned as one's own good, by reason of the power of love, which makes
|
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|
3303 a man to regard his friend as one with himself. And on account of hatred, which makes one to reckon another's good as
|
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3304 being in opposition to oneself, the evil action of an enemy becomes an object of pleasure: whence it is written (
|
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|
3305 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q32_A5-p6.2" href="./asv.html#iCor.13.6" target="asv">1 Cor. 13:6</a>) that charity "rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth with the truth."
|
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3306 </p>
|
|
|
3307 <p id="FS_Q32_A5-p7">
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|
|
3308 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Another's action may be conjoined to me, either by its effect, as in the first way, or by knowledge, as in the second way;
|
|
|
3309 or by affection, as in the third way.
|
|
|
3310 </p>
|
|
|
3311 <p id="FS_Q32_A5-p8">
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3312 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> This argument avails for the third mode, but not for the first two.
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3313 </p>
|
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3314 <p id="FS_Q32_A5-p9">
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3315 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Although the actions of another do not proceed from habits that are in me, yet they either produce in me something that gives
|
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3316 pleasure; or they make me appreciate or know a habit of mind; or they proceed from the habit of one who is united to me by
|
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3317 love.
|
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3318 </p>
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3319 <p id="FS_Q32_A5-p10"></p>
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3320 <p id="FS_Q32_A5-p11"></p>
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3321 <a href="summa.FS_Q32_A4.html"></a>
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3322 <a href="summa.FS_Q32_A6.html"></a>
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3323 </div>
|
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3324 <div id="FS_Q32_A6" class="div4">
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3325 <a href="summa.FS_Q32_A5.html"></a>
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3326 <a href="summa.FS_Q32_A7.html"></a>
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3327 <h4 id="FS_Q32_A6-p0.1">Whether doing good to another is a cause of pleasure?</h4>
|
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3328 <p id="FS_Q32_A6-p1"></p>
|
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3329 <p id="FS_Q32_A6-p2">
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3330 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that doing good to another is not a cause of pleasure. Because pleasure is caused by one's obtaining one's
|
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3331 proper good, as stated above (
|
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3332 <a id="FS_Q32_A6-p2.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q32_A1.html">AA[1]</a>,5; Q[31], A[1]). But doing good pertains not to the obtaining but to the spending of one's proper good. Therefore it seems
|
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3333 to be the cause of sadness rather than of pleasure.
|
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3334 </p>
|
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|
3335 <p id="FS_Q32_A6-p3">
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3336 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, the Philosopher says (Ethic. iv, 1) that "illiberality is more connatural to man than prodigality." Now it is a
|
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3337 mark of prodigality to do good to others; while it is a mark of illiberality to desist from doing good. Since therefore everyone
|
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|
3338 takes pleasure in a connatural operation, as stated in Ethic. vii, 14 and x, 4, it seems that doing good to others is not
|
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3339 a cause of pleasure.
|
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3340 </p>
|
|
|
3341 <p id="FS_Q32_A6-p4">
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3342 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, contrary effects proceed from contrary causes. But man takes a natural pleasure in certain kinds of ill-doing, such
|
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3343 as overcoming, contradicting or scolding others, or, if he be angry, in punishing them, as the Philosopher says (Rhet. i,
|
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3344 11). Therefore doing good to others is a cause of sadness rather than pleasure.
|
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3345 </p>
|
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|
3346 <p id="FS_Q32_A6-p5">
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3347 <b>On the contrary,</b> The Philosopher says (Polit. ii, 2) that "it is most pleasant to give presents or assistance to friends and strangers."
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3348 </p>
|
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|
3349 <p id="FS_Q32_A6-p6">
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3350 <b>I answer that,</b> Doing good to another may give pleasure in three ways. First, in consideration of the effect, which is the good conferred
|
|
|
3351 on another. In this respect, inasmuch as through being united to others by love, we look upon their good as being our own,
|
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|
3352 we take pleasure in the good we do to others, especially to our friends, as in our own good. Secondly, in consideration of
|
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|
3353 the end; as when a man, from doing good to another, hopes to get some good for himself, either
|
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|
3354 from God or from man: for hope is a cause of pleasure. Thirdly, in consideration of the principle: and thus, doing good to
|
|
|
3355 another, can give pleasure in respect of a threefold principle. One is the faculty of doing good: and in this regard, doing
|
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|
3356 good to another becomes pleasant, in so far as it arouses in man an imagination of abundant good existing in him, whereof
|
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|
3357 he is able to give others a share. Wherefore men take pleasure in their children, and in their own works, as being things
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3358 on which
|
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3359 they bestow a share of their own good. Another principle is man's habitual inclination to do good, by reason of which doing
|
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3360 good becomes connatural to him: for which reason the liberal man takes pleasure in giving to others. The third principle is
|
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3361 the motive: for instance when a man is moved by one whom he loves, to do good to someone: for whatever we do or suffer for
|
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3362 a friend is pleasant, because love is the principal cause of pleasure.
|
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3363 </p>
|
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3364 <p id="FS_Q32_A6-p7">
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|
3365 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Spending gives pleasure as showing forth one's good. But in so far as it empties us of our own good it may be a cause of
|
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3366 sadness; for instance when it is excessive.
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3367 </p>
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3368 <p id="FS_Q32_A6-p8">
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3369 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Prodigality is an excessive spending, which is unnatural: wherefore prodigality is said to be contrary to nature.
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3370 </p>
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3371 <p id="FS_Q32_A6-p9">
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3372 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> To overcome, to contradict, and to punish, give pleasure, not as tending to another's ill, but as pertaining to one's own
|
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3373 good, which man loves more than he hates another's ill. For it is naturally pleasant to overcome, inasmuch as it makes a man
|
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3374 to appreciate his own superiority. Wherefore all those games in which there is a striving for the mastery, and a possibility
|
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3375 of winning it, afford the greatest pleasure: and speaking generally all contests,
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3376 in so far as they admit hope of victory. To contradict and to scold can give pleasure in two ways. First, as making man imagine
|
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3377 himself to be wise and excellent; since it belongs to wise men and elders to reprove and to scold. Secondly, in so far as
|
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3378 by scolding and reproving, one does good to another: for this gives one pleasure, as stated above. It is pleasant to an angry
|
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3379 man to punish, in so far as he thinks himself to be removing an apparent slight, which seems to be due to a previous hurt:
|
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3380 for when a man is hurt by another, he seems to be slighted thereby; and therefore he wishes to be quit of this slight by paying
|
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3381 back the hurt. And thus it is clear that doing good to another may be of itself pleasant: whereas doing evil to another is
|
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3382 not pleasant, except in so far as it seems to affect one's own good.
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3383 </p>
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3384 <p id="FS_Q32_A6-p10"></p>
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3385 <p id="FS_Q32_A6-p11"></p>
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3386 <a href="summa.FS_Q32_A5.html"></a>
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3387 <a href="summa.FS_Q32_A7.html"></a>
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3388 </div>
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3389 <div id="FS_Q32_A7" class="div4">
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3390 <a href="summa.FS_Q32_A6.html"></a>
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3391 <a href="summa.FS_Q32_A8.html"></a>
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3392 <h4 id="FS_Q32_A7-p0.1">Whether likeness is a cause of pleasure?</h4>
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3393 <p id="FS_Q32_A7-p1"></p>
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3394 <p id="FS_Q32_A7-p2">
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3395 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that likeness is not a cause of pleasure. Because ruling and presiding seem to imply a certain unlikeness.
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3396 But "it is natural to take pleasure in ruling and presiding," as stated in Rhetor. i, 11. Therefore unlikeness, rather than
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3397 likeness, is a cause of pleasure.
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3398 </p>
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3399 <p id="FS_Q32_A7-p3">
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3400 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, nothing is more unlike pleasure than sorrow. But those who are burdened by sorrow are most inclined to seek pleasures,
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3401 as the Philosopher says (Ethic. vii, 14). Therefore unlikeness, rather than likeness, is a cause of pleasure.
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3402 </p>
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3403 <p id="FS_Q32_A7-p4">
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3404 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, those who are satiated with certain delights, derive not pleasure but disgust from them; as when one is satiated
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3405 with food. Therefore likeness is not a cause of pleasure.
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3406 </p>
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3407 <p id="FS_Q32_A7-p5">
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3408 <b>On the contrary,</b> Likeness is a cause of love, as above stated (
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3409 <a id="FS_Q32_A7-p5.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q27_A3.html">Q[27], A[3]</a>): and love is the cause of pleasure. Therefore likeness is a cause of pleasure.
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3410 </p>
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3411 <p id="FS_Q32_A7-p6">
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3412 <b>I answer that,</b> Likeness is a kind of unity; hence that which is like us, as being one with us, causes pleasure; just at it causes love,
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3413 as stated above (
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3414 <a id="FS_Q32_A7-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q27_A3.html">Q[27], A[3]</a>). And if that which is like us does not hurt our own good, but increase it, it is pleasurable simply; for instance one man
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3415 in respect of another, one youth in relation to another. But if it be hurtful to our own good, thus accidentally it causes
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3416 disgust or sadness, not as being like and
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3417 one with us, but as hurtful to that which is yet more one with us.
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3418 </p>
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3419 <p id="FS_Q32_A7-p7"> Now it happens in two ways that something like is hurtful to our own good. First, by destroying the measure of our own good,
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3420 by a kind of excess; because good, especially bodily good, as health, is conditioned by a certain measure: wherefore superfluous
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3421 good or any bodily pleasure, causes disgust. Secondly, by being directly contrary to one's own good: thus a potter dislikes
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3422 other potters, not because they are potters, but because they deprive him of his own excellence or
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3423 profits, which he seeks as his own good.
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3424 </p>
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3425 <p id="FS_Q32_A7-p8">
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3426 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Since ruler and subject are in communion with one another, there is a certain likeness between them: but this likeness is
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3427 conditioned by a certain superiority, since ruling and presiding pertain to the excellence of a man's own good: because they
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3428 belong to men who are wise and better than others; the result being that they give man an idea of his own excellence. Another
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3429 reason is that by ruling and presiding, a man does good to others, which is
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3430 pleasant.
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3431 </p>
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3432 <p id="FS_Q32_A7-p9">
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3433 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> That which gives pleasure to the sorrowful man, though it be unlike sorrow, bears some likeness to the man that is sorrowful:
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3434 because sorrows are contrary to his own good. Wherefore the sorrowful man seeks pleasure as making for his own good, in so
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3435 far as it is a remedy for its contrary. And this is why bodily pleasures, which are contrary to certain sorrows, are more
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3436 sought than intellectual pleasures, which have no contrary sorrow, as we shall state
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3437 later on (
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3438 <a id="FS_Q32_A7-p9.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q35_A5.html">Q[35], A[5]</a>). And this explains why all animals naturally desire pleasure: because animals ever work through sense and movement. For
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3439 this reason also young people are most inclined to seek pleasures; on account of the many changes to which they are subject,
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3440 while yet growing. Moreover this is why the melancholic has a strong desire for pleasures, in order to drive away sorrow:
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3441 because his "body is corroded by a base humor," as stated in Ethic. vii, 14.
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3442 </p>
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3443 <p id="FS_Q32_A7-p10">
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3444 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Bodily goods are conditioned by a certain fixed measure: wherefore surfeit of such things destroys the proper good, and consequently
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3445 gives rise to disgust and sorrow, through being contrary to the proper good of man.
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3446 </p>
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3447 <p id="FS_Q32_A7-p11"></p>
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3448 <p id="FS_Q32_A7-p12"></p>
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3449 <a href="summa.FS_Q32_A6.html"></a>
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3450 <a href="summa.FS_Q32_A8.html"></a>
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3451 </div>
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3452 <div id="FS_Q32_A8" class="div4">
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3453 <a href="summa.FS_Q32_A7.html"></a>
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3454 <a href="summa.FS_Q33.html"></a>
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3455 <h4 id="FS_Q32_A8-p0.1">Whether wonder is a cause of pleasure?</h4>
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3456 <p id="FS_Q32_A8-p1"></p>
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3457 <p id="FS_Q32_A8-p2">
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3458 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that wonder is not a cause of pleasure. Because wonder is the act of one who is ignorant of the nature of something,
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3459 as Damascene says. But knowledge, rather than ignorance, is a cause of pleasure. Therefore wonder is not a cause of pleasure.
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3460 </p>
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3461 <p id="FS_Q32_A8-p3">
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3462 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, wonder is the beginning of wisdom, being as it were, the road to the search of truth, as stated in the beginning
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3463 of Metaph. i, 2. But "it is more pleasant to think of what we know, than to seek what we know not," as the Philosopher says
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3464 (Ethic. x, 7): since in the latter case we encounter difficulties and hindrances, in the former not; while pleasure arises
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3465 from an operation which is unhindered, as stated in Ethic. vii, 12,13. Therefore wonder hinders
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3466 rather than causes pleasure.
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3467 </p>
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3468 <p id="FS_Q32_A8-p4">
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3469 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, everyone takes pleasure in what he is accustomed to: wherefore the actions of habits acquired by custom, are pleasant.
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3470 But "we wonder at what is unwonted," as Augustine says (Tract. xxiv in Joan.). Therefore wonder is contrary to the cause of
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3471 pleasure.
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3472 </p>
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3473 <p id="FS_Q32_A8-p5">
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3474 <b>On the contrary,</b> The Philosopher says (Rhet. i, 11) that wonder is the cause of pleasure.
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3475 </p>
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3476 <p id="FS_Q32_A8-p6">
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3477 <b>I answer that,</b> It is pleasant to get what one desires, as stated above (
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3478 <a id="FS_Q32_A8-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q23_A4.html">Q[23], A[4]</a>): and therefore the greater the desire for the thing loved, the greater the pleasure when it is attained: indeed the very
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3479 increase of desire brings with it an increase of pleasure, according as it gives rise to the hope of obtaining that which
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3480 is loved, since it was stated above (A[3], ad 3) that desire resulting from hope is a cause of pleasure. Now wonder is a
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3481 kind of desire for knowledge; a desire which comes to man when he sees an effect of which the cause either is unknown to him,
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3482 or surpasses his knowledge or faculty of understanding. Consequently wonder is a cause of pleasure, in so far as it includes
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3483 a hope of getting the knowledge which one desires to have. For this reason whatever is wonderful is pleasing, for instance
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3484 things that are scarce. Also, representations of things, even of those which are not pleasant in themselves, give rise to
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3485 pleasure; for the soul rejoices in comparing one thing with another, because comparison of one thing with another is the proper
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3486 and connatural act of the reason, as the Philosopher says (Poet. iv). This again is why "it is more delightful to be delivered
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3487 from great danger, because it is something wonderful," as stated in Rhetor. i, 11.
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3488 </p>
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3489 <p id="FS_Q32_A8-p7">
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3490 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Wonder gives pleasure, not because it implies ignorance, but in so far as it includes the desire of learning the cause, and
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3491 in so far as the wonderer learns something new, i.e. that the cause is other than he had thought it to be. [*According to
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3492 another reading:---that he is other than he thought himself to be.]
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3493 </p>
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3494 <p id="FS_Q32_A8-p8">
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3495 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Pleasure includes two things; rest in the good, and perception of this rest. As to the former therefore, since it is more
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3496 perfect to contemplate the known truth, than to seek for the unknown, the contemplation of what we know, is in itself more
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3497 pleasing than the research of what we do not know. Nevertheless, as to the second, it happens that research is sometimes more
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3498 pleasing accidentally, in so far as it proceeds from a greater desire: for greater
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3499 desire is awakened when we are conscious of our ignorance. This is why man takes the greatest pleasure in finding or learning
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3500 things for the first time.
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3501 </p>
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3502 <p id="FS_Q32_A8-p9">
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3503 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> It is pleasant to do what we are wont to do, inasmuch as this is connatural to us, as it were. And yet things that are of
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3504 rare occurrence can be pleasant, either as regards knowledge, from the fact that we desire to know something about them, in
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3505 so far as they are wonderful; or as regards action, from the fact that "the mind is more inclined by desire to act intensely
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3506 in things that are new," as stated in Ethic. x, 4, since more perfect operation
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3507 causes more perfect pleasure.
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3508 </p>
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3509 <p id="FS_Q32_A8-p10"></p>
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3510 <p id="FS_Q32_A8-p11"></p>
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3511 <a href="summa.FS_Q32_A7.html"></a>
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3512 <a href="summa.FS_Q33.html"></a>
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3513 </div>
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3514 <a href="summa.FS_Q31_A8.html"></a>
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3515 <a href="summa.FS_Q32_A1.html"></a>
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3516 </div>
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3517 <div id="FS_Q33" class="div3">
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3518 <a href="summa.FS_Q32_A8.html"></a>
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3519 <a href="summa.FS_Q33_A1.html"></a>
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3520 <h3 id="FS_Q33-p0.1">OF THE EFFECTS OF PLEASURE (FOUR ARTICLES)</h3>
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3521 <p id="FS_Q33-p1"></p>
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3522 <p id="FS_Q33-p2"> We must now consider the effects of pleasure; and under this head there are four points of inquiry:</p>
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3523 <p id="FS_Q33-p3"> (1) Whether expansion is an effect of pleasure?</p>
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3524 <p id="FS_Q33-p4"> (2) Whether pleasure causes thirst or desire for itself?</p>
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3525 <p id="FS_Q33-p5"> (3) Whether pleasure hinders the use of reason?</p>
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3526 <p id="FS_Q33-p6"> (4) Whether pleasure perfects operation?</p>
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3527 <div id="FS_Q33_A1" class="div4">
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3528 <a href="summa.FS_Q33.html"></a>
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3529 <a href="summa.FS_Q33_A2.html"></a>
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3530 <h4 id="FS_Q33_A1-p0.1">Whether expansion is an effect of pleasure?</h4>
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3531 <p id="FS_Q33_A1-p1"></p>
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3532 <p id="FS_Q33_A1-p2">
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3533 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that expansion is not an effect of pleasure. For expansion seems to pertain more to love, according to the
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3534 Apostle (
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3535 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q33_A1-p2.1" href="./asv.html#iiCor.6.11" target="asv">2 Cor. 6:11</a>): "Our heart is enlarged." Wherefore it is written (
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3536 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q33_A1-p2.2" href="./asv.html#Ps.118.96" target="asv">Ps. 118:96</a>) concerning the precept of charity: "Thy commandment is exceeding broad." But pleasure is a distinct passion from love. Therefore
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3537 expansion is not an effect of pleasure.
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3538 </p>
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3539 <p id="FS_Q33_A1-p3">
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3540 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, when a thing expands it is enabled to receive more. But receiving pertains to desire, which is for something not
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3541 yet possessed. Therefore expansion seems to belong to desire rather than to pleasure.
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3542 </p>
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3543 <p id="FS_Q33_A1-p4">
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3544 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, contraction is contrary to expansion. But contraction seems to belong to pleasure, for the hand closes on that which
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3545 we wish to grasp firmly: and such is the affection of appetite in regard to that which pleases it. Therefore expansion does
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3546 not pertain to pleasure.
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3547 </p>
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3548 <p id="FS_Q33_A1-p5">
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3549 <b>On the contrary,</b> In order to express joy, it is written (
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3550 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q33_A1-p5.1" href="./asv.html#Isa.60.5" target="asv">Is. 60:5</a>): "Thou shall see and abound, thy heart shall wonder and be enlarged." Moreover pleasure is called by the name of "laetitia"
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3551 as being derived from "dilatatio" [expansion], as stated above (
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3552 <a id="FS_Q33_A1-p5.2" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q31_A3.html">Q[31], A[3]</a>, ad 3).
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3553 </p>
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3554 <p id="FS_Q33_A1-p6">
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3555 <b>I answer that,</b> Breadth [latitudo] is a dimension of bodily magnitude: hence it is not applied to the emotions of the soul, save metaphorically.
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3556 Now expansion denotes a kind of movement towards breadth; and it belongs to pleasure in respect of the two things requisite
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3557 for pleasure. One of these is on the part of the apprehensive power, which is cognizant of the conjunction with some suitable
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3558 good. As a result of this apprehension, man perceives that he has attained a
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3559 certain perfection, which is a magnitude of the spiritual order: and in this respect man's mind is said to be magnified or
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3560 expanded by pleasure. The other requisite for pleasure is on the part of the appetitive power, which acquiesces in the pleasurable
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3561 object, and rests therein, offering, as it were, to enfold it within itself. And thus man's affection is expanded by pleasure,
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3562 as though it surrendered itself to hold within itself the object of its pleasure.
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3563 </p>
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3564 <p id="FS_Q33_A1-p7">
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3565 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> In metaphorical expressions nothing hinders one and the same thing from being attributed to different things according to
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3566 different likenesses. And in this way expansion pertains to love by reason of a certain spreading out, in so far as the affection
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3567 of the lover spreads out to others, so as to care, not only for his own interests, but also for what concerns others. On the
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3568 other hand expansion pertains to pleasure, in so far as a thing becomes more
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3569 ample in itself so as to become more capacious.
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3570 </p>
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3571 <p id="FS_Q33_A1-p8">
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3572 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Desire includes a certain expansion arising from the imagination of the thing desired; but this expansion increases at the
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3573 presence of the pleasurable object: because the mind surrenders itself more to that object when it is already taking pleasure
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3574 in it, than when it desires it before possessing it; since pleasure is the end of desire.
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3575 </p>
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3576 <p id="FS_Q33_A1-p9">
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3577 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> He that takes pleasure in a thing holds it fast, by clinging to it with all his might: but he opens his heart to it that
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3578 he may enjoy it perfectly.
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3579 </p>
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3580 <p id="FS_Q33_A1-p10"></p>
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3581 <p id="FS_Q33_A1-p11"></p>
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3582 <a href="summa.FS_Q33.html"></a>
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3583 <a href="summa.FS_Q33_A2.html"></a>
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3584 </div>
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3585 <div id="FS_Q33_A2" class="div4">
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3586 <a href="summa.FS_Q33_A1.html"></a>
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3587 <a href="summa.FS_Q33_A3.html"></a>
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3588 <h4 id="FS_Q33_A2-p0.1">Whether pleasure causes thirst or desire for itself?</h4>
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3589 <p id="FS_Q33_A2-p1"></p>
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3590 <p id="FS_Q33_A2-p2">
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3591 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that pleasure does not cause desire for itself. Because all movement ceases when repose is reached. But pleasure
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3592 is, as it were, a certain repose of the movement of desire, as stated above (
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3593 <a id="FS_Q33_A2-p2.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q23_A4.html">Q[23], A[4]</a>;
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3594 <a id="FS_Q33_A2-p2.2" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q25_A2.html"> Q[25], A[2]</a>). Therefore the movement of desire ceases when pleasure is reached. Therefore pleasure does not cause desire.
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3595 </p>
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3596 <p id="FS_Q33_A2-p3">
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3597 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, a thing does not cause its contrary. But pleasure is, in a way, contrary to desire, on the part of the object: since
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3598 desire regards a good which is not yet possessed, whereas pleasure regards the good that is possessed. Therefore pleasure
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3599 does not cause desire for itself.
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3600 </p>
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3601 <p id="FS_Q33_A2-p4">
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3602 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, distaste is incompatible with desire. But pleasure often causes distaste. Therefore it does not cause desire.
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3603 </p>
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3604 <p id="FS_Q33_A2-p5">
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3605 <b>On the contrary,</b> Our Lord said (
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3606 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q33_A2-p5.1" href="./asv.html#John.4.13" target="asv">Jn. 4:13</a>): "Whosoever drinketh of this water, shall thirst again": where, according to Augustine (Tract. xv in Joan.), water denotes
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3607 pleasures of the body.
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3608 </p>
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3609 <p id="FS_Q33_A2-p6">
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3610 <b>I answer that,</b> Pleasure can be considered in two ways; first, as existing in reality; secondly, as existing in the memory. Again thirst,
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3611 or desire, can be taken in two ways; first, properly, as denoting a craving for something not possessed; secondly, in general,
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3612 as excluding distaste.
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3613 </p>
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3614 <p id="FS_Q33_A2-p7"> Considered as existing in reality, pleasure does not of itself cause thirst or desire for itself, but only accidentally;
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3615 provided we take thirst or desire as denoting a craving for some thing not possessed: because pleasure is an emotion of the
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3616 appetite in respect of something actually present. But it may happen that what is actually present is not perfectly possessed:
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3617 and this may be on the part of the thing possessed, or on the part of the possessor. On the part of the thing
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3618 possessed, this happens through the thing possessed not being a simultaneous whole; wherefore one obtains possession of it
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3619 successively, and while taking pleasure in what one has, one desires to possess the remainder: thus if a man is pleased with
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3620 the first part of a verse, he desires to hear the second part, as Augustine says (Confess. iv, 11). In this way nearly all
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3621 bodily pleasures cause thirst for themselves, until they are fully realized, because pleasures of this kind arise from some
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3622 movement: as is evident in pleasures of the table. On the part of the possessor, this happens when a man possesses a thing
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3623 which is perfect in itself, yet does not possess it perfectly, but obtains possession of it little by little. Thus in this
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3624 life, a faint perception of Divine knowledge affords us delight, and delight sets up a thirst or desire for perfect knowledge;
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3625 in which sense we may understand the words of
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3626 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q33_A2-p7.1" href="./asv.html#Sir.24.29" target="asv"> Ecclus. 24:29</a>: "They that drink me shall yet thirst."
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3627 </p>
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3628 <p id="FS_Q33_A2-p8"> On the other hand, if by thirst or desire we understand the mere intensity of the emotion, that excludes distaste, thus more
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3629 than all others spiritual pleasures cause thirst or desire for themselves. Because bodily pleasures become distasteful by
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3630 reason of their causing an excess in the natural mode of being, when they are increased or even when they are protracted;
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3631 as is evident in the case of pleasures of the table. This is why, when a man arrives at the point of perfection in
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3632 bodily pleasures, he wearies of them, and sometimes desires another kind. Spiritual pleasures, on the contrary, do not exceed
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3633 the natural mode of being, but perfect nature. Hence when their point of perfection is reached, then do they afford the greatest
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3634 delight: except, perchance, accidentally, in so far as the work of contemplation is accompanied by some operation of the bodily
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3635 powers, which tire from protracted activity. And in this sense also we may understand those words of
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3636 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q33_A2-p8.1" href="./asv.html#Sir.24.29" target="asv">
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3637 Ecclus. 24:29
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3638 </a>: "They that drink me shall yet thirst": for, even of the angels, who know God perfectly, and delight in Him, it is written
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3639 (
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3640 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q33_A2-p8.2" href="./asv.html#iPet.1.12" target="asv">1 Pet. 1:12</a>) that they "desire to look at Him."
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3641 </p>
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3642 <p id="FS_Q33_A2-p9"> Lastly, if we consider pleasure, not as existing in reality, but as existing in the memory, thus it has of itself a natural
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3643 tendency to cause thirst and desire for itself: when, to wit, man returns to that disposition, in which he was when he experienced
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3644 the pleasure that is past. But if he be changed from that disposition, the memory of that pleasure does not give him pleasure,
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3645 but distaste: for instance, the memory of food in respect of a man who has eaten to repletion.
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3646 </p>
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3647 <p id="FS_Q33_A2-p10">
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3648 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> When pleasure is perfect, then it includes complete rest; and the movement of desire, tending to what was not possessed,
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3649 ceases. But when it is imperfect, then the desire, tending to what was not possessed, does not cease altogether.
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3650 </p>
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3651 <p id="FS_Q33_A2-p11">
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3652 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> That which is possessed imperfectly, is possessed in one respect, and in another respect is not possessed. Consequently it
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3653 may be the object of desire and pleasure at the same time.
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3654 </p>
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3655 <p id="FS_Q33_A2-p12">
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3656 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Pleasures cause distaste in one way, desire in another, as stated above.
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3657 </p>
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3658 <p id="FS_Q33_A2-p13"></p>
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3659 <p id="FS_Q33_A2-p14"></p>
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3660 <a href="summa.FS_Q33_A1.html"></a>
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3661 <a href="summa.FS_Q33_A3.html"></a>
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3662 </div>
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3663 <div id="FS_Q33_A3" class="div4">
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3664 <a href="summa.FS_Q33_A2.html"></a>
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3665 <a href="summa.FS_Q33_A4.html"></a>
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3666 <h4 id="FS_Q33_A3-p0.1">Whether pleasure hinders the use of reason?</h4>
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3667 <p id="FS_Q33_A3-p1"></p>
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3668 <p id="FS_Q33_A3-p2">
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3669 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that pleasure does not hinder the use of reason. Because repose facilitates very much the due use of reason:
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3670 wherefore the Philosopher says (Phys. vii, 3) that "while we sit and rest, the soul is inclined to knowledge and prudence";
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3671 and it is written (
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3672 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q33_A3-p2.1" href="./asv.html#Wis.8.16" target="asv">Wis. 8:16</a>): "When I go into my house, I shall repose myself with her," i.e. wisdom. But pleasure is a kind of repose. Therefore it
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3673 helps rather than hinders the use of
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3674 reason.
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3675 </p>
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3676 <p id="FS_Q33_A3-p3">
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3677 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, things which are not in the same subject though they be contraries, do not hinder one another. But pleasure is in
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3678 the appetitive faculty, while the use of reason is in the apprehensive power. Therefore pleasure does not hinder the use of
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3679 reason.
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3680 </p>
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3681 <p id="FS_Q33_A3-p4">
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3682 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, that which is hindered by another, seems to be moved, as it were, thereby. But the use of an apprehensive power
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3683 moves pleasure rather than is moved by it: because it is the cause of pleasure. Therefore pleasure does not hinder the use
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3684 of reason.
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3685 </p>
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3686 <p id="FS_Q33_A3-p5">
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3687 <b>On the contrary,</b> The Philosopher says (Ethic. vi, 5), that "pleasure destroys the estimate of prudence."
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3688 </p>
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3689 <p id="FS_Q33_A3-p6">
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3690 <b>I answer that,</b> As is stated in Ethic. x, 5, "appropriate pleasures increase activity . . . whereas pleasures arising from other sources
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3691 are impediments to activity." Accordingly there is a certain pleasure that is taken in the very act of reason, as when one
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3692 takes pleasure in contemplating or in reasoning: and such pleasure does not hinder the act of reason, but helps it; because
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3693 we are more attentive in doing that which gives us pleasure, and attention fosters
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3694 activity.
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3695 </p>
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3696 <p id="FS_Q33_A3-p7"> On the other hand bodily pleasures hinder the use of reason in three ways. First, by distracting the reason. Because, as
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3697 we have just observed, we attend much to that which pleases us. Now when the attention is firmly fixed on one thing, it is
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3698 either weakened in respect of other things, or it is entirely withdrawn from them; and thus if the bodily pleasure be great,
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3699 either it entirely hinders the use of reason, by concentrating the mind's attention on itself; or else it hinders
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3700 it considerably. Secondly, by being contrary to reason. Because some pleasures, especially those that are in excess, are contrary
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3701 to the order of reason: and in this sense the Philosopher says that "bodily pleasures destroy the estimate of prudence, but
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3702 not the speculative estimate," to which they are not opposed, "for instance that the three angles of a triangle are together
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3703 equal to two right angles." In the first sense, however, they hinder both estimates. Thirdly, by fettering the reason:
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3704 in so far as bodily pleasure is followed by a certain alteration in the body, greater even than in the other passions, in
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3705 proportion as the appetite is more vehemently affected towards a present than towards an absent thing. Now such bodily disturbances
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3706 hinder the use of reason; as may be seen in the case of drunkards, in whom the use of reason is fettered or hindered.
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3707 </p>
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3708 <p id="FS_Q33_A3-p8">
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3709 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Bodily pleasure implies indeed repose of the appetite in the object of pleasure; which repose is sometimes contrary to reason;
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3710 but on the part of the body it always implies alteration. And in respect of both points, it hinders the use of reason.
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3711 </p>
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3712 <p id="FS_Q33_A3-p9">
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3713 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> The powers of the appetite and of apprehension are indeed distinct parts, but belonging to the one soul. Consequently when
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3714 the soul is very intent on the action of one part, it is hindered from attending to a contrary act of the other part.
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3715 </p>
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3716 <p id="FS_Q33_A3-p10">
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3717 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> The use of reason requires the due use of the imagination and of the other sensitive powers, which are exercised through
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3718 a bodily organ. Consequently alteration in the body hinders the use of reason, because it hinders the act of the imagination
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3719 and of the other sensitive powers.
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3720 </p>
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3721 <p id="FS_Q33_A3-p11"></p>
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3722 <p id="FS_Q33_A3-p12"></p>
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3723 <a href="summa.FS_Q33_A2.html"></a>
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3724 <a href="summa.FS_Q33_A4.html"></a>
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3725 </div>
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3726 <div id="FS_Q33_A4" class="div4">
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3727 <a href="summa.FS_Q33_A3.html"></a>
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3728 <a href="summa.FS_Q34.html"></a>
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3729 <h4 id="FS_Q33_A4-p0.1">Whether pleasure perfects operation?</h4>
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3730 <p id="FS_Q33_A4-p1"></p>
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3731 <p id="FS_Q33_A4-p2">
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3732 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that pleasure does not perfect operation. For every human operation depends on the use of reason. But pleasure
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3733 hinders the use of reason, as stated above
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3734 <a id="FS_Q33_A4-p2.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q33_A3.html">(A[3])</a>. Therefore pleasure does not perfect, but weakens human operation.
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3735 </p>
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3736 <p id="FS_Q33_A4-p3">
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3737 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, nothing perfects itself or its cause. But pleasure is an operation (Ethic. vii, 12; x, 4), i.e. either in its essence
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3738 or in its cause. Therefore pleasure does not perfect operation.
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3739 </p>
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3740 <p id="FS_Q33_A4-p4">
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3741 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, if pleasure perfects operation, it does so either as end, or as form, or as agent. But not as end; because operation
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3742 is not sought for the sake of pleasure, but rather the reverse, as stated above (
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3743 <a id="FS_Q33_A4-p4.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q4_A2.html">Q[4], A[2]</a>): nor as agent, because rather is it the operation that causes pleasure: nor again as form, because, according to the Philosopher
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3744 (Ethic. x, 4), "pleasure does not perfect operation, as a habit does." Therefore pleasure
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3745 does not perfect operation.
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3746 </p>
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3747 <p id="FS_Q33_A4-p5">
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3748 <b>On the contrary,</b> The Philosopher says (Ethic. x, 4) that "pleasure perfects operation."
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3749 </p>
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3750 <p id="FS_Q33_A4-p6">
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3751 <b>I answer that,</b> Pleasure perfects operation in two ways. First, as an end: not indeed according as an end is that on "account of which a
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3752 thing is"; but according as every good which is added to a thing and completes it, can be called its end. And in this sense
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3753 the Philosopher says (Ethic. x, 4) that "pleasure perfects operation . . . as some end added to it": that is to say, inasmuch
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3754 as to this good, which is operation, there is added another good, which is pleasure,
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3755 denoting the repose of the appetite in a good that is presupposed. Secondly, as agent; not indeed directly, for the Philosopher
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3756 says (Ethic. x, 4) that "pleasure perfects operation, not as a physician makes a man healthy, but as health does": but it
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3757 does so indirectly; inasmuch as the agent, through taking pleasure in his action, is more eagerly intent on it, and carries
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3758 it out with greater care. And in this sense it is said in Ethic. x, 5 that "pleasures increase their appropriate activities,
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3759 and hinder those that are not appropriate."
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3760 </p>
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3761 <p id="FS_Q33_A4-p7">
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3762 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> It is not every pleasure that hinders the act of reason, but only bodily pleasure; for this arises, not from the act of reason,
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3763 but from the act of the concupiscible faculty, which act is intensified by pleasure. On the contrary, pleasure that arises
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3764 from the act of reason, strengthens the use of reason.
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3765 </p>
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3766 <p id="FS_Q33_A4-p8">
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3767 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> As stated in Phys. ii, 3 two things may be causes of one another, if one be the efficient, the other the final cause. And
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3768 in this way, operation is the efficient cause of pleasure, while pleasure perfects operation by way of final cause, as stated
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3769 above.
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3770 </p>
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3771 <p id="FS_Q33_A4-p9"> The Reply to the Third Objection is evident for what has been said.</p>
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3772 <p id="FS_Q33_A4-p10"></p>
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3773 <p id="FS_Q33_A4-p11"></p>
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3774 <a href="summa.FS_Q33_A3.html"></a>
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3775 <a href="summa.FS_Q34.html"></a>
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3776 </div>
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3777 <a href="summa.FS_Q32_A8.html"></a>
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3778 <a href="summa.FS_Q33_A1.html"></a>
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3779 </div>
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3780 <div id="FS_Q34" class="div3">
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3781 <a href="summa.FS_Q33_A4.html"></a>
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3782 <a href="summa.FS_Q34_A1.html"></a>
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3783 <h3 id="FS_Q34-p0.1">OF THE GOODNESS AND MALICE OF PLEASURES (FOUR ARTICLES)</h3>
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3784 <p id="FS_Q34-p1"></p>
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3785 <p id="FS_Q34-p2"> We must now consider the goodness and malice of pleasures: under which head there are four points of inquiry:</p>
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3786 <p id="FS_Q34-p3"> (1) Whether every pleasure is evil?</p>
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3787 <p id="FS_Q34-p4"> (2) If not, whether every pleasure is good?</p>
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3788 <p id="FS_Q34-p5"> (3) Whether any pleasure is the greatest good?</p>
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3789 <p id="FS_Q34-p6"> (4) Whether pleasure is the measure or rule by which to judge of moral good and evil?</p>
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3790 <div id="FS_Q34_A1" class="div4">
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3791 <a href="summa.FS_Q34.html"></a>
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3792 <a href="summa.FS_Q34_A2.html"></a>
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3793 <h4 id="FS_Q34_A1-p0.1">Whether every pleasure is evil?</h4>
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3794 <p id="FS_Q34_A1-p1"></p>
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3795 <p id="FS_Q34_A1-p2">
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3796 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that every pleasure is evil. For that which destroys prudence and hinders the use of reason, seems to be evil
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3797 in itself: since man's good is to be "in accord with reason," as Dionysius says (Div. Nom. iv). But pleasure destroys prudence
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3798 and hinders the use of reason; and so much the more, as the pleasure is greater: wherefore "in sexual pleasures," which are
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3799 the greatest of all, "it is impossible to understand anything," as stated in Ethic. vii,
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3800 11. Moreover, Jerome says in his commentary on Matthew [*Origen, Hom. vi in Num.] that "at the time of conjugal intercourse,
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3801 the presence of the Holy Ghost is not vouchsafed, even if it be a prophet that fulfils the conjugal duty." Therefore pleasure
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3802 is evil in itself; and consequently every pleasure is evil.
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3803 </p>
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3804 <p id="FS_Q34_A1-p3">
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3805 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, that which the virtuous man shuns, and the man lacking in virtue seeks, seems to be evil in itself, and should be
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3806 avoided; because, as stated in Ethic. x, 5 "the virtuous man is a kind of measure and rule of human actions"; and the Apostle
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3807 says (
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3808 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q34_A1-p3.1" href="./asv.html#iCor.2.15" target="asv">1 Cor. 2:15</a>): "The spiritual man judgeth all things." But children and dumb animals, in whom there is no virtue, seek pleasure: whereas
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3809 the man who is master of himself does not. Therefore
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3810 pleasures are evil in themselves and should be avoided.
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3811 </p>
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3812 <p id="FS_Q34_A1-p4">
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3813 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, "virtue and art are concerned about the difficult and the good" (Ethic. ii, 3). But no art is ordained to pleasure.
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3814 Therefore pleasure is not something good.
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3815 </p>
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3816 <p id="FS_Q34_A1-p5">
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3817 <b>On the contrary,</b> It is written (
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3818 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q34_A1-p5.1" href="./asv.html#Ps.36.4" target="asv">Ps. 36:4</a>): "Delight in the Lord." Since, therefore, Divine authority leads to no evil, it seems that not every pleasure is evil.
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3819 </p>
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3820 <p id="FS_Q34_A1-p6">
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3821 <b>I answer that,</b> As stated in Ethic. x, 2,[3] some have maintained that all pleasure is evil. The reason seems to have been that they took
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3822 account only of sensible and bodily pleasures which are more manifest; since, also in other respects, the ancient philosophers
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3823 did not discriminate between the intelligible and the sensible, nor between intellect and sense (De Anima iii, 3). And they
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3824 held that all bodily pleasures should be reckoned as bad, and thus that man, being prone
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3825 to immoderate pleasures, arrives at the mean of virtue by abstaining from pleasure. But they were wrong in holding this opinion.
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3826 Because, since none can live without some sensible and bodily pleasure, if they who teach that all pleasures are evil, are
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3827 found in the act of taking pleasure; men will be more inclined to pleasure by following the example of their works instead
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3828 of listening to the doctrine of their words: since, in human actions and passions, wherein experience is of great weight,
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3829 example moves more than words.
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3830 </p>
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3831 <p id="FS_Q34_A1-p7"> We must therefore say that some pleasures are good, and that some are evil. For pleasure is a repose of the appetitive power
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3832 in some loved good, and resulting from some operation; wherefore we assign a twofold reason for this assertion. The first
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3833 is in respect of the good in which a man reposes with pleasure. For good and evil in the moral order depend on agreement or
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3834 disagreement with reason, as stated above (
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3835 <a id="FS_Q34_A1-p7.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q18_A5.html">Q[18], A[5]</a>): just as in the order of
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3836 nature, a thing is said to be natural, if it agrees with nature, and unnatural, if it disagrees. Accordingly, just as in the
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3837 natural order there is a certain natural repose, whereby a thing rests in that which agrees with its nature, for instance,
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3838 when a heavy body rests down below; and again an unnatural repose, whereby a thing rests in that which disagrees with its
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3839 nature, as when a heavy body rests up aloft: so, in the moral order, there is a good pleasure, whereby the higher or lower
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3840 appetite rests in that which is in accord with reason; and an evil pleasure, whereby the appetite rests in that which is discordant
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3841 from reason and the law of God.
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3842 </p>
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3843 <p id="FS_Q34_A1-p8"> The second reason can be found by considering the actions, some of which are good, some evil. Now pleasures which are conjoined
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3844 to actions are more akin to those actions, than desires, which precede them in point of time. Wherefore, since the desires
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3845 of good actions are good, and of evil actions, evil; much more are the pleasures of good actions good, and those of evil actions
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3846 evil.
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3847 </p>
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3848 <p id="FS_Q34_A1-p9">
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3849 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> As stated above (Q[33], A[3]), it is not the pleasures which result from an act of reason, that hinder the reason or destroy
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3850 prudence, but extraneous pleasures, such as the pleasures of the body. These indeed hinder the use of reason, as stated above
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3851 (Q[33], A[3]), either by contrariety of the appetite that rests in something repugnant to reason, which makes the pleasure
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3852 morally bad; or by fettering the reason: thus in conjugal intercourse, though the
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3853 pleasure be in accord with reason, yet it hinders the use of reason, on account of the accompanying bodily change. But in
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3854 this case the pleasure is not morally evil; as neither is sleep, whereby the reason is fettered, morally evil, if it be taken
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3855 according to reason: for reason itself demands that the use of reason be interrupted at times. We must add, however, that
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3856 although this fettering of the reason through the pleasure of conjugal intercourse has no moral malice, since it is neither
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3857 a
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3858 mortal nor a venial sin; yet it proceeds from a kind of moral malice, namely, from the sin of our first parent; because, as
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3859 stated in the
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3860 <a id="FS_Q34_A1-p9.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FP_Q98_A2.html">FP, Q[98], A[2]</a> the case was different in the state of innocence.
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3861 </p>
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3862 <p id="FS_Q34_A1-p10">
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3863 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> The temperate man does not shun all pleasures, but those that are immoderate, and contrary to reason. The fact that children
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3864 and dumb animals seek pleasures, does not prove that all pleasures are evil: because they have from God their natural appetite,
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3865 which is moved to that which is naturally suitable to them.
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3866 </p>
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3867 <p id="FS_Q34_A1-p11">
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3868 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Art is not concerned with all kinds of good, but with the making of external things, as we shall state further on (
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3869 <a id="FS_Q34_A1-p11.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q57_A3.html">Q[57], A[3]</a>). But actions and passions, which are within us, are more the concern of prudence and virtue than of art. Nevertheless there
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3870 is an art of making pleasure, namely, "the art of cookery and the art of making arguments," as stated in Ethic. vii, 12.
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3871 </p>
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3872 <p id="FS_Q34_A1-p12"></p>
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3873 <p id="FS_Q34_A1-p13"></p>
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3874 <a href="summa.FS_Q34.html"></a>
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3875 <a href="summa.FS_Q34_A2.html"></a>
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3876 </div>
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3877 <div id="FS_Q34_A2" class="div4">
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3878 <a href="summa.FS_Q34_A1.html"></a>
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3879 <a href="summa.FS_Q34_A3.html"></a>
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3880 <h4 id="FS_Q34_A2-p0.1">Whether every pleasure is good?</h4>
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3881 <p id="FS_Q34_A2-p1"></p>
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3882 <p id="FS_Q34_A2-p2">
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3883 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that every pleasure is good. Because as stated in the
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3884 <a id="FS_Q34_A2-p2.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FP_Q5_A6.html">FP, Q[5], A[6]</a> there are three kinds of good: the virtuous, the useful, and the pleasant. But everything virtuous is good; and in like manner
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3885 everything useful is good. Therefore also every pleasure is good.
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3886 </p>
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3887 <p id="FS_Q34_A2-p3">
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3888 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, that which is not sought for the sake of something else, is good in itself, as stated in Ethic. i, 6,7. But pleasure
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3889 is not sought for the sake of something else; for it seems absurd to ask anyone why he seeks to be pleased. Therefore pleasure
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3890 is good in itself. Now that which is predicated to a thing considered in itself, is predicated thereof universally. Therefore
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3891 every pleasure is good.
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3892 </p>
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3893 <p id="FS_Q34_A2-p4">
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3894 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, that which is desired by all, seems to be good of itself: because good is "what all things seek," as stated in Ethic.
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3895 i, 1. But everyone seeks some kind of pleasure, even children and dumb animals. Therefore pleasure is good in itself: and
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3896 consequently all pleasure is good.
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3897 </p>
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3898 <p id="FS_Q34_A2-p5">
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3899 <b>On the contrary,</b> It is written (
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3900 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q34_A2-p5.1" href="./asv.html#Prov.2.14" target="asv">Prov. 2:14</a>): "Who are glad when they have done evil, and rejoice in most wicked things."
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3901 </p>
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3902 <p id="FS_Q34_A2-p6">
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3903 <b>I answer that,</b> While some of the Stoics maintained that all pleasures are evil, the Epicureans held that pleasure is good in itself, and
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3904 that consequently all pleasures are good. They seem to have thus erred through not discriminating between that which is good
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3905 simply, and that which is good in respect of a particular individual. That which is good simply, is good in itself. Now that
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3906 which is not good in itself, may be good in respect of some individual in two ways. In one
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3907 way, because it is suitable to him by reason of a disposition in which he is now, which disposition, however, is not natural:
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3908 thus it is sometimes good for a leper to eat things that are poisonous, which are not suitable simply to the human temperament.
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3909 In another way, through something unsuitable being esteemed suitable. And since pleasure is the repose of the appetite in
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3910 some good, if the appetite reposes in that which is good simply, the pleasure will be pleasure simply, and good simply. But
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3911 if a man's appetite repose in that which is good, not simply, but in respect of that particular man, then his pleasure will
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3912 not be pleasure simply, but a pleasure to him; neither will it be good simply, but in a certain respect, or an apparent good.
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3913 </p>
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3914 <p id="FS_Q34_A2-p7">
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3915 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> The virtuous and the useful depend on accordance with reason, and consequently nothing is virtuous or useful, without being
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3916 good. But the pleasant depends on agreement with the appetite, which tends sometimes to that which is discordant from reason.
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3917 Consequently not every object of pleasure is good in the moral order which depends on the order of reason.
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3918 </p>
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3919 <p id="FS_Q34_A2-p8">
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3920 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> The reason why pleasure is not sought for the sake of something else is because it is repose in the end. Now the end may
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3921 be either good or evil; although nothing can be an end except in so far as it is good in respect of such and such a man: and
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3922 so too with regard to pleasure.
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3923 </p>
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3924 <p id="FS_Q34_A2-p9">
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3925 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> All things seek pleasure in the same way as they seek good: since pleasure is the repose of the appetite in good. But, just
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3926 as it happens that not every good which is desired, is of itself and verily good; so not every pleasure is of itself and verily
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3927 good.
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3928 </p>
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3929 <p id="FS_Q34_A2-p10"></p>
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3930 <p id="FS_Q34_A2-p11"></p>
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3931 <a href="summa.FS_Q34_A1.html"></a>
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3932 <a href="summa.FS_Q34_A3.html"></a>
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3933 </div>
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3934 <div id="FS_Q34_A3" class="div4">
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3935 <a href="summa.FS_Q34_A2.html"></a>
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3936 <a href="summa.FS_Q34_A4.html"></a>
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3937 <h4 id="FS_Q34_A3-p0.1">Whether any pleasure is the greatest good?</h4>
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3938 <p id="FS_Q34_A3-p1"></p>
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3939 <p id="FS_Q34_A3-p2">
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3940 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that no pleasure is the greatest good. Because nothing generated is the greatest good: since generation cannot
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3941 be the last end. But pleasure is a consequence of generation: for the fact that a thing takes pleasure is due to its being
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3942 established in its own nature, as stated above (
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3943 <a id="FS_Q34_A3-p2.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q31_A1.html">Q[31], A[1]</a>). Therefore no pleasure is the greatest good.
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3944 </p>
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3945 <p id="FS_Q34_A3-p3">
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3946 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, that which is the greatest good cannot be made better by addition. But pleasure is made better by addition; since
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3947 pleasure together with virtue is better than pleasure without virtue. Therefore pleasure is not the greatest good.
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3948 </p>
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3949 <p id="FS_Q34_A3-p4">
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3950 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, that which is the greatest good is universally good, as being good of itself: since that which is such of itself
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3951 is prior to and greater than that which is such accidentally. But pleasure is not universally good, as stated above
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3952 <a id="FS_Q34_A3-p4.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q34_A2.html">(A[2])</a>. Therefore pleasure is not the greatest good.
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3953 </p>
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3954 <p id="FS_Q34_A3-p5">
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3955 <b>On the contrary,</b> Happiness is the greatest good: since it is the end of man's life. But Happiness is not without pleasure: for it is written
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3956 (
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3957 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q34_A3-p5.1" href="./asv.html#Ps.15.11" target="asv">Ps. 15:11</a>): "Thou shalt fill me with joy with Thy countenance; at Thy right hand are delights even to the end."
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3958 </p>
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3959 <p id="FS_Q34_A3-p6">
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3960 <b>I answer that,</b> Plato held neither with the Stoics, who asserted that all pleasures are evil, nor with the Epicureans, who maintained that
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3961 all pleasures are good; but he said that some are good, and some evil; yet, so that no pleasure be the sovereign or greatest
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3962 good. But, judging from his arguments, he fails in two points. First, because, from observing that sensible and bodily pleasure
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3963 consists in a certain movement and "becoming," as is evident in satiety from eating
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3964 and the like; he concluded that all pleasure arises from some "becoming" and movement: and from this, since "becoming" and
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3965 movement are the acts of something imperfect, it would follow that pleasure is not of the nature of ultimate perfection. But
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3966 this is seen to be evidently false as regards intellectual pleasures: because one takes pleasure, not only in the "becoming"
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3967 of knowledge, for instance, when one learns or wonders, as stated above (
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3968 <a id="FS_Q34_A3-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q32_A8.html">Q[32], A[8]</a>, ad 2); but also
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3969 in the act of contemplation, by making use of knowledge already acquired.
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3970 </p>
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3971 <p id="FS_Q34_A3-p7"> Secondly, because by greatest good he understood that which is the supreme good simply, i.e. the good as existing apart from,
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3972 and unparticipated by, all else, in which sense God is the Supreme Good; whereas we are speaking of the greatest good in human
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3973 things. Now the greatest good of everything is its last end. And the end, as stated above (
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3974 <a id="FS_Q34_A3-p7.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q1_A8.html">Q[1], A[8]</a>;
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3975 <a id="FS_Q34_A3-p7.2" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q2_A7.html"> Q[2], A[7]</a>) is twofold; namely, the thing itself, and the use of that thing;
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3976 thus the miser's end is either money or the possession of money. Accordingly, man's last end may be said to be either God
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3977 Who is the Supreme Good simply; or the enjoyment of God, which implies a certain pleasure in the last end. And in this sense
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3978 a certain pleasure of man may be said to be the greatest among human goods.
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3979 </p>
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3980 <p id="FS_Q34_A3-p8">
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3981 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Not every pleasure arises from a "becoming"; for some pleasures result from perfect operations, as stated above. Accordingly
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3982 nothing prevents some pleasure being the greatest good, although every pleasure is not such.
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3983 </p>
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3984 <p id="FS_Q34_A3-p9">
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3985 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> This argument is true of the greatest good simply, by participation of which all things are good; wherefore no addition can
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3986 make it better: whereas in regard to other goods, it is universally true that any good becomes better by the addition of another
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3987 good. Moreover it might be said that pleasure is not something extraneous to the operation of virtue, but that it accompanies
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3988 it, as stated in Ethic. i, 8.
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3989 </p>
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3990 <p id="FS_Q34_A3-p10">
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3991 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> That pleasure is the greatest good is due not to the mere fact that it is pleasure, but to the fact that it is perfect repose
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3992 in the perfect good. Hence it does not follow that every pleasure is supremely good, or even good at all. Thus a certain science
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3993 is supremely good, but not every science is.
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3994 </p>
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3995 <p id="FS_Q34_A3-p11"></p>
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3996 <p id="FS_Q34_A3-p12"></p>
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3997 <a href="summa.FS_Q34_A2.html"></a>
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3998 <a href="summa.FS_Q34_A4.html"></a>
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3999 </div>
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4000 <div id="FS_Q34_A4" class="div4">
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4001 <a href="summa.FS_Q34_A3.html"></a>
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4002 <a href="summa.FS_Q35.html"></a>
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4003 <h4 id="FS_Q34_A4-p0.1">Whether pleasure is the measure or rule by which to judge of moral good or evil?</h4>
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4004 <p id="FS_Q34_A4-p1"></p>
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4005 <p id="FS_Q34_A4-p2">
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4006 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that pleasure is not the measure or rule of moral good and evil. Because "that which is first in a genus is
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4007 the measure of all the rest" (Metaph. x, 1). But pleasure is not the first thing in the moral genus, for it is preceded by
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4008 love and desire. Therefore it is not the rule of goodness and malice in moral matters.
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4009 </p>
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4010 <p id="FS_Q34_A4-p3">
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4011 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, a measure or rule should be uniform; hence that movement which is the most uniform, is the measure and rule of all
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4012 movements (Metaph. x, 1). But pleasures are various and multiform: since some of them are good, and some evil. Therefore pleasure
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4013 is not the measure and rule of morals.
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4014 </p>
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4015 <p id="FS_Q34_A4-p4">
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4016 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, judgment of the effect from its cause is more certain than judgment of cause from effect. Now goodness or malice
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4017 of operation is the cause of goodness or malice of pleasure: because "those pleasures are good which result from good operations,
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4018 and those are evil which arise from evil operations," as stated in Ethic. x, 5. Therefore pleasures are not the rule and measure
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4019 of moral goodness and malice.
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4020 </p>
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4021 <p id="FS_Q34_A4-p5">
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4022 <b>On the contrary,</b> Augustine, commenting on
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4023 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q34_A4-p5.1" href="./asv.html#Ps.7.10" target="asv"> Ps. 7:10 </a>"The searcher of hearts and reins is God," says: "The end of care and thought is the pleasure which each one aims at achieving."
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4024 And the Philosopher says (Ethic. vii, 11) that "pleasure is the architect," i.e. the principal, "end [*St. Thomas took "finis"
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4025 as being the nominative, whereas it is the genitive---{tou telous}; and the Greek reads "He" (i.e. the political philosopher),
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4026 "is the architect of
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4027 the end."], in regard to which, we say absolutely that this is evil, and that, good."
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4028 </p>
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4029 <p id="FS_Q34_A4-p6">
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4030 <b>I answer that,</b> Moral goodness or malice depends chiefly on the will, as stated above (
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4031 <a id="FS_Q34_A4-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q20_A1.html">Q[20], A[1]</a>); and it is chiefly from the end that we discern whether the will is good or evil. Now the end is taken to be that in which
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4032 the will reposes: and the repose of the will and of every appetite in the good is pleasure. And therefore man is reckoned
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4033 to be good or bad chiefly according to the pleasure of the human will; since that man is good and virtuous,
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4034 who takes pleasure in the works of virtue; and that man evil, who takes pleasure in evil works.
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4035 </p>
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4036 <p id="FS_Q34_A4-p7"> On the other hand, pleasures of the sensitive appetite are not the rule of moral goodness and malice; since food is universally
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4037 pleasurable to the sensitive appetite both of good and of evil men. But the will of the good man takes pleasure in them in
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4038 accordance with reason, to which the will of the evil man gives no heed.
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4039 </p>
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4040 <p id="FS_Q34_A4-p8">
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4041 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Love and desire precede pleasure in the order of generation. But pleasure precedes them in the order of the end, which serves
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4042 a principle in actions; and it is by the principle, which is the rule and measure of such matters, that we form our judgment.
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4043 </p>
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4044 <p id="FS_Q34_A4-p9">
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4045 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> All pleasures are uniform in the point of their being the repose of the appetite in something good: and in this respect pleasure
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4046 can be a rule or measure. Because that man is good, whose will rests in the true good: and that man evil, whose will rests
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4047 in evil.
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4048 </p>
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4049 <p id="FS_Q34_A4-p10">
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4050 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Since pleasure perfects operation as its end, as stated above (
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4051 <a id="FS_Q34_A4-p10.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q33_A4.html">Q[33], A[4]</a>); an operation cannot be perfectly good, unless there be also pleasure in good: because the goodness of a thing depends on
|
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4052 its end. And thus, in a way, the goodness of the pleasure is the cause of goodness in the operation.
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4053 </p>
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4054 <p id="FS_Q34_A4-p11"></p>
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4055 <p id="FS_Q34_A4-p12"></p>
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4056 <a href="summa.FS_Q34_A3.html"></a>
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4057 <a href="summa.FS_Q35.html"></a>
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4058 </div>
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4059 <a href="summa.FS_Q33_A4.html"></a>
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4060 <a href="summa.FS_Q34_A1.html"></a>
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4061 </div>
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4062 <div id="FS_Q35" class="div3">
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4063 <a href="summa.FS_Q34_A4.html"></a>
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4064 <a href="summa.FS_Q35_A1.html"></a>
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4065 <h3 id="FS_Q35-p0.1">OF PAIN OR SORROW, IN ITSELF (EIGHT ARTICLES)</h3>
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4066 <p id="FS_Q35-p1"></p>
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4067 <p id="FS_Q35-p2"> We have now to consider pain and sorrow: concerning which we must consider: (1) Sorrow or pain in itself; (2) Its cause;
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4068 (3) Its effects; (4) Its remedies; (5) Its goodness or malice.
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4069 </p>
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4070 <p id="FS_Q35-p3"> Under the first head there are eight points of inquiry:</p>
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4071 <p id="FS_Q35-p4"> (1) Whether pain is a passion of the soul?</p>
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4072 <p id="FS_Q35-p5"> (2) Whether sorrow is the same as pain?</p>
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4073 <p id="FS_Q35-p6"> (3) Whether sorrow or pain is contrary in pleasure?</p>
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4074 <p id="FS_Q35-p7"> (4) Whether all sorrow is contrary to all pleasure?</p>
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4075 <p id="FS_Q35-p8"> (5) Whether there is a sorrow contrary to the pleasure of contemplation?</p>
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4076 <p id="FS_Q35-p9"> (6) Whether sorrow is to be shunned more than pleasure is to be sought?</p>
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4077 <p id="FS_Q35-p10"> (7) Whether exterior pain is greater than interior?</p>
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4078 <p id="FS_Q35-p11"> (8) Of the species of sorrow.</p>
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4079 <div id="FS_Q35_A1" class="div4">
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4080 <a href="summa.FS_Q35.html"></a>
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4081 <a href="summa.FS_Q35_A2.html"></a>
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4082 <h4 id="FS_Q35_A1-p0.1">Whether pain is a passion of the soul?</h4>
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4083 <p id="FS_Q35_A1-p1"></p>
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4084 <p id="FS_Q35_A1-p2">
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4085 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that pain is not a passion of the soul. Because no passion of the soul is in the body. But pain can be in the
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4086 body, since Augustine says (De Vera Relig. xii), that "bodily pain is a sudden corruption of the well-being of that thing
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4087 which the soul, by making evil use of it, made subject to corruption." Therefore pain is not a passion of the soul.
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4088 </p>
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4089 <p id="FS_Q35_A1-p3">
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4090 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, every passion of the soul belongs to the appetitive faculty. But pain does not belong to the appetitive, but rather
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4091 to the apprehensive part: for Augustine says (De Nat. Boni xx) that "bodily pain is caused by the sense resisting a more powerful
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4092 body." Therefore pain is not a passion of the soul.
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4093 </p>
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4094 <p id="FS_Q35_A1-p4">
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4095 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, every passion of the soul belongs to the animal appetite. But pain does not belong to the animal appetite, but rather
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4096 to the natural appetite; for Augustine says (Gen. ad lit. viii, 14): "Had not some good remained in nature, we should feel
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4097 no pain in being punished by the loss of good." Therefore pain is not a passion of the soul.
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4098 </p>
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4099 <p id="FS_Q35_A1-p5">
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4100 <b>On the contrary,</b> Augustine (De Civ. Dei xiv, 8) reckons pain among the passions of the soul; quoting Virgil (Aeneid, vi, 733): "hence wild
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4101 desires and grovelling fears/And human laughter, human tears." [Translation: Conington.]
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4102 </p>
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4103 <p id="FS_Q35_A1-p6">
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4104 <b>I answer that,</b> Just as two things are requisite for pleasure; namely, conjunction with good and perception of this conjunction; so also
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4105 two things are requisite for pain: namely, conjunction with some evil (which is in so far evil as it deprives one of some
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4106 good), and perception of this conjunction. Now whatever is conjoined, if it have not the aspect of good or evil in regard
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4107 to the being to which it is conjoined, cannot cause pleasure or pain. Whence it is evident that
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4108 something under the aspect of good or evil is the object of the pleasure or pain. But good and evil, as such, are objects
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4109 of the appetite. Consequently it is clear that pleasure and pain belong to the appetite.
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4110 </p>
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4111 <p id="FS_Q35_A1-p7"> Now every appetitive movement or inclination consequent to apprehension, belongs to the intellective or sensitive appetite:
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4112 since the inclination of the natural appetite is not consequent to an apprehension of the subject of that appetite, but to
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4113 the apprehension of another, as stated in the
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4114 <a id="FS_Q35_A1-p7.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FP_Q103_A1.html">FP, Q[103], AA[1]</a>,3. Since then pleasure and pain presuppose some sense or apprehension in the same subject, it is evident that pain, like
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4115 pleasure, is in the
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4116 intellective or sensitive appetite.
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4117 </p>
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4118 <p id="FS_Q35_A1-p8"> Again every movement of the sensitive appetite is called a passion, as stated above (
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4119 <a id="FS_Q35_A1-p8.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q22_A1.html">Q[22], AA[1]</a>,3): and especially those which tend to some defect. Consequently pain, according as it is in the sensitive appetite, is most
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4120 properly called a passion of the soul: just as bodily ailments are properly called passions of the body. Hence Augustine (De
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4121 Civ. Dei xiv, 7,[8] [*Quoting Cicero]) reckons pain especially as being a kind of ailment.
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4122 </p>
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4123 <p id="FS_Q35_A1-p9">
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4124 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> We speak of the body, because the cause of pain is in the body: as when we suffer something hurtful to the body. But the
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4125 movement of pain is always in the soul; since "the body cannot feel pain unless the soul feel it," as Augustine says (Super
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4126 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q35_A1-p9.1" href="./asv.html#Ps.87.4" target="asv"> Psalm 87:4</a>).
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4127 </p>
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4128 <p id="FS_Q35_A1-p10">
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4129 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> We speak of pain of the senses, not as though it were an act of the sensitive power; but because the senses are required
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4130 for bodily pain, in the same way as for bodily pleasure.
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4131 </p>
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4132 <p id="FS_Q35_A1-p11">
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4133 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Pain at the loss of good proves the goodness of the nature, not because pain is an act of the natural appetite, but because
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4134 nature desires something as good, the removal of which being perceived, there results the passion of pain in the sensitive
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4135 appetite.
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4136 </p>
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4137 <p id="FS_Q35_A1-p12"></p>
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4138 <p id="FS_Q35_A1-p13"></p>
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4139 <a href="summa.FS_Q35.html"></a>
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4140 <a href="summa.FS_Q35_A2.html"></a>
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4141 </div>
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4142 <div id="FS_Q35_A2" class="div4">
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4143 <a href="summa.FS_Q35_A1.html"></a>
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4144 <a href="summa.FS_Q35_A3.html"></a>
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4145 <h4 id="FS_Q35_A2-p0.1">Whether sorrow is the same as pain?</h4>
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4146 <p id="FS_Q35_A2-p1"></p>
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4147 <p id="FS_Q35_A2-p2">
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4148 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that sorrow is not pain. For Augustine says (De Civ. Dei xiv, 7) that "pain is used to express bodily suffering."
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4149 But sorrow is used more in reference to the soul. Therefore sorrow is not pain.
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4150 </p>
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4151 <p id="FS_Q35_A2-p3">
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4152 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, pain is only in respect of present evil. But sorrow can refer to both past and future evil: thus repentance is sorrow
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4153 for the past, and anxiety for the future. Therefore sorrow is quite different from pain.
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4154 </p>
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4155 <p id="FS_Q35_A2-p4">
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4156 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, pain seems not to follow save from the sense of touch. But sorrow can arise from all the senses. Therefore sorrow
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4157 is not pain, and extends to more objects.
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4158 </p>
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4159 <p id="FS_Q35_A2-p5">
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4160 <b>On the contrary,</b> The Apostle says (
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4161 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q35_A2-p5.1" href="./asv.html#Rom.9.2" target="asv">Rom. 9:2</a>): "I have great sorrow [Douay: 'sadness'] and continual pain [Douay: 'sorrow'] in my heart," thus denoting the same thing
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4162 by sorrow and pain.
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4163 </p>
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4164 <p id="FS_Q35_A2-p6">
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4165 <b>I answer that,</b> Pleasure and pain can arise from a twofold apprehension, namely, from the apprehension of an exterior sense; and from the
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4166 interior apprehension of the intellect or of the imagination. Now the interior apprehension extends to more objects than the
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4167 exterior apprehension: because whatever things come under the exterior apprehension, come under the interior, but not conversely.
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4168 Consequently that pleasure alone which is caused by an interior apprehension is
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4169 called joy, as stated above (
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4170 <a id="FS_Q35_A2-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q31_A3.html">Q[31], A[3]</a>): and in like manner that pain alone which is caused by an interior apprehension, is called sorrow. And just as that pleasure
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4171 which is caused by an exterior apprehension, is called pleasure but not joy; so too that pain which is caused by an exterior
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4172 apprehension, is called pain indeed but not sorrow. Accordingly sorrow is a species of pain, as joy is a species of pleasure.
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4173 </p>
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4174 <p id="FS_Q35_A2-p7">
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4175 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Augustine is speaking there of the use of the word: because "pain" is more generally used in reference to bodily pains, which
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4176 are better known, than in reference to spiritual pains.
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4177 </p>
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4178 <p id="FS_Q35_A2-p8">
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4179 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> External sense perceives only what is present; but the interior cognitive power can perceive the present, past and future.
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4180 Consequently sorrow can regard present, past and future: whereas bodily pain, which follows apprehension of the external sense,
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4181 can only regard something present.
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4182 </p>
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4183 <p id="FS_Q35_A2-p9">
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4184 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> The sensibles of touch are painful, not only in so far as they are disproportionate to the apprehensive power, but also in
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4185 so far as they are contrary to nature: whereas the objects of the other senses can indeed be disproportionate to the apprehensive
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4186 power, but they are not contrary to nature, save as they are subordinate to the sensibles of touch. Consequently man alone,
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4187 who is a perfectly cognizant animal, takes pleasure in the objects of the
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4188 other senses for their own sake; whereas other animals take no pleasure in them save as referable to the sensibles of touch,
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4189 as stated in Ethic. iii, 10. Accordingly, in referring to the objects of the other senses, we do not speak of pain in so far
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4190 as it is contrary to natural pleasure: but rather of sorrow, which is contrary to joy. So then if pain be taken as denoting
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4191 bodily pain, which is its more usual meaning, then it is contrasted with sorrow, according to the distinction of interior
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4192 and
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4193 exterior apprehension; although, on the part of the objects, pleasure extends further than does bodily pain. But if pain be
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4194 taken in a wide sense, then it is the genus of sorrow, as stated above.
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4195 </p>
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4196 <p id="FS_Q35_A2-p10"></p>
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4197 <p id="FS_Q35_A2-p11"></p>
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4198 <a href="summa.FS_Q35_A1.html"></a>
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4199 <a href="summa.FS_Q35_A3.html"></a>
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4200 </div>
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4201 <div id="FS_Q35_A3" class="div4">
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4202 <a href="summa.FS_Q35_A2.html"></a>
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4203 <a href="summa.FS_Q35_A4.html"></a>
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4204 <h4 id="FS_Q35_A3-p0.1">Whether sorrow or pain is contrary to pleasure?</h4>
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4205 <p id="FS_Q35_A3-p1"></p>
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4206 <p id="FS_Q35_A3-p2">
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4207 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that sorrow is not contrary to pleasure. For one of two contraries is not the cause of the other. But sorrow
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4208 can be the cause of pleasure; for it is written (
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4209 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q35_A3-p2.1" href="./asv.html#Matt.5.5" target="asv">Mat. 5:5</a>): "Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted." Therefore they are not contrary to one another.
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4210 </p>
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4211 <p id="FS_Q35_A3-p3">
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4212 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, one contrary does not denominate the other. But to some, pain or sorrow gives pleasure: thus Augustine says (Confess.
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4213 iii, 2) that in stage-plays sorrow itself gives pleasure: and (Confess. iv, 5) that "weeping is a bitter thing, and yet it
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4214 sometimes pleases us." Therefore pain is not contrary to pleasure.
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4215 </p>
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4216 <p id="FS_Q35_A3-p4">
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4217 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, one contrary is not the matter of the other; because contraries cannot co-exist together. But sorrow can be the
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4218 matter of pleasure; for Augustine says (De Poenit. xiii): "The penitent should ever sorrow, and rejoice in his sorrow." The
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4219 Philosopher too says (Ethic. ix, 4) that, on the other hand, "the evil man feels pain at having been pleased." Therefore pleasure
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4220 and pain are not contrary to one another.
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4221 </p>
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4222 <p id="FS_Q35_A3-p5">
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4223 <b>On the contrary,</b> Augustine says (De Civ. Dei xiv, 6) that "joy is the volition of consent to the things we wish: and that sorrow is the volition
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4224 of dissent from the things we do not wish." But consent and dissent are contraries. Therefore pleasure and sorrow are contrary
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4225 to one another.
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4226 </p>
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4227 <p id="FS_Q35_A3-p6">
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4228 <b>I answer that,</b> As the Philosopher says (Metaph. x, 4), contrariety is a difference in respect of a form. Now the form or species of a passion
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4229 or movement is taken from the object or term. Consequently, since the objects of pleasure and sorrow or pain, viz. present
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4230 good and present evil, are contrary to one another, it follows that pain and pleasure are contrary to one another.
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4231 </p>
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4232 <p id="FS_Q35_A3-p7">
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4233 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Nothing hinders one contrary causing the other accidentally: and thus sorrow can be the cause of pleasure. In one way, in
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4234 so far as from sorrow at the absence of something, or at the presence of its contrary, one seeks the more eagerly for something
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4235 pleasant: thus a thirsty man seeks more eagerly the pleasure of a drink, as a remedy for the pain he suffers. In another way,
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4236 in so far as, from a strong desire for a certain pleasure, one does not shrink
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4237 from undergoing pain, so as to obtain that pleasure. In each of these ways, the sorrows of the present life lead us to the
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4238 comfort of the future life. Because by the mere fact that man mourns for his sins, or for the delay of glory, he merits the
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4239 consolation of eternity. In like manner a man merits it when he shrinks not from hardships and straits in order to obtain
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4240 it.
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4241 </p>
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4242 <p id="FS_Q35_A3-p8">
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4243 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Pain itself can be pleasurable accidentally in so far as it is accompanied by wonder, as in stage-plays; or in so far as
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4244 it recalls a beloved object to one's memory, and makes one feel one's love for the thing, whose absence gives us pain. Consequently,
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4245 since love is pleasant, both pain and whatever else results from love, forasmuch as they remind us of our love, are pleasant.
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4246 And, for this reason, we derive pleasure even from pains depicted on the
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4247 stage: in so far as, in witnessing them, we perceive ourselves to conceive a certain love for those who are there represented.
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4248 </p>
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4249 <p id="FS_Q35_A3-p9">
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4250 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> The will and the reason reflect on their own acts, inasmuch as the acts themselves of the will and reason are considered
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4251 under the aspect of good or evil. In this way sorrow can be the matter of pleasure, or vice versa, not essentially but accidentally:
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4252 that is, in so far as either of them is considered under the aspect of good or evil.
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4253 </p>
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4254 <p id="FS_Q35_A3-p10"></p>
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4255 <p id="FS_Q35_A3-p11"></p>
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4256 <a href="summa.FS_Q35_A2.html"></a>
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4257 <a href="summa.FS_Q35_A4.html"></a>
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4258 </div>
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4259 <div id="FS_Q35_A4" class="div4">
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4260 <a href="summa.FS_Q35_A3.html"></a>
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4261 <a href="summa.FS_Q35_A5.html"></a>
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4262 <h4 id="FS_Q35_A4-p0.1">Whether all sorrow is contrary to all pleasure?</h4>
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4263 <p id="FS_Q35_A4-p1"></p>
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4264 <p id="FS_Q35_A4-p2">
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4265 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that all sorrow is contrary to all pleasure. Because, just as whiteness and blackness are contrary species
|
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4266 of color, so pleasure and sorrow are contrary species of the soul's passions. But whiteness and blackness are universally
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4267 contrary to one another. Therefore pleasure and sorrow are so too.
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4268 </p>
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4269 <p id="FS_Q35_A4-p3">
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4270 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, remedies are made of things contrary (to the evil). But every pleasure is a remedy for all manner of sorrow, as
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4271 the Philosopher declares (Ethic. vii, 14). Therefore every pleasure is contrary to every sorrow.
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4272 </p>
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4273 <p id="FS_Q35_A4-p4">
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4274 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, contraries are hindrances to one another. But every sorrow hinders any kind of pleasure: as is evident from Ethic.
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4275 x, 5. Therefore every sorrow is contrary to every pleasure.
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4276 </p>
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4277 <p id="FS_Q35_A4-p5">
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4278 <b>On the contrary,</b> The same thing is not the cause of contraries. But joy for one thing, and sorrow for the opposite thing, proceed from the
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4279 same habit: thus from charity it happens that we "rejoice with them that rejoice," and "weep with them that weep" (
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4280 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q35_A4-p5.1" href="./asv.html#Rom.12.15" target="asv">Rom. 12:15</a>). Therefore not every sorrow is contrary to every pleasure.
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4281 </p>
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4282 <p id="FS_Q35_A4-p6">
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4283 <b>I answer that,</b> As stated in Metaph. x, 4 contrariety is a difference in respect of a form. Now a form may be generic or specific. Consequently
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4284 things may be contraries in respect of a generic form, as virtue and vice; or in respect of a specific form, as justice and
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4285 injustice.
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4286 </p>
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4287 <p id="FS_Q35_A4-p7"> Now we must observe that some things are specified by absolute forms, e.g. substances and qualities; whereas other things
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4288 are specified in relation to something extrinsic, e.g. passions and movements, which derive their species from their terms
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4289 or objects. Accordingly in those things that are specified by absolute forms, it happens that species contained under contrary
|
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4290 genera are not contrary as to their specific nature: but it does not happen for them to have any affinity or
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4291 fittingness to one another. For intemperance and justice, which are in the contrary genera of virtue and vice, are not contrary
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4292 to one another in respect of their specific nature; and yet they have no affinity or fittingness to one another. On the other
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4293 hand, in those things that are specified in relation to something extrinsic, it happens that species belonging to contrary
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4294 genera, are not only not contrary to one another, but also that they have a certain mutual affinity or fittingness. The
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4295 reason of this is that where there is one same relation to two contraries, there is contrariety; e.g. to approach to a white
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4296 thing, and to approach to a black thing, are contraries; whereas contrary relations to contrary things, implies a certain
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4297 likeness, e.g. to recede from something white, and to approach to something black. This is most evident in the case of contradiction,
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4298 which is the principle of opposition: because opposition consists in affirming and denying the same thing, e.g.
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4299 "white" and "non-white"; while there is fittingness and likeness in the affirmation of one contrary and the denial of the
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4300 other, as, if I were to say "black" and "not white."
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4301 </p>
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4302 <p id="FS_Q35_A4-p8"> Now sorrow and pleasure, being passions, are specified by their objects. According to their respective genera, they are contrary
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4303 to one another: since one is a kind of "pursuit," the other a kind of "avoidance," which "are to the appetite, what affirmation
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4304 and denial are to the intellect" (Ethic. vi, 2). Consequently sorrow and pleasure in respect of the same object, are specifically
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4305 contrary to one another: whereas sorrow and pleasure in respect of objects that are not contrary
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4306 but disparate, are not specifically contrary to one another, but are also disparate; for instance, sorrow at the death of
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4307 a friend, and pleasure in contemplation. If, however, those diverse objects be contrary to one another, then pleasure and
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4308 sorrow are not only specifically contrary, but they also have a certain mutual fittingness and affinity: for instance to rejoice
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4309 in good and to sorrow for evil.
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4310 </p>
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4311 <p id="FS_Q35_A4-p9">
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4312 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Whiteness and blackness do not take their species from their relationship to something extrinsic, as pleasure and sorrow
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4313 do: wherefore the comparison does not hold.
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4314 </p>
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4315 <p id="FS_Q35_A4-p10">
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4316 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Genus is taken from matter, as is stated in Metaph. viii, 2; and in accidents the subject takes the place of matter. Now
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4317 it has been said above that pleasure and sorrow are generically contrary to one another. Consequently in every sorrow the
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4318 subject has a disposition contrary to the disposition of the subject of pleasure: because in every pleasure the appetite is
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4319 viewed as accepting what it possesses, and in every sorrow, as avoiding it. And
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4320 therefore on the part of the subject every pleasure is a remedy for any kind of sorrow, and every sorrow is a hindrance of
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4321 all manner of pleasure: but chiefly when pleasure is opposed to sorrow specifically.
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4322 </p>
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4323 <p id="FS_Q35_A4-p11"> Wherefore the Reply to the Third Objection is evident. Or we may say that, although not every sorrow is specifically contrary
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4324 to every pleasure, yet they are contrary to one another in regard to their effects: since one has the effect of strengthening
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4325 the animal nature, while the other results in a kind of discomfort.
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4326 </p>
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4327 <p id="FS_Q35_A4-p12"></p>
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4328 <p id="FS_Q35_A4-p13"></p>
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4329 <a href="summa.FS_Q35_A3.html"></a>
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4330 <a href="summa.FS_Q35_A5.html"></a>
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4331 </div>
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4332 <div id="FS_Q35_A5" class="div4">
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4333 <a href="summa.FS_Q35_A4.html"></a>
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4334 <a href="summa.FS_Q35_A6.html"></a>
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4335 <h4 id="FS_Q35_A5-p0.1">Whether there is any sorrow contrary to the pleasure of contemplation?</h4>
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4336 <p id="FS_Q35_A5-p1"></p>
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4337 <p id="FS_Q35_A5-p2">
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4338 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that there is a sorrow that is contrary to the pleasure of contemplation. For the Apostle says (
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4339 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q35_A5-p2.1" href="./asv.html#iiCor.7.10" target="asv">2 Cor. 7:10</a>): "The sorrow that is according to God, worketh penance steadfast unto salvation." Now to look at God belongs to the higher
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4340 reason, whose act is to give itself to contemplation, according to Augustine (De Trin. xii, 3,4). Therefore there is a sorrow
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4341 contrary to the pleasure of contemplation.
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4342 </p>
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4343 <p id="FS_Q35_A5-p3">
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4344 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, contrary things have contrary effects. If therefore the contemplation of one contrary gives pleasure, the other
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4345 contrary will give sorrow: and so there will be a sorrow contrary to the pleasure of contemplation.
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4346 </p>
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4347 <p id="FS_Q35_A5-p4">
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4348 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, as the object of pleasure is good, so the object of sorrow is evil. But contemplation can be an evil: since the
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4349 Philosopher says (Metaph. xii, 9) that "it is unfitting to think of certain things." Therefore sorrow can be contrary to the
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4350 pleasure of contemplation.
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4351 </p>
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4352 <p id="FS_Q35_A5-p5">
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4353 <b>Objection 4:</b> Further, any work, so far as it is unhindered, can be a cause of pleasure, as stated in Ethic. vii, 12,13; x, 4. But the
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4354 work of contemplation can be hindered in many ways, either so as to destroy it altogether, or as to make it difficult. Therefore
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4355 in contemplation there can be a sorrow contrary to the pleasure.
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4356 </p>
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4357 <p id="FS_Q35_A5-p6">
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4358 <b>Objection 5:</b> Further, affliction of the flesh is a cause of sorrow. But, as it is written (
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4359 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q35_A5-p6.1" href="./asv.html#Eccl.12.12" target="asv">Eccles. 12:12</a>) "much study is an affliction of the flesh." Therefore contemplation admits of sorrow contrary to its pleasure.
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4360 </p>
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4361 <p id="FS_Q35_A5-p7">
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4362 <b>On the contrary,</b> It is written (
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4363 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q35_A5-p7.1" href="./asv.html#Wis.8.16" target="asv">Wis. 8:16</a>): "Her," i.e. wisdom's, "conversation hath no bitterness nor her company any tediousness; but joy and gladness." Now the
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4364 conversation and company of wisdom are found in contemplation. Therefore there is no sorrow contrary to the pleasure of contemplation.
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4365 </p>
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4366 <p id="FS_Q35_A5-p8">
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4367 <b>I answer that,</b> The pleasure of contemplation can be understood in two ways. In one way, so that contemplation is the cause, but not the
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4368 object of pleasure: and then pleasure is taken not in contemplating but in the thing contemplated. Now it is possible to contemplate
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4369 something harmful and sorrowful, just as to contemplate something suitable and pleasant. Consequently if the pleasure of contemplation
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4370 be taken in this way, nothing hinders some sorrow being contrary to the
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4371 pleasure of contemplation.
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4372 </p>
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4373 <p id="FS_Q35_A5-p9"> In another way, the pleasure of contemplation is understood, so that contemplation is its object and cause; as when one takes
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4374 pleasure in the very act of contemplating. And thus, according to Gregory of Nyssa [*Nemesius, De Nat. Hom. xviii.], "no sorrow
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4375 is contrary to that pleasure which is about contemplation": and the Philosopher says the same (Topic. i, 13; Ethic. x, 3).
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4376 This, however, is to be understood as being the case properly speaking. The reason is because sorrow is of
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4377 itself contrary to pleasure in a contrary object: thus pleasure in heat is contrary to sorrow caused by cold. But there is
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4378 no contrary to the object of contemplation: because contraries, as apprehended by the mind, are not contrary, but one is the
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4379 means of knowing the other. Wherefore, properly speaking, there cannot be a sorrow contrary to the pleasure of contemplation.
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4380 Nor has it any sorrow annexed to it, as bodily pleasures have, which are like remedies against certain annoyances; thus a
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4381 man
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4382 takes pleasure in drinking through being troubled with thirst, but when the thirst is quite driven out, the pleasure of drinking
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4383 ceases also. Because the pleasure of contemplation is not caused by one's being quit of an annoyance, but by the fact that
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4384 contemplation is pleasant in itself: for pleasure is not a "becoming" but a perfect operation, as stated above (
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4385 <a id="FS_Q35_A5-p9.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q31_A1.html">Q[31], A[1]</a>).
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4386 </p>
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4387 <p id="FS_Q35_A5-p10"> Accidentally, however, sorrow is mingled with the pleasure of contemplation; and this in two ways: first, on the part of
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4388 an organ, secondly, through some impediment in the apprehension. On the part of an organ, sorrow or pain is mingled with apprehension,
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4389 directly, as regards the apprehensive powers of the sensitive part, which have a bodily organ; either from the sensible object
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4390 disagreeing with the normal condition of the organ, as the taste of something bitter, and the smell
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4391 of something foul; or from the sensible object, though agreeable, being so continuous in its action on the sense, that it
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4392 exceeds the normal condition of the organ, as stated above (
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4393 <a id="FS_Q35_A5-p10.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q33_A2.html">Q[33], A[2]</a>), the result being that an apprehension which at first was pleasant becomes tedious. But these two things cannot occur directly
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4394 in the contemplation of the mind; because the mind has no corporeal organ: wherefore it was said in the authority quoted above
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4395 that intellectual
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4396 contemplation has neither "bitterness," nor "tediousness." Since, however, the human mind, in contemplation, makes use of
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4397 the sensitive powers of apprehension, to whose acts weariness is incidental; therefore some affliction or pain is indirectly
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4398 mingled with contemplation.
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4399 </p>
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4400 <p id="FS_Q35_A5-p11"> Nevertheless, in neither of these ways, is the pain thus accidentally mingled with contemplation, contrary to the pleasure
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4401 thereof. Because pain caused by a hindrance to contemplation, is not contrary to the pleasure of contemplation, but rather
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4402 is in affinity and in harmony with it, as is evident from what has been said above
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4403 <a id="FS_Q35_A5-p11.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q35_A4.html">(A[4])</a>: while pain or sorrow caused by bodily weariness, does not belong to the same genus, wherefore it is altogether disparate.
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4404 Accordingly it is evident that no sorrow is contrary to pleasure taken in the very act of contemplation; nor is any sorrow
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4405 connected with it save accidentally.
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4406 </p>
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4407 <p id="FS_Q35_A5-p12">
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4408 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> The "sorrow which is according to God," is not caused by the very act of intellectual contemplation, but by something which
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4409 the mind contemplates: viz. by sin, which the mind considers as contrary to the love of God.
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4410 </p>
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4411 <p id="FS_Q35_A5-p13">
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4412 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Things which are contrary according to nature are not contrary according as they exist in the mind: for things that are contrary
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4413 in reality are not contrary in the order of thought; indeed rather is one contrary the reason for knowing the other. Hence
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4414 one and the same science considers contraries.
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4415 </p>
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4416 <p id="FS_Q35_A5-p14">
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4417 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Contemplation, in itself, is never evil, since it is nothing else than the consideration of truth, which is the good of the
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4418 intellect: it can, however, be evil accidentally, i.e. in so far as the contemplation of a less noble object hinders the contemplation
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4419 of a more noble object; or on the part of the object contemplated, to which the appetite is inordinately attached.
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4420 </p>
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4421 <p id="FS_Q35_A5-p15">
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4422 <b>Reply to Objection 4:</b> Sorrow caused by a hindrance to contemplation, is not contrary to the pleasure of contemplation, but is in harmony with it,
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4423 as stated above.
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4424 </p>
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4425 <p id="FS_Q35_A5-p16">
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4426 <b>Reply to Objection 5:</b> Affliction of the flesh affects contemplation accidentally and indirectly, as stated above.
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4427 </p>
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4428 <p id="FS_Q35_A5-p17"></p>
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4429 <p id="FS_Q35_A5-p18"></p>
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4430 <a href="summa.FS_Q35_A4.html"></a>
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4431 <a href="summa.FS_Q35_A6.html"></a>
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4432 </div>
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4433 <div id="FS_Q35_A6" class="div4">
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4434 <a href="summa.FS_Q35_A5.html"></a>
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4435 <a href="summa.FS_Q35_A7.html"></a>
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4436 <h4 id="FS_Q35_A6-p0.1">Whether sorrow is to be shunned more than pleasure is to be sought?</h4>
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4437 <p id="FS_Q35_A6-p1"></p>
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4438 <p id="FS_Q35_A6-p2">
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4439 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that sorrow is to be shunned more than pleasure is to be sought. For Augustine says (QQ. 83, qu. 63): "There
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4440 is nobody that does not shun sorrow more than he seeks pleasure." Now that which all agree in doing, seems to be natural.
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4441 Therefore it is natural and right for sorrow to be shunned more than pleasure is sought.
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4442 </p>
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4443 <p id="FS_Q35_A6-p3">
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4444 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, the action of a contrary conduces to rapidity and intensity of movement: for "hot water freezes quicker and harder,"
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4445 as the Philosopher says (Meteor. i, 12). But the shunning of sorrow is due to the contrariety of the cause of sorrow; whereas
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4446 the desire for pleasure does not arise from any contrariety, but rather from the suitableness of the pleasant object. Therefore
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4447 sorrow is shunned more eagerly than pleasure is sought.
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4448 </p>
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4449 <p id="FS_Q35_A6-p4">
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4450 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, the stronger the passion which a man resists according to reason, the more worthy is he of praise, and the more
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4451 virtuous: since "virtue is concerned with the difficult and the good" (Ethic. ii, 3). But the brave man who resists the movement
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4452 of shunning sorrow, is more virtuous than the temperate man, who resists the movement of desire for pleasure: since the Philosopher
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4453 says (Rhet. ii, 4) that "the brave and the just are chiefly praised." Therefore
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4454 the movement of shunning sorrow is more eager than the movement of seeking pleasure.
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4455 </p>
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4456 <p id="FS_Q35_A6-p5">
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4457 <b>On the contrary,</b> Good is stronger than evil, as Dionysius declares (Div. Nom. iv). But pleasure is desirable for the sake of the good which
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4458 is its object; whereas the shunning of sorrow is on account of evil. Therefore the desire for pleasure is more eager than
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4459 the shunning of sorrow.
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4460 </p>
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4461 <p id="FS_Q35_A6-p6">
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4462 <b>I answer that,</b> The desire for pleasure is of itself more eager than the shunning of sorrow. The reason of this is that the cause of pleasure
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4463 is a suitable good; while the cause of pain or sorrow is an unsuitable evil. Now it happens that a certain good is suitable
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4464 without any repugnance at all: but it is not possible for any evil to be so unsuitable as not to be suitable in some way.
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4465 Wherefore pleasure can be entire and perfect: whereas sorrow is always partial. Therefore
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4466 desire for pleasure is naturally greater than the shunning of sorrow. Another reason is because the good, which is the object
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4467 of pleasure, is sought for its own sake: whereas the evil, which is the object of sorrow, is to be shunned as being a privation
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4468 of good: and that which is by reason of itself is stronger than that which is by reason of something else. Moreover we find
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4469 a confirmation of this in natural movements. For every natural movement is more intense in the end, when a thing
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4470 approaches the term that is suitable to its nature, than at the beginning, when it leaves the term that is unsuitable to its
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4471 nature: as though nature were more eager in tending to what is suitable to it, than in shunning what is unsuitable. Therefore
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4472 the inclination of the appetitive power is, of itself, more eager in tending to pleasure than in shunning sorrow.
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4473 </p>
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4474 <p id="FS_Q35_A6-p7"> But it happens accidentally that a man shuns sorrow more eagerly than he seeks pleasure: and this for three reasons. First,
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4475 on the part of the apprehension. Because, as Augustine says (De Trin. x, 12), "love is felt more keenly, when we lack that
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4476 which we love." Now from the lack of what we love, sorrow results, which is caused either by the loss of some loved good,
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4477 or by the presence of some contrary evil. But pleasure suffers no lack of the good loved, for it rests in
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4478 possession of it. Since then love is the cause of pleasure and sorrow, the latter is more the shunned, according as love is
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4479 the more keenly felt on account of that which is contrary to it. Secondly, on the part of the cause of sorrow or pain, which
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4480 cause is repugnant to a good that is more loved than the good in which we take pleasure. For we love the natural well-being
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4481 of the body more than the pleasure of eating: and consequently we would leave the pleasure of eating and the like, from fear
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4482 of the pain occasioned by blows or other such causes, which are contrary to the well-being of the body. Thirdly, on the part
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4483 of the effect: namely, in so far as sorrow hinders not only one pleasure, but all.
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4484 </p>
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4485 <p id="FS_Q35_A6-p8">
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4486 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> The saying of Augustine that "sorrow is shunned more than pleasure is sought" is true accidentally but not simply. And this
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4487 is clear from what he says after: "Since we see that the most savage animals are deterred from the greatest pleasures by fear
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4488 of pain," which pain is contrary to life which is loved above all.
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4489 </p>
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4490 <p id="FS_Q35_A6-p9">
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4491 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> It is not the same with movement from within and movement from without. For movement from within tends to what is suitable
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4492 more than it recedes from that which is unsuitable; as we remarked above in regard to natural movement. But movement from
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4493 without is intensified by the very opposition: because each thing strives in its own way to resist anything contrary to it,
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4494 as aiming at its own preservation. Hence violent movement is intense at first, and
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4495 slackens towards the end. Now the movement of the appetitive faculty is from within: since it tends from the soul to the object.
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4496 Consequently pleasure is, of itself, more to be sought than sorrow is to be shunned. But the movement of the sensitive faculty
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4497 is from without, as it were from the object of the soul. Consequently the more contrary a thing is the more it is felt. And
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4498 then too, accidentally, in so far as the senses are requisite for pleasure and pain, pain is shunned more than pleasure
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4499 is sought.
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4500 </p>
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4501 <p id="FS_Q35_A6-p10">
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4502 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> A brave man is not praised because, in accordance with reason, he is not overcome by any kind of sorrow or pain whatever,
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4503 but because he is not overcome by that which is concerned with the dangers of death. And this kind of sorrow is more shunned,
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4504 than pleasures of the table or of sexual intercourse are sought, which latter pleasures are the object of temperance: thus
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4505 life is loved more than food and sexual pleasure. But the temperate man is praised
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4506 for refraining from pleasures of touch, more than for not shunning the pains which are contrary to them, as is stated in Ethic.
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4507 iii, 11.
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4508 </p>
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4509 <p id="FS_Q35_A6-p11"></p>
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4510 <p id="FS_Q35_A6-p12"></p>
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4511 <a href="summa.FS_Q35_A5.html"></a>
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4512 <a href="summa.FS_Q35_A7.html"></a>
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4513 </div>
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4514 <div id="FS_Q35_A7" class="div4">
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4515 <a href="summa.FS_Q35_A6.html"></a>
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4516 <a href="summa.FS_Q35_A8.html"></a>
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4517 <h4 id="FS_Q35_A7-p0.1">Whether outward pain is greater than interior sorrow?</h4>
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4518 <p id="FS_Q35_A7-p1"></p>
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4519 <p id="FS_Q35_A7-p2">
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4520 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that outward pain is greater than interior sorrow of the heart. Because outward pain arises from a cause repugnant
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4521 to the well-being of the body in which is life: whereas interior sorrow is caused by some evil in the imagination. Since,
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4522 therefore, life is loved more than an imagined good, it seems that, according to what has been said above
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4523 <a id="FS_Q35_A7-p2.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q35_A6.html">(A[6])</a>, outward pain is greater than interior sorrow.
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4524 </p>
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4525 <p id="FS_Q35_A7-p3">
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4526 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, the reality moves more than its likeness does. But outward pain arises from the real conjunction of some contrary;
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4527 whereas inward sorrow arises from the apprehended likeness of a contrary. Therefore outward pain is greater than inward sorrow.
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4528 </p>
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4529 <p id="FS_Q35_A7-p4">
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4530 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, a cause is known by its effect. But outward pain has more striking effects: since man dies sooner of outward pain
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4531 than of interior sorrow. Therefore outward pain is greater and is shunned more than interior sorrow.
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4532 </p>
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4533 <p id="FS_Q35_A7-p5">
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4534 <b>On the contrary,</b> it is written (
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4535 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q35_A7-p5.1" href="./asv.html#Sir.25.17" target="asv">Ecclus. 25:17</a>): "The sadness of the heart is every wound [Douay: 'plague'], and the wickedness of a woman is all evil." Therefore, just
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4536 as the wickedness of a woman surpasses all other wickedness, as the text implies; so sadness of the heart surpasses every
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4537 outward wound.
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4538 </p>
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4539 <p id="FS_Q35_A7-p6">
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4540 <b>I answer that,</b> Interior and exterior pain agree in one point and differ in two. They agree in this, that each is a movement of the appetitive
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4541 power, as stated above
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4542 <a id="FS_Q35_A7-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q35_A1.html">(A[1])</a>. But they differ in respect of those two things which are requisite for pain and pleasure; namely, in respect of the cause,
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4543 which is a conjoined good or evil; and in respect of the apprehension. For the cause of outward pain is a conjoined evil repugnant
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4544 to the body; while the
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4545 cause of inward pain is a conjoined evil repugnant to the appetite. Again, outward pain arises from an apprehension of sense,
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4546 chiefly of touch; while inward pain arises from an interior apprehension, of the imagination or of the reason.
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4547 </p>
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4548 <p id="FS_Q35_A7-p7"> If then we compare the cause of inward pain to the cause of outward pain, the former belongs, of itself, to the appetite
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4549 to which both these pains belong: while the latter belongs to the appetite directly. Because inward pain arises from something
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4550 being repugnant to the appetite itself, while outward pain arises from something being repugnant to the appetite, through
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4551 being repugnant to the body. Now, that which is of itself is always prior to that which is by reason of another.
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4552 Wherefore, from this point of view, inward pain surpasses outward pain. In like manner also on the part of apprehension: because
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4553 the apprehension of reason and imagination is of a higher order than the apprehension of the sense of touch. Consequently
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4554 inward pain is, simply and of itself, more keen than outward pain: a sign whereof is that one willingly undergoes outward
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4555 pain in order to avoid inward pain: and in so far as outward pain is not repugnant to the interior appetite, it becomes in
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4556 a
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4557 manner pleasant and agreeable by way of inward joy. Sometimes, however, outward pain is accompanied by inward pain, and then
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4558 the pain is increased. Because inward pain is not only greater than outward pain, it is also more universal: since whatever
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4559 is repugnant to the body, can be repugnant to the interior appetite; and whatever is apprehended by sense may be apprehended
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4560 by imagination and reason, but not conversely. Hence in the passage quoted above it is said expressively: "Sadness of the
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4561 heart is every wound," because even the pains of outward wounds are comprised in the interior sorrows of the heart.
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4562 </p>
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4563 <p id="FS_Q35_A7-p8">
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4564 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Inward pain can also arise from things that are destructive of life. And then the comparison of inward to outward pain must
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4565 not be taken in reference to the various evils that cause pain; but in regard to the various ways in which this cause of pain
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4566 is compared to the appetite.
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4567 </p>
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4568 <p id="FS_Q35_A7-p9">
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4569 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Inward pain is not caused by the apprehended likeness of a thing: for a man is not inwardly pained by the apprehended likeness
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4570 itself, but by the thing which the likeness represents. And this thing is all the more perfectly apprehended by means of its
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4571 likeness, as this likeness is more immaterial and abstract. Consequently inward pain is, of itself, greater, as being caused
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4572 by a greater evil, forasmuch as evil is better known by an inward
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4573 apprehension.
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4574 </p>
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4575 <p id="FS_Q35_A7-p10">
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4576 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Bodily changes are more liable to be caused by outward pain, both from the fact that outward pain is caused by a corruptive
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4577 conjoined corporally, which is a necessary condition of the sense of touch; and from the fact that the outward sense is more
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4578 material than the inward sense, just as the sensitive appetite is more material than the intellective. For this reason, as
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4579 stated above (
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4580 <a id="FS_Q35_A7-p10.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q22_A3.html">Q[22], A[3]</a>;
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4581 <a id="FS_Q35_A7-p10.2" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q31_A5.html"> Q[31],
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4582 A[5]
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4583 </a> ), the body undergoes a greater change from the movement of the sensitive appetite: and, in like manner, from outward than
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4584 from inward pain.
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4585 </p>
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4586 <p id="FS_Q35_A7-p11"></p>
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4587 <p id="FS_Q35_A7-p12"></p>
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4588 <a href="summa.FS_Q35_A6.html"></a>
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4589 <a href="summa.FS_Q35_A8.html"></a>
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4590 </div>
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4591 <div id="FS_Q35_A8" class="div4">
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4592 <a href="summa.FS_Q35_A7.html"></a>
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4593 <a href="summa.FS_Q36.html"></a>
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4594 <h4 id="FS_Q35_A8-p0.1">Whether there are only four species of sorrow?</h4>
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4595 <p id="FS_Q35_A8-p1"></p>
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4596 <p id="FS_Q35_A8-p2">
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4597 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that Damascene's (De Fide Orth. ii, 14) division of sorrow into four species is incorrect; viz. into "torpor,
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4598 distress," which Gregory of Nyssa [*Nemesius, De Nat. Hom. xix.] calls "anxiety,"---"pity," and "envy." For sorrow is contrary
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4599 to pleasure. But there are not several species of pleasure. Therefore it is incorrect to assign different species of sorrow.
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4600 </p>
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4601 <p id="FS_Q35_A8-p3">
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4602 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, "Repentance" is a species of sorrow; and so are "indignation" and "jealousy," as the Philosopher states (Rhet. ii,
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4603 9,11). But these are not included in the above species. Therefore this division is insufficient.
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4604 </p>
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4605 <p id="FS_Q35_A8-p4">
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4606 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, the members of a division should be things that are opposed to one another. But these species are not opposed to
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4607 one another. For according to Gregory [*Nemesius, De Nat. Hom. xix.] "torpor is sorrow depriving of speech; anxiety is the
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4608 sorrow that weighs down; envy is sorrow for another's good; pity is sorrow for another's wrongs." But it is possible for one
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4609 to sorrow for another's wrongs, and for another's good, and at the same time to be weighed
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4610 down inwardly, and outwardly to be speechless. Therefore this division is correct.
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4611 </p>
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4612 <p id="FS_Q35_A8-p5">
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4613 <b>On the contrary,</b> stands the twofold authority of Gregory of Nyssa [*Nemesius] and of Damascene.
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4614 </p>
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4615 <p id="FS_Q35_A8-p6">
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4616 <b>I answer that,</b> It belongs to the notion of a species that it is something added to the genus. But a thing can be added to a genus in two
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4617 ways. First, as something belonging of itself to the genus, and virtually contained therein: thus "rational" is added to "animal."
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4618 Such an addition makes true species of a genus: as the Philosopher says (Metaph. vii, 12; viii, 2,3). But, secondly, a thing
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4619 may be added to a genus, that is, as it were, foreign to the notion conveyed by that
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4620 genus: thus "white" or something of the kind may be added to "animal." Such an addition does not make true species of the
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4621 genus, according to the usual sense in which we speak of genera and species. But sometimes a thing is said to be a species
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4622 of a certain genus, through having something foreign to that genus indeed, but to which the notion of that genus is applicable:
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4623 thus a live coal or a flame is said to be a species of fire, because in each of them the nature of fire is applied to a
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4624 foreign matter. In like manner we speak of astronomy and perspective as being species of mathematics, inasmuch as the principles
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4625 of mathematics are applied to natural matter.
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4626 </p>
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4627 <p id="FS_Q35_A8-p7"> In accordance with this manner of speaking, the species of sorrow are reckoned by an application of the notion of sorrow
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4628 to something foreign to it. This foreign matter may be taken on the part of the cause or the object, or of the effect. For
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4629 the proper object of sorrow is "one's own evil." Hence sorrow may be concerned for an object foreign to it either through
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4630 one's being sorry for an evil that is not one's own; and thus we have "pity" which is sorrow for another's evil,
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4631 considered, however, as one's own: or through one's being sorry for something that is neither evil nor one's own, but another's
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4632 good, considered, however, as one's own evil: and thus we have "envy." The proper effect of sorrow consists in a certain "flight
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4633 of the appetite." Wherefore the foreign element in the effect of sorrow, may be taken so as to affect the first part only,
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4634 by excluding flight: and thus we have "anxiety" which weighs on the mind, so as to make escape seem impossible: hence
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4635 it is also called "perplexity." If, however, the mind be weighed down so much, that even the limbs become motionless, which
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4636 belongs to "torpor," then we have the foreign element affecting both, since there is neither flight, nor is the effect in
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4637 the appetite. And the reason why torpor especially is said to deprive one of speech is because of all the external movements
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4638 the voice is the best expression of the inward thought and desire, not only in men, but also in other animals, as is stated
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4639 in
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4640 Polit. i, 1.
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4641 </p>
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4642 <p id="FS_Q35_A8-p8">
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4643 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Pleasure is caused by good, which has only one meaning: and so pleasure is not divided into several species as sorrow is;
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4644 for the latter is caused by evil, which "happens in many ways," as Dionysius says (Div. Nom. iv).
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4645 </p>
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4646 <p id="FS_Q35_A8-p9">
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4647 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Repentance is for one's own evil, which is the proper object of sorrow: wherefore it does not belong to these species. Jealousy
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4648 and indignation are included in envy, as we shall explain later (
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4649 <a id="FS_Q35_A8-p9.1" shape="rect" href="summa.SS_Q36_A2.html">SS, Q[36], A[2]</a>).
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4650 </p>
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4651 <p id="FS_Q35_A8-p10">
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4652 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> This division is not according to opposite species; but according to the diversity of foreign matter to which the notion
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4653 of sorrow is applied, as stated above.
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4654 </p>
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4655 <p id="FS_Q35_A8-p11"></p>
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4656 <p id="FS_Q35_A8-p12"></p>
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4657 <a href="summa.FS_Q35_A7.html"></a>
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4658 <a href="summa.FS_Q36.html"></a>
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4659 </div>
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4660 <a href="summa.FS_Q34_A4.html"></a>
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4661 <a href="summa.FS_Q35_A1.html"></a>
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4662 </div>
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4663 <div id="FS_Q36" class="div3">
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4664 <a href="summa.FS_Q35_A8.html"></a>
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4665 <a href="summa.FS_Q36_A1.html"></a>
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4666 <h3 id="FS_Q36-p0.1">OF THE CAUSES OF SORROW OR PAIN (FOUR ARTICLES)</h3>
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4667 <p id="FS_Q36-p1"></p>
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4668 <p id="FS_Q36-p2"> We must now consider the causes of sorrow: under which head there are four points of inquiry:</p>
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4669 <p id="FS_Q36-p3"> (1) Whether sorrow is caused by the loss of a good or rather by the presence of an evil?</p>
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4670 <p id="FS_Q36-p4"> (2) Whether desire is a cause of sorrow?</p>
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4671 <p id="FS_Q36-p5"> (3) Whether the craving for unity is a cause of sorrow?</p>
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4672 <p id="FS_Q36-p6"> (4) Whether an irresistible power is a cause of sorrow?</p>
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4673 <div id="FS_Q36_A1" class="div4">
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4674 <a href="summa.FS_Q36.html"></a>
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4675 <a href="summa.FS_Q36_A2.html"></a>
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4676 <h4 id="FS_Q36_A1-p0.1">Whether sorrow is caused by the loss of good or by the presence of evil?</h4>
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4677 <p id="FS_Q36_A1-p1"></p>
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4678 <p id="FS_Q36_A1-p2">
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4679 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that sorrow is caused by the loss of a good rather than by the presence of an evil. For Augustine says (De
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4680 viii QQ. Dulcit. qu. 1) that sorrow is caused by the loss of temporal goods. Therefore, in like manner, every sorrow is caused
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4681 by the loss of some good.
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4682 </p>
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4683 <p id="FS_Q36_A1-p3">
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4684 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, it was said above (
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4685 <a id="FS_Q36_A1-p3.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q35_A4.html">Q[35], A[4]</a>) that the sorrow which is contrary to a pleasure, has the same object as that pleasure. But the object of pleasure is good,
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4686 as stated above (
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4687 <a id="FS_Q36_A1-p3.2" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q23_A4.html">Q[23], A[4]</a>;
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4688 <a id="FS_Q36_A1-p3.3" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q31_A1.html"> Q[31], A[1]</a>;
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4689 <a id="FS_Q36_A1-p3.4" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q35_A3.html"> Q[35], A[3]</a>). Therefore sorrow is caused chiefly by the loss of good.
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4690 </p>
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4691 <p id="FS_Q36_A1-p4">
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4692 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, according to Augustine (De Civ. Dei xiv, 7,9), love is the cause of sorrow, as of the other emotions of the soul.
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4693 But the object of love is good. Therefore pain or sorrow is felt for the loss of good rather than for an evil that is present.
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4694 </p>
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4695 <p id="FS_Q36_A1-p5">
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4696 <b>On the contrary,</b> Damascene says (De Fide Orth. ii, 12) that "the dreaded evil gives rise to fear, the present evil is the cause of sorrow."
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4697 </p>
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4698 <p id="FS_Q36_A1-p6">
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4699 <b>I answer that,</b> If privations, as considered by the mind, were what they are in reality, this question would seem to be of no importance.
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4700 For, as stated in the
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4701 <a id="FS_Q36_A1-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FP_Q14_A10.html">FP, Q[14], A[10]</a> and
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4702 <a id="FS_Q36_A1-p6.2" shape="rect" href="summa.FP_Q48_A3.html">FP, Q[48], A[3]</a>, evil is the privation of good: and privation is in reality nothing else than the lack of the contrary habit; so that, in
|
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4703 this respect, to sorrow for the loss of good, would be the same as to sorrow for the presence of evil. But
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4704 sorrow is a movement of the appetite in consequence of an apprehension: and even a privation, as apprehended, has the aspect
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4705 of a being, wherefore it is called "a being of reason." And in this way evil, being a privation, is regarded as a "contrary."
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4706 Accordingly, so far as the movement of the appetite is concerned, it makes a difference which of the two it regards chiefly,
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4707 the present evil or the good which is lost.
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4708 </p>
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4709 <p id="FS_Q36_A1-p7"> Again, since the movement of the animal appetite holds the same place in the actions of the soul, as natural movement in
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4710 natural things; the truth of the matter is to be found by considering natural movements. For if, in natural movements, we
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4711 observe those of approach and withdrawal, approach is of itself directed to something suitable to nature; while withdrawal
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4712 is of itself directed to something contrary to nature; thus a heavy body, of itself, withdraws from a higher place,
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4713 and approaches naturally to a lower place. But if we consider the cause of both these movements, viz. gravity, then gravity
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4714 itself inclines towards the lower place more than it withdraws from the higher place, since withdrawal from the latter is
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4715 the reason for its downward tendency.
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4716 </p>
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4717 <p id="FS_Q36_A1-p8"> Accordingly, since, in the movements of the appetite, sorrow is a kind of flight or withdrawal, while pleasure is a kind
|
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4718 of pursuit or approach; just as pleasure regards first the good possessed, as its proper object, so sorrow regards the evil
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4719 that is present. On the other hand love, which is the cause of pleasure and sorrow, regards good rather than evil: and therefore,
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4720 forasmuch as the object is the cause of a passion, the present evil is more properly the cause of sorrow or
|
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4721 pain, than the good which is lost.
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4722 </p>
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4723 <p id="FS_Q36_A1-p9">
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4724 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> The loss itself of good is apprehended as an evil, just as the loss of evil is apprehended as a good: and in this sense Augustine
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4725 says that pain results from the loss of temporal goods.
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4726 </p>
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4727 <p id="FS_Q36_A1-p10">
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4728 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Pleasure and its contrary pain have the same object, but under contrary aspects: because if the presence of a particular
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4729 thin be the object of pleasure, the absence of that same thing is the object of sorrow. Now one contrary includes the privation
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4730 of the other, as stated in Metaph. x, 4: and consequently sorrow in respect of one contrary is, in a way, directed to the
|
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4731 same thing under a contrary aspect.
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4732 </p>
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4733 <p id="FS_Q36_A1-p11">
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4734 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> When many movements arise from one cause, it does not follow that they all regard chiefly that which the cause regards chiefly,
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4735 but only the first of them. And each of the others regards chiefly that which is suitable to it according to its own nature.
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4736 </p>
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4737 <p id="FS_Q36_A1-p12"></p>
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4738 <p id="FS_Q36_A1-p13"></p>
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4739 <a href="summa.FS_Q36.html"></a>
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4740 <a href="summa.FS_Q36_A2.html"></a>
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4741 </div>
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4742 <div id="FS_Q36_A2" class="div4">
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4743 <a href="summa.FS_Q36_A1.html"></a>
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4744 <a href="summa.FS_Q36_A3.html"></a>
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4745 <h4 id="FS_Q36_A2-p0.1">Whether desire is a cause of sorrow?</h4>
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4746 <p id="FS_Q36_A2-p1"></p>
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4747 <p id="FS_Q36_A2-p2">
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4748 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that desire is not a cause of pain or sorrow. Because sorrow of itself regards evil, as stated above
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4749 <a id="FS_Q36_A2-p2.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q36_A1.html">(A[1])</a>: whereas desire is a movement of the appetite towards good. Now movement towards one contrary is not a cause of movement
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4750 towards the other contrary. Therefore desire is not a cause of pain.
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4751 </p>
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4752 <p id="FS_Q36_A2-p3">
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4753 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, pain, according to Damascene (De Fide Orth. ii, 12), is caused by something present; whereas the object of desire
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4754 is something future. Therefore desire is not a cause of pain.
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4755 </p>
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4756 <p id="FS_Q36_A2-p4">
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4757 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, that which is pleasant in itself is not a cause of pain. But desire is pleasant in itself, as the Philosopher says
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4758 (Rhet. i, 11). Therefore desire is not a cause of pain or sorrow.
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4759 </p>
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4760 <p id="FS_Q36_A2-p5">
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4761 <b>On the contrary,</b> Augustine says (Enchiridion xxiv): "When ignorance of things necessary to be done, and desire of things hurtful, found their
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4762 way in: error and pain stole an entrance in their company." But ignorance is the cause of error. Therefore desire is a cause
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4763 of sorrow.
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4764 </p>
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4765 <p id="FS_Q36_A2-p6">
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4766 <b>I answer that,</b> Sorrow is a movement of the animal appetite. Now, as stated above
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4767 <a id="FS_Q36_A2-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q36_A1.html">(A[1])</a>, the appetitive movement is likened to the natural appetite; a likeness, that may be assigned to a twofold cause; one, on
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4768 the part of the end, the other, on the part of the principle of movement. Thus, on the part of the end, the cause of a heavy
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4769 body's downward movement is the lower place; while the principle of that movement is a natural inclination resulting
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4770 from gravity.
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4771 </p>
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4772 <p id="FS_Q36_A2-p7"> Now the cause of the appetitive movement, on the part of the end, is the object of that movement. And thus, it has been said
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4773 above
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4774 <a id="FS_Q36_A2-p7.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q36_A1.html">(A[1])</a> that the cause of pain or sorrow is a present evil. On the other hand, the cause, by way or principle, of that movement,
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4775 is the inward inclination of the appetite; which inclination regards, first of all, the good, and in consequence, the rejection
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4776 of a contrary evil. Hence the first principle of this appetitive
|
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4777 movement is love, which is the first inclination of the appetite towards the possession of good: while the second principle
|
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4778 is hatred, which is the first inclination of the appetite towards the avoidance of evil. But since concupiscence or desire
|
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4779 is the first effect of love, which gives rise to the greatest pleasure, as stated above (Q[32], A[6]); hence it is that Augustine
|
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4780 often speaks of desire or concupiscence in the sense of love, as was also stated (Q[30], A[2], ad 2): and in this sense he
|
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4781 says that desire is the universal cause of sorrow. Sometimes, however, desire taken in its proper sense, is the cause of sorrow.
|
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4782 Because whatever hinders a movement from reaching its end is contrary to that movement. Now that which is contrary to the
|
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4783 movement of the appetite, is a cause of sorrow. Consequently, desire becomes a cause of sorrow, in so far as we sorrow for
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4784 the delay of a desired good, or for its entire removal. But it cannot be a universal cause of sorrow: since we sorrow more
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4785 for the loss of present good, in which we have already taken pleasure, than for the withdrawal of future good which we desire
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4786 to have.
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4787 </p>
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4788 <p id="FS_Q36_A2-p8">
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4789 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> The inclination of the appetite to the possession of good causes the inclination of the appetite to fly from evil, as stated
|
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4790 above. And hence it is that the appetitive movements that regard good, are reckoned as causing the appetitive movements that
|
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4791 regard evil.
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4792 </p>
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4793 <p id="FS_Q36_A2-p9">
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4794 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> That which is desired, though really future, is, nevertheless, in a way, present, inasmuch as it is hoped for. Or we may
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4795 say that although the desired good itself is future, yet the hindrance is reckoned as present, and so gives rise to sorrow.
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4796 </p>
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4797 <p id="FS_Q36_A2-p10">
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4798 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Desire gives pleasure, so long as there is hope of obtaining that which is desired. But, when hope is removed through the
|
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4799 presence of an obstacle, desire causes sorrow.
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4800 </p>
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4801 <p id="FS_Q36_A2-p11"></p>
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4802 <p id="FS_Q36_A2-p12"></p>
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4803 <a href="summa.FS_Q36_A1.html"></a>
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4804 <a href="summa.FS_Q36_A3.html"></a>
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4805 </div>
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4806 <div id="FS_Q36_A3" class="div4">
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4807 <a href="summa.FS_Q36_A2.html"></a>
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4808 <a href="summa.FS_Q36_A4.html"></a>
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4809 <h4 id="FS_Q36_A3-p0.1">Whether the craving for unity is a cause of sorrow?</h4>
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4810 <p id="FS_Q36_A3-p1"></p>
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4811 <p id="FS_Q36_A3-p2">
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4812 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that the craving for unity is not a cause of sorrow. For the Philosopher says (Ethic. x, 3) that "this opinion,"
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4813 which held repletion to be the cause of pleasure, and division [*Aristotle wrote {endeian}, 'want'; St. Thomas, in the Latin
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4814 version, read 'incisionem'; should he have read 'indigentiam'?], the cause of sorrow, "seems to have originated in pains and
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4815 pleasures connected with food." But not every pleasure or sorrow is of this kind.
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4816 Therefore the craving for unity is not the universal cause of sorrow; since repletion pertains to unity, and division is the
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4817 cause of multitude.
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4818 </p>
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4819 <p id="FS_Q36_A3-p3">
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4820 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, every separation is opposed to unity. If therefore sorrow were caused by a craving for unity, no separation would
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4821 be pleasant: and this is clearly untrue as regards the separation of whatever is superfluous.
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4822 </p>
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4823 <p id="FS_Q36_A3-p4">
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4824 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, for the same reason we desire the conjunction of good and the removal of evil. But as conjunction regards unity,
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4825 since it is a kind of union; so separation is contrary to unity. Therefore the craving for unity should not be reckoned, rather
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4826 than the craving for separation, as causing sorrow.
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4827 </p>
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4828 <p id="FS_Q36_A3-p5">
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4829 <b>On the contrary,</b> Augustine says (De Lib. Arb. iii, 23), that "from the pain that dumb animals feel, it is quite evident how their souls desire
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4830 unity, in ruling and quickening their bodies. For what else is pain but a feeling of impatience of division or corruption?"
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4831 </p>
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4832 <p id="FS_Q36_A3-p6">
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4833 <b>I answer that,</b> Forasmuch as the desire or craving for good is reckoned as a cause of sorrow, so must a craving for unity, and love, be accounted
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4834 as causing sorrow. Because the good of each thing consists in a certain unity, inasmuch as each thing has, united in itself,
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4835 the elements of which its perfection consists: wherefore the Platonists held that "one" is a principle, just as "good" is.
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4836 Hence everything naturally desires unity, just as it desires goodness: and
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4837 therefore, just as love or desire for good is a cause of sorrow, so also is the love or craving for unity.
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4838 </p>
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4839 <p id="FS_Q36_A3-p7">
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4840 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Not every kind of union causes perfect goodness, but only that on which the perfect being of a thing depends. Hence neither
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4841 does the desire of any kind of unity cause pain or sorrow, as some have maintained: whose opinion is refuted by the Philosopher
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4842 from the fact that repletion is not always pleasant; for instance, when a man has eaten to repletion, he takes no further
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4843 pleasure in eating; because repletion or union of this kind, is repugnant rather
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4844 than conducive to perfect being. Consequently sorrow is caused by the craving, not for any kind of unity, but for that unity
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4845 in which the perfection of nature consists.
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4846 </p>
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4847 <p id="FS_Q36_A3-p8">
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4848 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Separation can be pleasant, either because it removes something contrary to a thing's perfection, or because it has some
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4849 union connected with it, such as union of the sense to its object.
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4850 </p>
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4851 <p id="FS_Q36_A3-p9">
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4852 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Separation from things hurtful and corruptive is desired, in so far as they destroy the unity which is due. Wherefore the
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4853 desire for such like separation is not the first cause of sorrow, whereas the craving for unity is.
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4854 </p>
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4855 <p id="FS_Q36_A3-p10"></p>
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4856 <p id="FS_Q36_A3-p11"></p>
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4857 <a href="summa.FS_Q36_A2.html"></a>
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4858 <a href="summa.FS_Q36_A4.html"></a>
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4859 </div>
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4860 <div id="FS_Q36_A4" class="div4">
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4861 <a href="summa.FS_Q36_A3.html"></a>
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4862 <a href="summa.FS_Q37.html"></a>
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4863 <h4 id="FS_Q36_A4-p0.1">Whether an irresistible power is a cause of sorrow?</h4>
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4864 <p id="FS_Q36_A4-p1"></p>
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4865 <p id="FS_Q36_A4-p2">
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4866 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that a greater power should not be reckoned a cause of sorrow. For that which is in the power of the agent
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4867 is not present but future. But sorrow is for present evil. Therefore a greater power is not a cause of sorrow.
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4868 </p>
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4869 <p id="FS_Q36_A4-p3">
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4870 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, hurt inflicted is the cause of sorrow. But hurt can be inflicted even by a lesser power. Therefore a greater power
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4871 should not be reckoned as a cause of sorrow.
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4872 </p>
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4873 <p id="FS_Q36_A4-p4">
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4874 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, the interior inclinations of the soul are the causes of the movements of appetite. But a greater power is something
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4875 external. Therefore it should not be reckoned as a cause of sorrow.
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4876 </p>
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4877 <p id="FS_Q36_A4-p5">
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4878 <b>On the contrary,</b> Augustine says (De Nat. Boni xx): "Sorrow in the soul is caused by the will resisting a stronger power: while pain in the
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4879 body is caused by sense resisting a stronger body."
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4880 </p>
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4881 <p id="FS_Q36_A4-p6">
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4882 <b>I answer that,</b> As stated above
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4883 <a id="FS_Q36_A4-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q36_A1.html">(A[1])</a>, a present evil, is cause of sorrow or pain, by way of object. Therefore that which is the cause of the evil being present,
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4884 should be reckoned as causing pain or sorrow. Now it is evident that it is contrary to the inclination of the appetite to
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4885 be united with a present evil: and whatever is contrary to a thing's inclination does not happen to it save by the action
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4886 of something stronger. Wherefore Augustine
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4887 reckons a greater power as being the cause of sorrow.
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4888 </p>
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4889 <p id="FS_Q36_A4-p7"> But it must be noted that if the stronger power goes so far as to transform the contrary inclination into its own inclination
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4890 there will be no longer repugnance or violence: thus if a stronger agent, by its action on a heavy body, deprives it of its
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4891 downward tendency, its consequent upward tendency is not violent but natural to it.
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4892 </p>
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4893 <p id="FS_Q36_A4-p8"> Accordingly if some greater power prevail so far as to take away from the will or the sensitive appetite, their respective
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4894 inclinations, pain or sorrow will not result therefrom; such is the result only when the contrary inclination of the appetite
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4895 remains. And hence Augustine says (De Nat. Boni xx) that sorrow is caused by the will "resisting a stronger power": for were
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4896 it not to resist, but to yield by consenting, the result would be not sorrow but pleasure.
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4897 </p>
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4898 <p id="FS_Q36_A4-p9">
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4899 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> A greater power causes sorrow, as acting not potentially but actually, i.e. by causing the actual presence of the corruptive
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4900 evil.
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4901 </p>
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4902 <p id="FS_Q36_A4-p10">
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4903 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Nothing hinders a power which is not simply greater, from being greater in some respect: and accordingly it is able to inflict
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4904 some harm. But if it be nowise stronger, it can do no harm at all: wherefore it cannot bring about that which causes sorrow.
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4905 </p>
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4906 <p id="FS_Q36_A4-p11">
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4907 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> External agents can be the causes of appetitive movements, in so far as they cause the presence of the object: and it is
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4908 thus that a greater power is reckoned to be the cause of sorrow.
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4909 </p>
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4910 <p id="FS_Q36_A4-p12"></p>
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4911 <p id="FS_Q36_A4-p13"></p>
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4912 <a href="summa.FS_Q36_A3.html"></a>
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4913 <a href="summa.FS_Q37.html"></a>
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4914 </div>
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4915 <a href="summa.FS_Q35_A8.html"></a>
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4916 <a href="summa.FS_Q36_A1.html"></a>
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4917 </div>
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4918 <div id="FS_Q37" class="div3">
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4919 <a href="summa.FS_Q36_A4.html"></a>
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4920 <a href="summa.FS_Q37_A1.html"></a>
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4921 <h3 id="FS_Q37-p0.1">OF THE EFFECTS OF PAIN OR SORROW (FOUR ARTICLES)</h3>
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4922 <p id="FS_Q37-p1"></p>
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4923 <p id="FS_Q37-p2"> We must now consider the effects of pain or of sorrow: under which head there are four points of inquiry:</p>
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4924 <p id="FS_Q37-p3"> (1) Whether pain deprives one of the power to learn?</p>
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4925 <p id="FS_Q37-p4"> (2) Whether the effect of sorrow or pain is to burden the soul?</p>
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4926 <p id="FS_Q37-p5"> (3) Whether sorrow or pain weakens all activity?</p>
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4927 <p id="FS_Q37-p6"> (4) Whether sorrow is more harmful to the body than all the other passions of the soul?</p>
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4928 <div id="FS_Q37_A1" class="div4">
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4929 <a href="summa.FS_Q37.html"></a>
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4930 <a href="summa.FS_Q37_A2.html"></a>
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4931 <h4 id="FS_Q37_A1-p0.1">Whether pain deprives one of the power to learn?</h4>
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4932 <p id="FS_Q37_A1-p1"></p>
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4933 <p id="FS_Q37_A1-p2">
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4934 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that pain does not deprive one of the power to learn. For it is written (
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4935 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q37_A1-p2.1" href="./asv.html#Isa.26.9" target="asv">Is. 26:9</a>): "When Thou shalt do Thy judgments on the earth, the inhabitants of the world shall learn justice": and further on (verse
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4936 16): "In the tribulation of murmuring Thy instruction was with them." But the judgments of God and tribulation cause sorrow
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4937 in men's hearts. Therefore pain or sorrow, far from destroying, increases the power of learning.
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4938 </p>
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4939 <p id="FS_Q37_A1-p3">
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4940 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, it is written (
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4941 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q37_A1-p3.1" href="./asv.html#Isa.28.9" target="asv">Is. 28:9</a>): "Whom shall He teach knowledge? And whom shall He make to understand the hearing? Them that are weaned from the milk, that
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4942 are drawn away from the breasts," i.e. from pleasures. But pain and sorrow are most destructive of pleasure; since sorrow
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4943 hinders all pleasure, as stated in Ethic. vii, 14: and (
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4944 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q37_A1-p3.2" href="./asv.html#Sir.11.29" target="asv">Ecclus. 11:29</a>) it is stated that "the affliction of an hour maketh one forget great
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4945 delights." Therefore pain, instead of taking away, increases the faculty of learning.
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4946 </p>
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4947 <p id="FS_Q37_A1-p4">
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4948 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, inward sorrow surpasses outward pain, as stated above (
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4949 <a id="FS_Q37_A1-p4.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q35_A7.html">Q[35], A[7]</a>). But man can learn while sorrowful. Much more, therefore, can he learn while in bodily pain.
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4950 </p>
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4951 <p id="FS_Q37_A1-p5">
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4952 <b>On the contrary,</b> Augustine says (Soliloq. i, 12): "Although during those days I was tormented with a violent tooth-ache, I was not able to
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4953 turn over in my mind other things than those I had already learnt; and as to learning anything, I was quite unequal to it,
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4954 because it required undivided attention."
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4955 </p>
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4956 <p id="FS_Q37_A1-p6">
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4957 <b>I answer that,</b> Since all the powers of the soul are rooted in the one essence of the soul, it must needs happen, when the intention of the
|
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4958 soul is strongly drawn towards the action of one power, that it is withdrawn from the action of another power: because the
|
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4959 soul, being one, can only have one intention. The result is that if one thing draws upon itself the entire intention of the
|
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4960 soul, or a great portion thereof, anything else requiring considerable attention is
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4961 incompatible therewith.
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4962 </p>
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4963 <p id="FS_Q37_A1-p7"> Now it is evident that sensible pain above all draws the soul's attention to itself; because it is natural for each thing
|
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4964 to tend wholly to repel whatever is contrary to it, as may be observed even in natural things. It is likewise evident that
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4965 in order to learn anything new, we require study and effort with a strong intention, as is clearly stated in
|
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|
4966 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q37_A1-p7.1" href="./asv.html#Prov.2.4" target="asv"> Prov. 2:4,5</a>: "If thou shalt seek wisdom as money, and shall dig for her as for a treasure, then shalt thou
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4967 understand learning" [Vulg: 'the fear of the Lord']. Consequently if the pain be acute, man is prevented at the time from
|
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4968 learning anything: indeed it can be so acute, that, as long as it lasts, a man is unable to give his attention even to that
|
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4969 which he knew already. However a difference is to be observed according to the difference of love that a man has for learning
|
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4970 or for considering: because the greater his love, the more will he retain the intention of his mind so as to prevent it from
|
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4971 turning entirely to the pain.
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4972 </p>
|
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4973 <p id="FS_Q37_A1-p8">
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4974 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Moderate sorrow, that does not cause the mind to wander, can conduce to the acquisition of learning especially in regard
|
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4975 to those things by which a man hopes to be freed from sorrow. And thus, "in the tribulation of murmuring," men are more apt
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4976 to be taught by God.
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4977 </p>
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4978 <p id="FS_Q37_A1-p9">
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4979 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Both pleasure and pain, in so far as they draw upon themselves the soul's intention, hinder the reason from the act of consideration,
|
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|
4980 wherefore it is stated in Ethic. vii, 11 that "in the moment of sexual pleasure, a man cannot understand anything." Nevertheless
|
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4981 pain attracts the soul's intention more than pleasure does: thus we observe in natural things that the action of a natural
|
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|
4982 body is more intense in regard to its contrary; for instance, hot
|
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|
4983 water is more accessible to the action of cold, and in consequence freezes harder. If therefore pain or sorrow be moderate,
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4984 it can conduce accidentally to the facility of learning, in so far as it takes away an excess of pleasure. But, of itself,
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4985 it is a hindrance; and if it be intense, it prevents it altogether.
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4986 </p>
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4987 <p id="FS_Q37_A1-p10">
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|
4988 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> External pain arises from hurt done to the body, so that it involves bodily transmutation more than inward sorrow does: and
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4989 yet the latter is greater in regard to the formal element of pain, which belongs to the soul. Consequently bodily pain is
|
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4990 a greater hindrance to contemplation which requires complete repose, than inward sorrow is. Nevertheless if inward sorrow
|
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4991 be very intense, it attracts the intention, so that man is unable to learn anything for
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4992 the first time: wherefore on account of sorrow Gregory interrupted his commentary on Ezechiel (Hom. xxii in Ezechiel).
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4993 </p>
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4994 <p id="FS_Q37_A1-p11"></p>
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4995 <p id="FS_Q37_A1-p12"></p>
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4996 <a href="summa.FS_Q37.html"></a>
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4997 <a href="summa.FS_Q37_A2.html"></a>
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4998 </div>
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4999 <div id="FS_Q37_A2" class="div4">
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5000 <a href="summa.FS_Q37_A1.html"></a>
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5001 <a href="summa.FS_Q37_A3.html"></a>
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5002 <h4 id="FS_Q37_A2-p0.1">Whether the effect of sorrow or pain is to burden the soul?</h4>
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5003 <p id="FS_Q37_A2-p1"></p>
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5004 <p id="FS_Q37_A2-p2">
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5005 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that it is not an effect of sorrow to burden the soul. For the Apostle says (
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5006 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q37_A2-p2.1" href="./asv.html#iiCor.7.11" target="asv">2 Cor. 7:11</a>): "Behold this self-same thing, that you were made sorrowful according to God, how great carefulness it worketh in you: yea,
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5007 defence, yea indignation," etc. Now carefulness and indignation imply that the soul is uplifted, which is contrary to being
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5008 depressed. Therefore depression is not an effect of sorrow.
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5009 </p>
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5010 <p id="FS_Q37_A2-p3">
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|
5011 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, sorrow is contrary to pleasure. But the effect of pleasure is expansion: the opposite of which is not depression
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5012 but contraction. Therefore depression should not be reckoned as an effect of sorrow.
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5013 </p>
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5014 <p id="FS_Q37_A2-p4">
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5015 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, sorrow consumes those who are inflicted therewith, as may be gathered from the words of the Apostle (
|
|
|
5016 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q37_A2-p4.1" href="./asv.html#iiCor.2.7" target="asv">2 Cor. 2:7</a>): "Lest perhaps such an one be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow." But that which is depressed is not consumed; nay, it is
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5017 weighed down by something heavy, whereas that which is consumed enters within the consumer. Therefore depression should not
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5018 be reckoned an effect of sorrow.
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5019 </p>
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5020 <p id="FS_Q37_A2-p5">
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5021 <b>On the contrary,</b> Gregory of Nyssa [*Nemesius, De Nat. Hom. xix.] and Damascene (De Fide Orth. ii, 14) speak of "depressing sorrow."
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5022 </p>
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5023 <p id="FS_Q37_A2-p6">
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5024 <b>I answer that,</b> The effects of the soul's passions are sometimes named metaphorically, from a likeness to sensible bodies: for the reason
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5025 that the movements of the animal appetite are like the inclinations of the natural appetite. And in this way fervor is ascribed
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5026 to love, expansion to pleasure, and depression to sorrow. For a man is said to be depressed, through being hindered in his
|
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5027 own movement by some weight. Now it is evident from what has been said above (
|
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5028 <a id="FS_Q37_A2-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q23_A4.html">Q[23], A[4]</a>;
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5029 <a id="FS_Q37_A2-p6.2" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q25_A4.html"> Q[25], A[4]</a>;
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5030 <a id="FS_Q37_A2-p6.3" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q36_A1.html"> Q[36], A[1]</a>) that sorrow is caused by a present evil: and this evil, from the very fact that it is repugnant to the movement of the will,
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5031 depresses the soul, inasmuch as it hinders it from enjoying that which it wishes to enjoy. And if the evil which is the cause
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5032 of sorrow be not so strong as to deprive one of the hope of avoiding it, although the soul be depressed in so far as, for
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5033 the present, it
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5034 fails to grasp that which it craves for; yet it retains the movement whereby to repulse that evil. If, on the other hand,
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5035 the strength of the evil be such as to exclude the hope of evasion, then even the interior movement of the afflicted soul
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5036 is absolutely hindered, so that it cannot turn aside either this way or that. Sometimes even the external movement of the
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5037 body is paralyzed, so that a man becomes completely stupefied.
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5038 </p>
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5039 <p id="FS_Q37_A2-p7">
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5040 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> That uplifting of the soul ensues from the sorrow which is according to God, because it brings with it the hope of the forgiveness
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5041 of sin.
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5042 </p>
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5043 <p id="FS_Q37_A2-p8">
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5044 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> As far as the movement of the appetite is concerned, contraction and depression amount to the same: because the soul, through
|
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5045 being depressed so as to be unable to attend freely to outward things, withdraws to itself, closing itself up as it were.
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5046 </p>
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5047 <p id="FS_Q37_A2-p9">
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5048 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Sorrow is said to consume man, when the force of the afflicting evil is such as to shut out all hope of evasion: and thus
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5049 also it both depresses and consumes at the same time. For certain things, taken metaphorically, imply one another, which taken
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5050 literally, appear to exclude one another.
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5051 </p>
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5052 <p id="FS_Q37_A2-p10"></p>
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5053 <p id="FS_Q37_A2-p11"></p>
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5054 <a href="summa.FS_Q37_A1.html"></a>
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5055 <a href="summa.FS_Q37_A3.html"></a>
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5056 </div>
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5057 <div id="FS_Q37_A3" class="div4">
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5058 <a href="summa.FS_Q37_A2.html"></a>
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5059 <a href="summa.FS_Q37_A4.html"></a>
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5060 <h4 id="FS_Q37_A3-p0.1">Whether sorrow or pain weakens all activity?</h4>
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5061 <p id="FS_Q37_A3-p1"></p>
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5062 <p id="FS_Q37_A3-p2">
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5063 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that sorrow does not weaken all activity. Because carefulness is caused by sorrow, as is clear from the passage
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5064 of the Apostle quoted above (A[2], OBJ[1]). But carefulness conduces to good work: wherefore the Apostle says (
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5065 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q37_A3-p2.1" href="./asv.html#iiTim.2.15" target="asv">2 Tim. 2:15</a>): "Carefully study to present thyself . . . a workman that needeth not to be ashamed." Therefore sorrow is not a hindrance
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5066 to work, but helps one to work well.
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5067 </p>
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5068 <p id="FS_Q37_A3-p3">
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5069 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, sorrow causes desire in many cases, as stated in Ethic. vii, 14. But desire causes intensity of action. Therefore
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5070 sorrow does too.
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5071 </p>
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5072 <p id="FS_Q37_A3-p4">
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5073 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, as some actions are proper to the joyful, so are others proper to the sorrowful; for instance, to mourn. Now a thing
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5074 is improved by that which is suitable to it. Therefore certain actions are not hindered but improved by reason of sorrow.
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5075 </p>
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5076 <p id="FS_Q37_A3-p5">
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5077 <b>On the contrary,</b> The Philosopher says (Ethic. x, 4) that "pleasure perfects action," whereas on the other hand, "sorrow hinders it" (Ethic.
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5078 x, 5).
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5079 </p>
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5080 <p id="FS_Q37_A3-p6">
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5081 <b>I answer that,</b> As stated above
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5082 <a id="FS_Q37_A3-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q37_A2.html">(A[2])</a>, sorrow at times does not depress or consume the soul, so as to shut out all movement, internal or external; but certain
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5083 movements are sometimes caused by sorrow itself. Accordingly action stands in a twofold relation to sorrow. First, as being
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5084 the object of sorrow: and thus sorrow hinders any action: for we never do that which we do with sorrow, so well as that which
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5085 we do with pleasure, or without sorrow. The
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5086 reason for this is that the will is the cause of human actions: and consequently when we do something that gives pain, the
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5087 action must of necessity be weakened in consequence. Secondly, action stands in relation to sorrow, as to its principle and
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5088 cause: and such action must needs be improved by sorrow: thus the more one sorrows on account of a certain thing, the more
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5089 one strives to shake off sorrow, provided there is a hope of shaking it off: otherwise no movement or action would result
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5090 from
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5091 that sorrow.
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5092 </p>
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5093 <p id="FS_Q37_A3-p7"> From what has been said the replies to the objections are evident.</p>
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5094 <p id="FS_Q37_A3-p8"></p>
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5095 <p id="FS_Q37_A3-p9"></p>
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5096 <a href="summa.FS_Q37_A2.html"></a>
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5097 <a href="summa.FS_Q37_A4.html"></a>
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5098 </div>
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5099 <div id="FS_Q37_A4" class="div4">
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5100 <a href="summa.FS_Q37_A3.html"></a>
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5101 <a href="summa.FS_Q38.html"></a>
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5102 <h4 id="FS_Q37_A4-p0.1">Whether sorrow is more harmful to the body than the other passions of the soul?</h4>
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5103 <p id="FS_Q37_A4-p1"></p>
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5104 <p id="FS_Q37_A4-p2">
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5105 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that sorrow is not most harmful to the body. For sorrow has a spiritual existence in the soul. But those things
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5106 which have only a spiritual existence do not cause a transmutation in the body: as is evident with regard to the images of
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5107 colors, which images are in the air and do not give color to bodies. Therefore sorrow is not harmful to the body.
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5108 </p>
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5109 <p id="FS_Q37_A4-p3">
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5110 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further if it be harmful to the body, this can only be due to its having a bodily transmutation in conjunction with it. But
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5111 bodily transmutation takes place in all the passions of the soul, as stated above (
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5112 <a id="FS_Q37_A4-p3.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q22_A1.html">Q[22], AA[1]</a>,3). Therefore sorrow is not more harmful to the body than the other passions of the soul.
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5113 </p>
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5114 <p id="FS_Q37_A4-p4">
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5115 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, the Philosopher says (Ethic. vii, 3) that "anger and desire drive some to madness": which seems to be a very great
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5116 harm, since reason is the most excellent thing in man. Moreover, despair seems to be more harmful than sorrow; for it is the
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5117 cause of sorrow. Therefore sorrow is not more harmful to the body than the other passions of the soul.
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5118 </p>
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5119 <p id="FS_Q37_A4-p5">
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5120 <b>On the contrary,</b> It is written (
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5121 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q37_A4-p5.1" href="./asv.html#Prov.17.22" target="asv">Prov. 17:22</a>): "A joyful mind maketh age flourishing: a sorrowful spirit drieth up the bones": and (
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5122 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q37_A4-p5.2" href="./asv.html#Prov.25.20" target="asv">Prov. 25:20</a>): "As a moth doth by a garment, and a worm by the wood: so the sadness of a man consumeth the heart": and (
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5123 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q37_A4-p5.3" href="./asv.html#Sir.38.19" target="asv">Ecclus. 38:19</a>): "Of sadness cometh death."
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5124 </p>
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5125 <p id="FS_Q37_A4-p6">
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5126 <b>I answer that,</b> Of all the soul's passions, sorrow is most harmful to the body. The reason of this is because sorrow is repugnant to man's
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5127 life in respect of the species of its movement, and not merely in respect of its measure or quantity, as is the case with
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5128 the other passions of the soul. For man's life consists in a certain movement, which flows from the heart to the other parts
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5129 of the body: and this movement is befitting to human nature according to a certain fixed
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5130 measure. Consequently if this movement goes beyond the right measure, it will be repugnant to man's life in respect of the
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5131 measure of quantity; but not in respect of its specific character: whereas if this movement be hindered in its progress, it
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5132 will be repugnant to life in respect of its species.
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5133 </p>
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5134 <p id="FS_Q37_A4-p7"> Now it must be noted that, in all the passions of the soul, the bodily transmutation which is their material element, is
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5135 in conformity with and in proportion to the appetitive movement, which is the formal element: just as in everything matter
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5136 is proportionate to form. Consequently those passions that imply a movement of the appetite in pursuit of something, are not
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5137 repugnant to the vital movement as regards its species, but they may be repugnant thereto as regards its measure:
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5138 such are love, joy, desire and the like; wherefore these passions conduce to the well-being of the body; though, if they be
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5139 excessive, they may be harmful to it. On the other hand, those passions which denote in the appetite a movement of flight
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5140 or contraction, are repugnant to the vital movement, not only as regards its measure, but also as regards its species; wherefore
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5141 they are simply harmful: such are fear and despair, and above all sorrow which depresses the soul by reason of a present
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5142 evil, which makes a stronger impression than future evil.
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5143 </p>
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5144 <p id="FS_Q37_A4-p8">
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5145 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Since the soul naturally moves the body, the spiritual movement of the soul is naturally the cause of bodily transmutation.
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5146 Nor is there any parallel with spiritual images, because they are not naturally ordained to move such other bodies as are
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5147 not naturally moved by the soul.
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5148 </p>
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5149 <p id="FS_Q37_A4-p9">
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5150 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Other passions imply a bodily transmutation which is specifically in conformity with the vital movement: whereas sorrow implies
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5151 a transmutation that is repugnant thereto, as stated above.
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5152 </p>
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5153 <p id="FS_Q37_A4-p10">
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5154 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> A lesser cause suffices to hinder the use of reason, than to destroy life: since we observe that many ailments deprive one
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5155 of the use of reason, before depriving one of life. Nevertheless fear and anger cause very great harm to the body, by reason
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5156 of the sorrow which they imply, and which arises from the absence of the thing desired. Moreover sorrow too sometimes deprives
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5157 man of the use of reason: as may be seen in those who through sorrow become a
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5158 prey to melancholy or madness.
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5159 </p>
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5160 <p id="FS_Q37_A4-p11"></p>
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5161 <p id="FS_Q37_A4-p12"></p>
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5162 <a href="summa.FS_Q37_A3.html"></a>
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5163 <a href="summa.FS_Q38.html"></a>
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5164 </div>
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5165 <a href="summa.FS_Q36_A4.html"></a>
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5166 <a href="summa.FS_Q37_A1.html"></a>
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5167 </div>
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5168 <div id="FS_Q38" class="div3">
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5169 <a href="summa.FS_Q37_A4.html"></a>
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5170 <a href="summa.FS_Q38_A1.html"></a>
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5171 <h3 id="FS_Q38-p0.1">OF THE REMEDIES OF SORROW OR PAIN (FIVE ARTICLES)</h3>
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5172 <p id="FS_Q38-p1"></p>
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5173 <p id="FS_Q38-p2"> We must now consider the remedies of pain or sorrow: under which head there are five points of inquiry:</p>
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5174 <p id="FS_Q38-p3"> (1) Whether pain or sorrow is assuaged by every pleasure?</p>
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5175 <p id="FS_Q38-p4"> (2) Whether it is assuaged by weeping?</p>
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5176 <p id="FS_Q38-p5"> (3) Whether it is assuaged by the sympathy of friends?</p>
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5177 <p id="FS_Q38-p6"> (4) Whether it is assuaged by contemplating the truth?</p>
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5178 <p id="FS_Q38-p7"> (5) Whether it is assuaged by sleep and baths?</p>
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5179 <div id="FS_Q38_A1" class="div4">
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5180 <a href="summa.FS_Q38.html"></a>
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5181 <a href="summa.FS_Q38_A2.html"></a>
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5182 <h4 id="FS_Q38_A1-p0.1">Whether pain or sorrow is assuaged by every pleasure?</h4>
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5183 <p id="FS_Q38_A1-p1"></p>
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5184 <p id="FS_Q38_A1-p2">
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5185 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that not every pleasure assuages every pain or sorrow. For pleasure does not assuage sorrow, save in so far
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5186 as it is contrary to it: for "remedies work by contraries" (Ethic. ii, 3). But not every pleasure is contrary to every sorrow;
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5187 as stated above (
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5188 <a id="FS_Q38_A1-p2.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q35_A4.html">Q[35], A[4]</a> ). Therefore not every pleasure assuages every sorrow.
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5189 </p>
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5190 <p id="FS_Q38_A1-p3">
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5191 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, that which causes sorrow does not assuage it. But some pleasures cause sorrow; since, as stated in Ethic. ix, 4,
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5192 "the wicked man feels pain at having been pleased." Therefore not every pleasure assuages sorrow.
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5193 </p>
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5194 <p id="FS_Q38_A1-p4">
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5195 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, Augustine says (Confess. iv, 7) that he fled from his country, where he had been wont to associate with his friend,
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5196 now dead: "for so should his eyes look for him less, where they were not wont to see him." Hence we may gather that those
|
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5197 things which united us to our dead or absent friends, become burdensome to us when we mourn their death or absence. But nothing
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5198 united us more than the pleasures we enjoyed in common. Therefore these very pleasures
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5199 become burdensome to us when we mourn. Therefore not every pleasure assuages every sorrow.
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5200 </p>
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5201 <p id="FS_Q38_A1-p5">
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5202 <b>On the contrary,</b> The Philosopher says (Ethic. vii, 14) that "sorrow is driven forth by pleasure, both by a contrary pleasure and by any other,
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5203 provided it be intense."
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5204 </p>
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5205 <p id="FS_Q38_A1-p6">
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5206 <b>I answer that,</b> As is evident from what has been said above (
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5207 <a id="FS_Q38_A1-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q23_A4.html">Q[23], A[4]</a> ), pleasure is a kind of repose of the appetite in a suitable good; while sorrow arises from something unsuited to the appetite.
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5208 Consequently in movements of the appetite pleasure is to sorrow, what, in bodies, repose is to weariness, which is due to
|
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5209 a non-natural transmutation; for sorrow itself implies a certain weariness or ailing of the appetitive faculty. Therefore
|
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5210 just as
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5211 all repose of the body brings relief to any kind of weariness, ensuing from any non-natural cause; so every pleasure brings
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5212 relief by assuaging any kind of sorrow, due to any cause whatever.
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5213 </p>
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5214 <p id="FS_Q38_A1-p7">
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5215 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Although not every pleasure is specifically contrary to every sorrow, yet it is generically, as stated above (
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5216 <a id="FS_Q38_A1-p7.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q35_A4.html">Q[35], A[4]</a>). And consequently, on the part of the disposition of the subject, any sorrow can be assuaged by any pleasure.
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5217 </p>
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5218 <p id="FS_Q38_A1-p8">
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5219 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> The pleasures of wicked men are not a cause of sorrow while they are enjoyed, but afterwards: that is to say, in so far as
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5220 wicked men repent of those things in which they took pleasure. This sorrow is healed by contrary pleasures.
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5221 </p>
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5222 <p id="FS_Q38_A1-p9">
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5223 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> When there are two causes inclining to contrary movements, each hinders the other; yet the one which is stronger and more
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5224 persistent, prevails in the end. Now when a man is made sorrowful by those things in which he took pleasure in common with
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5225 a deceased or absent friend, there are two causes producing contrary movements. For the thought of the friend's death or absence,
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5226 inclines him to sorrow: whereas the present good inclines him to pleasure.
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5227 Consequently each is modified by the other. And yet, since the perception of the present moves more strongly than the memory
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5228 of the past, and since love of self is more persistent than love of another; hence it is that, in the end, the pleasure drives
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5229 out the sorrow. Wherefore a little further on (Confess. iv, 8) Augustine says that his "sorrow gave way to his former pleasures."
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5230 </p>
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5231 <p id="FS_Q38_A1-p10"></p>
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5232 <p id="FS_Q38_A1-p11"></p>
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5233 <a href="summa.FS_Q38.html"></a>
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5234 <a href="summa.FS_Q38_A2.html"></a>
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5235 </div>
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5236 <div id="FS_Q38_A2" class="div4">
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5237 <a href="summa.FS_Q38_A1.html"></a>
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5238 <a href="summa.FS_Q38_A3.html"></a>
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5239 <h4 id="FS_Q38_A2-p0.1">Whether pain or sorrow is assuaged by tears?</h4>
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5240 <p id="FS_Q38_A2-p1"></p>
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5241 <p id="FS_Q38_A2-p2">
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5242 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that tears do not assuage sorrow. Because no effect diminishes its cause. But tears or groans are an effect
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5243 of sorrow. Therefore they do not diminish sorrow.
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5244 </p>
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5245 <p id="FS_Q38_A2-p3">
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5246 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, just as tears or groans are an effect of sorrow, so laughter is an effect of joy. But laughter does not lessen joy.
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5247 Therefore tears do not lessen sorrow.
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5248 </p>
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5249 <p id="FS_Q38_A2-p4">
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5250 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, when we weep, the evil that saddens us is present to the imagination. But the image of that which saddens us increases
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5251 sorrow, just as the image of a pleasant thing adds to joy. Therefore it seems that tears do not assuage sorrow.
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5252 </p>
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5253 <p id="FS_Q38_A2-p5">
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5254 <b>On the contrary,</b> Augustine says (Confess. iv, 7) that when he mourned the death of his friend, "in groans and in tears alone did he find some
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5255 little refreshment."
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5256 </p>
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5257 <p id="FS_Q38_A2-p6">
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5258 <b>I answer that,</b> Tears and groans naturally assuage sorrow: and this for two reasons. First, because a hurtful thing hurts yet more if we
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5259 keep it shut up, because the soul is more intent on it: whereas if it be allowed to escape, the soul's intention is dispersed
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5260 as it were on outward things, so that the inward sorrow is lessened. This is why men, burdened with sorrow, make outward show
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5261 of their sorrow, by tears or groans or even by words, their sorrow is assuaged. Secondly,
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5262 because an action, that befits a man according to his actual disposition, is always pleasant to him. Now tears and groans
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5263 are actions befitting a man who is in sorrow or pain; and consequently they become pleasant to him. Since then, as stated
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5264 above
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5265 <a id="FS_Q38_A2-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q38_A1.html">(A[1])</a>, every pleasure assuages sorrow or pain somewhat, it follows that sorrow is assuaged by weeping and groans.
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5266 </p>
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5267 <p id="FS_Q38_A2-p7">
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5268 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> This relation of the cause to effect is opposed to the relation existing between the cause of sorrow and the sorrowing man.
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5269 For every effect is suited to its cause, and consequently is pleasant to it; but the cause of sorrow is disagreeable to him
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5270 that sorrows. Hence the effect of sorrow is not related to him that sorrows in the same way as the cause of sorrow is. For
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5271 this reason sorrow is assuaged by its effect, on account of the aforesaid
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5272 contrariety.
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5273 </p>
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5274 <p id="FS_Q38_A2-p8">
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5275 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> The relation of effect to cause is like the relation of the object of pleasure to him that takes pleasure in it: because
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5276 in each case the one agrees with the other. Now every like thing increases its like. Therefore joy is increased by laughter
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5277 and the other effects of joy: except they be excessive, in which case, accidentally, they lessen it.
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5278 </p>
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5279 <p id="FS_Q38_A2-p9">
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5280 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> The image of that which saddens us, considered in itself, has a natural tendency to increase sorrow: yet from the very fact
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5281 that a man imagines himself to be doing that which is fitting according to his actual state, he feels a certain amount of
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5282 pleasure. For the same reason if laughter escapes a man when he is so disposed that he thinks he ought to weep, he is sorry
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5283 for it, as having done something unbecoming to him, as Cicero says (De Tusc. Quaest.
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5284 iii, 27).
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5285 </p>
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5286 <p id="FS_Q38_A2-p10"></p>
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5287 <p id="FS_Q38_A2-p11"></p>
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5288 <a href="summa.FS_Q38_A1.html"></a>
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5289 <a href="summa.FS_Q38_A3.html"></a>
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5290 </div>
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5291 <div id="FS_Q38_A3" class="div4">
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5292 <a href="summa.FS_Q38_A2.html"></a>
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5293 <a href="summa.FS_Q38_A4.html"></a>
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5294 <h4 id="FS_Q38_A3-p0.1">Whether pain or sorrow are assuaged by the sympathy of friends?</h4>
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5295 <p id="FS_Q38_A3-p1"></p>
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5296 <p id="FS_Q38_A3-p2">
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5297 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that the sorrow of sympathizing friends does not assuage our own sorrow. For contraries have contrary effects.
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5298 Now as Augustine says (Confess. viii, 4), "when many rejoice together, each one has more exuberant joy, for they are kindled
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5299 and inflamed one by the other." Therefore, in like manner, when many are sorrowful, it seems that their sorrow is greater.
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5300 </p>
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5301 <p id="FS_Q38_A3-p3">
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5302 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, friendship demands mutual love, as Augustine declares (Confess. iv, 9). But a sympathizing friend is pained at the
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5303 sorrow of his friend with whom he sympathizes. Consequently the pain of a sympathizing friend becomes, to the friend in sorrow,
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5304 a further cause of sorrow: so that, his pain being doubled his sorrow seems to increase.
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5305 </p>
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5306 <p id="FS_Q38_A3-p4">
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5307 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, sorrow arises from every evil affecting a friend, as though it affected oneself: since "a friend is one's other
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5308 self" (Ethic. ix, 4,9). But sorrow is an evil. Therefore the sorrow of the sympathizing friend increases the sorrow of the
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5309 friend with whom he sympathizes.
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5310 </p>
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5311 <p id="FS_Q38_A3-p5">
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5312 <b>On the contrary,</b> The Philosopher says (Ethic. ix, 11) that those who are in pain are consoled when their friends sympathize with them.
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5313 </p>
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5314 <p id="FS_Q38_A3-p6">
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5315 <b>I answer that,</b> When one is in pain, it is natural that the sympathy of a friend should afford consolation: whereof the Philosopher indicates
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5316 a twofold reason (Ethic. ix, 11). The first is because, since sorrow has a depressing effect, it is like a weight whereof
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5317 we strive to unburden ourselves: so that when a man sees others saddened by his own sorrow, it seems as though others were
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5318 bearing the burden with him, striving, as it were, to lessen its weight; wherefore the load
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5319 of sorrow becomes lighter for him: something like what occurs in the carrying of bodily burdens. The second and better reason
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5320 is because when a man's friends condole with him, he sees that he is loved by them, and this affords him pleasure, as stated
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5321 above (Q[32], A[5]). Consequently, since every pleasure assuages sorrow, as stated above
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5322 <a id="FS_Q38_A3-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q38_A1.html">(A[1])</a>, it follows that sorrow is mitigated by a sympathizing friend.
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5323 </p>
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5324 <p id="FS_Q38_A3-p7">
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5325 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> In either case there is a proof of friendship, viz. when a man rejoices with the joyful, and when he sorrows with the sorrowful.
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5326 Consequently each becomes an object of pleasure by reason of its cause.
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5327 </p>
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5328 <p id="FS_Q38_A3-p8">
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5329 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> The friend's sorrow itself would be a cause of sorrow: but consideration of its cause, viz. his love, gives rise rather to
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5330 pleasure.
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5331 </p>
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5332 <p id="FS_Q38_A3-p9"> And this suffices for the reply to the Third Objection.</p>
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5333 <p id="FS_Q38_A3-p10"></p>
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5334 <p id="FS_Q38_A3-p11"></p>
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5335 <a href="summa.FS_Q38_A2.html"></a>
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5336 <a href="summa.FS_Q38_A4.html"></a>
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5337 </div>
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5338 <div id="FS_Q38_A4" class="div4">
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5339 <a href="summa.FS_Q38_A3.html"></a>
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5340 <a href="summa.FS_Q38_A5.html"></a>
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5341 <h4 id="FS_Q38_A4-p0.1">Whether pain and sorrow are assuaged by the contemplation of truth?</h4>
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5342 <p id="FS_Q38_A4-p1"></p>
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5343 <p id="FS_Q38_A4-p2">
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5344 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that the contemplation of truth does not assuage sorrow. For it is written (
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5345 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q38_A4-p2.1" href="./asv.html#Eccl.1.18" target="asv">Eccles. 1:18</a>): "He that addeth knowledge addeth also sorrow" [Vulg.: 'labor']. But knowledge pertains to the contemplation of truth. Therefore
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5346 the contemplation of truth does not assuage sorrow.
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5347 </p>
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5348 <p id="FS_Q38_A4-p3">
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5349 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, the contemplation of truth belongs to the speculative intellect. But "the speculative intellect is not a principle
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5350 of movement"; as stated in De Anima iii, 11. Therefore, since joy and sorrow are movements of the soul, it seems that the
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5351 contemplation of truth does not help to assuage sorrow.
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5352 </p>
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5353 <p id="FS_Q38_A4-p4">
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5354 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, the remedy for an ailment should be applied to the part which ails. But contemplation of truth is in the intellect.
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5355 Therefore it does not assuage bodily pain, which is in the senses.
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5356 </p>
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5357 <p id="FS_Q38_A4-p5">
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5358 <b>On the contrary,</b> Augustine says (Soliloq. i, 12): "It seemed to me that if the light of that truth were to dawn on our minds, either I should
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5359 not feel that pain, or at least that pain would seem nothing to me."
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5360 </p>
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5361 <p id="FS_Q38_A4-p6">
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5362 <b>I answer that,</b> As stated above (Q[3], A[5]), the greatest of all pleasures consists in the contemplation of truth. Now every pleasure assuages
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5363 pain as stated above
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5364 <a id="FS_Q38_A4-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q38_A1.html">(A[1])</a>: hence the contemplation of truth assuages pain or sorrow, and the more so, the more perfectly one is a lover of wisdom.
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5365 And therefore in the midst of tribulations men rejoice in the contemplation of Divine things and of future Happiness, according
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5366 to
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5367 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q38_A4-p6.2" href="./asv.html#Jas.1.2" target="asv"> James
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5368 1:2
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5369 </a>: "My brethren, count it all joy, when you shall fall into divers temptations": and, what is more, even in the midst of bodily
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5370 tortures this joy is found; as the "martyr Tiburtius, when he was walking barefoot on the burning coals, said: Methinks, I
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5371 walk on roses, in the name of Jesus Christ." [*Cf. Dominican Breviary, August 11th, commemoration of St. Tiburtius.]
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5372 </p>
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5373 <p id="FS_Q38_A4-p7">
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5374 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> "He that addeth knowledge, addeth sorrow," either on account of the difficulty and disappointment in the search for truth;
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5375 or because knowledge makes man acquainted with many things that are contrary to his will. Accordingly, on the part of the
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5376 things known, knowledge causes sorrow: but on the part of the contemplation of truth, it causes pleasure.
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5377 </p>
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5378 <p id="FS_Q38_A4-p8">
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5379 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> The speculative intellect does not move the mind on the part of the thing contemplated: but on the part of contemplation
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5380 itself, which is man's good and naturally pleasant to him.
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5381 </p>
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5382 <p id="FS_Q38_A4-p9">
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5383 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> In the powers of the soul there is an overflow from the higher to the lower powers: and accordingly, the pleasure of contemplation,
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5384 which is in the higher part, overflows so as to mitigate even that pain which is in the senses.
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5385 </p>
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5386 <p id="FS_Q38_A4-p10"></p>
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5387 <p id="FS_Q38_A4-p11"></p>
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5388 <a href="summa.FS_Q38_A3.html"></a>
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5389 <a href="summa.FS_Q38_A5.html"></a>
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5390 </div>
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5391 <div id="FS_Q38_A5" class="div4">
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5392 <a href="summa.FS_Q38_A4.html"></a>
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5393 <a href="summa.FS_Q39.html"></a>
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5394 <h4 id="FS_Q38_A5-p0.1">Whether pain and sorrow are assuaged by sleep and baths?</h4>
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5395 <p id="FS_Q38_A5-p1"></p>
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5396 <p id="FS_Q38_A5-p2">
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5397 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that sleep and baths do not assuage sorrow. For sorrow is in the soul: whereas sleep and baths regard the body.
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5398 Therefore they do not conduce to the assuaging of sorrow.
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5399 </p>
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5400 <p id="FS_Q38_A5-p3">
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5401 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, the same effect does not seem to ensue from contrary causes. But these, being bodily things, are incompatible with
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5402 the contemplation of truth which is a cause of the assuaging of sorrow, as stated above
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5403 <a id="FS_Q38_A5-p3.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q38_A4.html">(A[4])</a>. Therefore sorrow is not mitigated by the like.
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5404 </p>
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5405 <p id="FS_Q38_A5-p4">
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5406 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, sorrow and pain, in so far as they affect the body, denote a certain transmutation of the heart. But such remedies
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5407 as these seem to pertain to the outward senses and limbs, rather than to the interior disposition of the heart. Therefore
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5408 they do not assuage sorrow.
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5409 </p>
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5410 <p id="FS_Q38_A5-p5">
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5411 <b>On the contrary,</b> Augustine says (Confess. ix, 12): "I had heard that the bath had its name [*Balneum, from the Greek {balaneion}] . . . from
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5412 the fact of its driving sadness from the mind." And further on, he says: "I slept, and woke up again, and found my grief not
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5413 a little assuaged": and quotes the words from the hymn of Ambrose [*Cf. Sarum Breviary: First Sunday after the octave of the
|
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5414 Epiphany, Hymn for first Vespers], in which it is said that "Sleep restores the tired
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5415 limbs to labor, refreshes the weary mind, and banishes sorrow."
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5416 </p>
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5417 <p id="FS_Q38_A5-p6">
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5418 <b>I answer that,</b> As stated above (
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5419 <a id="FS_Q38_A5-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q37_A4.html">Q[37], A[4]</a>), sorrow, by reason of its specific nature, is repugnant to the vital movement of the body; and consequently whatever restores
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5420 the bodily nature to its due state of vital movement, is opposed to sorrow and assuages it. Moreover such remedies, from the
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5421 very fact that they bring nature back to its normal state, are causes of pleasure; for this is precisely in what pleasure
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5422 consists, as stated above (
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5423 <a id="FS_Q38_A5-p6.2" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q31_A1.html">Q[31], A[1]</a>). Therefore, since every
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5424 pleasure assuages sorrow, sorrow is assuaged by such like bodily remedies.
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5425 </p>
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5426 <p id="FS_Q38_A5-p7">
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5427 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> The normal disposition of the body, so far as it is felt, is itself a cause of pleasure, and consequently assuages sorrow.
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5428 </p>
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5429 <p id="FS_Q38_A5-p8">
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5430 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> As stated above (
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5431 <a id="FS_Q38_A5-p8.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q31_A8.html">Q[31], A[8]</a>), one pleasure hinders another; and yet every pleasure assuages sorrow. Consequently it is not unreasonable that sorrow should
|
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5432 be assuaged by causes which hinder one another.
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5433 </p>
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5434 <p id="FS_Q38_A5-p9">
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5435 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Every good disposition of the body reacts somewhat on the heart, which is the beginning and end of bodily movements, as stated
|
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5436 in De Causa Mot. Animal. xi.
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5437 </p>
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5438 <p id="FS_Q38_A5-p10"></p>
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5439 <p id="FS_Q38_A5-p11"></p>
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5440 <a href="summa.FS_Q38_A4.html"></a>
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5441 <a href="summa.FS_Q39.html"></a>
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5442 </div>
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5443 <a href="summa.FS_Q37_A4.html"></a>
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5444 <a href="summa.FS_Q38_A1.html"></a>
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5445 </div>
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5446 <div id="FS_Q39" class="div3">
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5447 <a href="summa.FS_Q38_A5.html"></a>
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5448 <a href="summa.FS_Q39_A1.html"></a>
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5449 <h3 id="FS_Q39-p0.1">OF THE GOODNESS AND MALICE OF SORROW OR PAIN (FOUR ARTICLES)</h3>
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5450 <p id="FS_Q39-p1"></p>
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5451 <p id="FS_Q39-p2"> We must now consider the goodness and malice of pain or sorrow: under which head there are four points of inquiry:</p>
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5452 <p id="FS_Q39-p3"> (1) Whether all sorrow is evil?</p>
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5453 <p id="FS_Q39-p4"> (2) Whether sorrow can be a virtuous good?</p>
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5454 <p id="FS_Q39-p5"> (3) Whether it can be a useful good?</p>
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5455 <p id="FS_Q39-p6"> (4) Whether bodily pain is the greatest evil?</p>
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5456 <div id="FS_Q39_A1" class="div4">
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5457 <a href="summa.FS_Q39.html"></a>
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5458 <a href="summa.FS_Q39_A2.html"></a>
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5459 <h4 id="FS_Q39_A1-p0.1">Whether all sorrow is evil?</h4>
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5460 <p id="FS_Q39_A1-p1"></p>
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5461 <p id="FS_Q39_A1-p2">
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5462 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that all sorrow is evil. For Gregory of Nyssa [*Nemesius, De Nat. Hom. xix.] says: "All sorrow is evil, from
|
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5463 its very nature." Now what is naturally evil, is evil always and everywhere. Therefore, all sorrow is evil.
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5464 </p>
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5465 <p id="FS_Q39_A1-p3">
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5466 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, that which all, even the virtuous, avoid, is evil. But all avoid sorrow, even the virtuous, since as stated in Ethic.
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5467 vii, 11, "though the prudent man does not aim at pleasure, yet he aims at avoiding sorrow." Therefore sorrow is evil.
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5468 </p>
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5469 <p id="FS_Q39_A1-p4">
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5470 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, just as bodily evil is the object and cause of bodily pain, so spiritual evil is the object and cause of sorrow
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5471 in the soul. But every bodily pain is a bodily evil. Therefore every spiritual sorrow is an evil of the soul.
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5472 </p>
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5473 <p id="FS_Q39_A1-p5">
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5474 <b>On the contrary,</b> Sorrow for evil is contrary to pleasure in evil. But pleasure in evil is evil: wherefore in condemnation of certain men,
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5475 it is written (
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5476 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q39_A1-p5.1" href="./asv.html#Prov.2.14" target="asv">Prov. 2:14</a>), that "they were glad when they had done evil." Therefore sorrow for evil is good.
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5477 </p>
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5478 <p id="FS_Q39_A1-p6">
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5479 <b>I answer that,</b> A thing may be good or evil in two ways: first considered simply and in itself; and thus all sorrow is an evil, because the
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5480 mere fact of a man's appetite being uneasy about a present evil, is itself an evil, because it hinders the response of the
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5481 appetite in good. Secondly, a thing is said to be good or evil, on the supposition of something else: thus shame is said to
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5482 be good, on the supposition of a shameful deed done, as stated in Ethic. iv, 9.
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5483 Accordingly, supposing the presence of something saddening or painful, it is a sign of goodness if a man is in sorrow or pain
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5484 on account of this present evil. For if he were not to be in sorrow or pain, this could only be either because he feels it
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5485 not, or because he does not reckon it as something unbecoming, both of which are manifest evils. Consequently it is a condition
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5486 of goodness, that, supposing an evil to be present, sorrow or pain should ensue. Wherefore Augustine says (Gen. ad lit.
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5487 viii, 14): "It is also a good thing that he sorrows for the good he has lost: for had not some good remained in his nature,
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5488 he could not be punished by the loss of good." Because, however, in the science of Morals, we consider things individually---for
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5489 actions are concerned about individuals---that which is good on some supposition, should be considered as good: just as that
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5490 which is voluntary on some supposition, is judged to be voluntary, as stated in Ethic. iii, 1, and likewise above (
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5491 <a id="FS_Q39_A1-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q6_A6.html">Q[6], A[6]</a>).
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5492 </p>
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5493 <p id="FS_Q39_A1-p7">
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5494 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Gregory of Nyssa [*Nemesius] is speaking of sorrow on the part of the evil that causes it, but not on the part of the subject
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5495 that feels and rejects the evil. And from this point of view, all shun sorrow, inasmuch as they shun evil: but they do not
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5496 shun the perception and rejection of evil. The same also applies to bodily pain: because the perception and rejection of bodily
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5497 evil is the proof of the goodness of nature.
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5498 </p>
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5499 <p id="FS_Q39_A1-p8"> This suffices for the Replies to the Second and Third Objections.</p>
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5500 <p id="FS_Q39_A1-p9"></p>
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5501 <p id="FS_Q39_A1-p10"></p>
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5502 <a href="summa.FS_Q39.html"></a>
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5503 <a href="summa.FS_Q39_A2.html"></a>
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5504 </div>
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5505 <div id="FS_Q39_A2" class="div4">
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5506 <a href="summa.FS_Q39_A1.html"></a>
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5507 <a href="summa.FS_Q39_A3.html"></a>
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5508 <h4 id="FS_Q39_A2-p0.1">Whether sorrow can be a virtuous good?</h4>
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5509 <p id="FS_Q39_A2-p1"></p>
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5510 <p id="FS_Q39_A2-p2">
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5511 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that sorrow is not a virtuous good. For that which leads to hell is not a virtuous good. But, as Augustine
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5512 says (Gen. ad lit. xii, 33), "Jacob seems to have feared lest he should be troubled overmuch by sorrow, and so, instead of
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5513 entering into the rest of the blessed, be consigned to the hell of sinners." Therefore sorrow is not a virtuous good.
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5514 </p>
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5515 <p id="FS_Q39_A2-p3">
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5516 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, the virtuous good is praiseworthy and meritorious. But sorrow lessens praise or merit: for the Apostle says (
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5517 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q39_A2-p3.1" href="./asv.html#iiCor.9.7" target="asv">2 Cor. 9:7</a>): "Everyone, as he hath determined in his heart, not with sadness, or of necessity." Therefore sorrow is not a virtuous good.
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5518 </p>
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5519 <p id="FS_Q39_A2-p4">
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5520 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, as Augustine says (De Civ. Dei xiv, 15), "sorrow is concerned about those things which happen against our will."
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5521 But not to will those things which are actually taking place, is to have a will opposed to the decree of God, to Whose providence
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5522 whatever is done is subject. Since, then, conformity of the human to the Divine will is a condition of the rectitude of the
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5523 will, as stated above (
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5524 <a id="FS_Q39_A2-p4.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q19_A9.html">Q[19], A[9]</a>), it seems that sorrow is
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5525 incompatible with rectitude of the will, and that consequently it is not virtuous.
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5526 </p>
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5527 <p id="FS_Q39_A2-p5">
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5528 <b>On the contrary,</b> Whatever merits the reward of eternal life is virtuous. But such is sorrow; as is evident from
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5529 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q39_A2-p5.1" href="./asv.html#Matt.5.5" target="asv"> Mat. 5:5</a>: "Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted." Therefore sorrow is a virtuous good.
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5530 </p>
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5531 <p id="FS_Q39_A2-p6">
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5532 <b>I answer that,</b> In so far as sorrow is good, it can be a virtuous good. For it has been said above
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5533 <a id="FS_Q39_A2-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q39_A1.html">(A[1])</a> that sorrow is a good inasmuch as it denotes perception and rejection of evil. These two things, as regards bodily pain,
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5534 are a proof of the goodness of nature, to which it is due that the senses perceive, and that nature shuns, the harmful thing
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5535 that causes pain. As regards interior sorrow, perception of the evil is sometimes due to a right
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5536 judgment of reason; while the rejection of the evil is the act of the will, well disposed and detesting that evil. Now every
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5537 virtuous good results from these two things, the rectitude of the reason and the will. Wherefore it is evident that sorrow
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5538 may be a virtuous good.
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5539 </p>
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5540 <p id="FS_Q39_A2-p7">
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5541 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> All the passions of the soul should be regulated according to the rule of reason, which is the root of the virtuous good;
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5542 but excessive sorrow, of which Augustine is speaking, oversteps this rule, and therefore it fails to be a virtuous good.
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5543 </p>
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5544 <p id="FS_Q39_A2-p8">
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5545 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Just as sorrow for an evil arises from a right will and reason, which detest the evil, so sorrow for a good is due to a perverse
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5546 reason and will, which detest the good. Consequently such sorrow is an obstacle to the praise and merit of the virtuous good;
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5547 for instance, when a man gives an alms sorrowfully.
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5548 </p>
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5549 <p id="FS_Q39_A2-p9">
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5550 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Some things do actually happen, not because God wills, but because He permits them to happen---such as sins. Consequently
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5551 a will that is opposed to sin, whether in oneself or in another, is not discordant from the Divine will. Penal evils happen
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5552 actually, even by God's will. But it is not necessary for the rectitude of his will, that man should will them in themselves:
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5553 but only that he should not revolt against the order of Divine justice, as stated
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5554 above (
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5555 <a id="FS_Q39_A2-p9.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q19_A10.html">Q[19], A[10]</a>).
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5556 </p>
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5557 <p id="FS_Q39_A2-p10"></p>
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5558 <p id="FS_Q39_A2-p11"></p>
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5559 <a href="summa.FS_Q39_A1.html"></a>
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5560 <a href="summa.FS_Q39_A3.html"></a>
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5561 </div>
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5562 <div id="FS_Q39_A3" class="div4">
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5563 <a href="summa.FS_Q39_A2.html"></a>
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5564 <a href="summa.FS_Q39_A4.html"></a>
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5565 <h4 id="FS_Q39_A3-p0.1">Whether sorrow can be a useful good?</h4>
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5566 <p id="FS_Q39_A3-p1"></p>
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5567 <p id="FS_Q39_A3-p2">
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5568 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that sorrow cannot be a useful good. For it is written (
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5569 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q39_A3-p2.1" href="./asv.html#Sir.30.25" target="asv">Ecclus. 30:25</a>): "Sadness hath killed many, and there is no profit in it."
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5570 </p>
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5571 <p id="FS_Q39_A3-p3">
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5572 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, choice is of that which is useful to an end. But sorrow is not an object of choice; in fact, "a thing without sorrow
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5573 is to be chosen rather than the same thing with sorrow" (Topic. iii, 2). Therefore sorrow is not a useful good.
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5574 </p>
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5575 <p id="FS_Q39_A3-p4">
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5576 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, "Everything is for the sake of its own operation," as stated in De Coel. ii, 3. But "sorrow hinders operation,"
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5577 as stated in Ethic. x, 5. Therefore sorrow is not a useful good.
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5578 </p>
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5579 <p id="FS_Q39_A3-p5">
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5580 <b>On the contrary,</b> The wise man seeks only that which is useful. But according to
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5581 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q39_A3-p5.1" href="./asv.html#Eccl.7.5" target="asv"> Eccles. 7:5, </a> "the heart of the wise is where there is mourning, and the heart of fools where there is mirth." Therefore sorrow is useful.
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5582 </p>
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5583 <p id="FS_Q39_A3-p6">
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5584 <b>I answer that,</b> A twofold movement of the appetite ensues from a present evil. One is that whereby the appetite is opposed to the present
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5585 evil; and, in this respect, sorrow is of no use; because that which is present, cannot be not present. The other movement
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5586 arises in the appetite to the effect of avoiding or expelling the saddening evil: and, in this respect, sorrow is of use,
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5587 if it be for something which ought to be avoided. Because there are two reasons for which it may
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5588 be right to avoid a thing. First, because it should be avoided in itself, on account of its being contrary to good; for instance,
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5589 sin. Wherefore sorrow for sin is useful as inducing a man to avoid sin: hence the Apostle says (
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5590 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q39_A3-p6.1" href="./asv.html#iiCor.7.9" target="asv">2 Cor. 7:9</a>): "I am glad: not because you were made sorrowful, but because you were made sorrowful unto penance." Secondly, a thing is
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5591 to be avoided, not as though it were evil in itself, but because it is an occasion of evil; either through one's being
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5592 attached to it, and loving it too much, or through one's being thrown headlong thereby into an evil, as is evident in the
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5593 case of temporal goods. And, in this respect, sorrow for temporal goods may be useful; according to
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5594 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q39_A3-p6.2" href="./asv.html#Eccl.7.3" target="asv"> Eccles. 7:3</a>: "It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting: for in that we are put in mind of the end of
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5595 all."
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5596 </p>
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5597 <p id="FS_Q39_A3-p7"> Moreover, sorrow for that which ought to be avoided is always useful, since it adds another motive for avoiding it. Because
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5598 the very evil is in itself a thing to be avoided: while everyone avoids sorrow for its own sake, just as everyone seeks the
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5599 good, and pleasure in the good. Therefore just as pleasure in the good makes one seek the good more earnestly, so sorrow for
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5600 evil makes one avoid evil more eagerly.
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5601 </p>
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5602 <p id="FS_Q39_A3-p8">
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5603 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> This passage is to be taken as referring to excessive sorrow, which consumes the soul: for such sorrow paralyzes the soul,
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5604 and hinders it from shunning evil, as stated above (
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5605 <a id="FS_Q39_A3-p8.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q37_A2.html">Q[37], A[2]</a>).
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5606 </p>
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5607 <p id="FS_Q39_A3-p9">
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5608 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Just as any object of choice becomes less eligible by reason of sorrow, so that which ought to be shunned is still more to
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5609 be shunned by reason of sorrow: and, in this respect, sorrow is useful.
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5610 </p>
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5611 <p id="FS_Q39_A3-p10">
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5612 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Sorrow caused by an action hinders that action: but sorrow for the cessation of an action, makes one do it more earnestly.
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5613 </p>
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5614 <p id="FS_Q39_A3-p11"></p>
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5615 <p id="FS_Q39_A3-p12"></p>
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5616 <a href="summa.FS_Q39_A2.html"></a>
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5617 <a href="summa.FS_Q39_A4.html"></a>
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5618 </div>
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5619 <div id="FS_Q39_A4" class="div4">
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5620 <a href="summa.FS_Q39_A3.html"></a>
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5621 <a href="summa.FS_Q40.html"></a>
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5622 <h4 id="FS_Q39_A4-p0.1">Whether bodily pain is the greatest evil?</h4>
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5623 <p id="FS_Q39_A4-p1"></p>
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5624 <p id="FS_Q39_A4-p2">
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5625 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that pain is the greatest evil. Because "the worst is contrary to the best" (Ethic. viii, 10). But a certain
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5626 pleasure is the greatest good, viz. the pleasure of bliss. Therefore a certain pain is the greatest evil.
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5627 </p>
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5628 <p id="FS_Q39_A4-p3">
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5629 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, happiness is man's greatest good, because it is his last end. But man's Happiness consists in his "having whatever
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5630 he will, and in willing naught amiss," as stated above (
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5631 <a id="FS_Q39_A4-p3.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q3_A4.html">Q[3], A[4]</a>, OBJ[5];
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5632 <a id="FS_Q39_A4-p3.2" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q5_A8.html"> Q[5], A[8]</a>, OBJ[3]). Therefore man's greatest good consists in the fulfilment of his will. Now pain consists in something happening
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5633 contrary to the will, as Augustine declares (De Civ. Dei xiv, 6,15). Therefore pain
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5634 is man's greatest evil.
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5635 </p>
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5636 <p id="FS_Q39_A4-p4">
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5637 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, Augustine argues thus (Soliloq. i, 12): "We are composed of two parts, i.e. of a soul and a body, whereof the body
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5638 is the inferior. Now the sovereign good is the greatest good of the better part: while the supreme evil is the greatest evil
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5639 of the inferior part. But wisdom is the greatest good of the soul; while the worst thing in the body is pain. Therefore man's
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5640 greatest good is to be wise: while his greatest evil is to suffer pain."
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5641 </p>
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5642 <p id="FS_Q39_A4-p5">
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5643 <b>On the contrary,</b> Guilt is a greater evil than punishment, as was stated in the
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5644 <a id="FS_Q39_A4-p5.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FP_Q48_A6.html">FP, Q[48], A[6]</a>. But sorrow or pain belongs to the punishment of sin, just as the enjoyment of changeable things is an evil of guilt. For
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5645 Augustine says (De Vera Relig. xii): "What is pain of the soul, except for the soul to be deprived of that which it was wont
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5646 to enjoy, or had hoped to enjoy? And this is all that is called evil, i.e. sin, and the punishment of sin."
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5647 Therefore sorrow or pain is not man's greatest evil.
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5648 </p>
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5649 <p id="FS_Q39_A4-p6">
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5650 <b>I answer that,</b> It is impossible for any sorrow or pain to be man's greatest evil. For all sorrow or pain is either for something that is
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5651 truly evil, or for something that is apparently evil, but good in reality. Now pain or sorrow for that which is truly evil
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5652 cannot be the greatest evil: for there is something worse, namely, either not to reckon as evil that which is really evil,
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5653 or not to reject it. Again, sorrow or pain, for that which is apparently evil, but really
|
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5654 good, cannot be the greatest evil, for it would be worse to be altogether separated from that which is truly good. Hence it
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5655 is impossible for any sorrow or pain to be man's greatest evil.
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5656 </p>
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5657 <p id="FS_Q39_A4-p7">
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5658 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Pleasure and sorrow have two good points in common: namely, a true judgment concerning good and evil; and the right order
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5659 of the will in approving of good and rejecting evil. Thus it is clear that in pain or sorrow there is a good, by the removal
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5660 of which they become worse: and yet there is not an evil in every pleasure, by the removal of which the pleasure is better.
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5661 Consequently, a pleasure can be man's highest good, in the way above stated (
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5662 <a id="FS_Q39_A4-p7.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q34_A3.html">Q[34],
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5663 A[3]
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5664 </a>): whereas sorrow cannot be man's greatest evil.
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5665 </p>
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5666 <p id="FS_Q39_A4-p8">
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5667 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> The very fact of the will being opposed to evil is a good. And for this reason, sorrow or pain cannot be the greatest evil;
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5668 because it has an admixture of good.
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5669 </p>
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5670 <p id="FS_Q39_A4-p9">
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5671 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> That which harms the better thing is worse than that which harms the worse. Now a thing is called evil "because it harms,"
|
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5672 as Augustine says (Enchiridion xii). Therefore that which is an evil to the soul is a greater evil than that which is an evil
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5673 to the body. Therefore this argument does not prove: nor does Augustine give it as his own, but as taken from another [*Cornelius
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5674 Celsus].
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5675 </p>
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5676 <p id="FS_Q39_A4-p10"></p>
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5677 <p id="FS_Q39_A4-p11"></p>
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5678 <a href="summa.FS_Q39_A3.html"></a>
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5679 <a href="summa.FS_Q40.html"></a>
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5680 </div>
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5681 <a href="summa.FS_Q38_A5.html"></a>
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5682 <a href="summa.FS_Q39_A1.html"></a>
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5683 </div>
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5684 <div id="FS_Q40" class="div3">
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5685 <a href="summa.FS_Q39_A4.html"></a>
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5686 <a href="summa.FS_Q40_A1.html"></a>
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5687 <h3 id="FS_Q40-p0.1">OF THE IRASCIBLE PASSIONS, AND FIRST, OF HOPE AND DESPAIR (EIGHT ARTICLES)</h3>
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5688 <p id="FS_Q40-p1"></p>
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5689 <p id="FS_Q40-p2"> We must now consider the irascible passions: (1) Hope and despair; (2) Fear and daring; (3) Anger. Under first head there
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5690 are eight points of inquiry:
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5691 </p>
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5692 <p id="FS_Q40-p3"> (1) Whether hope is the same as desire or cupidity?</p>
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5693 <p id="FS_Q40-p4"> (2) Whether hope is in the apprehensive, or in the appetitive faculty?</p>
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5694 <p id="FS_Q40-p5"> (3) Whether hope is in dumb animals?</p>
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5695 <p id="FS_Q40-p6"> (4) Whether despair is contrary to hope?</p>
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5696 <p id="FS_Q40-p7"> (5) Whether experience is a cause of hope?</p>
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5697 <p id="FS_Q40-p8"> (6) Whether hope abounds in young men and drunkards?</p>
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5698 <p id="FS_Q40-p9"> (7) Concerning the order of hope to love;</p>
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5699 <p id="FS_Q40-p10"> (8) Whether love conduces to action?</p>
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5700 <div id="FS_Q40_A1" class="div4">
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5701 <a href="summa.FS_Q40.html"></a>
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5702 <a href="summa.FS_Q40_A2.html"></a>
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5703 <h4 id="FS_Q40_A1-p0.1">Whether hope is the same as desire of cupidity?</h4>
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5704 <p id="FS_Q40_A1-p1"></p>
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5705 <p id="FS_Q40_A1-p2">
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5706 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that hope is the same as desire or cupidity. Because hope is reckoned as one of the four principal passions.
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5707 But Augustine in setting down the four principal passions puts cupidity in the place of hope (De Civ. Dei xiv, 3,7). Therefore
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5708 hope is the same as cupidity or desire.
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5709 </p>
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5710 <p id="FS_Q40_A1-p3">
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5711 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, passions differ according to their objects. But the object of hope is the same as the object of cupidity or desire,
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5712 viz. the future good. Therefore hope is the same as cupidity or desire.
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5713 </p>
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5714 <p id="FS_Q40_A1-p4">
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5715 <b>Objection 3:</b> If it be said that hope, in addition to desire, denotes the possibility of obtaining the future good; on the contrary, whatever
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5716 is accidental to the object does not make a different species of passion. But possibility of acquisition is accidental to
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5717 a future good, which is the object of cupidity or desire, and of hope. Therefore hope does not differ specifically from desire
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5718 or cupidity.
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5719 </p>
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5720 <p id="FS_Q40_A1-p5">
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5721 <b>On the contrary,</b> To different powers belong different species of passions. But hope is in the irascible power; whereas desire or cupidity
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5722 is in the concupiscible. Therefore hope differs specifically from desire or cupidity.
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5723 </p>
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5724 <p id="FS_Q40_A1-p6">
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5725 <b>I answer that,</b> The species of a passion is taken from the object. Now, in the object of hope, we may note four conditions. First, that it
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5726 is something good; since, properly speaking, hope regards only the good; in this respect, hope differs from fear, which regards
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5727 evil. Secondly, that it is future; for hope does not regard that which is present and already possessed: in this respect,
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5728 hope differs from joy which regards a present good. Thirdly, that it must be something
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5729 arduous and difficult to obtain, for we do not speak of any one hoping for trifles, which are in one's power to have at any
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5730 time: in this respect, hope differs from desire or cupidity, which regards the future good absolutely: wherefore it belongs
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5731 to the concupiscible, while hope belongs to the irascible faculty. Fourthly, that this difficult thing is something possible
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5732 to obtain: for one does not hope for that which one cannot get at all: and, in this respect, hope differs from despair. It
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5733 is
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5734 therefore evident that hope differs from desire, as the irascible passions differ from the concupiscible. For this reason,
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5735 moreover, hope presupposes desire: just as all irascible passions presuppose the passions of the concupiscible faculty, as
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5736 stated above (
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5737 <a id="FS_Q40_A1-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q25_A1.html">Q[25], A[1]</a>).
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5738 </p>
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5739 <p id="FS_Q40_A1-p7">
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5740 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Augustine mentions desire instead of hope, because each regards future good; and because the good which is not arduous is
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5741 reckoned as nothing: thus implying that desire seems to tend chiefly to the arduous good, to which hope tends likewise.
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5742 </p>
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5743 <p id="FS_Q40_A1-p8">
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5744 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> The object of hope is the future good considered, not absolutely, but as arduous and difficult of attainment, as stated above.
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5745 </p>
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5746 <p id="FS_Q40_A1-p9">
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5747 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> The object of hope adds not only possibility to the object of desire, but also difficulty: and this makes hope belong to
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5748 another power, viz. the irascible, which regards something difficult, as stated in the
|
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|
5749 <a id="FS_Q40_A1-p9.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FP_Q81_A2.html">FP, Q[81], A[2]</a>. Moreover, possibility and impossibility are not altogether accidental to the object of the appetitive power: because the
|
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5750 appetite is a principle of movement; and nothing is moved to anything except under
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5751 the aspect of being possible; for no one is moved to that which he reckons impossible to get. Consequently hope differs from
|
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5752 despair according to the difference of possible and impossible.
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5753 </p>
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5754 <p id="FS_Q40_A1-p10"></p>
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5755 <p id="FS_Q40_A1-p11"></p>
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5756 <a href="summa.FS_Q40.html"></a>
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5757 <a href="summa.FS_Q40_A2.html"></a>
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5758 </div>
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5759 <div id="FS_Q40_A2" class="div4">
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5760 <a href="summa.FS_Q40_A1.html"></a>
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5761 <a href="summa.FS_Q40_A3.html"></a>
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5762 <h4 id="FS_Q40_A2-p0.1">Whether hope is in the apprehensive or in the appetitive power?</h4>
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5763 <p id="FS_Q40_A2-p1"></p>
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5764 <p id="FS_Q40_A2-p2">
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5765 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that hope belongs to the cognitive power. Because hope, seemingly, is a kind of awaiting; for the Apostle says
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5766 (
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5767 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q40_A2-p2.1" href="./asv.html#Rom.8.25" target="asv">Rom. 8:25</a>): "If we hope for that which we see not; we wait for it with patience." But awaiting seems to belong to the cognitive power,
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5768 which we exercise by "looking out." Therefore hope belongs to the cognitive power.
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5769 </p>
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5770 <p id="FS_Q40_A2-p3">
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5771 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, apparently hope is the same as confidence; hence when a man hopes he is said to be confident, as though to hope
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5772 and to be confident were the same thing. But confidence, like faith, seems to belong to the cognitive power. Therefore hope
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5773 does too.
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5774 </p>
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5775 <p id="FS_Q40_A2-p4">
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5776 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, certainty is a property of the cognitive power. But certainty is ascribed to hope. Therefore hope belongs to the
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5777 cognitive power.
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5778 </p>
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5779 <p id="FS_Q40_A2-p5">
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5780 <b>On the contrary,</b> Hope regards good, as stated above
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5781 <a id="FS_Q40_A2-p5.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q40_A1.html">(A[1])</a>. Now good, as such, is not the object of the cognitive, but of the appetitive power. Therefore hope belongs, not to the cognitive,
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5782 but to the appetitive power.
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5783 </p>
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5784 <p id="FS_Q40_A2-p6">
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5785 <b>I answer that,</b> Since hope denotes a certain stretching out of the appetite towards good, it evidently belongs to the appetitive power; since
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5786 movement towards things belongs properly to the appetite: whereas the action of the cognitive power is accomplished not by
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5787 the movement of the knower towards things, but rather according as the things known are in the knower. But since the cognitive
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5788 power moves the appetite, by presenting its object to it; there arise in the appetite
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5789 various movements according to various aspects of the apprehended object. For the apprehension of good gives rise to one kind
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5790 of movement in the appetite, while the apprehension of evil gives rise to another: in like manner various movements arise
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5791 from the apprehension of something present and of something future; of something considered absolutely, and of something considered
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5792 as arduous; of something possible, and of something impossible. And accordingly hope is a movement of the appetitive
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5793 power ensuing from the apprehension of a future good, difficult but possible to obtain; namely, a stretching forth of the
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5794 appetite to such a good.
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5795 </p>
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5796 <p id="FS_Q40_A2-p7">
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5797 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Since hope regards a possible good, there arises in man a twofold movement of hope; for a thing may be possible to him in
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5798 two ways, viz. by his own power, or by another's. Accordingly when a man hopes to obtain something by his own power, he is
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5799 not said to wait for it, but simply to hope for it. But, properly speaking, he is said to await that which he hopes to get
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5800 by another's help as though to await [exspectare] implied keeping one's eyes on another
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5801 [ex alio spectare], in so far as the apprehensive power, by going ahead, not only keeps its eye on the good which man intends
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5802 to get, but also on the thing by whose power he hopes to get it; according to
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5803 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q40_A2-p7.1" href="./asv.html#Sir.51.10" target="asv"> Ecclus. 51:10, </a> "I looked for the succor of men." Wherefore the movement of hope is sometimes called expectation, on account of the preceding
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5804 inspection of the cognitive power.
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5805 </p>
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5806 <p id="FS_Q40_A2-p8">
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5807 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> When a man desires a thing and reckons that he can get it, he believes that he can get it, he believes that he will get it;
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5808 and from this belief which precedes in the cognitive power, the ensuing movement in the appetite is called confidence. Because
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5809 the movement of the appetite takes its name from the knowledge that precedes it, as an effect from a cause which is better
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5810 known; for the apprehensive power knows its own act better than that of the
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5811 appetite.
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5812 </p>
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5813 <p id="FS_Q40_A2-p9">
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5814 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Certainty is ascribed to the movement, not only of the sensitive, but also of the natural appetite; thus we say that a stone
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5815 is certain to tend downwards. This is owing to the inerrancy which the movement of the sensitive or even natural appetite
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5816 derives from the certainty of the knowledge that precedes it.
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5817 </p>
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5818 <p id="FS_Q40_A2-p10"></p>
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5819 <p id="FS_Q40_A2-p11"></p>
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5820 <a href="summa.FS_Q40_A1.html"></a>
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5821 <a href="summa.FS_Q40_A3.html"></a>
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5822 </div>
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5823 <div id="FS_Q40_A3" class="div4">
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5824 <a href="summa.FS_Q40_A2.html"></a>
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5825 <a href="summa.FS_Q40_A4.html"></a>
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5826 <h4 id="FS_Q40_A3-p0.1">Whether hope is in dumb animals?</h4>
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5827 <p id="FS_Q40_A3-p1"></p>
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5828 <p id="FS_Q40_A3-p2">
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5829 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that there is no hope in dumb animals. Because hope is for some future good, as Damascene says (De Fide Orth.
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5830 ii, 12). But knowledge of the future is not in the competency of dumb animals, whose knowledge is confined to the senses and
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5831 does not extend to the future. Therefore there is no hope in dumb animals.
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5832 </p>
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5833 <p id="FS_Q40_A3-p3">
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5834 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, the object of hope is a future good, possible of attainment. But possible and impossible are differences of the
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5835 true and the false, which are only in the mind, as the Philosopher states (Metaph. vi, 4). Therefore there is no hope in dumb
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5836 animals, since they have no mind.
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5837 </p>
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5838 <p id="FS_Q40_A3-p4">
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5839 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, Augustine says (Gen. ad lit. ix, 14) that "animals are moved by the things that they see." But hope is of things
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5840 unseen: "for what a man seeth, why doth he hope for?" (
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5841 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q40_A3-p4.1" href="./asv.html#Rom.8.24" target="asv">Rom. 8:24</a>). Therefore there is no hope in dumb animals.
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5842 </p>
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5843 <p id="FS_Q40_A3-p5">
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5844 <b>On the contrary,</b> Hope is an irascible passion. But the irascible faculty is in dumb animals. Therefore hope is also.
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5845 </p>
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5846 <p id="FS_Q40_A3-p6">
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5847 <b>I answer that,</b> The internal passions of animals can be gathered from their outward movements: from which it is clear that hope is in dumb
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5848 animals. For if a dog see a hare, or a hawk see a bird, too far off, it makes no movement towards it, as having no hope to
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5849 catch it: whereas, if it be near, it makes a movement towards it, as being in hopes of catching it. Because as stated above
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5850 (
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5851 <a id="FS_Q40_A3-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q1_A2.html">Q[1], A[2]</a>;
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5852 <a id="FS_Q40_A3-p6.2" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q26_A1.html"> Q[26], A[1]</a>;
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5853 <a id="FS_Q40_A3-p6.3" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q35_A1.html"> Q[35], A[1]</a>), the sensitive appetite of dumb animals, and likewise the natural appetite of insensible things, result from the apprehension
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5854 of an intellect, just as the appetite of the intellectual nature, which is called the will. But there is a difference, in
|
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5855 that the will is moved by an apprehension of the intellect in the same subject; whereas the movement of the natural appetite
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5856 results from the apprehension of the separate Intellect, Who is the Author of nature; as
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5857 does also the sensitive appetite of dumb animals, who act from a certain natural instinct. Consequently, in the actions of
|
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5858 irrational animals and of other natural things, we observe a procedure which is similar to that which we observe in the actions
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5859 of art: and in this way hope and despair are in dumb animals.
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5860 </p>
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5861 <p id="FS_Q40_A3-p7">
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5862 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Although dumb animals do not know the future, yet an animal is moved by its natural instinct to something future, as though
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5863 it foresaw the future. Because this instinct is planted in them by the Divine Intellect that foresees the future.
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5864 </p>
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5865 <p id="FS_Q40_A3-p8">
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5866 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> The object of hope is not the possible as differentiating the true, for thus the possible ensues from the relation of a predicate
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5867 to a subject. The object of hope is the possible as compared to a power. For such is the division of the possible given in
|
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5868 Metaph. v, 12, i.e. into the two kinds we have just mentioned.
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5869 </p>
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5870 <p id="FS_Q40_A3-p9">
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5871 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Although the thing which is future does not come under the object of sight; nevertheless through seeing something present,
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5872 an animal's appetite is moved to seek or avoid something future.
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5873 </p>
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5874 <p id="FS_Q40_A3-p10"></p>
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5875 <p id="FS_Q40_A3-p11"></p>
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5876 <a href="summa.FS_Q40_A2.html"></a>
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5877 <a href="summa.FS_Q40_A4.html"></a>
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5878 </div>
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5879 <div id="FS_Q40_A4" class="div4">
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5880 <a href="summa.FS_Q40_A3.html"></a>
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5881 <a href="summa.FS_Q40_A5.html"></a>
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5882 <h4 id="FS_Q40_A4-p0.1">Whether despair is contrary to hope?</h4>
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5883 <p id="FS_Q40_A4-p1"></p>
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5884 <p id="FS_Q40_A4-p2">
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5885 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that despair is not contrary to hope. Because "to one thing there is one contrary" (Metaph. x, 5). But fear
|
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5886 is contrary to hope. Therefore despair is not contrary to hope.
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5887 </p>
|
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5888 <p id="FS_Q40_A4-p3">
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5889 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, contraries seem to bear on the same thing. But hope and despair do not bear on the same thing: since hope regards
|
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5890 the good, whereas despair arises from some evil that is in the way of obtaining good. Therefore hope is not contrary to despair.
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5891 </p>
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5892 <p id="FS_Q40_A4-p4">
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5893 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, movement is contrary to movement: while repose is in opposition to movement as a privation thereof. But despair
|
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5894 seems to imply immobility rather than movement. Therefore it is not contrary to hope, which implies movement of stretching
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5895 out towards the hoped-for good.
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5896 </p>
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5897 <p id="FS_Q40_A4-p5">
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5898 <b>On the contrary,</b> The very name of despair [desperatio] implies that it is contrary to hope [spes].
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5899 </p>
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5900 <p id="FS_Q40_A4-p6">
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5901 <b>I answer that,</b> As stated above (
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5902 <a id="FS_Q40_A4-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q23_A2.html">Q[23], A[2]</a>), there is a twofold contrariety of movements. One is in respect of approach to contrary terms: and this contrariety alone
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5903 is to be found in the concupiscible passions, for instance between love and hatred. The other is according to approach and
|
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5904 withdrawal with regard to the same term; and is to be found in the irascible passions, as stated above (
|
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5905 <a id="FS_Q40_A4-p6.2" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q23_A2.html">Q[23], A[2]</a>). Now the object of
|
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5906 hope, which is the arduous good, has the character of a principle of attraction, if it be considered in the light of something
|
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|
5907 attainable; and thus hope tends thereto, for it denotes a kind of approach. But in so far as it is considered as unobtainable,
|
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5908 it has the character of a principle of repulsion, because, as stated in Ethic. iii, 3, "when men come to an impossibility
|
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5909 they disperse." And this is how despair stands in regard to this object, wherefore it implies a movement of withdrawal: and
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5910 consequently it is contrary to hope, as withdrawal is to approach.
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5911 </p>
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5912 <p id="FS_Q40_A4-p7">
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5913 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Fear is contrary to hope, because their objects, i.e. good and evil, are contrary: for this contrariety is found in the irascible
|
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5914 passions, according as they ensue from the passions of the concupiscible. But despair is contrary to hope, only by contrariety
|
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5915 of approach and withdrawal.
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5916 </p>
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5917 <p id="FS_Q40_A4-p8">
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5918 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Despair does not regard evil as such; sometimes however it regards evil accidentally, as making the difficult good impossible
|
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5919 to obtain. But it can arise from the mere excess of good.
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5920 </p>
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5921 <p id="FS_Q40_A4-p9">
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5922 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Despair implies not only privation of hope, but also a recoil from the thing desired, by reason of its being esteemed impossible
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5923 to get. Hence despair, like hope, presupposes desire; because we neither hope for nor despair of that which we do not desire
|
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5924 to have. For this reason, too, each of them regards the good, which is the object of desire.
|
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5925 </p>
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5926 <p id="FS_Q40_A4-p10"></p>
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5927 <p id="FS_Q40_A4-p11"></p>
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5928 <a href="summa.FS_Q40_A3.html"></a>
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5929 <a href="summa.FS_Q40_A5.html"></a>
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5930 </div>
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5931 <div id="FS_Q40_A5" class="div4">
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5932 <a href="summa.FS_Q40_A4.html"></a>
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5933 <a href="summa.FS_Q40_A6.html"></a>
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5934 <h4 id="FS_Q40_A5-p0.1">Whether experience is a cause of hope?</h4>
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5935 <p id="FS_Q40_A5-p1"></p>
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5936 <p id="FS_Q40_A5-p2">
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5937 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that experience is not a cause of hope. Because experience belongs to the cognitive power; wherefore the Philosopher
|
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5938 says (Ethic. ii, 1) that "intellectual virtue needs experience and time." But hope is not in the cognitive power, but in the
|
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5939 appetite, as stated above
|
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5940 <a id="FS_Q40_A5-p2.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q40_A2.html">(A[2])</a>. Therefore experience is not a cause of hope.
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5941 </p>
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5942 <p id="FS_Q40_A5-p3">
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5943 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, the Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 13) that "the old are slow to hope, on account of their experience"; whence it seems
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5944 to follow that experience causes want of hope. But the same cause is not productive of opposites. Therefore experience is
|
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5945 not a cause of hope.
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5946 </p>
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5947 <p id="FS_Q40_A5-p4">
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5948 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, the Philosopher says (De Coel. ii, 5) that "to have something to say about everything, without leaving anything
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5949 out, is sometimes a proof of folly." But to attempt everything seems to point to great hopes; while folly arises from inexperience.
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5950 Therefore inexperience, rather than experience, seems to be a cause of hope.
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5951 </p>
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5952 <p id="FS_Q40_A5-p5">
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5953 <b>On the contrary,</b> The Philosopher says (Ethic. iii, 8) "some are hopeful, through having been victorious often and over many opponents": which
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5954 seems to pertain to experience. Therefore experience is a cause of hope.
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5955 </p>
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5956 <p id="FS_Q40_A5-p6">
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5957 <b>I answer that,</b> As stated above
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5958 <a id="FS_Q40_A5-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q40_A1.html">(A[1])</a>, the object of hope is a future good, difficult but possible to obtain. Consequently a thing may be a cause of hope, either
|
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|
5959 because it makes something possible to a man: or because it makes him think something possible. In the first way hope is caused
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5960 by everything that increases a man's power; e.g. riches, strength, and, among others, experience: since by experience man
|
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|
5961 acquires the faculty of doing something
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5962 easily, and the result of this is hope. Wherefore Vegetius says (De Re Milit. i): "No one fears to do that which he is sure
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5963 of having learned well."
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5964 </p>
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5965 <p id="FS_Q40_A5-p7"> In the second way, hope is caused by everything that makes man think that he can obtain something: and thus both teaching
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5966 and persuasion may be a cause of hope. And then again experience is a cause of hope, in so far as it makes him reckon something
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5967 possible, which before his experience he looked upon as impossible. However, in this way, experience can cause a lack of hope:
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5968 because just as it makes a man think possible what he had previously thought impossible; so, conversely,
|
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5969 experience makes a man consider as impossible that which hitherto he had thought possible. Accordingly experience causes hope
|
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5970 in two ways, despair in one way: and for this reason we may say rather that it causes hope.
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5971 </p>
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5972 <p id="FS_Q40_A5-p8">
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5973 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Experience in matters pertaining to action not only produces knowledge; it also causes a certain habit, by reason of custom,
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5974 which renders the action easier. Moreover, the intellectual virtue itself adds to the power of acting with ease: because it
|
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5975 shows something to be possible; and thus is a cause of hope.
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5976 </p>
|
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5977 <p id="FS_Q40_A5-p9">
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5978 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> The old are wanting in hope because of their experience, in so far as experience makes them think something impossible. Hence
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5979 he adds (Rhet. ii, 13) that "many evils have befallen them."
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5980 </p>
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5981 <p id="FS_Q40_A5-p10">
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5982 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Folly and inexperience can be a cause of hope accidentally as it were, by removing the knowledge which would help one to
|
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5983 judge truly a thing to be impossible. Wherefore inexperience is a cause of hope, for the same reason as experience causes
|
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5984 lack of hope.
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5985 </p>
|
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5986 <p id="FS_Q40_A5-p11"></p>
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5987 <p id="FS_Q40_A5-p12"></p>
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5988 <a href="summa.FS_Q40_A4.html"></a>
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5989 <a href="summa.FS_Q40_A6.html"></a>
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5990 </div>
|
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5991 <div id="FS_Q40_A6" class="div4">
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5992 <a href="summa.FS_Q40_A5.html"></a>
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5993 <a href="summa.FS_Q40_A7.html"></a>
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5994 <h4 id="FS_Q40_A6-p0.1">Whether hope abounds in young men and drunkards?</h4>
|
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5995 <p id="FS_Q40_A6-p1"></p>
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5996 <p id="FS_Q40_A6-p2">
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5997 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that youth and drunkenness are not causes of hope. Because hope implies certainty and steadiness; so much so
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5998 that it is compared to an anchor (
|
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5999 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q40_A6-p2.1" href="./asv.html#Heb.6.19" target="asv">Heb. 6:19</a>). But young men and drunkards are wanting in steadiness; since their minds are easily changed. Therefore youth and drunkenness
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6000 are not causes of hope.
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6001 </p>
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6002 <p id="FS_Q40_A6-p3">
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6003 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, as stated above
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6004 <a id="FS_Q40_A6-p3.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q40_A5.html">(A[5])</a>, the cause of hope is chiefly whatever increases one's power. But youth and drunkenness are united to weakness. Therefore
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6005 they are not causes of hope.
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6006 </p>
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6007 <p id="FS_Q40_A6-p4">
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6008 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, experience is a cause of hope, as stated above
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6009 <a id="FS_Q40_A6-p4.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q40_A5.html">(A[5])</a>. But youth lacks experience. Therefore it is not a cause of hope.
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6010 </p>
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6011 <p id="FS_Q40_A6-p5">
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6012 <b>On the contrary,</b> The Philosopher says (Ethic. iii, 8) that "drunken men are hopeful": and (Rhet. ii, 12) that "the young are full of hope."
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6013 </p>
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6014 <p id="FS_Q40_A6-p6">
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6015 <b>I answer that,</b> Youth is a cause of hope for three reasons, as the Philosopher states in Rhet. ii, 12: and these three reasons may be gathered
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6016 from the three conditions of the good which is the object of hope---namely, that it is future, arduous and possible, as stated
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6017 above
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6018 <a id="FS_Q40_A6-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q40_A1.html">(A[1])</a>. For youth has much of the future before it, and little of the past: and therefore since memory is of the past, and hope
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6019 of the future, it has little to remember and
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6020 lives very much in hope. Again, youths, on account of the heat of their nature, are full of spirit; so that their heart expands:
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6021 and it is owing to the heart being expanded that one tends to that which is arduous; wherefore youths are spirited and hopeful.
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6022 Likewise they who have not suffered defeat, nor had experience of obstacles to their efforts, are prone to count a thing possible
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6023 to them. Wherefore youths, through inexperience of obstacles and of their own shortcomings, easily count a thing
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6024 possible; and consequently are of good hope. Two of these causes are also in those who are in drink---viz. heat and high spirits,
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6025 on account of wine, and heedlessness of dangers and shortcomings. For the same reason all foolish and thoughtless persons
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6026 attempt everything and are full of hope.
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6027 </p>
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6028 <p id="FS_Q40_A6-p7">
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6029 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Although youths and men in drink lack steadiness in reality, yet they are steady in their own estimation, for they think
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6030 that they will steadily obtain that which they hope for.
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6031 </p>
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6032 <p id="FS_Q40_A6-p8"> In like manner, in reply to the Second Objection, we must observe that young people and men in drink are indeed unsteady
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6033 in reality: but, in their own estimation, they are capable, for they know not their shortcomings.
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6034 </p>
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6035 <p id="FS_Q40_A6-p9">
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6036 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Not only experience, but also lack of experience, is, in some way, a cause of hope, as explained above (A[5], ad 3).
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6037 </p>
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6038 <p id="FS_Q40_A6-p10"></p>
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6039 <p id="FS_Q40_A6-p11"></p>
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6040 <a href="summa.FS_Q40_A5.html"></a>
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6041 <a href="summa.FS_Q40_A7.html"></a>
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6042 </div>
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6043 <div id="FS_Q40_A7" class="div4">
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6044 <a href="summa.FS_Q40_A6.html"></a>
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6045 <a href="summa.FS_Q40_A8.html"></a>
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6046 <h4 id="FS_Q40_A7-p0.1">Whether hope is a cause of love?</h4>
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6047 <p id="FS_Q40_A7-p1"></p>
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6048 <p id="FS_Q40_A7-p2">
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6049 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that hope is not a cause of love. Because, according to Augustine (De Civ. Dei xiv, 7,9), love is the first
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6050 of the soul's emotions. But hope is an emotion of the soul. Therefore love precedes hope, and consequently hope does not cause
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6051 love.
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6052 </p>
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6053 <p id="FS_Q40_A7-p3">
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6054 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, desire precedes hope. But desire is caused by love, as stated above (
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6055 <a id="FS_Q40_A7-p3.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q25_A2.html">Q[25], A[2]</a>). Therefore hope, too, follows love, and consequently is not its cause.
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6056 </p>
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6057 <p id="FS_Q40_A7-p4">
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6058 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, hope causes pleasure, as stated above (
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6059 <a id="FS_Q40_A7-p4.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q32_A3.html">Q[32], A[3]</a>). But pleasure is only of the good that is loved. Therefore love precedes hope.
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6060 </p>
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6061 <p id="FS_Q40_A7-p5">
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6062 <b>On the contrary,</b> The gloss commenting on
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6063 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q40_A7-p5.1" href="./asv.html#Matt.1.2" target="asv"> Mat. 1:2, </a> "Abraham begot Isaac, and Isaac begot Jacob," says, i.e. "faith begets hope, and hope begets charity." But charity is love.
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6064 Therefore love is caused by hope.
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6065 </p>
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6066 <p id="FS_Q40_A7-p6">
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6067 <b>I answer that,</b> Hope can regard two things. For it regards as its object, the good which one hopes for. But since the good we hope for is
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6068 something difficult but possible to obtain; and since it happens sometimes that what is difficult becomes possible to us,
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6069 not through ourselves but through others; hence it is that hope regards also that by which something becomes possible to us.
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6070 </p>
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6071 <p id="FS_Q40_A7-p7"> In so far, then, as hope regards the good we hope to get, it is caused by love: since we do not hope save for that which
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6072 we desire and love. But in so far as hope regards one through whom something becomes possible to us, love is caused by hope,
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6073 and not vice versa. Because by the very fact that we hope that good will accrue to us through someone, we are moved towards
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6074 him as to our own good; and thus we begin to love him. Whereas from the fact that we love someone we do not hope
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6075 in him, except accidentally, that is, in so far as we think that he returns our love. Wherefore the fact of being loved by
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6076 another makes us hope in him; but our love for him is caused by the hope we have in him.
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6077 </p>
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6078 <p id="FS_Q40_A7-p8"> Wherefore the Replies to the Objections are evident.</p>
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6079 <p id="FS_Q40_A7-p9"></p>
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6080 <p id="FS_Q40_A7-p10"></p>
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6081 <a href="summa.FS_Q40_A6.html"></a>
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6082 <a href="summa.FS_Q40_A8.html"></a>
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6083 </div>
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6084 <div id="FS_Q40_A8" class="div4">
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6085 <a href="summa.FS_Q40_A7.html"></a>
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6086 <a href="summa.FS_Q41.html"></a>
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6087 <h4 id="FS_Q40_A8-p0.1">Whether hope is a help or a hindrance to action?</h4>
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6088 <p id="FS_Q40_A8-p1"></p>
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6089 <p id="FS_Q40_A8-p2">
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6090 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that hope is not a help but a hindrance to action. Because hope implies security. But security begets negligence
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6091 which hinders action. Therefore hope is a hindrance to action.
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6092 </p>
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6093 <p id="FS_Q40_A8-p3">
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6094 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, sorrow hinders action, as stated above (
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6095 <a id="FS_Q40_A8-p3.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q37_A3.html">Q[37], A[3]</a>). But hope sometimes causes sorrow: for it is written (
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6096 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q40_A8-p3.2" href="./asv.html#Prov.13.12" target="asv">Prov. 13:12</a>): "Hope that is deferred afflicteth the soul." Therefore hope hinders action.
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6097 </p>
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6098 <p id="FS_Q40_A8-p4">
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6099 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, despair is contrary to hope, as stated above
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6100 <a id="FS_Q40_A8-p4.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q40_A4.html">(A[4])</a>. But despair, especially in matters of war, conduces to action; for it is written (
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6101 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q40_A8-p4.2" href="./asv.html#iiKgdms.2.26" target="asv">2 Kings 2:26</a>), that "it is dangerous to drive people to despair." Therefore hope has a contrary effect, namely, by hindering action.
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6102 </p>
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6103 <p id="FS_Q40_A8-p5">
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6104 <b>On the contrary,</b> It is written (
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6105 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q40_A8-p5.1" href="./asv.html#iCor.9.10" target="asv">1 Cor. 9:10</a>) that "he that plougheth should plough in hope . . . to receive fruit": and the same applies to all other actions.
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6106 </p>
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6107 <p id="FS_Q40_A8-p6">
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6108 <b>I answer that,</b> Hope of its very nature is a help to action by making it more intense: and this for two reasons. First, by reason of its
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6109 object, which is a good, difficult but possible. For the thought of its being difficult arouses our attention; while the thought
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6110 that it is possible is no drag on our effort. Hence it follows that by reason of hope man is intent on his action. Secondly,
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6111 on account of its effect. Because hope, as stated above (
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6112 <a id="FS_Q40_A8-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q32_A3.html">Q[32],
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6113 A[3]
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6114 </a>), causes pleasure; which is a help to action, as stated above (
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6115 <a id="FS_Q40_A8-p6.2" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q33_A4.html">Q[33], A[4]</a>). Therefore hope is conducive to action.
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6116 </p>
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6117 <p id="FS_Q40_A8-p7">
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6118 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Hope regards a good to be obtained; security regards an evil to be avoided. Wherefore security seems to be contrary to fear
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6119 rather than to belong to hope. Yet security does not beget negligence, save in so far as it lessens the idea of difficulty:
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6120 whereby it also lessens the character of hope: for the things in which a man fears no hindrance, are no longer looked upon
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6121 as difficult.
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6122 </p>
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6123 <p id="FS_Q40_A8-p8">
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6124 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Hope of itself causes pleasure; it is by accident that it causes sorrow, as stated above (
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6125 <a id="FS_Q40_A8-p8.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q32_A3.html">Q[32], A[3]</a>, ad 2).
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6126 </p>
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6127 <p id="FS_Q40_A8-p9">
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6128 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Despair threatens danger in war, on account of a certain hope that attaches to it. For they who despair of flight, strive
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6129 less to fly, but hope to avenge their death: and therefore in this hope they fight the more bravely, and consequently prove
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6130 dangerous to the foe.
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6131 </p>
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6132 <p id="FS_Q40_A8-p10"></p>
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6133 <p id="FS_Q40_A8-p11"></p>
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6134 <a href="summa.FS_Q40_A7.html"></a>
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6135 <a href="summa.FS_Q41.html"></a>
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6136 </div>
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6137 <a href="summa.FS_Q39_A4.html"></a>
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6138 <a href="summa.FS_Q40_A1.html"></a>
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6139 </div>
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6140 <div id="FS_Q41" class="div3">
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6141 <a href="summa.FS_Q40_A8.html"></a>
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6142 <a href="summa.FS_Q41_A1.html"></a>
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6143 <h3 id="FS_Q41-p0.1">OF FEAR, IN ITSELF (FOUR ARTICLES)</h3>
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6144 <p id="FS_Q41-p1"></p>
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6145 <p id="FS_Q41-p2"> We must now consider, in the first place, fear; and, secondly, daring. With regard to fear, four things must be considered:
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6146 (1) Fear, in itself; (2) Its object; (3) Its cause; (4) Its effect. Under the first head there are four points of inquiry:
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6147 </p>
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6148 <p id="FS_Q41-p3"> (1) Whether fear is a passion of the soul?</p>
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6149 <p id="FS_Q41-p4"> (2) Whether fear is a special passion?</p>
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6150 <p id="FS_Q41-p5"> (3) Whether there is a natural fear?</p>
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6151 <p id="FS_Q41-p6"> (4) Of the species of fear.</p>
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6152 <div id="FS_Q41_A1" class="div4">
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6153 <a href="summa.FS_Q41.html"></a>
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6154 <a href="summa.FS_Q41_A2.html"></a>
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6155 <h4 id="FS_Q41_A1-p0.1">Whether fear is a passion of the soul?</h4>
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6156 <p id="FS_Q41_A1-p1"></p>
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6157 <p id="FS_Q41_A1-p2">
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6158 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that fear is not a passion of the soul. For Damascene says (De Fide Orth. iii, 23) that "fear is a power, by
|
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6159 way of {systole}"---i.e. of contraction---"desirous of vindicating nature." But no virtue is a passion, as is proved in Ethic.
|
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6160 ii, 5. Therefore fear is not a passion.
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6161 </p>
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6162 <p id="FS_Q41_A1-p3">
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6163 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, every passion is an effect due to the presence of an agent. But fear is not of something present, but of something
|
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6164 future, as Damascene declares (De Fide Orth. ii, 12). Therefore fear is not a passion.
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6165 </p>
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6166 <p id="FS_Q41_A1-p4">
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6167 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, every passion of the soul is a movement of the sensitive appetite, in consequence of an apprehension of the senses.
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6168 But sense apprehends, not the future but the present. Since, then, fear is of future evil, it seems that it is not a passion
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6169 of the soul.
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6170 </p>
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6171 <p id="FS_Q41_A1-p5">
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6172 <b>On the contrary,</b> Augustine (De Civ. Dei xiv, 5, seqq.) reckons fear among the other passions of the soul.
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6173 </p>
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6174 <p id="FS_Q41_A1-p6">
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6175 <b>I answer that,</b> Among the other passions of the soul, after sorrow, fear chiefly has the character of passion. For as we have stated above
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6176 (Q[22] ), the notion of passion implies first of all a movement of a passive power---i.e. of a power whose object is compared
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6177 to it as its active principle: since passion is the effect of an agent. In this way, both "to feel" and "to understand" are
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6178 passions. Secondly, more properly speaking, passion is a movement of the appetitive
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6179 power; and more properly still, it is a movement of an appetitive power that has a bodily organ, such movement being accompanied
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6180 by a bodily transmutation. And, again, most properly those movements are called passions, which imply some deterioration.
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6181 Now it is evident that fear, since it regards evil, belongs to the appetitive power, which of itself regards good and evil.
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6182 Moreover, it belongs to the sensitive appetite: for it is accompanied by a certain transmutation---i.e. contraction---as
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6183 Damascene says (Cf. OBJ 1). Again, it implies relation to evil as overcoming, so to speak, some particular good. Wherefore
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6184 it has most properly the character of passion; less, however, than sorrow, which regards the present evil: because fear regards
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6185 future evil, which is not so strong a motive as present evil.
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6186 </p>
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6187 <p id="FS_Q41_A1-p7">
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6188 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Virtue denotes a principle of action: wherefore, in so far as the interior movements of the appetitive faculty are principles
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6189 of external action, they are called virtues. But the Philosopher denies that passion is a virtue by way of habit.
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6190 </p>
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6191 <p id="FS_Q41_A1-p8">
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6192 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Just as the passion of a natural body is due to the bodily presence of an agent, so is the passion of the soul due to the
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6193 agent being present to the soul, although neither corporally nor really present: that is to say, in so far as the evil which
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6194 is really future, is present in the apprehension of the soul.
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6195 </p>
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6196 <p id="FS_Q41_A1-p9">
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6197 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> The senses do not apprehend the future: but from apprehending the present, an animal is moved by natural instinct to hope
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6198 for a future good, or to fear a future evil.
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6199 </p>
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6200 <p id="FS_Q41_A1-p10"></p>
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6201 <p id="FS_Q41_A1-p11"></p>
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6202 <a href="summa.FS_Q41.html"></a>
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6203 <a href="summa.FS_Q41_A2.html"></a>
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6204 </div>
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6205 <div id="FS_Q41_A2" class="div4">
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6206 <a href="summa.FS_Q41_A1.html"></a>
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6207 <a href="summa.FS_Q41_A3.html"></a>
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6208 <h4 id="FS_Q41_A2-p0.1">Whether fear is a special passion?</h4>
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6209 <p id="FS_Q41_A2-p1"></p>
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6210 <p id="FS_Q41_A2-p2">
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6211 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that fear is not a special passion. For Augustine says (QQ. 83, qu. 33) that "the man who is not distraught
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6212 by fear, is neither harassed by desire, nor wounded by sickness"---i.e. sorrow---"nor tossed about in transports of empty
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6213 joys." Wherefore it seems that, if fear be set aside, all the other passions are removed. Therefore fear is not a special
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6214 but a general passion.
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6215 </p>
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6216 <p id="FS_Q41_A2-p3">
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6217 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, the Philosopher says (Ethic. vi, 2) that "pursuit and avoidance in the appetite are what affirmation and denial
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6218 are in the intellect." But denial is nothing special in the intellect, as neither is affirmation, but something common to
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6219 many. Therefore neither is avoidance anything special in the appetite. But fear is nothing but a kind of avoidance of evil.
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6220 Therefore it is not a special passion.
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6221 </p>
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6222 <p id="FS_Q41_A2-p4">
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6223 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, if fear were a special passion, it would be chiefly in the irascible part. But fear is also in the concupiscible:
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6224 since the Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 5) that "fear is a kind of sorrow"; and Damascene says (De Fide Orth. iii, 23) that
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6225 fear is "a power of desire": and both sorrow and desire are in the concupiscible faculty, as stated above (
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6226 <a id="FS_Q41_A2-p4.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q23_A4.html">Q[23], A[4]</a>). Therefore fear is not a special passion, since it belongs to different
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6227 powers.
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6228 </p>
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6229 <p id="FS_Q41_A2-p5">
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6230 <b>On the contrary,</b> Fear is condivided with the other passions of the soul, as is clear from Damascene (De Fide Orth. ii, 12,15).
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6231 </p>
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6232 <p id="FS_Q41_A2-p6">
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6233 <b>I answer that,</b> The passions of the soul derive their species from their objects: hence that is a special passion, which has a special object.
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6234 Now fear has a special object, as hope has. For just as the object of hope is a future good, difficult but possible to obtain;
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6235 so the object of fear is a future evil, difficult and irresistible. Consequently fear is a special passion of the soul.
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6236 </p>
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6237 <p id="FS_Q41_A2-p7">
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6238 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> All the passions of the soul arise from one source, viz. love, wherein they are connected with one another. By reason of
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6239 this connection, when fear is put aside, the other passions of the soul are dispersed; not, however, as though it were a general
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6240 passion.
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6241 </p>
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6242 <p id="FS_Q41_A2-p8">
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6243 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Not every avoidance in the appetite is fear, but avoidance of a special object, as stated. Wherefore, though avoidance be
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6244 something common, yet fear is a special passion.
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6245 </p>
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6246 <p id="FS_Q41_A2-p9">
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6247 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Fear is nowise in the concupiscible: for it regards evil, not absolutely, but as difficult or arduous, so as to be almost
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6248 unavoidable. But since the irascible passions arise from the passions of the concupiscible faculty, and terminate therein,
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6249 as stated above (
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6250 <a id="FS_Q41_A2-p9.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q25_A1.html">Q[25], A[1]</a>); hence it is that what belongs to the concupiscible is ascribed to fear. For fear is called sorrow, in so far as the object
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6251 of fear causes sorrow when
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6252 present: wherefore the Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 5) that fear arises "from the representation of a future evil which is
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6253 either corruptive or painful." In like manner desire is ascribed by Damascene to fear, because just as hope arises from the
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6254 desire of good, so fear arises from avoidance of evil; while avoidance of evil arises from the desire of good, as is evident
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6255 from what has been said above (
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6256 <a id="FS_Q41_A2-p9.2" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q25_A2.html">Q[25], A[2]</a>;
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6257 <a id="FS_Q41_A2-p9.3" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q29_A2.html"> Q[29], A[2]</a>;
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6258 <a id="FS_Q41_A2-p9.4" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q36_A2.html">
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6259 Q[36], A[2]
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6260 </a>).
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6261 </p>
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6262 <p id="FS_Q41_A2-p10"></p>
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6263 <p id="FS_Q41_A2-p11"></p>
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6264 <a href="summa.FS_Q41_A1.html"></a>
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6265 <a href="summa.FS_Q41_A3.html"></a>
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6266 </div>
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6267 <div id="FS_Q41_A3" class="div4">
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6268 <a href="summa.FS_Q41_A2.html"></a>
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6269 <a href="summa.FS_Q41_A4.html"></a>
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6270 <h4 id="FS_Q41_A3-p0.1">Whether there is a natural fear?</h4>
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6271 <p id="FS_Q41_A3-p1"></p>
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6272 <p id="FS_Q41_A3-p2">
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6273 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that there is a natural fear. For Damascene says (De Fide Orth. iii, 23) that "there is a natural fear, through
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6274 the soul refusing to be severed from the body."
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6275 </p>
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6276 <p id="FS_Q41_A3-p3">
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6277 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, fear arises from love, as stated above (A[2], ad 1). But there is a natural love, as Dionysius says (Div. Nom. iv).
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6278 Therefore there is also a natural fear.
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6279 </p>
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6280 <p id="FS_Q41_A3-p4">
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6281 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, fear is opposed to hope, as stated above (
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6282 <a id="FS_Q41_A3-p4.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q40_A4.html">Q[40], A[4]</a>, ad 1). But there is a hope of nature, as is evident from
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6283 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q41_A3-p4.2" href="./asv.html#Rom.4.18" target="asv"> Rom. 4:18, </a> where it is said of Abraham that "against hope" of nature, "he believed in hope" of grace. Therefore there is also a fear
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6284 of nature.
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6285 </p>
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6286 <p id="FS_Q41_A3-p5">
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6287 <b>On the contrary,</b> That which is natural is common to things animate and inanimate. But fear is not in things inanimate. Therefore there is
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6288 no natural fear.
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6289 </p>
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6290 <p id="FS_Q41_A3-p6">
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6291 <b>I answer that,</b> A movement is said to be natural, because nature inclines thereto. Now this happens in two ways. First, so that it is entirely
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6292 accomplished by nature, without any operation of the apprehensive faculty: thus to have an upward movement is natural to fire,
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6293 and to grow is the natural movement of animals and plants. Secondly, a movement is said to be natural, if nature inclines
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6294 thereto, though it be accomplished by the apprehensive faculty alone: since, as stated
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6295 above (
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6296 <a id="FS_Q41_A3-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q10_A1.html">Q[10], A[1]</a>), the movements of the cognitive and appetitive faculties are reducible to nature as to their first principle. In this way,
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6297 even the acts of the apprehensive power, such as understanding, feeling, and remembering, as well as the movements of the
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6298 animal appetite, are sometimes said to be natural.
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6299 </p>
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6300 <p id="FS_Q41_A3-p7"> And in this sense we may say that there is a natural fear; and it is distinguished from non-natural fear, by reason of the
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6301 diversity of its object. For, as the Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 5), there is a fear of "corruptive evil," which nature shrinks
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6302 from on account of its natural desire to exist; and such fear is said to be natural. Again, there is a fear of "painful evil,"
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6303 which is repugnant not to nature, but to the desire of the appetite; and such fear is not natural. In
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6304 this sense we have stated above (
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6305 <a id="FS_Q41_A3-p7.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q26_A1.html">Q[26], A[1]</a>;
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6306 <a id="FS_Q41_A3-p7.2" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q30_A3.html"> Q[30], A[3]</a>;
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6307 <a id="FS_Q41_A3-p7.3" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q31_A7.html"> Q[31], A[7]</a>) that love, desire, and pleasure are divisible into natural and non-natural.
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6308 </p>
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6309 <p id="FS_Q41_A3-p8"> But in the first sense of the word "natural," we must observe that certain passions of the soul are sometimes said to be
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6310 natural, as love, desire, and hope; whereas the others cannot be called natural. The reason of this is because love and hatred,
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6311 desire and avoidance, imply a certain inclination to pursue what is good or to avoid what is evil; which inclination is to
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6312 be found in the natural appetite also. Consequently there is a natural love; while we may also speak of desire
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6313 and hope as being even in natural things devoid of knowledge. On the other hand the other passions of the soul denote certain
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6314 movements, whereto the natural inclination is nowise sufficient. This is due either to the fact that perception or knowledge
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6315 is essential to these passions (thus we have said
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6316 <a id="FS_Q41_A3-p8.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q31_A1.html">, Q[31], AA[1]</a>,3;
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6317 <a id="FS_Q41_A3-p8.2" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q35_A1.html"> Q[35], A[1]</a>, that apprehension is a necessary condition of pleasure and sorrow), wherefore things devoid of knowledge cannot be
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6318 said to take pleasure or to be sorrowful: or else it is because such like movements are contrary to the very nature of natural
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6319 inclination: for instance, despair flies from good on account of some difficulty; and fear shrinks from repelling a contrary
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6320 evil; both of which are contrary to the inclination of nature. Wherefore such like passions are in no way ascribed to inanimate
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6321 beings.
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6322 </p>
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6323 <p id="FS_Q41_A3-p9"> Thus the Replies to the Objections are evident.</p>
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6324 <p id="FS_Q41_A3-p10"></p>
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6325 <p id="FS_Q41_A3-p11"></p>
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6326 <a href="summa.FS_Q41_A2.html"></a>
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6327 <a href="summa.FS_Q41_A4.html"></a>
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6328 </div>
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6329 <div id="FS_Q41_A4" class="div4">
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6330 <a href="summa.FS_Q41_A3.html"></a>
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6331 <a href="summa.FS_Q42.html"></a>
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6332 <h4 id="FS_Q41_A4-p0.1">Whether the species of fear is suitably assigned?</h4>
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6333 <p id="FS_Q41_A4-p1"></p>
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6334 <p id="FS_Q41_A4-p2">
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6335 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that six species of fear are unsuitably assigned by Damascene (De Fide Orth. ii, 15); namely, "laziness, shamefacedness,
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6336 shame, amazement, stupor, and anxiety." Because, as the Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 5), "fear regards a saddening evil." Therefore
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6337 the species of fear should correspond to the species of sorrow. Now there are four species of sorrow, as stated above (
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6338 <a id="FS_Q41_A4-p2.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q35_A8.html">Q[35], A[8]</a>). Therefore there should only be four
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6339 species of fear corresponding to them.
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6340 </p>
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6341 <p id="FS_Q41_A4-p3">
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6342 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, that which consists in an action of our own is in our power. But fear regards an evil that surpasses our power,
|
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6343 as stated above
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6344 <a id="FS_Q41_A4-p3.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q41_A2.html">(A[2])</a>. Therefore laziness, shamefacedness, and shame, which regard our own actions, should not be reckoned as species of fear.
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6345 </p>
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6346 <p id="FS_Q41_A4-p4">
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6347 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, fear is of the future, as stated above (
|
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6348 <a id="FS_Q41_A4-p4.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q41_A1.html">AA[1]</a>, 2). But "shame regards a disgraceful deed already done," as Gregory of Nyssa [*Nemesius, De Nat. Hom. xx.] says. Therefore
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6349 shame is not a species of fear.
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6350 </p>
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6351 <p id="FS_Q41_A4-p5">
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6352 <b>Objection 4:</b> Further, fear is only of evil. But amazement and stupor regard great and unwonted things, whether good or evil. Therefore
|
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6353 amazement and stupor are not species of fear.
|
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6354 </p>
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6355 <p id="FS_Q41_A4-p6">
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6356 <b>Objection 5:</b> Further, Philosophers have been led by amazement to seek the truth, as stated in the beginning of Metaphysics. But fear leads
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6357 to flight rather than to search. Therefore amazement is not a species of fear.
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6358 </p>
|
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6359 <p id="FS_Q41_A4-p7"> On the contrary suffices the authority of Damascene and Gregory of Nyssa [*Nemesius] (Cf. OBJ 1,3).</p>
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6360 <p id="FS_Q41_A4-p8">
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6361 <b>I answer that,</b> As stated above
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6362 <a id="FS_Q41_A4-p8.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q41_A2.html">(A[2])</a>, fear regards a future evil which surpasses the power of him that fears, so that it is irresistible. Now man's evil, like
|
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6363 his good, may be considered either in his action or in external things. In his action he has a twofold evil to fear. First,
|
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6364 there is the toil that burdens his nature: and hence arises "laziness," as when a man shrinks from work for fear of too much
|
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6365 toil. Secondly, there is the disgrace which
|
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6366 damages him in the opinion of others. And thus, if disgrace is feared in a deed that is yet to be done, there is "shamefacedness";
|
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6367 if, however, it be a deed already done, there is "shame."
|
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6368 </p>
|
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6369 <p id="FS_Q41_A4-p9"> On the other hand, the evil that consists in external things may surpass man's faculty of resistance in three ways. First
|
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6370 by reason of its magnitude; when, that is to say, a man considers some great evil the outcome of which he is unable to gauge:
|
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6371 and then there is "amazement." Secondly, by reason of its being unwonted; because, to wit, some unwonted evil arises before
|
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6372 us, and on that account is great in our estimation: and then there is "stupor," which is caused by the
|
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6373 representation of something unwonted. Thirdly, by reason of its being unforeseen: thus future misfortunes are feared, and
|
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6374 fear of this kind is called "anxiety."
|
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6375 </p>
|
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6376 <p id="FS_Q41_A4-p10">
|
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6377 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Those species of sorrow given above are not derived from the diversity of objects, but from the diversity of effects, and
|
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6378 for certain special reasons. Consequently there is no need for those species of sorrow to correspond with these species of
|
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6379 fear, which are derived from the proper division of the object of fear itself.
|
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6380 </p>
|
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6381 <p id="FS_Q41_A4-p11">
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6382 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> A deed considered as being actually done, is in the power of the doer. But it is possible to take into consideration something
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6383 connected with the deed, and surpassing the faculty of the doer, for which reason he shrinks from the deed. It is in this
|
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6384 sense that laziness, shamefacedness, and shame are reckoned as species of fear.
|
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6385 </p>
|
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6386 <p id="FS_Q41_A4-p12">
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6387 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> The past deed may be the occasion of fear of future reproach or disgrace: and in this sense shame is a species of fear.
|
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6388 </p>
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6389 <p id="FS_Q41_A4-p13">
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6390 <b>Reply to Objection 4:</b> Not every amazement and stupor are species of fear, but that amazement which is caused by a great evil, and that stupor which
|
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6391 arises from an unwonted evil. Or else we may say that, just as laziness shrinks from the toil of external work, so amazement
|
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6392 and stupor shrink from the difficulty of considering a great and unwonted thing, whether good or evil: so that amazement and
|
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6393 stupor stand in relation to the act of the intellect, as laziness does to
|
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6394 external work.
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6395 </p>
|
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6396 <p id="FS_Q41_A4-p14">
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|
6397 <b>Reply to Objection 5:</b> He who is amazed shrinks at present from forming a judgment of that which amazes him, fearing to fall short of the truth,
|
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6398 but inquires afterwards: whereas he who is overcome by stupor fears both to judge at present, and to inquire afterwards. Wherefore
|
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6399 amazement is a beginning of philosophical research: whereas stupor is a hindrance thereto.
|
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6400 </p>
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6401 <p id="FS_Q41_A4-p15"></p>
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6402 <p id="FS_Q41_A4-p16"></p>
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6403 <a href="summa.FS_Q41_A3.html"></a>
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6404 <a href="summa.FS_Q42.html"></a>
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6405 </div>
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6406 <a href="summa.FS_Q40_A8.html"></a>
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6407 <a href="summa.FS_Q41_A1.html"></a>
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6408 </div>
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6409 <div id="FS_Q42" class="div3">
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6410 <a href="summa.FS_Q41_A4.html"></a>
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6411 <a href="summa.FS_Q42_A1.html"></a>
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6412 <h3 id="FS_Q42-p0.1">OF THE OBJECT OF FEAR (SIX ARTICLES)</h3>
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6413 <p id="FS_Q42-p1"></p>
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6414 <p id="FS_Q42-p2"> We must now consider the object of fear: under which head there are six points of inquiry:</p>
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6415 <p id="FS_Q42-p3"> (1) Whether good or evil is the object of fear?</p>
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6416 <p id="FS_Q42-p4"> (2) Whether evil of nature is the object of fear?</p>
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6417 <p id="FS_Q42-p5"> (3) Whether the evil of sin is an object of fear?</p>
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6418 <p id="FS_Q42-p6"> (4) Whether fear itself can be feared?</p>
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6419 <p id="FS_Q42-p7"> (5) Whether sudden things are especially feared?</p>
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6420 <p id="FS_Q42-p8"> (6) Whether those things are more feared against which there is no remedy?</p>
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6421 <div id="FS_Q42_A1" class="div4">
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6422 <a href="summa.FS_Q42.html"></a>
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6423 <a href="summa.FS_Q42_A2.html"></a>
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6424 <h4 id="FS_Q42_A1-p0.1">Whether the object of fear is good or evil?</h4>
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6425 <p id="FS_Q42_A1-p1"></p>
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6426 <p id="FS_Q42_A1-p2">
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6427 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that good is the object of fear. For Augustine says (QQ. 83, qu. 83) that "we fear nothing save to lose what
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6428 we love and possess, or not to obtain that which we hope for." But that which we love is good. Therefore fear regards good
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6429 as its proper object.
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6430 </p>
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6431 <p id="FS_Q42_A1-p3">
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6432 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, the Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 5) that "power and to be above another is a thing to be feared." But this is a good
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6433 thing. Therefore good is the object of fear.
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6434 </p>
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6435 <p id="FS_Q42_A1-p4">
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|
6436 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, there can be no evil in God. But we are commanded to fear God, according to
|
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|
6437 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q42_A1-p4.1" href="./asv.html#Ps.33.10" target="asv"> Ps. 33:10</a>: "Fear the Lord, all ye saints." Therefore even the good is an object of fear.
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6438 </p>
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6439 <p id="FS_Q42_A1-p5">
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6440 <b>On the contrary,</b> Damascene says (De Fide Orth. ii, 12) that fear is of future evil.
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6441 </p>
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6442 <p id="FS_Q42_A1-p6">
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6443 <b>I answer that,</b> Fear is a movement of the appetitive power. Now it belongs to the appetitive power to pursue and to avoid, as stated in Ethic.
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6444 vi, 2: and pursuit is of good, while avoidance is of evil. Consequently whatever movement of the appetitive power implies
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6445 pursuit, has some good for its object: and whatever movement implies avoidance, has an evil for its object. Wherefore, since
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6446 fear implies an avoidance, in the first place and of its very nature it regards evil as
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6447 its proper object.
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6448 </p>
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6449 <p id="FS_Q42_A1-p7"> It can, however, regard good also, in so far as referable to evil. This can be in two ways. In one way, inasmuch as an evil
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6450 causes privation of good. Now a thing is evil from the very fact that it is a privation of some good. Wherefore, since evil
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6451 is shunned because it is evil, it follows that it is shunned because it deprives one of the good that one pursues through
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6452 love thereof. And in this sense Augustine says that there is no cause for fear, save loss of the good we
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6453 love.
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6454 </p>
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6455 <p id="FS_Q42_A1-p8"> In another way, good stands related to evil as its cause: in so far as some good can by its power bring harm to the good
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6456 we love: and so, just as hope, as stated above (
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6457 <a id="FS_Q42_A1-p8.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q40_A7.html">Q[40], A[7]</a>), regards two things, namely, the good to which it tends, and the thing through which there is a hope of obtaining the desired
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6458 good; so also does fear regard two things, namely, the evil from which it shrinks, and that good which, by its power, can
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6459 inflict that evil. In this
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6460 way God is feared by man, inasmuch as He can inflict punishment, spiritual or corporal. In this way, too, we fear the power
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6461 of man; especially when it has been thwarted, or when it is unjust, because then it is more likely to do us a harm.
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6462 </p>
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6463 <p id="FS_Q42_A1-p9"> In like manner one fears "to be over another," i.e. to lean on another, so that it is in his power to do us a harm: thus
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6464 a man fears another, who knows him to be guilty of a crime lest he reveal it to others.
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6465 </p>
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6466 <p id="FS_Q42_A1-p10"> This suffices for the Replies to the Objections.</p>
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6467 <p id="FS_Q42_A1-p11"></p>
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6468 <p id="FS_Q42_A1-p12"></p>
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6469 <a href="summa.FS_Q42.html"></a>
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6470 <a href="summa.FS_Q42_A2.html"></a>
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6471 </div>
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6472 <div id="FS_Q42_A2" class="div4">
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6473 <a href="summa.FS_Q42_A1.html"></a>
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6474 <a href="summa.FS_Q42_A3.html"></a>
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6475 <h4 id="FS_Q42_A2-p0.1">Whether evil of nature is an object of fear?</h4>
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6476 <p id="FS_Q42_A2-p1"></p>
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6477 <p id="FS_Q42_A2-p2">
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6478 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that evil of nature is not an object of fear. For the Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 5) that "fear makes us take
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6479 counsel." But we do not take counsel about things which happen naturally, as stated in Ethic. iii, 3. Therefore evil of nature
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6480 is not an object of fear.
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6481 </p>
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6482 <p id="FS_Q42_A2-p3">
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6483 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, natural defects such as death and the like are always threatening man. If therefore such like evils were an object
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6484 of fear, man would needs be always in fear.
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6485 </p>
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6486 <p id="FS_Q42_A2-p4">
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6487 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, nature does not move to contraries. But evil of nature is an effect of nature. Therefore if a man shrinks from such
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6488 like evils through fear thereof, this is not an effect of nature. Therefore natural fear is not of the evil of nature; and
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6489 yet it seems that it should be.
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6490 </p>
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6491 <p id="FS_Q42_A2-p5">
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6492 <b>On the contrary,</b> The Philosopher says (Ethic. iii, 6) that "the most terrible of all things is death," which is an evil of nature.
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6493 </p>
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6494 <p id="FS_Q42_A2-p6">
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6495 <b>I answer that,</b> As the Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 5), fear is caused by the "imagination of a future evil which is either corruptive or
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6496 painful." Now just as a painful evil is that which is contrary to the will, so a corruptive evil is that which is contrary
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6497 to nature: and this is the evil of nature. Consequently evil of nature can be the object of fear.
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6498 </p>
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6499 <p id="FS_Q42_A2-p7"> But it must be observed that evil of nature sometimes arises from a natural cause; and then it is called evil of nature,
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6500 not merely from being a privation of the good of nature, but also from being an effect of nature; such are natural death and
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6501 other like defects. But sometimes evil of nature arises from a non-natural cause; such as violent death inflicted by an assailant.
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6502 In either case evil of nature is feared to a certain extent, and to a certain extent not. For since fear
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6503 arises "from the imagination of future evil," as the Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 5), whatever removes the imagination of the
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6504 future evil, removes fear also. Now it may happen in two ways that an evil may not appear as about to be. First, through being
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6505 remote and far off: for, on account of the distance, such a thing is considered as though it were not to be. Hence we either
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6506 do not fear it, or fear it but little; for, as the Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 5), "we do not fear things that are very
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6507 far off; since all know that they shall die, but as death is not near, they heed it not." Secondly, a future evil is considered
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6508 as though it were not to be, on account of its being inevitable, wherefore we look upon it as already present. Hence the Philosopher
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6509 says (Rhet. ii, 5) that "those who are already on the scaffold, are not afraid," seeing that they are on the very point of
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6510 a death from which there is no escape; "but in order that a man be afraid, there must be some hope of escape for
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6511 him."
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6512 </p>
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6513 <p id="FS_Q42_A2-p8"> Consequently evil of nature is not feared if it be not apprehended as future: but if evil of nature, that is corruptive,
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6514 be apprehended as near at hand, and yet with some hope of escape, then it will be feared.
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6515 </p>
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6516 <p id="FS_Q42_A2-p9">
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6517 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> The evil of nature sometimes is not an effect of nature, as stated above. But in so far as it is an effect of nature, although
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6518 it may be impossible to avoid it entirely, yet it may be possible to delay it. And with this hope one may take counsel about
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6519 avoiding it.
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6520 </p>
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6521 <p id="FS_Q42_A2-p10">
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6522 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Although evil of nature ever threatens, yet it does not always threaten from near at hand: and consequently it is not always
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6523 feared.
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6524 </p>
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6525 <p id="FS_Q42_A2-p11">
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6526 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Death and other defects of nature are the effects of the common nature; and yet the individual nature rebels against them
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6527 as far as it can. Accordingly, from the inclination of the individual nature arise pain and sorrow for such like evils, when
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6528 present; fear when threatening in the future.
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6529 </p>
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6530 <p id="FS_Q42_A2-p12"></p>
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6531 <p id="FS_Q42_A2-p13"></p>
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6532 <a href="summa.FS_Q42_A1.html"></a>
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6533 <a href="summa.FS_Q42_A3.html"></a>
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6534 </div>
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6535 <div id="FS_Q42_A3" class="div4">
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6536 <a href="summa.FS_Q42_A2.html"></a>
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6537 <a href="summa.FS_Q42_A4.html"></a>
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6538 <h4 id="FS_Q42_A3-p0.1">Whether the evil of sin is an object of fear?</h4>
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6539 <p id="FS_Q42_A3-p1"></p>
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6540 <p id="FS_Q42_A3-p2">
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6541 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that the evil of sin can be an object of fear. For Augustine says on the canonical Epistle of John (Tract.
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6542 ix), that "by chaste fear man fears to be severed from God." Now nothing but sin severs us from God; according to
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6543 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q42_A3-p2.1" href="./asv.html#Isa.59.2" target="asv"> Is. 59:2</a>: "Your iniquities have divided between you and your God." Therefore the evil of sin can be an object of fear.
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6544 </p>
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6545 <p id="FS_Q42_A3-p3">
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6546 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, Cicero says (Quaest. Tusc. iv, 4,6) that "we fear when they are yet to come, those things which give us pain when
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6547 they are present." But it is possible for one to be pained or sorrowful on account of the evil of sin. Therefore one can also
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6548 fear the evil of sin.
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6549 </p>
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6550 <p id="FS_Q42_A3-p4">
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6551 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, hope is contrary to fear. But the good of virtue can be the object of hope, as the Philosopher declares (Ethic.
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6552 ix, 4): and the Apostle says (
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6553 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q42_A3-p4.1" href="./asv.html#Gal.5.10" target="asv">Gal. 5:10</a>): "I have confidence in you in the Lord, that you will not be of another mind." Therefore fear can regard evil of sin.
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6554 </p>
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6555 <p id="FS_Q42_A3-p5">
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6556 <b>Objection 4:</b> Further, shame is a kind of fear, as stated above (
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6557 <a id="FS_Q42_A3-p5.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q41_A4.html">Q[41], A[4]</a>). But shame regards a disgraceful deed, which is an evil of sin. Therefore fear does so likewise.
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6558 </p>
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6559 <p id="FS_Q42_A3-p6">
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6560 <b>On the contrary,</b> The Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 5) that "not all evils are feared, for instance that someone be unjust or slow."
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6561 </p>
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6562 <p id="FS_Q42_A3-p7">
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6563 <b>I answer that,</b> As stated above (
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6564 <a id="FS_Q42_A3-p7.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q40_A1.html">Q[40], A[1]</a>;
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6565 <a id="FS_Q42_A3-p7.2" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q41_A2.html"> Q[41], A[2]</a>), as the object of hope is a future good difficult but possible to obtain, so the object of fear is a future evil, arduous
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6566 and not to be easily avoided. From this we may gather that whatever is entirely subject to our power and will, is not an object
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6567 of fear; and that nothing gives rise to fear save what is due to an external cause. Now human will is the proper cause
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6568 of the evil of sin: and consequently evil of sin, properly speaking, is not an object of fear.
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6569 </p>
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6570 <p id="FS_Q42_A3-p8"> But since the human will may be inclined to sin by an extrinsic cause; if this cause have a strong power of inclination,
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6571 in that respect a man may fear the evil of sin, in so far as it arises from that extrinsic cause: as when he fears to dwell
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6572 in the company of wicked men, lest he be led by them to sin. But, properly speaking, a man thus disposed, fears the being
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6573 led astray rather than the sin considered in its proper nature, i.e. as a voluntary act; for considered in this
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6574 light it is not an object of fear to him.
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6575 </p>
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6576 <p id="FS_Q42_A3-p9">
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6577 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Separation from God is a punishment resulting from sin: and every punishment is, in some way, due to an extrinsic cause.
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6578 </p>
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6579 <p id="FS_Q42_A3-p10">
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6580 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Sorrow and fear agree in one point, since each regards evil: they differ, however, in two points. First, because sorrow is
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6581 about present evil, whereas fear is future evil. Secondly, because sorrow, being in the concupiscible faculty, regards evil
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6582 absolutely; wherefore it can be about any evil, great or small; whereas fear, being in the irascible part, regards evil with
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6583 the addition of a certain arduousness or difficulty; which difficulty ceases in so
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6584 far as a thing is subject to the will. Consequently not all things that give us pain when they are present, make us fear when
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6585 they are yet to come, but only some things, namely, those that are difficult.
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6586 </p>
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6587 <p id="FS_Q42_A3-p11">
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6588 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Hope is of good that is obtainable. Now one may obtain a good either of oneself, or through another: and so, hope may be
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6589 of an act of virtue, which lies within our own power. On the other hand, fear is of an evil that does not lie in our own power:
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6590 and consequently the evil which is feared is always from an extrinsic cause; while the good that is hoped for may be both
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6591 from an intrinsic and from an extrinsic cause.
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6592 </p>
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6593 <p id="FS_Q42_A3-p12">
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6594 <b>Reply to Objection 4:</b> As stated above (
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6595 <a id="FS_Q42_A3-p12.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q41_A4.html">Q[41], A[4]</a>, ad 2,3), shame is not fear of the very act of sin, but of the disgrace or ignominy which arises therefrom, and which is
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6596 due to an extrinsic cause.
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6597 </p>
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6598 <p id="FS_Q42_A3-p13"></p>
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6599 <p id="FS_Q42_A3-p14"></p>
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6600 <a href="summa.FS_Q42_A2.html"></a>
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6601 <a href="summa.FS_Q42_A4.html"></a>
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6602 </div>
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6603 <div id="FS_Q42_A4" class="div4">
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6604 <a href="summa.FS_Q42_A3.html"></a>
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6605 <a href="summa.FS_Q42_A5.html"></a>
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6606 <h4 id="FS_Q42_A4-p0.1">Whether fear itself can be feared?</h4>
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6607 <p id="FS_Q42_A4-p1"></p>
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6608 <p id="FS_Q42_A4-p2">
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6609 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that fear cannot be feared. For whatever is feared, is prevented from being lost, through fear thereof: thus
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6610 a man who fears to lose his health, keeps it, through fearing its loss. If therefore a man be afraid of fear, he will keep
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6611 himself from fear by being afraid: which seems absurd.
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6612 </p>
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6613 <p id="FS_Q42_A4-p3">
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6614 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, fear is a kind of flight. But nothing flies from itself. Therefore fear cannot be the object of fear.
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6615 </p>
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6616 <p id="FS_Q42_A4-p4">
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6617 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, fear is about the future. But fear is present to him that fears. Therefore it cannot be the object of his fear.
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6618 </p>
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6619 <p id="FS_Q42_A4-p5">
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6620 <b>On the contrary,</b> A man can love his own love, and can grieve at his own sorrow. Therefore, in like manner, he can fear his own fear.
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6621 </p>
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6622 <p id="FS_Q42_A4-p6">
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6623 <b>I answer that,</b> As stated above
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6624 <a id="FS_Q42_A4-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q42_A3.html">(A[3])</a>, nothing can be an object of fear, save what is due to an extrinsic cause; but not that which ensues from our own will. Now
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6625 fear partly arises from an extrinsic cause, and is partly subject to the will. It is due to an extrinsic cause, in so far
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6626 as it is a passion resulting from the imagination of an imminent evil. In this sense it is possible for fear to be the object
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6627 of fear, i.e. a man may fear lest he
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6628 should be threatened by the necessity of fearing, through being assailed by some great evil. It is subject to the will, in
|
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6629 so far as the lower appetite obeys reason; wherefore man is able to drive fear away. In this sense fear cannot be the object
|
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6630 of fear, as Augustine says (QQ. 83, qu. 33). Lest, however, anyone make use of his arguments, in order to prove that fear
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6631 cannot be at all be the object of fear, we must add a solution to the same.
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6632 </p>
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6633 <p id="FS_Q42_A4-p7">
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6634 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Not every fear is identically the same; there are various fears according to the various objects of fear. Nothing, then,
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6635 prevents a man from keeping himself from fearing one thing, by fearing another, so that the fear which he has preserves him
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6636 from the fear which he has not.
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6637 </p>
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6638 <p id="FS_Q42_A4-p8">
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6639 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Since fear of an imminent evil is not identical with the fear of the fear of imminent evil; it does not follow that a thing
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6640 flies from itself, or that it is the same flight in both cases.
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6641 </p>
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6642 <p id="FS_Q42_A4-p9">
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6643 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> On account of the various kinds of fear already alluded to (ad 2) a man's present fear may have a future fear for its object.
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6644 </p>
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6645 <p id="FS_Q42_A4-p10"></p>
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6646 <p id="FS_Q42_A4-p11"></p>
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6647 <a href="summa.FS_Q42_A3.html"></a>
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6648 <a href="summa.FS_Q42_A5.html"></a>
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6649 </div>
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6650 <div id="FS_Q42_A5" class="div4">
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6651 <a href="summa.FS_Q42_A4.html"></a>
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6652 <a href="summa.FS_Q42_A6.html"></a>
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6653 <h4 id="FS_Q42_A5-p0.1">Whether sudden things are especially feared?</h4>
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6654 <p id="FS_Q42_A5-p1"></p>
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6655 <p id="FS_Q42_A5-p2">
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6656 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that unwonted and sudden things are not especially feared. Because, as hope is about good things, so fear is
|
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6657 about evil things. But experience conduces to the increase of hope in good things. Therefore it also adds to fear in evil
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6658 things.
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6659 </p>
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6660 <p id="FS_Q42_A5-p3">
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6661 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, the Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 5) that "those are feared most, not who are quick-tempered, but who are gentle and
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6662 cunning." Now it is clear that those who are quick-tempered are more subject to sudden emotions. Therefore sudden things are
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6663 less to be feared.
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6664 </p>
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6665 <p id="FS_Q42_A5-p4">
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6666 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, we think less about things that happen suddenly. But the more we think about a thing, the more we fear it; hence
|
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6667 the Philosopher says (Ethic. iii, 8) that "some appear to be courageous through ignorance, but as soon as they discover that
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6668 the case is different from what they expected, they run away." Therefore sudden things are feared less.
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6669 </p>
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6670 <p id="FS_Q42_A5-p5">
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6671 <b>On the contrary,</b> Augustine says (Confess. ii, 6): "Fear is startled at things unwonted and sudden, which endanger things beloved, and takes
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6672 forethought for their safety."
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6673 </p>
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6674 <p id="FS_Q42_A5-p6">
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6675 <b>I answer that,</b> As stated about
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6676 <a id="FS_Q42_A5-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q42_A3.html">(A[3];</a> Q[41], A[2]), the object of fear is an imminent evil, which can be repelled, but with difficulty. Now this is due to one
|
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6677 of two causes: to the greatness of the evil, or to the weakness of him that fears; while unwontedness and suddenness conduce
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6678 to both of these causes. First, it helps an imminent evil to seem greater. Because all material things, whether good or evil,
|
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|
6679 the more we consider them, the smaller
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6680 they seem. Consequently, just as sorrow for a present evil is mitigated in course of time, as Cicero states (De Quaest. Tusc.
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6681 iii, 30); so, too, fear of a future evil is diminished by thinking about it beforehand. Secondly, unwontedness and suddenness
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6682 increase the weakness of him that fears, in so far as they deprive him of the remedies with which he might otherwise provide
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6683 himself to forestall the coming evil, were it not for the evil taking him by surprise.
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6684 </p>
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6685 <p id="FS_Q42_A5-p7">
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6686 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> The object of hope is a good that is possible to obtain. Consequently whatever increases a man's power, is of a nature to
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6687 increase hope, and, for the same reason, to diminish fear, since fear is about an evil which cannot be easily repelled. Since,
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6688 therefore, experience increases a man's power of action, therefore, as it increases hope, so does it diminish fear.
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6689 </p>
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6690 <p id="FS_Q42_A5-p8">
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6691 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Those who are quick-tempered do not hide their anger; wherefore the harm they do others is not so sudden, as not to be foreseen.
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6692 On the other hand, those who are gentle or cunning hide their anger; wherefore the harm which may be impending from them,
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6693 cannot be foreseen, but takes one by surprise. For this reason the Philosopher says that such men are feared more than others.
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6694 </p>
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6695 <p id="FS_Q42_A5-p9">
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6696 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Bodily good or evil, considered in itself, seems greater at first. The reason for this is that a thing is more obvious when
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6697 seen in juxtaposition with its contrary. Hence, when a man passes unexpectedly from penury to wealth, he thinks more of his
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6698 wealth on account of his previous poverty: while, on the other hand, the rich man who suddenly becomes poor, finds poverty
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6699 all the more disagreeable. For this reason sudden evil is feared more, because it
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6700 seems more to be evil. However, it may happen through some accident that the greatness of some evil is hidden; for instance
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6701 if the foe hides himself in ambush: and then it is true that evil inspires greater fear through being much thought about.
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6702 </p>
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6703 <p id="FS_Q42_A5-p10"></p>
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6704 <p id="FS_Q42_A5-p11"></p>
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6705 <a href="summa.FS_Q42_A4.html"></a>
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6706 <a href="summa.FS_Q42_A6.html"></a>
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6707 </div>
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6708 <div id="FS_Q42_A6" class="div4">
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6709 <a href="summa.FS_Q42_A5.html"></a>
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6710 <a href="summa.FS_Q43.html"></a>
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6711 <h4 id="FS_Q42_A6-p0.1">Whether those things are more feared, for which there is no remedy?</h4>
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6712 <p id="FS_Q42_A6-p1"></p>
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6713 <p id="FS_Q42_A6-p2">
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6714 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that those things are not more to be feared, for which there is no remedy. Because it is a condition of fear,
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6715 that there be some hope of safety, as stated above
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6716 <a id="FS_Q42_A6-p2.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q42_A2.html">(A[2])</a>. But an evil that cannot be remedied leaves no hope of escape. Therefore such things are not feared at all.
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6717 </p>
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6718 <p id="FS_Q42_A6-p3">
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6719 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, there is no remedy for the evil of death: since, in the natural course of things, there is no return from death
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6720 to life. And yet death is not the most feared of all things, as the Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 5). Therefore those things
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6721 are not feared most, for which there is no remedy.
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6722 </p>
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6723 <p id="FS_Q42_A6-p4">
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6724 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, the Philosopher says (Ethic. i, 6) that "a thing which lasts long is no better than that which lasts but one day:
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6725 nor is that which lasts for ever any better than that which is not everlasting": and the same applies to evil. But things
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6726 that cannot be remedied seem to differ from other things, merely in the point of their lasting long or for ever. Consequently
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6727 they are not therefore any worse or more to be feared.
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6728 </p>
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6729 <p id="FS_Q42_A6-p5">
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6730 <b>On the contrary,</b> the Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 5) that "those things are most to be feared which when done wrong cannot be put right . .
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6731 . or for which there is no help, or which are not easy."
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6732 </p>
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6733 <p id="FS_Q42_A6-p6">
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6734 <b>I answer that,</b> The object of fear is evil: consequently whatever tends to increase evil, conduces to the increase of fear. Now evil is increased
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6735 not only in its species of evil, but also in respect of circumstances, as stated above (
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6736 <a id="FS_Q42_A6-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q18_A3.html">Q[18], A[3]</a>). And of all the circumstances, longlastingness, or even everlastingness, seems to have the greatest bearing on the increase
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6737 of evil. Because things that exist in time are measured, in a way, according to
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6738 the duration of time: wherefore if it be an evil to suffer something for a certain length of time, we should reckon the evil
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6739 doubled, if it be suffered for twice that length of time. And accordingly, to suffer the same thing for an infinite length
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6740 of time, i.e. for ever, implies, so to speak, an infinite increase. Now those evils which, after they have come, cannot be
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6741 remedied at all, or at least not easily, are considered as lasting for ever or for a long time: for which reason they inspire
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6742 the greatest fear.
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6743 </p>
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6744 <p id="FS_Q42_A6-p7">
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6745 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Remedy for an evil is twofold. One, by which a future evil is warded off from coming. If such a remedy be removed, there
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6746 is an end to hope and consequently to fear; wherefore we do not speak now of remedies of that kind. The other remedy is one
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6747 by which an already present evil is removed: and of such a remedy we speak now.
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6748 </p>
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6749 <p id="FS_Q42_A6-p8">
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6750 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Although death be an evil without remedy, yet, since it threatens not from near, it is not feared, as stated above
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6751 <a id="FS_Q42_A6-p8.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q42_A2.html">(A[2])</a>.
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6752 </p>
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6753 <p id="FS_Q42_A6-p9">
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6754 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> The Philosopher is speaking there of things that are good in themselves, i.e. good specifically. And such like good is no
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6755 better for lasting long or for ever: its goodness depends on its very nature.
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6756 </p>
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6757 <p id="FS_Q42_A6-p10"></p>
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6758 <p id="FS_Q42_A6-p11"></p>
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6759 <a href="summa.FS_Q42_A5.html"></a>
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6760 <a href="summa.FS_Q43.html"></a>
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6761 </div>
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6762 <a href="summa.FS_Q41_A4.html"></a>
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6763 <a href="summa.FS_Q42_A1.html"></a>
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6764 </div>
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6765 <div id="FS_Q43" class="div3">
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6766 <a href="summa.FS_Q42_A6.html"></a>
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6767 <a href="summa.FS_Q43_A1.html"></a>
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6768 <h3 id="FS_Q43-p0.1">OF THE CAUSE OF FEAR (TWO ARTICLES)</h3>
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6769 <p id="FS_Q43-p1"></p>
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6770 <p id="FS_Q43-p2"> We must now consider the cause of fear: under which head there are two points of inquiry:</p>
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6771 <p id="FS_Q43-p3"> (1) Whether love is the cause of fear?</p>
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6772 <p id="FS_Q43-p4"> (2) Whether defect is the cause of fear?</p>
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6773 <div id="FS_Q43_A1" class="div4">
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6774 <a href="summa.FS_Q43.html"></a>
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6775 <a href="summa.FS_Q43_A2.html"></a>
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6776 <h4 id="FS_Q43_A1-p0.1">Whether love is the cause of fear?</h4>
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6777 <p id="FS_Q43_A1-p1"></p>
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6778 <p id="FS_Q43_A1-p2">
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6779 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that love is not the cause of fear. For that which leads to a thing is its cause. But "fear leads to the love
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6780 of charity" as Augustine says on the canonical epistle of John (Tract. ix). Therefore fear is the cause of love, and not conversely.
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6781 </p>
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6782 <p id="FS_Q43_A1-p3">
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6783 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, the Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 5) that "those are feared most from whom we dread the advent of some evil." But
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6784 the dread of evil being caused by someone, makes us hate rather than love him. Therefore fear is caused by hate rather than
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6785 by love.
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6786 </p>
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6787 <p id="FS_Q43_A1-p4">
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6788 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, it has been stated above (
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6789 <a id="FS_Q43_A1-p4.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q42_A3.html">Q[42], A[3]</a>) that those things which occur by our own doing are not fearful. But that which we do from love, is done from our inmost
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6790 heart. Therefore fear is not caused by love.
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6791 </p>
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6792 <p id="FS_Q43_A1-p5">
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6793 <b>On the contrary,</b> Augustine says (QQ. 83, qu. 33): "There can be no doubt that there is no cause for fear save the loss of what we love, when
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6794 we possess it, or the failure to obtain what we hope for." Therefore all fear is caused by our loving something: and consequently
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6795 love is the cause of fear.
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6796 </p>
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6797 <p id="FS_Q43_A1-p6">
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6798 <b>I answer that,</b> The objects of the soul's passions stand in relation thereto as the forms to things natural or artificial: because the passions
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6799 of the soul take their species from their objects, as the aforesaid things do from their forms. Therefore, just as whatever
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6800 is a cause of the form, is a cause of the thing constituted by that form, so whatever is a cause, in any way whatever, of
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6801 the object, is a cause of the passion. Now a thing may be a cause of the object, either
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6802 by way of efficient cause, or by way of material disposition. Thus the object of pleasure is good apprehended as suitable
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6803 and conjoined: and its efficient cause is that which causes the conjunction, or the suitableness, or goodness, or apprehension
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6804 of that good thing; while its cause by way of material disposition, is a habit or any sort of disposition by reason of which
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6805 this conjoined good becomes suitable or is apprehended as such.
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6806 </p>
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6807 <p id="FS_Q43_A1-p7"> Accordingly, as to the matter in question, the object of fear is something reckoned as an evil to come, near at hand and
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6808 difficult to avoid. Therefore that which can inflict such an evil, is the efficient cause of the object of fear, and, consequently,
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6809 of fear itself. While that which renders a man so disposed that thing is such an evil to him, is a cause of fear and of its
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6810 object, by way of material disposition. And thus it is that love causes fear: since it is through his
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6811 loving a certain good, that whatever deprives a man of that good is an evil to him, and that consequently he fears it as an
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6812 evil.
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6813 </p>
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6814 <p id="FS_Q43_A1-p8">
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6815 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> As stated above (
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6816 <a id="FS_Q43_A1-p8.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q42_A1.html">Q[42], A[1]</a>), fear, of itself and in the first place, regards the evil from which it recoils as being contrary to some loved good: and
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6817 thus fear, of itself, is born of love. But, in the second place, it regards the cause from which that evil ensues: so that
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6818 sometimes, accidentally, fear gives rise to love; in so far as, for instance, through fear of God's punishments, man keeps
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6819 His commandments, and thus
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6820 begins to hope, while hope leads to love, as stated above (
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6821 <a id="FS_Q43_A1-p8.2" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q40_A7.html">Q[40] , A[7]</a>).
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6822 </p>
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6823 <p id="FS_Q43_A1-p9">
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6824 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> He, from whom evil is expected, is indeed hated at first; but afterwards, when once we begin to hope for good from him, we
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6825 begin to love him. But the good, the contrary evil of which is feared, was loved from the beginning.
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6826 </p>
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6827 <p id="FS_Q43_A1-p10">
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6828 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> This argument is true of that which is the efficient cause of the evil to be feared: whereas love causes fear by way of material
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6829 disposition, as stated above.
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6830 </p>
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6831 <p id="FS_Q43_A1-p11"></p>
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6832 <p id="FS_Q43_A1-p12"></p>
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6833 <a href="summa.FS_Q43.html"></a>
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6834 <a href="summa.FS_Q43_A2.html"></a>
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6835 </div>
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6836 <div id="FS_Q43_A2" class="div4">
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6837 <a href="summa.FS_Q43_A1.html"></a>
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6838 <a href="summa.FS_Q44.html"></a>
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6839 <h4 id="FS_Q43_A2-p0.1">Whether defect is the cause of fear?</h4>
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6840 <p id="FS_Q43_A2-p1"></p>
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6841 <p id="FS_Q43_A2-p2">
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6842 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that defect is not a cause of fear. Because those who are in power are very much feared. But defect is contrary
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6843 to power. Therefore defect is not a cause of fear.
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6844 </p>
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6845 <p id="FS_Q43_A2-p3">
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6846 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, the defect of those who are already being executed is extreme. But such like do not fear as stated in Rhet. ii,
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6847 5. Therefore defect is not a cause of fear.
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6848 </p>
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6849 <p id="FS_Q43_A2-p4">
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6850 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, contests arise from strength not from defect. But "those who contend fear those who contend with them" (Rhet. ii,
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6851 5). Therefore defect is not a cause of fear.
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6852 </p>
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6853 <p id="FS_Q43_A2-p5">
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6854 <b>On the contrary,</b> Contraries ensue from contrary causes. But "wealth, strength, a multitude of friends, and power drive fear away" (Rhet. ii,
|
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6855 5). Therefore fear is caused by lack of these.
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6856 </p>
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6857 <p id="FS_Q43_A2-p6">
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6858 <b>I answer that,</b> As stated above
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6859 <a id="FS_Q43_A2-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q43_A1.html">(A[1])</a>, fear may be set down to a twofold cause: one is by way of a material disposition, on the part of him that fears; the other
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6860 is by way of efficient cause, on the part of the person feared. As to the first then, some defect is, of itself, the cause
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6861 of fear: for it is owing to some lack of power that one is unable easily to repulse a threatening evil. And yet, in order
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6862 to cause fear, this defect must be according
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6863 to a measure. For the defect which causes fear of a future evil, is less than the defect caused by evil present, which is
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6864 the object of sorrow. And still greater would be the defect, if perception of the evil, or love of the good whose contrary
|
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6865 is feared, were entirely absent.
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6866 </p>
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6867 <p id="FS_Q43_A2-p7"> But as to the second, power and strength are, of themselves, the cause of fear: because it is owing to the fact that the
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6868 cause apprehended as harmful is powerful, that its effect cannot be repulsed. It may happen, however, in this respect, that
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6869 some defect causes fear accidentally, in so far as owing to some defect someone wishes to hurt another; for instance, by reason
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6870 of injustice, either because that other has already done him a harm, or because he fears to be harmed by
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6871 him.
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6872 </p>
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6873 <p id="FS_Q43_A2-p8">
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6874 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> This argument is true of the cause of fear, on the part of the efficient cause.
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6875 </p>
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6876 <p id="FS_Q43_A2-p9">
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6877 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Those who are already being executed, are actually suffering from a present evil; wherefore their defect exceeds the measure
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6878 of fear.
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6879 </p>
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6880 <p id="FS_Q43_A2-p10">
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6881 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Those who contend with one another are afraid, not on account of the power which enables them to contend: but on account
|
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6882 of the lack of power, owing to which they are not confident of victory.
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6883 </p>
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6884 <p id="FS_Q43_A2-p11"></p>
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6885 <p id="FS_Q43_A2-p12"></p>
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6886 <a href="summa.FS_Q43_A1.html"></a>
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6887 <a href="summa.FS_Q44.html"></a>
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6888 </div>
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6889 <a href="summa.FS_Q42_A6.html"></a>
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6890 <a href="summa.FS_Q43_A1.html"></a>
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6891 </div>
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6892 <div id="FS_Q44" class="div3">
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6893 <a href="summa.FS_Q43_A2.html"></a>
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6894 <a href="summa.FS_Q44_A1.html"></a>
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6895 <h3 id="FS_Q44-p0.1">OF THE EFFECTS OF FEAR (FOUR ARTICLES)</h3>
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6896 <p id="FS_Q44-p1"></p>
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6897 <p id="FS_Q44-p2"> We must now consider the effects of fear: under which head there are four points of inquiry:</p>
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6898 <p id="FS_Q44-p3"> (1) Whether fear causes contraction?</p>
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6899 <p id="FS_Q44-p4"> (2) Whether it makes men suitable for counsel?</p>
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6900 <p id="FS_Q44-p5"> (3) Whether it makes one tremble?</p>
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6901 <p id="FS_Q44-p6"> (4) Whether it hinders action?</p>
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6902 <div id="FS_Q44_A1" class="div4">
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6903 <a href="summa.FS_Q44.html"></a>
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6904 <a href="summa.FS_Q44_A2.html"></a>
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6905 <h4 id="FS_Q44_A1-p0.1">Whether fear causes contraction?</h4>
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6906 <p id="FS_Q44_A1-p1"></p>
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6907 <p id="FS_Q44_A1-p2">
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6908 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that fear does not cause contraction. For when contraction takes place, the heat and vital spirits are withdrawn
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6909 inwardly. But accumulation of heat and vital spirits in the interior parts of the body, dilates the heart unto endeavors of
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6910 daring, as may be seen in those who are angered: while the contrary happens in those who are afraid. Therefore fear does not
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6911 cause contraction.
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6912 </p>
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6913 <p id="FS_Q44_A1-p3">
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6914 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, when, as a result of contraction, the vital spirits and heat are accumulated in the interior parts, man cries out,
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6915 as may be seen in those who are in pain. But those who fear utter nothing: on the contrary they lose their speech. Therefore
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6916 fear does not cause contraction.
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6917 </p>
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6918 <p id="FS_Q44_A1-p4">
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6919 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, shame is a kind of fear, as stated above (
|
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6920 <a id="FS_Q44_A1-p4.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q41_A4.html">Q[41], A[4]</a>). But "those who are ashamed blush," as Cicero (De Quaest. Tusc. iv, 8), and the Philosopher (Ethic. iv, 9) observe. But
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6921 blushing is an indication, not of contraction, but of the reverse. Therefore contraction is not an effect of fear.
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6922 </p>
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6923 <p id="FS_Q44_A1-p5">
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6924 <b>On the contrary,</b> Damascene says (De Fide Orth. ii, 23) that "fear is a power according to {systole}," i.e. contraction.
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6925 </p>
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6926 <p id="FS_Q44_A1-p6">
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6927 <b>I answer that,</b> As stated above (
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6928 <a id="FS_Q44_A1-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q28_A5.html">Q[28], A[5]</a>), in the passions of the soul, the formal element is the movement of the appetitive power, while the bodily transmutation
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6929 is the material element. Both of these are mutually proportionate; and consequently the bodily transmutation assumes a resemblance
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6930 to and the very nature of the appetitive movement. Now, as to the appetitive movement of the soul, fear implies a certain
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6931 contraction: the reason of which
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6932 is that fear arises from the imagination of some threatening evil which is difficult to repel, as stated above (
|
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6933 <a id="FS_Q44_A1-p6.2" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q41_A2.html">Q[41], A[2]</a>). But that a thing be difficult to repel is due to lack of power, as stated above (
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6934 <a id="FS_Q44_A1-p6.3" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q43_A2.html">Q[43], A[2]</a>): and the weaker a power is, the fewer the things to which it extends. Wherefore from the very imagination that causes fear
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6935 there ensues a certain contraction in the appetite. Thus we observe in one who is dying that nature
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6936 withdraws inwardly, on account of the lack of power: and again we see the inhabitants of a city, when seized with fear, leave
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6937 the outskirts, and, as far as possible, make for the inner quarters. It is in resemblance to this contraction, which pertains
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6938 to the appetite of the soul, that in fear a similar contraction of heat and vital spirits towards the inner parts takes place
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6939 in regard to the body.
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6940 </p>
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6941 <p id="FS_Q44_A1-p7">
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6942 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> As the Philosopher says (De Problem. xxvii, 3), although in those who fear, the vital spirits recede from outer to the inner
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6943 parts of the body, yet the movement of vital spirits is not the same in those who are angry and those who are afraid. For
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6944 in those who are angry, by reason of the heat and subtlety of the vital spirits, which result from the craving for vengeance,
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6945 the inward movement has an upward direction: wherefore the vital spirits and heat
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6946 concentrate around the heart: the result being that an angry man is quick and brave in attacking. But in those who are afraid,
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6947 on account of the condensation caused by cold, the vital spirits have a downward movement; the said cold being due to the
|
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6948 imagined lack of power. Consequently the heat and vital spirits abandon the heart instead of concentrating around it: the
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6949 result being that a man who is afraid is not quick to attack, but is more inclined to run away.
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6950 </p>
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6951 <p id="FS_Q44_A1-p8">
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6952 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> To everyone that is in pain, whether man or animal, it is natural to use all possible means of repelling the harmful thing
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6953 that causes pain but its presence: thus we observe that animals, when in pain, attack with their jaws or with their horns.
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6954 Now the greatest help for all purposes, in animals, is heat and vital spirits: wherefore when they are in pain, their nature
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6955 stores up the heat and vital spirits within them, in order to make use thereof in
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6956 repelling the harmful object. Hence the Philosopher says (De Problem. xxvii, 9) when the vital spirits and heat are concentrated
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6957 together within, they require to find a vent in the voice: for which reason those who are in pain can scarcely refrain from
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6958 crying aloud. On the other hand, in those who are afraid, the internal heat and vital spirits move from the heart downwards,
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6959 as stated above (ad 1): wherefore fear hinders speech which ensues from the emission of the vital spirits in an upward
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6960 direction through the mouth: the result being that fear makes its subject speechless. For this reason, too, fear "makes its
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6961 subject tremble," as the Philosopher says (De Problem. xxvii, 1,6,7).
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6962 </p>
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6963 <p id="FS_Q44_A1-p9">
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6964 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Mortal perils are contrary not only to the appetite of the soul, but also to nature. Consequently in such like fear, there
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6965 is contraction not only in the appetite, but also in the corporeal nature: for when an animal is moved by the imagination
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6966 of death, it experiences a contraction of heat towards the inner parts of the body, as though it were threatened by a natural
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6967 death. Hence it is that "those who are in fear of death turn pale" (Ethic. iv, 9).
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6968 But the evil that shame fears, is contrary, not to nature, but only to the appetite of the soul. Consequently there results
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6969 a contraction in this appetite, but not in the corporeal nature; in fact, the soul, as though contracted in itself, is free
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6970 to set the vital spirits and heat in movement, so that they spread to the outward parts of the body: the result being that
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6971 those who are ashamed blush.
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6972 </p>
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6973 <p id="FS_Q44_A1-p10"></p>
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6974 <p id="FS_Q44_A1-p11"></p>
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6975 <a href="summa.FS_Q44.html"></a>
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6976 <a href="summa.FS_Q44_A2.html"></a>
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6977 </div>
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6978 <div id="FS_Q44_A2" class="div4">
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6979 <a href="summa.FS_Q44_A1.html"></a>
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6980 <a href="summa.FS_Q44_A3.html"></a>
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6981 <h4 id="FS_Q44_A2-p0.1">Whether fear makes one suitable for counsel? </h4>
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6982 <p id="FS_Q44_A2-p1"></p>
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6983 <p id="FS_Q44_A2-p2">
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6984 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that fear does not make one suitable for counsel. For the same thing cannot be conducive to counsel, and a
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6985 hindrance thereto. But fear hinders counsel: because every passion disturbs repose, which is requisite for the good use of
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6986 reason. Therefore fear does not make a man suitable for counsel.
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6987 </p>
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6988 <p id="FS_Q44_A2-p3">
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6989 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, counsel is an act of reason, in thinking and deliberating about the future. But a certain fear "drives away all
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6990 thought, and dislocates the mind," as Cicero observes (De Quaest. Tusc. iv, 8). Therefore fear does not conduce to counsel,
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6991 but hinders it.
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6992 </p>
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6993 <p id="FS_Q44_A2-p4">
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6994 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, just as we have recourse to counsel in order to avoid evil, so do we, in order to attain good things. But whereas
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6995 fear is of evil to be avoided, so is hope of good things to be obtained. Therefore fear is not more conducive to counsel,
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6996 than hope is.
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6997 </p>
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6998 <p id="FS_Q44_A2-p5">
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6999 <b>On the contrary,</b> The Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 5) that "fear makes men of counsel."
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7000 </p>
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7001 <p id="FS_Q44_A2-p6">
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7002 <b>I answer that,</b> A man of counsel may be taken in two ways. First, from his being willing or anxious to take counsel. And thus fear makes
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7003 men of counsel. Because, as the Philosopher says (Ethic. iii, 3), "we take counsel on great matters, because therein we distrust
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7004 ourselves." Now things which make us afraid, are not simply evil, but have a certain magnitude, both because they seem difficult
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7005 to repel, and because they are apprehended as near to us, as stated above (
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7006 <a id="FS_Q44_A2-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q42_A2.html">Q[42], A[2]</a>). Wherefore men seek for counsel especially when they are afraid.
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7007 </p>
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7008 <p id="FS_Q44_A2-p7"> Secondly, a man of counsel means one who is apt for giving good counsel: and in this sense, neither fear nor any passion
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7009 makes men of counsel. Because when a man is affected by a passion, things seem to him greater or smaller than they really
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7010 are: thus to a lover, what he loves seems better; to him that fears, what he fears seems more dreadful. Consequently owing
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7011 to the want of right judgment, every passion, considered in itself, hinders the faculty of giving good counsel.
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7012 </p>
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7013 <p id="FS_Q44_A2-p8"> This suffices for the Reply to the First Objection.</p>
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7014 <p id="FS_Q44_A2-p9">
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7015 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> The stronger a passion is, the greater the hindrance is it to the man who is swayed by it. Consequently, when fear is intense,
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7016 man does indeed wish to take counsel, but his thoughts are so disturbed, that he can find no counsel. If, however, the fear
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7017 be slight, so as to make a man wish to take counsel, without gravely disturbing the reason; it may even make it easier for
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7018 him to take good counsel, by reason of his ensuing carefulness.
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7019 </p>
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7020 <p id="FS_Q44_A2-p10">
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7021 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Hope also makes man a good counsellor: because, as the Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 5), "no man takes counsel in matters he
|
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7022 despairs of," nor about impossible things, as he says in Ethic. iii, 3. But fear incites to counsel more than hope does. Because
|
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7023 hope is of good things, as being possible of attainment; whereas fear is of evil things, as being difficult to repel, so that
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7024 fear regards the aspect of difficulty more than hope does. And it is in
|
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7025 matters of difficulty, especially when we distrust ourselves, that we take counsel, as stated above.
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7026 </p>
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7027 <p id="FS_Q44_A2-p11"></p>
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7028 <p id="FS_Q44_A2-p12"></p>
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7029 <a href="summa.FS_Q44_A1.html"></a>
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7030 <a href="summa.FS_Q44_A3.html"></a>
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7031 </div>
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7032 <div id="FS_Q44_A3" class="div4">
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7033 <a href="summa.FS_Q44_A2.html"></a>
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7034 <a href="summa.FS_Q44_A4.html"></a>
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7035 <h4 id="FS_Q44_A3-p0.1">Whether fear makes one tremble?</h4>
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7036 <p id="FS_Q44_A3-p1"></p>
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7037 <p id="FS_Q44_A3-p2">
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7038 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that trembling is not an effect of fear. Because trembling is occasioned by cold; thus we observe that a cold
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7039 person trembles. Now fear does not seem to make one cold, but rather to cause a parching heat: a sign whereof is that those
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7040 who fear are thirsty, especially if their fear be very great, as in the case of those who are being led to execution. Therefore
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7041 fear does not cause trembling.
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7042 </p>
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7043 <p id="FS_Q44_A3-p3">
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7044 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, faecal evacuation is occasioned by heat; hence laxative medicines are generally warm. But these evacuations are
|
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7045 often caused by fear. Therefore fear apparently causes heat; and consequently does not cause trembling.
|
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7046 </p>
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7047 <p id="FS_Q44_A3-p4">
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7048 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, in fear, the heat is withdrawn from the outer to the inner parts of the body. If, therefore, man trembles in his
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7049 outward parts, through the heat being withdrawn thus; it seems that fear should cause this trembling in all the external members.
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7050 But such is not the case. Therefore trembling of the body is not caused by fear.
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7051 </p>
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7052 <p id="FS_Q44_A3-p5">
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7053 <b>On the contrary,</b> Cicero says (De Quaest. Tusc. iv, 8) that "fear is followed by trembling, pallor and chattering of the teeth."
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7054 </p>
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7055 <p id="FS_Q44_A3-p6">
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7056 <b>I answer that,</b> As stated above
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7057 <a id="FS_Q44_A3-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q44_A1.html">(A[1])</a>, in fear there takes place a certain contraction from the outward to the inner parts of the body, the result being that the
|
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7058 outer parts become cold; and for this reason trembling is occasioned in these parts, being caused by a lack of power in controlling
|
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7059 the members: which lack of power is due to the want of heat, which is the instrument whereby the soul moves those members,
|
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7060 as stated in De Anima ii, 4.
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7061 </p>
|
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7062 <p id="FS_Q44_A3-p7">
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7063 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> When the heat withdraws from the outer to the inner parts, the inward heat increases, especially in the inferior or nutritive
|
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7064 parts. Consequently the humid element being spent, thirst ensues; sometimes indeed the result is a loosening of the bowels,
|
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7065 and urinary or even seminal evacuation. Or else such like evacuations are due to contraction of the abdomen and testicles,
|
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7066 as the Philosopher says (De Problem. xxii, 11).
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7067 </p>
|
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7068 <p id="FS_Q44_A3-p8"> This suffices for the Reply to the Second Objection.</p>
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7069 <p id="FS_Q44_A3-p9">
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7070 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> In fear, heat abandons the heart, with a downward movement: hence in those who are afraid the heart especially trembles,
|
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7071 as also those members which are connected with the breast where the heart resides. Hence those who fear tremble especially
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7072 in their speech, on account of the tracheal artery being near the heart. The lower lip, too, and the lower jaw tremble, through
|
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7073 their connection with the heart; which explains the chattering of the teeth. For
|
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7074 the same reason the arms and hands tremble. Or else because the aforesaid members are more mobile. For which reason the knees
|
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7075 tremble in those who are afraid, according to
|
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7076 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q44_A3-p9.1" href="./asv.html#Isa.35.3" target="asv">Is. 35:3</a>: "Strengthen ye the feeble hands, and confirm the trembling [Vulg.: 'weak'] knees."
|
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7077 </p>
|
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7078 <p id="FS_Q44_A3-p10"></p>
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7079 <p id="FS_Q44_A3-p11"></p>
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7080 <a href="summa.FS_Q44_A2.html"></a>
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7081 <a href="summa.FS_Q44_A4.html"></a>
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7082 </div>
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7083 <div id="FS_Q44_A4" class="div4">
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7084 <a href="summa.FS_Q44_A3.html"></a>
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7085 <a href="summa.FS_Q45.html"></a>
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7086 <h4 id="FS_Q44_A4-p0.1">Whether fear hinders action?</h4>
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7087 <p id="FS_Q44_A4-p1"></p>
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7088 <p id="FS_Q44_A4-p2">
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7089 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that fear hinders action. For action is hindered chiefly by a disturbance in the reason, which directs action.
|
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7090 But fear disturbs reason, as stated above
|
|
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7091 <a id="FS_Q44_A4-p2.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q44_A2.html">(A[2])</a>. Therefore fear hinders action.
|
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7092 </p>
|
|
|
7093 <p id="FS_Q44_A4-p3">
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7094 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, those who fear while doing anything, are more apt to fail: thus a man who walks on a plank placed aloft, easily
|
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7095 falls through fear; whereas, if he were to walk on the same plank down below, he would not fall, through not being afraid.
|
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7096 Therefore fear hinders action.
|
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7097 </p>
|
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7098 <p id="FS_Q44_A4-p4">
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7099 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, laziness or sloth is a kind of fear. But laziness hinders action. Therefore fear does too.
|
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7100 </p>
|
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7101 <p id="FS_Q44_A4-p5">
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7102 <b>On the contrary,</b> The Apostle says (
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7103 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q44_A4-p5.1" href="./asv.html#Phil.2.12" target="asv">Phil. 2:12</a>): "With fear and trembling work out your salvation": and he would not say this if fear were a hindrance to a good work. Therefore
|
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7104 fear does not hinder a good action.
|
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7105 </p>
|
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7106 <p id="FS_Q44_A4-p6">
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7107 <b>I answer that,</b> Man's exterior actions are caused by the soul as first mover, but by the bodily members as instruments. Now action may be
|
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7108 hindered both by defect of the instrument, and by defect of the principal mover. On the part of the bodily instruments, fear,
|
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7109 considered in itself, is always apt to hinder exterior action, on account of the outward members being deprived, through fear,
|
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7110 of their heat. But on the part of the soul, if the fear be moderate, without much
|
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7111 disturbance of the reason, it conduces to working well, in so far as it causes a certain solicitude, and makes a man take
|
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7112 counsel and work with greater attention. If, however, fear increases so much as to disturb the reason, it hinders action even
|
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7113 on the part of the soul. But of such a fear the Apostle does not speak.
|
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7114 </p>
|
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7115 <p id="FS_Q44_A4-p7"> This suffices for the Reply to the First Objection.</p>
|
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7116 <p id="FS_Q44_A4-p8">
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7117 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> He that falls from a plank placed aloft, suffers a disturbance of his imagination, through fear of the fall that is pictured
|
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7118 to his imagination.
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7119 </p>
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7120 <p id="FS_Q44_A4-p9">
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7121 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Everyone in fear shuns that which he fears: and therefore, since laziness is a fear of work itself as being toilsome, it
|
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|
7122 hinders work by withdrawing the will from it. But fear of other things conduces to action, in so far as it inclines the will
|
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7123 to do that whereby a man escapes from what he fears.
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7124 </p>
|
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7125 <p id="FS_Q44_A4-p10"></p>
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7126 <p id="FS_Q44_A4-p11"></p>
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7127 <a href="summa.FS_Q44_A3.html"></a>
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7128 <a href="summa.FS_Q45.html"></a>
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7129 </div>
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7130 <a href="summa.FS_Q43_A2.html"></a>
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7131 <a href="summa.FS_Q44_A1.html"></a>
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7132 </div>
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7133 <div id="FS_Q45" class="div3">
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7134 <a href="summa.FS_Q44_A4.html"></a>
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7135 <a href="summa.FS_Q45_A1.html"></a>
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7136 <h3 id="FS_Q45-p0.1">OF DARING (FOUR ARTICLES)</h3>
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7137 <p id="FS_Q45-p1"></p>
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7138 <p id="FS_Q45-p2"> We must now consider daring: under which head there are four points of inquiry:</p>
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7139 <p id="FS_Q45-p3"> (1) Whether daring is contrary to fear?</p>
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7140 <p id="FS_Q45-p4"> (2) How is daring related to hope?</p>
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7141 <p id="FS_Q45-p5"> (3) Of the cause of daring;</p>
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7142 <p id="FS_Q45-p6"> (4) Of its effect.</p>
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7143 <div id="FS_Q45_A1" class="div4">
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7144 <a href="summa.FS_Q45.html"></a>
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7145 <a href="summa.FS_Q45_A2.html"></a>
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7146 <h4 id="FS_Q45_A1-p0.1">Whether daring is contrary to fear?</h4>
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7147 <p id="FS_Q45_A1-p1"></p>
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7148 <p id="FS_Q45_A1-p2">
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7149 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that daring is not contrary to fear. For Augustine says (QQ. 83, qu. 31) that "daring is a vice." Now vice
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7150 is contrary to virtue. Since, therefore, fear is not a virtue but a passion, it seems that daring is not contrary to fear.
|
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7151 </p>
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7152 <p id="FS_Q45_A1-p3">
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7153 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, to one thing there is one contrary. But hope is contrary to fear. Therefore daring is not contrary to fear.
|
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7154 </p>
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7155 <p id="FS_Q45_A1-p4">
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7156 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, every passion excludes its opposite. But fear excludes safety; for Augustine says (Confess. ii, 6) that "fear takes
|
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7157 forethought for safety." Therefore safety is contrary to fear. Therefore daring is not contrary to fear.
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7158 </p>
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7159 <p id="FS_Q45_A1-p5">
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7160 <b>On the contrary,</b> The Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 5) that "daring is contrary to fear."
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7161 </p>
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7162 <p id="FS_Q45_A1-p6">
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7163 <b>I answer that,</b> It is of the essence of contraries to be "farthest removed from one another," as stated in Metaph. x, 4. Now that which is
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7164 farthest removed from fear, is daring: since fear turns away from the future hurt, on account of its victory over him that
|
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7165 fears it; whereas daring turns on threatened danger because of its own victory over that same danger. Consequently it is evident
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7166 that daring is contrary to fear.
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7167 </p>
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7168 <p id="FS_Q45_A1-p7">
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7169 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Anger, daring and all the names of the passions can be taken in two ways. First, as denoting absolutely movements of the
|
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7170 sensitive appetite in respect of some object, good or bad: and thus they are names of passions. Secondly, as denoting besides
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7171 this movement, a straying from the order of reason: and thus they are names of vices. It is in this sense that Augustine speaks
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7172 of daring: but we are speaking of it in the first sense.
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7173 </p>
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7174 <p id="FS_Q45_A1-p8">
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7175 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> To one thing, in the same respect, there are not several contraries; but in different respects nothing prevents one thing
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7176 having several contraries. Accordingly it has been said above (
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7177 <a id="FS_Q45_A1-p8.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q23_A2.html">Q[23], A[2]</a>;
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7178 <a id="FS_Q45_A1-p8.2" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q40_A4.html"> Q[40], A[4]</a>) that the irascible passions admit of a twofold contrariety: one, according to the opposition of good and evil, and thus
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7179 fear is contrary to hope: the other, according to the opposition of
|
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7180 approach and withdrawal, and thus daring is contrary to fear, and despair contrary to hope.
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7181 </p>
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7182 <p id="FS_Q45_A1-p9">
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7183 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Safety does not denote something contrary to fear, but merely the exclusion of fear: for he is said to be safe, who fears
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7184 not. Wherefore safety is opposed to fear, as a privation: while daring is opposed thereto as a contrary. And as contrariety
|
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7185 implies privation, so daring implies safety.
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7186 </p>
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7187 <p id="FS_Q45_A1-p10"></p>
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7188 <p id="FS_Q45_A1-p11"></p>
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7189 <a href="summa.FS_Q45.html"></a>
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7190 <a href="summa.FS_Q45_A2.html"></a>
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7191 </div>
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7192 <div id="FS_Q45_A2" class="div4">
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7193 <a href="summa.FS_Q45_A1.html"></a>
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7194 <a href="summa.FS_Q45_A3.html"></a>
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7195 <h4 id="FS_Q45_A2-p0.1">Whether daring ensues from hope?</h4>
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7196 <p id="FS_Q45_A2-p1"></p>
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7197 <p id="FS_Q45_A2-p2">
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7198 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that daring does not ensue from hope. Because daring regards evil and fearful things, as stated in Ethic. iii,
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7199 7. But hope regards good things, as stated above (
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7200 <a id="FS_Q45_A2-p2.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q40_A1.html">Q[40], A[1]</a>). Therefore they have different objects and are not in the same order. Therefore daring does not ensue from hope.
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7201 </p>
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7202 <p id="FS_Q45_A2-p3">
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7203 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, just as daring is contrary to fear, so is despair contrary to hope. But fear does not ensue from despair: in fact,
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7204 despair excludes fear, as the Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 5). Therefore daring does not result from hope.
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7205 </p>
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7206 <p id="FS_Q45_A2-p4">
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7207 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, daring is intent on something good, viz. victory. But it belongs to hope to tend to that which is good and difficult.
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7208 Therefore daring is the same as hope; and consequently does not result from it.
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7209 </p>
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7210 <p id="FS_Q45_A2-p5">
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7211 <b>On the contrary,</b> The Philosopher says (Ethic. iii, 8) that "those are hopeful are full of daring." Therefore it seems that daring ensues from
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7212 hope.
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7213 </p>
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7214 <p id="FS_Q45_A2-p6">
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7215 <b>I answer that,</b> As we have often stated (
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7216 <a id="FS_Q45_A2-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q22_A2.html">Q[22], A[2]</a>;
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7217 <a id="FS_Q45_A2-p6.2" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q35_A1.html"> Q[35], A[1]</a>;
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7218 <a id="FS_Q45_A2-p6.3" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q41_A1.html"> Q[41], A[1]</a>), all these passions belong to the appetitive power. Now every movement of the appetitive power is reducible to one either
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7219 of pursuit or of avoidance. Again, pursuit or avoidance is of something either by reason of itself or by reason of something
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7220 else. By reason of itself, good is the object of pursuit, and evil, the
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7221 object of avoidance: but by reason of something else, evil can be the object of pursuit, through some good attaching to it;
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7222 and good can be the object of avoidance, through some evil attaching to it. Now that which is by reason of something else,
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7223 follows that which is by reason of itself. Consequently pursuit of evil follows pursuit of good; and avoidance of good follows
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7224 avoidance of evil. Now these four things belong to four passions, since pursuit of good belongs to hope, avoidance of evil
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7225 to
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7226 fear, the pursuit of the fearful evil belongs to daring, and the avoidance of good to despair. It follows, therefore, that
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7227 daring results from hope; since it is in the hope of overcoming the threatening object of fear, that one attacks it boldly.
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7228 But despair results from fear: since the reason why a man despairs is because he fears the difficulty attaching to the good
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7229 he should hope for.
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7230 </p>
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7231 <p id="FS_Q45_A2-p7">
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7232 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> This argument would hold, if good and evil were not co-ordinate objects. But because evil has a certain relation to good,
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7233 since it comes after good, as privation comes after habit; consequently daring which pursues evil, comes after hope which
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7234 pursues good.
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7235 </p>
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7236 <p id="FS_Q45_A2-p8">
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7237 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Although good, absolutely speaking, is prior to evil, yet avoidance of evil precedes avoidance of good; just as the pursuit
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7238 of good precedes the pursuit of evil. Consequently just as hope precedes daring, so fear precedes despair. And just as fear
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7239 does not always lead to despair, but only when it is intense; so hope does not always lead to daring, save only when it is
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7240 strong.
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7241 </p>
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7242 <p id="FS_Q45_A2-p9">
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7243 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Although the object of daring is an evil to which, in the estimation of the daring man, the good of victory is conjoined;
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7244 yet daring regards the evil, and hope regards the conjoined good. In like manner despair regards directly the good which it
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7245 turns away from, while fear regards the conjoined evil. Hence, properly speaking, daring is not a part of hope, but its effect:
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7246 just as despair is an effect, not a part, of fear. For this reason, too, daring
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7247 cannot be a principal passion.
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7248 </p>
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7249 <p id="FS_Q45_A2-p10"></p>
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7250 <p id="FS_Q45_A2-p11"></p>
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7251 <a href="summa.FS_Q45_A1.html"></a>
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7252 <a href="summa.FS_Q45_A3.html"></a>
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7253 </div>
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7254 <div id="FS_Q45_A3" class="div4">
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7255 <a href="summa.FS_Q45_A2.html"></a>
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7256 <a href="summa.FS_Q45_A4.html"></a>
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7257 <h4 id="FS_Q45_A3-p0.1">Whether some defect is a cause of daring?</h4>
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7258 <p id="FS_Q45_A3-p1"></p>
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7259 <p id="FS_Q45_A3-p2">
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7260 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that some defect is a cause of daring. For the Philosopher says (De Problem. xxvii, 4) that "lovers of wine
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7261 are strong and daring." But from wine ensues the effect of drunkenness. Therefore daring is caused by a defect.
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7262 </p>
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7263 <p id="FS_Q45_A3-p3">
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7264 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, the Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 5) that "those who have no experience of danger are bold." But want of experience
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7265 is a defect. Therefore daring is caused by a defect.
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7266 </p>
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7267 <p id="FS_Q45_A3-p4">
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7268 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, those who have suffered wrongs are wont to be daring; "like the beasts when beaten," as stated in Ethic. iii, 5.
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7269 But the suffering of wrongs pertains to defect. Therefore daring is caused by a defect.
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7270 </p>
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7271 <p id="FS_Q45_A3-p5">
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7272 <b>On the contrary,</b> The Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 5) that the cause of daring "is the presence in the imagination of the hope that the means
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7273 of safety are nigh, and that the things to be feared are either non-existent or far off." But anything pertaining to defect
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7274 implies either the removal of the means of safety, or the proximity of something to be feared. Therefore nothing pertaining
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7275 to defect is a cause of daring.
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7276 </p>
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7277 <p id="FS_Q45_A3-p6">
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7278 <b>I answer that,</b> As stated above (
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7279 <a id="FS_Q45_A3-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q45_A1.html">AA[1]</a>,2) daring results from hope and is contrary to fear: wherefore whatever is naturally apt to cause hope or banish fear, is
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7280 a cause of daring. Since, however, fear and hope, and also daring, being passions, consist in a movement of the appetite,
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7281 and in a certain bodily transmutation; a thing may be considered as the cause of daring in two ways, whether by raising hope,
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7282 or by banishing fear; in one way, in the
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7283 part of the appetitive movement; in another way, on the part of the bodily transmutation.
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7284 </p>
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7285 <p id="FS_Q45_A3-p7"> On the part of the appetitive movement which follows apprehension, hope that leads to daring is roused by those things that
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7286 make us reckon victory as possible. Such things regard either our own power, as bodily strength, experience of dangers, abundance
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7287 of wealth, and the like; or they regard the powers of others, such as having a great number of friends or any other means
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7288 of help, especially if a man trust in the Divine assistance: wherefore "those are more daring, with whom it
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7289 is well in regard to godlike things," as the Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 5). Fear is banished, in this way, by the removal
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7290 of threatening causes of fear; for instance, by the fact that a man has not enemies, through having harmed nobody, so that
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7291 he is not aware of any imminent danger; since those especially appear to be threatened by danger, who have harmed others.
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7292 </p>
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7293 <p id="FS_Q45_A3-p8"> On the part of the bodily transmutation, daring is caused through the incitement of hope and the banishment of fear, by those
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7294 things which raise the temperature about the heart. Wherefore the Philosopher says (De Part. Animal. iii, 4) that "those whose
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7295 heart is small in size, are more daring; while animals whose heart is large are timid; because the natural heat is unable
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7296 to give the same degree of temperature to a large as to a small heart; just as a fire does not heat a large
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7297 house as well as it does a small house." He says also (De Problem. xxvii, 4), that "those whose lungs contain much blood,
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7298 are more daring, through the heat in the heart that results therefrom." He says also in the same passage that "lovers of wine
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7299 are more daring, on account of the heat of the wine": hence it has been said above (
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7300 <a id="FS_Q45_A3-p8.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q40_A6.html">Q[40], A[6]</a>) that drunkenness conduces to hope, since the heat in the heart banishes fear and raises hope, by reason of the dilatation
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7301 and
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7302 enlargement of the heart.
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7303 </p>
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7304 <p id="FS_Q45_A3-p9">
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7305 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Drunkenness causes daring, not through being a defect, but through dilating the heart: and again through making a man think
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7306 greatly of himself.
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7307 </p>
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7308 <p id="FS_Q45_A3-p10">
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7309 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Those who have no experience of dangers are more daring, not on account of a defect, but accidentally, i.e. in so far as
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7310 through being inexperienced they do not know their own failings, nor the dangers that threaten. Hence it is that the removal
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7311 of the cause of fear gives rise to daring.
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7312 </p>
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7313 <p id="FS_Q45_A3-p11">
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7314 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> As the Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 5) "those who have been wronged are courageous, because they think that God comes to the
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7315 assistance of those who suffer unjustly."
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7316 </p>
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7317 <p id="FS_Q45_A3-p12"> Hence it is evident that no defect causes daring except accidentally, i.e. in so far as some excellence attaches thereto,
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7318 real or imaginary, either in oneself or in another.
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7319 </p>
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7320 <p id="FS_Q45_A3-p13"></p>
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7321 <p id="FS_Q45_A3-p14"></p>
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7322 <a href="summa.FS_Q45_A2.html"></a>
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7323 <a href="summa.FS_Q45_A4.html"></a>
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7324 </div>
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7325 <div id="FS_Q45_A4" class="div4">
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7326 <a href="summa.FS_Q45_A3.html"></a>
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7327 <a href="summa.FS_Q46.html"></a>
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7328 <h4 id="FS_Q45_A4-p0.1">Whether the brave are more eager at first than in the midst of danger?</h4>
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7329 <p id="FS_Q45_A4-p1"></p>
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7330 <p id="FS_Q45_A4-p2">
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7331 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that the daring are not more eager at first than in the midst of danger. Because trembling is caused by fear,
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7332 which is contrary to daring, as stated above
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7333 <a id="FS_Q45_A4-p2.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q45_A1.html">(A[1];</a> Q[44], A[3]). But the daring sometimes tremble at first, as the Philosopher says (De Problem. xxvii, 3). Therefore they are
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7334 not more eager at first than in the midst of danger.
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7335 </p>
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7336 <p id="FS_Q45_A4-p3">
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7337 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, passion is intensified by an increase in its object: thus since a good is lovable, what is better is yet more lovable.
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7338 But the object of daring is something difficult. Therefore the greater the difficulty, the greater the daring. But danger
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7339 is more arduous and difficult when present. It is then therefore that daring is greatest.
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7340 </p>
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7341 <p id="FS_Q45_A4-p4">
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7342 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, anger is provoked by the infliction of wounds. But anger causes daring; for the Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 5) that
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7343 "anger makes man bold." Therefore when man is in the midst of danger and when he is being beaten, then is he most daring.
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7344 </p>
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7345 <p id="FS_Q45_A4-p5">
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7346 <b>On the contrary,</b> It is said in Ethic. iii, 7 that "the daring are precipitate and full of eagerness before the danger, yet in the midst of
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7347 dangers they stand aloof."
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7348 </p>
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7349 <p id="FS_Q45_A4-p6">
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7350 <b>I answer that,</b> Daring, being a movement of the sensitive appetite, follows an apprehension of the sensitive faculty. But the sensitive faculty
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7351 cannot make comparisons, nor can it inquire into circumstances; its judgment is instantaneous. Now it happens sometimes that
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7352 it is impossible for a man to take note in an instant of all the difficulties of a certain situation: hence there arises the
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7353 movement of daring to face the danger; so that when he comes to experience the
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7354 danger, he feels the difficulty to be greater than he expected, and so gives way.
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7355 </p>
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7356 <p id="FS_Q45_A4-p7"> On the other hand, reason discusses all the difficulties of a situation. Consequently men of fortitude who face danger according
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7357 to the judgment of reason, at first seem slack, because they face the danger not from passion but with due deliberation. Yet
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7358 when they are in the midst of danger, they experience nothing unforeseen, but sometimes the difficulty turns out to be less
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7359 than they anticipated; wherefore they are more persevering. Moreover, it may be because they face the
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7360 danger on account of the good of virtue which is the abiding object of their will, however great the danger may prove: whereas
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7361 men of daring face the danger on account of a mere thought giving rise to hope and banishing fear, as stated above
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7362 <a id="FS_Q45_A4-p7.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q45_A3.html">(A[3])</a>.
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7363 </p>
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7364 <p id="FS_Q45_A4-p8">
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7365 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Trembling does occur in men of daring, on account of the heat being withdrawn from the outer to the inner parts of the body,
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7366 as occurs also in those who are afraid. But in men of daring the heat withdraws to the heart; whereas in those who are afraid,
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7367 it withdraws to the inferior parts.
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7368 </p>
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7369 <p id="FS_Q45_A4-p9">
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7370 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> The object of love is good simply, wherefore if it be increased, love is increased simply. But the object of daring is a
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7371 compound of good and evil; and the movement of daring towards evil presupposes the movement of hope towards good. If, therefore,
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7372 so much difficulty be added to the danger that it overcomes hope, the movement of daring does not ensue, but fails. But if
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7373 the movement of daring does ensue, the greater the danger, the greater is the
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7374 daring considered to be.
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7375 </p>
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7376 <p id="FS_Q45_A4-p10">
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7377 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Hurt does not give rise to anger unless there be some kind of hope, as we shall see later on (
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7378 <a id="FS_Q45_A4-p10.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q46_A1.html">Q[46], A[1]</a>). Consequently if the danger be so great as to banish all hope of victory, anger does not ensue. It is true, however, that
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7379 if anger does ensue, there will be greater daring.
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7380 </p>
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7381 <p id="FS_Q45_A4-p11"></p>
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7382 <p id="FS_Q45_A4-p12"></p>
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7383 <a href="summa.FS_Q45_A3.html"></a>
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7384 <a href="summa.FS_Q46.html"></a>
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7385 </div>
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7386 <a href="summa.FS_Q44_A4.html"></a>
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7387 <a href="summa.FS_Q45_A1.html"></a>
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7388 </div>
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7389 <div id="FS_Q46" class="div3">
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7390 <a href="summa.FS_Q45_A4.html"></a>
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7391 <a href="summa.FS_Q46_A1.html"></a>
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7392 <h3 id="FS_Q46-p0.1">OF ANGER, IN ITSELF (EIGHT ARTICLES)</h3>
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7393 <p id="FS_Q46-p1"></p>
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7394 <p id="FS_Q46-p2"> We must now consider anger: and (1) anger in itself; (2) the cause of anger and its remedy; (3) the effect of anger.</p>
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7395 <p id="FS_Q46-p3"> Under the first head there are eight points of inquiry:</p>
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7396 <p id="FS_Q46-p4"> (1) Whether anger is a special passion?</p>
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7397 <p id="FS_Q46-p5"> (2) Whether the object of anger is good or evil?</p>
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7398 <p id="FS_Q46-p6"> (3) Whether anger is in the concupiscible faculty?</p>
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7399 <p id="FS_Q46-p7"> (4) Whether anger is accompanied by an act of reason?</p>
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7400 <p id="FS_Q46-p8"> (5) Whether anger is more natural than desire?</p>
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7401 <p id="FS_Q46-p9"> (6) Whether anger is more grievous than hatred?</p>
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7402 <p id="FS_Q46-p10"> (7) Whether anger is only towards those with whom we have a relation of justice?</p>
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7403 <p id="FS_Q46-p11"> (8) Of the species of anger.</p>
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7404 <div id="FS_Q46_A1" class="div4">
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7405 <a href="summa.FS_Q46.html"></a>
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7406 <a href="summa.FS_Q46_A2.html"></a>
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7407 <h4 id="FS_Q46_A1-p0.1">Whether anger is a special passion?</h4>
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7408 <p id="FS_Q46_A1-p1"></p>
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7409 <p id="FS_Q46_A1-p2">
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7410 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that anger is not a special passion. For the irascible power takes its name from anger [ira]. But there are
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7411 several passions in this power, not only one. Therefore anger is not one special passion.
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7412 </p>
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7413 <p id="FS_Q46_A1-p3">
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7414 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, to every special passion there is a contrary passion; as is evident by going through them one by one. But no passion
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7415 is contrary to anger, as stated above (
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7416 <a id="FS_Q46_A1-p3.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q23_A3.html">Q[23], A[3]</a>). Therefore anger is not a special passion.
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7417 </p>
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7418 <p id="FS_Q46_A1-p4">
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7419 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, one special passion does not include another. But anger includes several passions: since it accompanies sorrow,
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7420 pleasure, and hope, as the Philosopher states (Rhet. ii, 2). Therefore anger is not a special passion.
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7421 </p>
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7422 <p id="FS_Q46_A1-p5">
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7423 <b>On the contrary,</b> Damascene (De Fide Orth. ii, 16) calls anger a special passion: and so does Cicero (De Quaest. Tusc. iv, 7).
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7424 </p>
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7425 <p id="FS_Q46_A1-p6">
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7426 <b>I answer that,</b> A thing is said to be general in two ways. First, by predication; thus "animal" is general in respect of all animals. Secondly,
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7427 by causality; thus the sun is the general cause of all things generated here below, according to Dionysius (Div. Nom. iv).
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7428 Because just as a genus contains potentially many differences, according to a likeness of matter; so an efficient cause contains
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7429 many effects according to its active power. Now it happens that an effect is
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7430 produced by the concurrence of various causes; and since every cause remains somewhat in its effect, we may say that, in yet
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7431 a third way, an effect which is due to the concurrence of several causes, has a certain generality, inasmuch as several causes
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7432 are, in a fashion, actually existing therein.
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7433 </p>
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7434 <p id="FS_Q46_A1-p7"> Accordingly in the first way, anger is not a general passion but is condivided with the other passions, as stated above (
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7435 <a id="FS_Q46_A1-p7.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q23_A4.html">Q[23], A[4]</a>). In like manner, neither is it in the second way: since it is not a cause of the other passions. But in this way, love may
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7436 be called a general passion, as Augustine declares (De Civ. Dei xiv, 7,9), because love is the primary root of all the other
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7437 passions, as stated above (
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7438 <a id="FS_Q46_A1-p7.2" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q27_A4.html">Q[27], A[4]</a> ). But, in a
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7439 third way, anger may be called a general passion, inasmuch as it is caused by a concurrence of several passions. Because the
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7440 movement of anger does not arise save on account of some pain inflicted, and unless there be desire and hope of revenge: for,
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7441 as the Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 2), "the angry man hopes to punish; since he craves for revenge as being possible." Consequently
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7442 if the person, who inflicted the injury, excel very much, anger does not ensue, but only sorrow, as Avicenna states
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7443 (De Anima iv, 6).
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7444 </p>
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7445 <p id="FS_Q46_A1-p8">
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7446 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> The irascible power takes its name from "ira" [anger], not because every movement of that power is one of anger; but because
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7447 all its movements terminate in anger; and because, of all these movements, anger is the most patent.
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7448 </p>
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7449 <p id="FS_Q46_A1-p9">
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7450 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> From the very fact that anger is caused by contrary passions, i.e. by hope, which is of good, and by sorrow, which is of
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7451 evil, it includes in itself contrariety: and consequently it has no contrary outside itself. Thus also in mixed colors there
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7452 is no contrariety, except that of the simple colors from which they are made.
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7453 </p>
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7454 <p id="FS_Q46_A1-p10">
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7455 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Anger includes several passions, not indeed as a genus includes several species; but rather according to the inclusion of
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7456 cause and effect.
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7457 </p>
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7458 <p id="FS_Q46_A1-p11"></p>
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7459 <p id="FS_Q46_A1-p12"></p>
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7460 <a href="summa.FS_Q46.html"></a>
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7461 <a href="summa.FS_Q46_A2.html"></a>
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7462 </div>
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7463 <div id="FS_Q46_A2" class="div4">
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7464 <a href="summa.FS_Q46_A1.html"></a>
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7465 <a href="summa.FS_Q46_A3.html"></a>
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7466 <h4 id="FS_Q46_A2-p0.1">Whether the object of anger is good or evil?</h4>
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7467 <p id="FS_Q46_A2-p1"></p>
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7468 <p id="FS_Q46_A2-p2">
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7469 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that the object of anger is evil. For Gregory of Nyssa says [*Nemesius, De Nat. Hom. xxi.] that anger is "the
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7470 sword-bearer of desire," inasmuch, to wit, as it assails whatever obstacle stands in the way of desire. But an obstacle has
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7471 the character of evil. Therefore anger regards evil as its object.
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7472 </p>
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7473 <p id="FS_Q46_A2-p3">
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7474 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, anger and hatred agree in their effect, since each seeks to inflict harm on another. But hatred regards evil as
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7475 its object, as stated above (
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7476 <a id="FS_Q46_A2-p3.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q29_A1.html">Q[29], A[1]</a>). Therefore anger does also.
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7477 </p>
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7478 <p id="FS_Q46_A2-p4">
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7479 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, anger arises from sorrow; wherefore the Philosopher says (Ethic. viii, 6) that "anger acts with sorrow." But evil
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7480 is the object of sorrow. Therefore it is also the object of anger.
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7481 </p>
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7482 <p id="FS_Q46_A2-p5">
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7483 <b>On the contrary,</b> Augustine says (Confess. ii, 6) that "anger craves for revenge." But the desire for revenge is a desire for something good:
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7484 since revenge belongs to justice. Therefore the object of anger is good.
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7485 </p>
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7486 <p id="FS_Q46_A2-p6"> Moreover, anger is always accompanied by hope, wherefore it causes pleasure, as the Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 2). But the
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7487 object of hope and of pleasure is good. Therefore good is also the object of anger.
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7488 </p>
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7489 <p id="FS_Q46_A2-p7">
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7490 <b>I answer that,</b> The movement of the appetitive power follows an act of the apprehensive power. Now the apprehensive power apprehends a thing
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7491 in two ways. First, by way of an incomplex object, as when we understand what a man is; secondly, by way of a complex object,
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7492 as when we understand that whiteness is in a man. Consequently in each of these ways the appetitive power can tend to both
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7493 good and evil: by way of a simple and incomplex object, when the appetite simply follows
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7494 and adheres to good, or recoils from evil: and such movements are desire, hope, pleasure, sorrow, and so forth: by way of
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7495 a complex object, as when the appetite is concerned with some good or evil being in, or being done to, another, either seeking
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7496 this or recoiling from it. This is evident in the case of love and hatred: for we love someone, in so far as we wish some
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7497 good to be in him; and we hate someone, in so far as we wish some evil to be in him. It is the same with anger; for when a
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7498 man
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7499 is angry, he wishes to be avenged on someone. Hence the movement of anger has a twofold tendency: viz. to vengeance itself,
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7500 which it desires and hopes for as being a good, wherefore it takes pleasure in it; and to the person on whom it seeks vengeance,
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7501 as to something contrary and hurtful, which bears the character of evil.
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7502 </p>
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7503 <p id="FS_Q46_A2-p8"> We must, however, observe a twofold difference in this respect, between anger on the one side, and hatred and love on the
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7504 other. The first difference is that anger always regards two objects: whereas love and hatred sometimes regard but one object,
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7505 as when a man is said to love wine or something of the kind, or to hate it. The second difference is, that both the objects
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7506 of love are good: since the lover wishes good to someone, as to something agreeable to himself: while both the
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7507 objects of hatred bear the character of evil: for the man who hates, wishes evil to someone, as to something disagreeable
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7508 to him. Whereas anger regards one object under the aspect of evil, viz. the noxious person, on whom it seeks to be avenged.
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7509 Consequently it is a passion somewhat made up of contrary passions.
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7510 </p>
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7511 <p id="FS_Q46_A2-p9"> This suffices for the Replies to the Objections.</p>
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7512 <p id="FS_Q46_A2-p10"></p>
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7513 <p id="FS_Q46_A2-p11"></p>
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7514 <a href="summa.FS_Q46_A1.html"></a>
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7515 <a href="summa.FS_Q46_A3.html"></a>
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7516 </div>
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7517 <div id="FS_Q46_A3" class="div4">
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7518 <a href="summa.FS_Q46_A2.html"></a>
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7519 <a href="summa.FS_Q46_A4.html"></a>
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7520 <h4 id="FS_Q46_A3-p0.1">Whether anger is in the concupiscible faculty?</h4>
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7521 <p id="FS_Q46_A3-p1"></p>
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7522 <p id="FS_Q46_A3-p2">
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7523 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that anger is in the concupiscible faculty. For Cicero says (De Quaest. Tusc. iv, 9) that anger is a kind of
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7524 "desire." But desire is in the concupiscible faculty. Therefore anger is too.
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7525 </p>
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7526 <p id="FS_Q46_A3-p3">
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7527 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, Augustine says in his Rule, that "anger grows into hatred": and Cicero says (De Quaest. Tusc. iv, 9) that "hatred
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7528 is inveterate anger." But hatred, like love, is a concupiscible passion. Therefore anger is in the concupiscible faculty.
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7529 </p>
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7530 <p id="FS_Q46_A3-p4">
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7531 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, Damascene (De Fide Orth. ii, 16) and Gregory of Nyssa [*Nemesius, De Nat. Hom. xxi.] say that "anger is made up
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7532 of sorrow and desire." Both of these are in the concupiscible faculty. Therefore anger is a concupiscible passion.
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7533 </p>
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7534 <p id="FS_Q46_A3-p5">
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7535 <b>On the contrary,</b> The concupiscible is distinct from the irascible faculty. If, therefore, anger were in the concupiscible power, the irascible
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7536 would not take its name from it.
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7537 </p>
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7538 <p id="FS_Q46_A3-p6">
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7539 <b>I answer that,</b> As stated above (Q[23], A[1]), the passions of the irascible part differ from the passions of the concupiscible faculty,
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7540 in that the objects of the concupiscible passions are good and evil absolutely considered, whereas the objects of the irascible
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7541 passions are good and evil in a certain elevation or arduousness. Now it has been stated
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7542 <a id="FS_Q46_A3-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q46_A2.html">(A[2])</a> that anger regards two objects: viz. the vengeance that it seeks; and the person on whom it
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7543 seeks vengeance; and in respect of both, anger requires a certain arduousness: for the movement of anger does not arise, unless
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7544 there be some magnitude about both these objects; since "we make no ado about things that are naught or very minute," as the
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7545 Philosopher observes (Rhet. ii, 2). It is therefore evident that anger is not in the concupiscible, but in the irascible faculty.
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7546 </p>
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7547 <p id="FS_Q46_A3-p7">
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7548 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Cicero gives the name of desire to any kind of craving for a future good, without discriminating between that which is arduous
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7549 and that which is not. Accordingly he reckons anger as a kind of desire, inasmuch as it is a desire of vengeance. In this
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7550 sense, however, desire is common to the irascible and concupiscible faculties.
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7551 </p>
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7552 <p id="FS_Q46_A3-p8">
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7553 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Anger is said to grow into hatred, not as though the same passion which at first was anger, afterwards becomes hatred by
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7554 becoming inveterate; but by a process of causality. For anger when it lasts a long time engenders hatred.
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7555 </p>
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7556 <p id="FS_Q46_A3-p9">
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7557 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Anger is said to be composed of sorrow and desire, not as though they were its parts, but because they are its causes: and
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7558 it has been said above (
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7559 <a id="FS_Q46_A3-p9.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q25_A2.html">Q[25], A[2]</a>) that the concupiscible passions are the causes of the irascible passions.
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7560 </p>
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7561 <p id="FS_Q46_A3-p10"></p>
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7562 <p id="FS_Q46_A3-p11"></p>
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7563 <a href="summa.FS_Q46_A2.html"></a>
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7564 <a href="summa.FS_Q46_A4.html"></a>
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7565 </div>
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7566 <div id="FS_Q46_A4" class="div4">
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7567 <a href="summa.FS_Q46_A3.html"></a>
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7568 <a href="summa.FS_Q46_A5.html"></a>
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7569 <h4 id="FS_Q46_A4-p0.1">Whether anger requires an act of reason?</h4>
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7570 <p id="FS_Q46_A4-p1"></p>
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7571 <p id="FS_Q46_A4-p2">
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7572 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that anger does not require an act of reason. For, since anger is a passion, it is in the sensitive appetite.
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7573 But the sensitive appetite follows an apprehension, not of reason, but of the sensitive faculty. Therefore anger does not
|
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7574 require an act of reason.
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7575 </p>
|
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7576 <p id="FS_Q46_A4-p3">
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7577 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, dumb animals are devoid of reason: and yet they are seen to be angry. Therefore anger does not require an act of
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7578 reason.
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7579 </p>
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7580 <p id="FS_Q46_A4-p4">
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7581 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, drunkenness fetters the reason; whereas it is conducive to anger. Therefore anger does not require an act of reason.
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7582 </p>
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7583 <p id="FS_Q46_A4-p5">
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7584 <b>On the contrary,</b> The Philosopher says (Ethic. vii, 6) that "anger listens to reason somewhat."
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7585 </p>
|
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7586 <p id="FS_Q46_A4-p6">
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7587 <b>I answer that,</b> As stated above
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7588 <a id="FS_Q46_A4-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q46_A2.html">(A[2])</a>, anger is a desire for vengeance. Now vengeance implies a comparison between the punishment to be inflicted and the hurt
|
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7589 done; wherefore the Philosopher says (Ethic. vii, 6) that "anger, as if it had drawn the inference that it ought to quarrel
|
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7590 with such a person, is therefore immediately exasperated." Now to compare and to draw an inference is an act of reason. Therefore
|
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7591 anger, in a fashion, requires an act of
|
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7592 reason.
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7593 </p>
|
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7594 <p id="FS_Q46_A4-p7">
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7595 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> The movement of the appetitive power may follow an act of reason in two ways. In the first way, it follows the reason in
|
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7596 so far as the reason commands: and thus the will follows reason, wherefore it is called the rational appetite. In another
|
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7597 way, it follows reason in so far as the reason denounces, and thus anger follows reason. For the Philosopher says (De Problem.
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7598 xxviii, 3) that "anger follows reason, not in obedience to reason's command, but as a
|
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7599 result of reason's denouncing the injury." Because the sensitive appetite is subject to the reason, not immediately but through
|
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7600 the will.
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7601 </p>
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7602 <p id="FS_Q46_A4-p8">
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7603 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Dumb animals have a natural instinct imparted to them by the Divine Reason, in virtue of which they are gifted with movements,
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7604 both internal and external, like unto rational movements, as stated above (
|
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7605 <a id="FS_Q46_A4-p8.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q40_A3.html">Q[40], A[3]</a>).
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7606 </p>
|
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|
7607 <p id="FS_Q46_A4-p9">
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7608 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> As stated in Ethic. vii, 6, "anger listens somewhat to reason" in so far as reason denounces the injury inflicted, "but listens
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7609 not perfectly," because it does not observe the rule of reason as to the measure of vengeance. Anger, therefore, requires
|
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7610 an act of reason; and yet proves a hindrance to reason. Wherefore the Philosopher says (De Problem. iii, 2,27) that whose
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7611 who are very drunk, so as to be incapable of the use of reason, do not get angry:
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7612 but those who are slightly drunk, do get angry, through being still able, though hampered, to form a judgment of reason.
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7613 </p>
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7614 <p id="FS_Q46_A4-p10"></p>
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7615 <p id="FS_Q46_A4-p11"></p>
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7616 <a href="summa.FS_Q46_A3.html"></a>
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7617 <a href="summa.FS_Q46_A5.html"></a>
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7618 </div>
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7619 <div id="FS_Q46_A5" class="div4">
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7620 <a href="summa.FS_Q46_A4.html"></a>
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7621 <a href="summa.FS_Q46_A6.html"></a>
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7622 <h4 id="FS_Q46_A5-p0.1">Whether anger is more natural than desire?</h4>
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7623 <p id="FS_Q46_A5-p1"></p>
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7624 <p id="FS_Q46_A5-p2">
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7625 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that anger is not more natural than desire. Because it is proper to man to be by nature a gentle animal. But
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7626 "gentleness is contrary to anger," as the Philosopher states (Rhet. ii, 3). Therefore anger is no more natural than desire,
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7627 in fact it seems to be altogether unnatural to man.
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7628 </p>
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7629 <p id="FS_Q46_A5-p3">
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7630 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, reason is contrasted with nature: since those things that act according to reason, are not said to act according
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7631 to nature. Now "anger requires an act of reason, but desire does not," as stated in Ethic. vii, 6. Therefore desire is more
|
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7632 natural than anger.
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7633 </p>
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7634 <p id="FS_Q46_A5-p4">
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7635 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, anger is a craving for vengeance: while desire is a craving for those things especially which are pleasant to the
|
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7636 touch, viz. for pleasures of the table and for sexual pleasures. But these things are more natural to man than vengeance.
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7637 Therefore desire is more natural than anger.
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7638 </p>
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7639 <p id="FS_Q46_A5-p5">
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7640 <b>On the contrary,</b> The Philosopher says (Ethic. vii, 6) that "anger is more natural than desire."
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7641 </p>
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7642 <p id="FS_Q46_A5-p6">
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7643 <b>I answer that,</b> By "natural" we mean that which is caused by nature, as stated in Phys. ii, 1. Consequently the question as to whether a
|
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7644 particular passion is more or less natural cannot be decided without reference to the cause of that passion. Now the cause
|
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7645 of a passion, as stated above (
|
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7646 <a id="FS_Q46_A5-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q36_A2.html">Q[36], A[2]</a>), may be considered in two ways: first, on the part of the object; secondly, on the part of the subject. If then we consider
|
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7647 the cause of anger and of
|
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7648 desire, on the part of the object, thus desire, especially of pleasures of the table, and of sexual pleasures, is more natural
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7649 than anger; in so far as these pleasures are more natural to man than vengeance.
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7650 </p>
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|
7651 <p id="FS_Q46_A5-p7"> If, however, we consider the cause of anger on the part of the subject, thus anger, in a manner, is more natural; and, in
|
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7652 a manner, desire is more natural. Because the nature of an individual man may be considered either as to the generic, or as
|
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7653 to the specific nature, or again as to the particular temperament of the individual. If then we consider the generic nature,
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7654 i.e. the nature of this man considered as an animal; thus desire is more natural than anger; because it is from
|
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7655 this very generic nature that man is inclined to desire those things which tend to preserve in him the life both of the species
|
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7656 and of the individual. If, however, we consider the specific nature, i.e. the nature of this man as a rational being; then
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7657 anger is more natural to man than desire, in so far as anger follows reason more than desire does. Wherefore the Philosopher
|
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|
7658 says (Ethic. iv, 5) that "revenge" which pertains to anger "is more natural to man than meekness": for it is natural to
|
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7659 everything to rise up against things contrary and hurtful. And if we consider the nature of the individual, in respect of
|
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7660 his particular temperament, thus anger is more natural than desire; for the reason that anger is prone to ensue from the natural
|
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|
7661 tendency to anger, more than desire, or any other passion, is to ensue from a natural tendency to desire, which tendencies
|
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|
7662 result from a man's individual temperament. Because disposition to anger is due to a bilious temperament; and of all the
|
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|
7663 humors, the bile moves quickest; for it is like fire. Consequently he that is temperamentally disposed to anger is sooner
|
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|
7664 incensed with anger, than he that is temperamentally disposed to desire, is inflamed with desire: and for this reason the
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|
7665 Philosopher says (Ethic. vii, 6) that a disposition to anger is more liable to be transmitted from parent to child, than a
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7666 disposition to desire.
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7667 </p>
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7668 <p id="FS_Q46_A5-p8">
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7669 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> We may consider in man both the natural temperament on the part of the body, and the reason. On the part of the bodily temperament,
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7670 a man, considered specifically, does not naturally excel others either in anger or in any other passion, on account of the
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7671 moderation of his temperament. But other animals, for as much as their temperament recedes from this moderation and approaches
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7672 to an extreme disposition, are naturally disposed to some excess of
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7673 passion, such as the lion in daring, the hound in anger, the hare in fear, and so forth. On the part of reason, however, it
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7674 is natural to man, both to be angry and to be gentle: in so far as reason somewhat causes anger, by denouncing the injury
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7675 which causes anger; and somewhat appeases anger, in so far as the angry man "does not listen perfectly to the command of reason,"
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7676 as stated above (A[4], ad 3).
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7677 </p>
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7678 <p id="FS_Q46_A5-p9">
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7679 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Reason itself belongs to the nature of man: wherefore from the very fact that anger requires an act of reason, it follows
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7680 that it is, in a manner, natural to man.
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7681 </p>
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7682 <p id="FS_Q46_A5-p10">
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7683 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> This argument regards anger and desire on the part of the object.
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7684 </p>
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7685 <p id="FS_Q46_A5-p11"></p>
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7686 <p id="FS_Q46_A5-p12"></p>
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7687 <a href="summa.FS_Q46_A4.html"></a>
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7688 <a href="summa.FS_Q46_A6.html"></a>
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7689 </div>
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7690 <div id="FS_Q46_A6" class="div4">
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7691 <a href="summa.FS_Q46_A5.html"></a>
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7692 <a href="summa.FS_Q46_A7.html"></a>
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7693 <h4 id="FS_Q46_A6-p0.1">Whether anger is more grievous than hatred?</h4>
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7694 <p id="FS_Q46_A6-p1"></p>
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7695 <p id="FS_Q46_A6-p2">
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7696 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that anger is more grievous than hatred. For it is written (
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7697 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q46_A6-p2.1" href="./asv.html#Prov.27.4" target="asv">Prov. 27:4</a>) that "anger hath no mercy, nor fury when it breaketh forth." But hatred sometimes has mercy. Therefore anger is more grievous
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7698 than hatred.
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7699 </p>
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7700 <p id="FS_Q46_A6-p3">
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7701 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, it is worse to suffer evil and to grieve for it, than merely to suffer it. But when a man hates, he is contented
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7702 if the object of his hatred suffer evil: whereas the angry man is not satisfied unless the object of his anger know it and
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7703 be aggrieved thereby, as the Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 4). Therefore, anger is more grievous than hatred.
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7704 </p>
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7705 <p id="FS_Q46_A6-p4">
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7706 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, a thing seems to be so much the more firm according as more things concur to set it up: thus a habit is all the
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7707 more settled through being caused by several acts. But anger is caused by the concurrence of several passions, as stated above
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7708
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7709 <a id="FS_Q46_A6-p4.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q46_A1.html">(A[1])</a>: whereas hatred is not. Therefore anger is more settled and more grievous than hatred.
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7710 </p>
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7711 <p id="FS_Q46_A6-p5">
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7712 <b>On the contrary,</b> Augustine, in his Rule, compares hatred to "a beam," but anger to "a mote."
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7713 </p>
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7714 <p id="FS_Q46_A6-p6">
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7715 <b>I answer that,</b> The species and nature of a passion are taken from its object. Now the object of anger is the same in substance as the object
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7716 of hatred; since, just as the hater wishes evil to him whom he hates, so does the angry man wish evil to him with whom he
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7717 is angry. But there is a difference of aspect: for the hater wishes evil to his enemy, as evil, whereas the angry man wishes
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7718 evil to him with whom he is angry, not as evil but in so far as it has an aspect of good,
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7719 that is, in so far as he reckons it as just, since it is a means of vengeance. Wherefore also it has been said above
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7720 <a id="FS_Q46_A6-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q46_A2.html">(A[2])</a> that hatred implies application of evil to evil, whereas anger denotes application of good to evil. Now it is evident that
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7721 to seek evil under the aspect of justice, is a lesser evil, than simply to seek evil to someone. Because to wish evil to someone
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7722 under the aspect of justice, may be according to the virtue of justice, if it be in conformity
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7723 with the order of reason; and anger fails only in this, that it does not obey the precept of reason in taking vengeance. Consequently
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7724 it is evident that hatred is far worse and graver than anger.
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7725 </p>
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7726 <p id="FS_Q46_A6-p7">
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7727 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> In anger and hatred two points may be considered: namely, the thing desired, and the intensity of the desire. As to the thing
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7728 desired, anger has more mercy than hatred has. For since hatred desires another's evil for evil's sake, it is satisfied with
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7729 no particular measure of evil: because those things that are desired for their own sake, are desired without measure, as the
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7730 Philosopher states (Polit. i, 3), instancing a miser with regard to riches.
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7731 Hence it is written (
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7732 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q46_A6-p7.1" href="./asv.html#Sir.12.16" target="asv">Ecclus. 12:16</a>): "An enemy . . . if he find an opportunity, will not be satisfied with blood." Anger, on the other hand, seeks evil only
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7733 under the aspect of a just means of vengeance. Consequently when the evil inflicted goes beyond the measure of justice according
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7734 to the estimate of the angry man, then he has mercy. Wherefore the Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 4) that "the angry man is appeased
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7735 if many evils befall, whereas the hater is never
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7736 appeased."
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7737 </p>
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7738 <p id="FS_Q46_A6-p8"> As to the intensity of the desire, anger excludes mercy more than hatred does; because the movement of anger is more impetuous,
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7739 through the heating of the bile. Hence the passage quoted continues: "Who can bear the violence of one provoked?"
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7740 </p>
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7741 <p id="FS_Q46_A6-p9">
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7742 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> As stated above, an angry man wishes evil to someone, in so far as this evil is a means of just vengeance. Now vengeance
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7743 is wrought by the infliction of a punishment: and the nature of punishment consists in being contrary to the will, painful,
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7744 and inflicted for some fault. Consequently an angry man desires this, that the person whom he is hurting, may feel it and
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7745 be in pain, and know that this has befallen him on account of the harm he has done the
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7746 other. The hater, on the other hand, cares not for all this, since he desires another's evil as such. It is not true, however,
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7747 that an evil is worse through giving pain: because "injustice and imprudence, although evil," yet, being voluntary, "do not
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7748 grieve those in whom they are," as the Philosopher observes (Rhet. ii, 4).
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7749 </p>
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7750 <p id="FS_Q46_A6-p10">
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7751 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> That which proceeds from several causes, is more settled when these causes are of one kind: but it may be that one cause
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7752 prevails over many others. Now hatred ensues from a more lasting cause than anger does. Because anger arises from an emotion
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7753 of the soul due to the wrong inflicted; whereas hatred ensues from a disposition in a man, by reason of which he considers
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7754 that which he hates to be contrary and hurtful to him. Consequently, as passion is
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7755 more transitory than disposition or habit, so anger is less lasting than hatred; although hatred itself is a passion ensuing
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7756 from this disposition. Hence the Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 4) that "hatred is more incurable than anger."
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7757 </p>
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7758 <p id="FS_Q46_A6-p11"></p>
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7759 <p id="FS_Q46_A6-p12"></p>
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7760 <a href="summa.FS_Q46_A5.html"></a>
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7761 <a href="summa.FS_Q46_A7.html"></a>
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7762 </div>
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7763 <div id="FS_Q46_A7" class="div4">
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7764 <a href="summa.FS_Q46_A6.html"></a>
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7765 <a href="summa.FS_Q46_A8.html"></a>
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7766 <h4 id="FS_Q46_A7-p0.1">Whether anger is only towards those to whom one has an obligation of justice?</h4>
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7767 <p id="FS_Q46_A7-p1"></p>
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7768 <p id="FS_Q46_A7-p2">
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7769 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that anger is not only towards those to whom one has an obligation of justice. For there is no justice between
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7770 man and irrational beings. And yet sometimes one is angry with irrational beings; thus, out of anger, a writer throws away
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7771 his pen, or a rider strikes his horse. Therefore anger is not only towards those to whom one has an obligation of justice.
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7772 </p>
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7773 <p id="FS_Q46_A7-p3">
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7774 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, "there is no justice towards oneself . . . nor is there justice towards one's own" (Ethic. v, 6). But sometimes
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7775 a man is angry with himself; for instance, a penitent, on account of his sin; hence it is written (
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7776 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q46_A7-p3.1" href="./asv.html#Ps.4.5" target="asv">Ps. 4:5</a>): "Be ye angry and sin not." Therefore anger is not only towards those with whom one has a relation of justice.
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7777 </p>
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7778 <p id="FS_Q46_A7-p4">
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7779 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, justice and injustice can be of one man towards an entire class, or a whole community: for instance, when the state
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7780 injures an individual. But anger is not towards a class but only towards an individual, as the Philosopher states (Rhet. ii,
|
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7781 4). Therefore properly speaking, anger is not towards those with whom one is in relation of justice or injustice.
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7782 </p>
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7783 <p id="FS_Q46_A7-p5"> The contrary, however, may be gathered from the Philosopher (Rhet. ii, 2,3).</p>
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7784 <p id="FS_Q46_A7-p6">
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7785 <b>I answer that,</b> As stated above
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7786 <a id="FS_Q46_A7-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q46_A6.html">(A[6])</a>, anger desires evil as being a means of just vengeance. Consequently, anger is towards those to whom we are just or unjust:
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7787 since vengeance is an act of justice, and wrong-doing is an act of injustice. Therefore both on the part of the cause, viz.
|
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7788 the harm done by another, and on the part of the vengeance sought by the angry man, it is evident that anger concerns those
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7789 to whom one is just or unjust.
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7790 </p>
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7791 <p id="FS_Q46_A7-p7">
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7792 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> As stated above (A[4], ad 2), anger, though it follows an act of reason, can nevertheless be in dumb animals that are devoid
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7793 of reason, in so far as through their natural instinct they are moved by their imagination to something like rational action.
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7794 Since then in man there is both reason and imagination, the movement of anger can be aroused in man in two ways. First, when
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7795 only his imagination denounces the injury: and, in this way, man is aroused to
|
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7796 a movement of anger even against irrational and inanimate beings, which movement is like that which occurs in animals against
|
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7797 anything that injures them. Secondly, by the reason denouncing the injury: and thus, according to the Philosopher (Rhet. ii,
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7798 3), "it is impossible to be angry with insensible things, or with the dead": both because they feel no pain, which is, above
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7799 all, what the angry man seeks in those with whom he is angry: and because there is no question of vengeance on them, since
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7800 they can do us no harm.
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7801 </p>
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7802 <p id="FS_Q46_A7-p8">
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7803 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> As the Philosopher says (Ethic. v, 11), "metaphorically speaking there is a certain justice and injustice between a man and
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7804 himself," in so far as the reason rules the irascible and concupiscible parts of the soul. And in this sense a man is said
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7805 to be avenged on himself, and consequently, to be angry with himself. But properly, and in accordance with the nature of things,
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7806 a man is never angry with himself.
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7807 </p>
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7808 <p id="FS_Q46_A7-p9">
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7809 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> The Philosopher (Rhet. ii, 4) assigns as one difference between hatred and anger, that "hatred may be felt towards a class,
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7810 as we hate the entire class of thieves; whereas anger is directed only towards an individual." The reason is that hatred arises
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7811 from our considering a quality as disagreeing with our disposition; and this may refer to a thing in general or in particular.
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7812 Anger, on the other hand, ensues from someone having injured us by his
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7813 action. Now all actions are the deeds of individuals: and consequently anger is always pointed at an individual. When the
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7814 whole state hurts us, the whole state is reckoned as one individual [*Cf.
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7815 <a id="FS_Q46_A7-p9.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q29_A6.html"> Q[29], A[6]</a>].
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7816 </p>
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7817 <p id="FS_Q46_A7-p10"></p>
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7818 <p id="FS_Q46_A7-p11"></p>
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7819 <a href="summa.FS_Q46_A6.html"></a>
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7820 <a href="summa.FS_Q46_A8.html"></a>
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7821 </div>
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7822 <div id="FS_Q46_A8" class="div4">
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7823 <a href="summa.FS_Q46_A7.html"></a>
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7824 <a href="summa.FS_Q47.html"></a>
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7825 <h4 id="FS_Q46_A8-p0.1">Whether the species of anger are suitably assigned?</h4>
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7826 <p id="FS_Q46_A8-p1"></p>
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7827 <p id="FS_Q46_A8-p2">
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7828 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that Damascene (De Fide Orth. ii, 16) unsuitably assigns three species of anger---"wrath," "ill-will" and "rancor."
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7829 For no genus derives its specific differences from accidents. But these three are diversified in respect of an accident: because
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7830 "the beginning of the movement of anger is called wrath {cholos}, if anger continue it is called ill-will {menis}; while rancor
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7831 {kotos} is anger waiting for an opportunity of vengeance." Therefore these
|
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7832 are not different species of anger.
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7833 </p>
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7834 <p id="FS_Q46_A8-p3">
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7835 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, Cicero says (De Quaest. Tusc. iv, 9) that "excandescentia [irascibility] is what the Greeks call {thymosis}, and
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7836 is a kind of anger that arises and subsides intermittently"; while according to Damascene {thymosis}, is the same as the Greek
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7837 {kotos} [rancor]. Therefore {kotos} does not bide its time for taking vengeance, but in course of time spends itself.
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7838 </p>
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7839 <p id="FS_Q46_A8-p4">
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7840 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, Gregory (Moral. xxi, 4) gives three degrees of anger, namely, "anger without utterance, anger with utterance, and
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7841 anger with perfection of speech," corresponding to the three degrees mentioned by Our Lord (
|
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7842 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q46_A8-p4.1" href="./asv.html#Matt.5.22" target="asv">Mat. 5:22</a>): "Whosoever is angry with his brother" [thus implying "anger without utterance"], and then, "whosoever shall say to his
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7843 brother, 'Raca'" [implying "anger with utterance yet without full expression"], and lastly,
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7844 "whosoever shall say 'Thou fool'" [where we have "perfection of speech"]. Therefore Damascene's division is imperfect, since
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7845 it takes no account of utterance.
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7846 </p>
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7847 <p id="FS_Q46_A8-p5">
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7848 <b>On the contrary,</b> stands the authority of Damascene (De Fide Orth. ii, 16) and Gregory of Nyssa [*Nemesius, De Nat. Hom. xxi.].
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7849 </p>
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7850 <p id="FS_Q46_A8-p6">
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7851 <b>I answer that,</b> The species of anger given by Damascene and Gregory of Nyssa are taken from those things which give increase to anger. This
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7852 happens in three ways. First from facility of the movement itself, and he calls this kind of anger {cholos} [bile] because
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7853 it quickly aroused. Secondly, on the part of the grief that causes anger, and which dwells some time in the memory; this belongs
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7854 to {menis} [ill-will] which is derived from {menein} [to dwell]. Thirdly, on the part
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7855 of that which the angry man seeks, viz. vengeance; and this pertains to {kotos} [rancor] which never rests until it is avenged
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7856 [*
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7857 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q46_A8-p6.1" href="./asv.html#Eph.4.31" target="asv">Eph. 4:31</a>: "Let all bitterness and anger and indignation . . . be put away from you."]. Hence the Philosopher (Ethic. iv, 5) calls
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7858 some angry persons {akrocholoi} [choleric], because they are easily angered; some he calls {pikroi} [bitter], because they
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7859 retain their anger for a long time; and some he calls {chalepoi} [ill-tempered], because they
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7860 never rest until they have retaliated [*Cf.
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7861 <a id="FS_Q46_A8-p6.2" shape="rect" href="summa.SS_Q158_A5.html">SS, Q[158], A[5]</a>].
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7862 </p>
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7863 <p id="FS_Q46_A8-p7">
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7864 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> All those things which give anger some kind of perfection are not altogether accidental to anger; and consequently nothing
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7865 prevents them from causing a certain specific difference thereof.
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7866 </p>
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7867 <p id="FS_Q46_A8-p8">
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7868 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Irascibility, which Cicero mentions, seems to pertain to the first species of anger, which consists in a certain quickness
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7869 of temper, rather than to rancor [furor]. And there is no reason why the Greek {thymosis}, which is denoted by the Latin "furor,"
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7870 should not signify both quickness to anger, and firmness of purpose in being avenged.
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7871 </p>
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7872 <p id="FS_Q46_A8-p9">
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7873 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> These degrees are distinguished according to various effects of anger; and not according to degrees of perfection in the
|
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7874 very movement of anger.
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7875 </p>
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7876 <p id="FS_Q46_A8-p10"></p>
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7877 <p id="FS_Q46_A8-p11"></p>
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7878 <a href="summa.FS_Q46_A7.html"></a>
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7879 <a href="summa.FS_Q47.html"></a>
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7880 </div>
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7881 <a href="summa.FS_Q45_A4.html"></a>
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7882 <a href="summa.FS_Q46_A1.html"></a>
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7883 </div>
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7884 <div id="FS_Q47" class="div3">
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7885 <a href="summa.FS_Q46_A8.html"></a>
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7886 <a href="summa.FS_Q47_A1.html"></a>
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7887 <h3 id="FS_Q47-p0.1">OF THE CAUSE THAT PROVOKES ANGER, AND OF THE REMEDIES OF ANGER (FOUR ARTICLES) [*There is no further mention of these remedies
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7888 in the text, except in A[4].]
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7889 </h3>
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7890 <p id="FS_Q47-p1"></p>
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7891 <p id="FS_Q47-p2"> We must now consider the cause that provokes anger, and its remedies. Under this head there are four points of inquiry:</p>
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7892 <p id="FS_Q47-p3"> (1) Whether the motive of anger is always something done against the one who is angry?</p>
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7893 <p id="FS_Q47-p4"> (2) Whether slight or contempt is the sole motive of anger?</p>
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7894 <p id="FS_Q47-p5"> (3) Of the cause of anger on the part of the angry person;</p>
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7895 <p id="FS_Q47-p6"> (4) Of the cause of anger on the part of the person with whom one is angry.</p>
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7896 <div id="FS_Q47_A1" class="div4">
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7897 <a href="summa.FS_Q47.html"></a>
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7898 <a href="summa.FS_Q47_A2.html"></a>
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7899 <h4 id="FS_Q47_A1-p0.1">Whether the motive of anger is always something done against the one who is angry?</h4>
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7900 <p id="FS_Q47_A1-p1"></p>
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7901 <p id="FS_Q47_A1-p2">
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7902 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that the motive of anger is not always something done against the one who is angry. Because man, by sinning,
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7903 can do nothing against God; since it is written (
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7904 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q47_A1-p2.1" href="./asv.html#Job.35.6" target="asv">Job 35:6</a>): "If thy iniquities be multiplied, what shalt thou do against Him?" And yet God is spoken of as being angry with man on
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7905 account of sin, according to
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7906 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q47_A1-p2.2" href="./asv.html#Ps.105.40" target="asv"> Ps. 105:40</a>: "The Lord was exceedingly angry with His people." Therefore it is not always on
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7907 account of something done against him, that a man is angry.
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7908 </p>
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7909 <p id="FS_Q47_A1-p3">
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7910 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, anger is a desire for vengeance. But one may desire vengeance for things done against others. Therefore we are not
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7911 always angry on account of something done against us.
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7912 </p>
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7913 <p id="FS_Q47_A1-p4">
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7914 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, as the Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 2) man is angry especially with those "who despise what he takes a great interest
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7915 in; thus men who study philosophy are angry with those who despise philosophy," and so forth. But contempt of philosophy does
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7916 not harm the philosopher. Therefore it is not always a harm done to us that makes us angry.
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7917 </p>
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7918 <p id="FS_Q47_A1-p5">
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7919 <b>Objection 4:</b> Further, he that holds his tongue when another insults him, provokes him to greater anger, as Chrysostom observes (Hom. xxii,
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7920 in Ep. ad Rom.). But by holding his tongue he does the other no harm. Therefore a man is not always provoked to anger by something
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7921 done against him.
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7922 </p>
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7923 <p id="FS_Q47_A1-p6">
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7924 <b>On the contrary,</b> The Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 4) that "anger is always due to something done to oneself: whereas hatred may arise without
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7925 anything being done to us, for we hate a man simply because we think him such."
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7926 </p>
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7927 <p id="FS_Q47_A1-p7">
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7928 <b>I answer that,</b> As stated above (
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7929 <a id="FS_Q47_A1-p7.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q46_A6.html">Q[46], A[6]</a>), anger is the desire to hurt another for the purpose of just vengeance. Now unless some injury has been done, there is no
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7930 question of vengeance: nor does any injury provoke one to vengeance, but only that which is done to the person who seeks vengeance:
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7931 for just as everything naturally seeks its own good, so does it naturally repel its own evil. But injury done by anyone does
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7932 not affect a man unless in
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7933 some way it be something done against him. Consequently the motive of a man's anger is always something done against him.
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7934 </p>
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7935 <p id="FS_Q47_A1-p8">
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7936 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> We speak of anger in God, not as of a passion of the soul but as of judgment of justice, inasmuch as He wills to take vengeance
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7937 on sin. Because the sinner, by sinning, cannot do God any actual harm: but so far as he himself is concerned, he acts against
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7938 God in two ways. First, in so far as he despises God in His commandments. Secondly, in so far as he harms himself or another;
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7939 which injury redounds to God, inasmuch as the person injured is an object
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7940 of God's providence and protection.
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7941 </p>
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7942 <p id="FS_Q47_A1-p9">
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7943 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> If we are angry with those who harm others, and seek to be avenged on them, it is because those who are injured belong in
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7944 some way to us: either by some kinship or friendship, or at least because of the nature we have in common.
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7945 </p>
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7946 <p id="FS_Q47_A1-p10">
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7947 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> When we take a very great interest in a thing, we look upon it as our own good; so that if anyone despise it, it seems as
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7948 though we ourselves were despised and injured.
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7949 </p>
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7950 <p id="FS_Q47_A1-p11">
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7951 <b>Reply to Objection 4:</b> Silence provokes the insulter to anger when he thinks it is due to contempt, as though his anger were slighted: and a slight
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7952 is an action.
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7953 </p>
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7954 <p id="FS_Q47_A1-p12"></p>
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7955 <p id="FS_Q47_A1-p13"></p>
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7956 <a href="summa.FS_Q47.html"></a>
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7957 <a href="summa.FS_Q47_A2.html"></a>
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7958 </div>
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7959 <div id="FS_Q47_A2" class="div4">
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7960 <a href="summa.FS_Q47_A1.html"></a>
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7961 <a href="summa.FS_Q47_A3.html"></a>
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7962 <h4 id="FS_Q47_A2-p0.1">Whether the sole motive of anger is slight or contempt?</h4>
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7963 <p id="FS_Q47_A2-p1"></p>
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7964 <p id="FS_Q47_A2-p2">
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7965 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that slight or contempt is not the sole motive of anger. For Damascene says (De Fide Orth. ii, 16) that we
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7966 are angry "when we suffer, or think that we are suffering, an injury." But one may suffer an injury without being despised
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7967 or slighted. Therefore a slight is not the only motive of anger.
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7968 </p>
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7969 <p id="FS_Q47_A2-p3">
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7970 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, desire for honor and grief for a slight belong to the same subject. But dumb animals do not desire honor. Therefore
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7971 they are not grieved by being slighted. And yet "they are roused to anger, when wounded," as the Philosopher says (Ethic.
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7972 iii, 8). Therefore a slight is not the sole motive of anger.
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7973 </p>
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7974 <p id="FS_Q47_A2-p4">
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7975 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, the Philosopher (Rhet. ii, 2) gives many other causes of anger, for instance, "being forgotten by others; that others
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7976 should rejoice in our misfortunes; that they should make known our evils; being hindered from doing as we like." Therefore
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7977 being slighted is not the only motive for being angry.
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7978 </p>
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7979 <p id="FS_Q47_A2-p5">
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7980 <b>On the contrary,</b> The Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 2) that anger is "a desire, with sorrow, for vengeance, on account of a seeming slight done
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7981 unbecomingly."
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7982 </p>
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7983 <p id="FS_Q47_A2-p6">
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7984 <b>I answer that,</b> All the causes of anger are reduced to slight. For slight is of three kinds, as stated in Rhet. ii, 2, viz. "contempt," "despiteful
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7985 treatment," i.e. hindering one from doing one's will, and "insolence": and all motives of anger are reduced to these three.
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7986 Two reasons may be assigned for this. First, because anger seeks another's hurt as being a means of just vengeance: wherefore
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7987 it seeks vengeance in so far as it seems just. Now just vengeance is taken only
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7988 for that which is done unjustly; hence that which provokes anger is always something considered in the light of an injustice.
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7989 Wherefore the Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 3) that "men are not angry---if they think they have wronged some one and are suffering
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7990 justly on that account; because there is no anger at what is just." Now injury is done to another in three ways: namely, through
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7991 ignorance, through passion, and through choice. Then, most of all, a man does an injustice, when he does an injury
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7992 from choice, on purpose, or from deliberate malice, as stated in Ethic. v, 8. Wherefore we are most of all angry with those
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7993 who, in our opinion, have hurt us on purpose. For if we think that some one has done us an injury through ignorance or through
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7994 passion, either we are not angry with them at all, or very much less: since to do anything through ignorance or through passion
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7995 takes away from the notion of injury, and to a certain extent calls for mercy and forgiveness. Those, on the other hand,
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7996 who do an injury on purpose, seem to sin from contempt; wherefore we are angry with them most of all. Hence the Philosopher
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7997 says (Rhet. ii, 3) that "we are either not angry at all, or not very angry with those who have acted through anger, because
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7998 they do not seem to have acted slightingly."
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7999 </p>
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8000 <p id="FS_Q47_A2-p7"> The second reason is because a slight is opposed to a man's excellence: because "men think little of things that are not
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8001 worth much ado" (Rhet. ii, 2). Now we seek for some kind of excellence from all our goods. Consequently whatever injury is
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8002 inflicted on us, in so far as it is derogatory to our excellence, seems to savor of a slight.
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8003 </p>
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8004 <p id="FS_Q47_A2-p8">
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8005 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Any other cause, besides contempt, through which a man suffers an injury, takes away from the notion of injury: contempt
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8006 or slight alone adds to the motive of anger, and consequently is of itself the cause of anger.
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8007 </p>
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8008 <p id="FS_Q47_A2-p9">
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8009 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Although a dumb animal does not seek honor as such, yet it naturally seeks a certain superiority, and is angry with anything
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8010 derogatory thereto.
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8011 </p>
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8012 <p id="FS_Q47_A2-p10">
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8013 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Each of those causes amounts to some kind of slight. Thus forgetfulness is a clear sign of slight esteem, for the more we
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8014 think of a thing the more is it fixed in our memory. Again if a man does not hesitate by his remarks to give pain to another,
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8015 this seems to show that he thinks little of him: and those too who show signs of hilarity when another is in misfortune, seem
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8016 to care little about his good or evil. Again he that hinders another from
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8017 carrying out his will, without deriving thereby any profit to himself, seems not to care much for his friendship. Consequently
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8018 all those things, in so far as they are signs of contempt, provoke anger.
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8019 </p>
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8020 <p id="FS_Q47_A2-p11"></p>
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8021 <p id="FS_Q47_A2-p12"></p>
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8022 <a href="summa.FS_Q47_A1.html"></a>
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8023 <a href="summa.FS_Q47_A3.html"></a>
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8024 </div>
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8025 <div id="FS_Q47_A3" class="div4">
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8026 <a href="summa.FS_Q47_A2.html"></a>
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8027 <a href="summa.FS_Q47_A4.html"></a>
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8028 <h4 id="FS_Q47_A3-p0.1">Whether a man's excellence is the cause of his being angry?</h4>
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8029 <p id="FS_Q47_A3-p1"></p>
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8030 <p id="FS_Q47_A3-p2">
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8031 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that a man's excellence is not the cause of his being more easily angry. For the Philosopher says (Rhet. ii,
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8032 2) that "some are angry especially when they are grieved, for instance, the sick, the poor, and those who are disappointed."
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8033 But these things seem to pertain to defect. Therefore defect rather than excellence makes one prone to anger.
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8034 </p>
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8035 <p id="FS_Q47_A3-p3">
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8036 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, the Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 2) that "some are very much inclined to be angry when they are despised for some
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8037 failing or weakness of the existence of which there are grounds for suspicion; but if they think they excel in those points,
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8038 they do not trouble." But a suspicion of this kind is due to some defect. Therefore defect rather than excellence is a cause
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8039 of a man being angry.
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8040 </p>
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8041 <p id="FS_Q47_A3-p4">
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8042 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, whatever savors of excellence makes a man agreeable and hopeful. But the Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 3) that "men
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8043 are not angry when they play, make jokes, or take part in a feast, nor when they are prosperous or successful, nor in moderate
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8044 pleasures and well-founded hope." Therefore excellence is not a cause of anger.
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8045 </p>
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8046 <p id="FS_Q47_A3-p5">
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8047 <b>On the contrary,</b> The Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 9) that excellence makes men prone to anger.
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8048 </p>
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8049 <p id="FS_Q47_A3-p6">
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8050 <b>I answer that,</b> The cause of anger, in the man who is angry, may be taken in two ways. First in respect of the motive of anger: and thus
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8051 excellence is the cause of a man being easily angered. Because the motive of anger is an unjust slight, as stated above
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8052 <a id="FS_Q47_A3-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q47_A2.html">(A[2])</a>. Now it is evident that the more excellent a man is, the more unjust is a slight offered him in the matter in which he excels.
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8053 Consequently those who excel in any matter, are most of all
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8054 angry, if they be slighted in that matter; for instance, a wealthy man in his riches, or an orator in his eloquence, and so
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8055 forth.
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8056 </p>
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8057 <p id="FS_Q47_A3-p7"> Secondly, the cause of anger, in the man who is angry, may be considered on the part of the disposition produced in him by
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8058 the motive aforesaid. Now it is evident that nothing moves a man to anger except a hurt that grieves him: while whatever savors
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8059 of defect is above all a cause of grief; since men who suffer from some defect are more easily hurt. And this is why men who
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8060 are weak, or subject to some other defect, are more easily angered, since they are more easily grieved.
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8061 </p>
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8062 <p id="FS_Q47_A3-p8"> This suffices for the Reply to the First Objection.</p>
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8063 <p id="FS_Q47_A3-p9">
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8064 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> If a man be despised in a matter in which he evidently excels greatly, he does not consider himself the loser thereby, and
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8065 therefore is not grieved: and in this respect he is less angered. But in another respect, in so far as he is more undeservedly
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8066 despised, he has more reason for being angry: unless perhaps he thinks that he is envied or insulted not through contempt
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8067 but through ignorance, or some other like cause.
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8068 </p>
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8069 <p id="FS_Q47_A3-p10">
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8070 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> All these things hinder anger in so far as they hinder sorrow. But in another respect they are naturally apt to provoke anger,
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8071 because they make it more unseemly to insult anyone.
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8072 </p>
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8073 <p id="FS_Q47_A3-p11"></p>
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8074 <p id="FS_Q47_A3-p12"></p>
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8075 <a href="summa.FS_Q47_A2.html"></a>
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8076 <a href="summa.FS_Q47_A4.html"></a>
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8077 </div>
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8078 <div id="FS_Q47_A4" class="div4">
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8079 <a href="summa.FS_Q47_A3.html"></a>
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8080 <a href="summa.FS_Q48.html"></a>
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8081 <h4 id="FS_Q47_A4-p0.1">Whether a person's defect is a reason for being more easily angry with him?</h4>
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8082 <p id="FS_Q47_A4-p1"></p>
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8083 <p id="FS_Q47_A4-p2">
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8084 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that a person's defect is not a reason for being more easily angry with him. For the Philosopher says (Rhet.
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8085 ii, 3) that "we are not angry with those who confess and repent and humble themselves; on the contrary, we are gentle with
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8086 them. Wherefore dogs bite not those who sit down." But these things savor of littleness and defect. Therefore littleness of
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8087 a person is a reason for being less angry with him.
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8088 </p>
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8089 <p id="FS_Q47_A4-p3">
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8090 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, there is no greater defect than death. But anger ceases at the sight of death. Therefore defect of a person does
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8091 not provoke anger against him.
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8092 </p>
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8093 <p id="FS_Q47_A4-p4">
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8094 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, no one thinks little of a man through his being friendly towards him. But we are more angry with friends, if they
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8095 offend us or refuse to help us; hence it is written (
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8096 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q47_A4-p4.1" href="./asv.html#Ps.54.13" target="asv">Ps. 54:13</a>): "If my enemy had reviled me I would verily have borne with it." Therefore a person's defect is not a reason for being more
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8097 easily angry with him.
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8098 </p>
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8099 <p id="FS_Q47_A4-p5">
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8100 <b>On the contrary,</b> The Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 2) that "the rich man is angry with the poor man, if the latter despise him; and in like
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8101 manner the prince is angry with his subject."
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8102 </p>
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8103 <p id="FS_Q47_A4-p6">
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8104 <b>I answer that,</b> As stated above (
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8105 <a id="FS_Q47_A4-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q47_A2.html">AA[2]</a>,3) unmerited contempt more than anything else is a provocative of anger. Consequently deficiency or littleness in the person
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8106 with whom we are angry, tends to increase our anger, in so far as it adds to the unmeritedness of being despised. For just
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8107 as the higher a man's position is, the more undeservedly he is despised; so the lower it is, the less reason he has for despising.
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8108 Thus a nobleman is angry if he be
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8109 insulted by a peasant; a wise man, if by a fool; a master, if by a servant.
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8110 </p>
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8111 <p id="FS_Q47_A4-p7"> If, however, the littleness or deficiency lessens the unmerited contempt, then it does not increase but lessens anger. In
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8112 this way those who repent of their ill-deeds, and confess that they have done wrong, who humble themselves and ask pardon,
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8113 mitigate anger, according to
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8114 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q47_A4-p7.1" href="./asv.html#Prov.15.1" target="asv">Prov. 15:1</a>: "A mild answer breaketh wrath": because, to wit, they seem not to despise, but rather to think much of those before whom
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8115 they humble themselves.
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8116 </p>
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8117 <p id="FS_Q47_A4-p8"> This suffices for the Reply to the First Objection.</p>
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8118 <p id="FS_Q47_A4-p9">
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8119 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> There are two reasons why anger ceases at the sight of death. One is because the dead are incapable of sorrow and sensation;
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8120 and this is chiefly what the angry seek in those with whom they are angered. Another reason is because the dead seem to have
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8121 attained to the limit of evils. Hence anger ceases in regard to all who are grievously hurt, in so far as this hurt surpasses
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8122 the measure of just retaliation.
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8123 </p>
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8124 <p id="FS_Q47_A4-p10">
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8125 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> To be despised by one's friends seems also a greater indignity. Consequently if they despise us by hurting or by failing
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8126 to help, we are angry with them for the same reason for which we are angry with those who are beneath us.
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8127 </p>
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8128 <p id="FS_Q47_A4-p11"></p>
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8129 <p id="FS_Q47_A4-p12"></p>
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8130 <a href="summa.FS_Q47_A3.html"></a>
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8131 <a href="summa.FS_Q48.html"></a>
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8132 </div>
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8133 <a href="summa.FS_Q46_A8.html"></a>
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8134 <a href="summa.FS_Q47_A1.html"></a>
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8135 </div>
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8136 <div id="FS_Q48" class="div3">
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8137 <a href="summa.FS_Q47_A4.html"></a>
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8138 <a href="summa.FS_Q48_A1.html"></a>
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8139 <h3 id="FS_Q48-p0.1">OF THE EFFECTS OF ANGER (FOUR ARTICLES)</h3>
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8140 <p id="FS_Q48-p1"></p>
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8141 <p id="FS_Q48-p2"> We must now consider the effects of anger: under which head there are four points of inquiry:</p>
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8142 <p id="FS_Q48-p3"> (1) Whether anger causes pleasure?</p>
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8143 <p id="FS_Q48-p4"> (2) Whether above all it causes heat in the heart?</p>
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8144 <p id="FS_Q48-p5"> (3) Whether above all it hinders the use of reason?</p>
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8145 <p id="FS_Q48-p6"> (4) Whether it causes taciturnity?</p>
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8146 <div id="FS_Q48_A1" class="div4">
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8147 <a href="summa.FS_Q48.html"></a>
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8148 <a href="summa.FS_Q48_A2.html"></a>
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8149 <h4 id="FS_Q48_A1-p0.1">Whether anger causes pleasure?</h4>
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8150 <p id="FS_Q48_A1-p1"></p>
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8151 <p id="FS_Q48_A1-p2">
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8152 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that anger does not cause pleasure. Because sorrow excludes pleasure. But anger is never without sorrow, since,
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8153 as stated in Ethic. vii, 6, "everyone that acts from anger, acts with pain." Therefore anger does not cause pleasure.
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8154 </p>
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8155 <p id="FS_Q48_A1-p3">
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8156 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, the Philosopher says (Ethic. iv, 5) that "vengeance makes anger to cease, because it substitutes pleasure for pain":
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8157 whence we may gather that the angry man derives pleasure from vengeance, and that vengeance quells his anger. Therefore on
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8158 the advent of pleasure, anger departs: and consequently anger is not an effect united with pleasure.
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8159 </p>
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8160 <p id="FS_Q48_A1-p4">
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8161 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, no effect hinders its cause, since it is conformed to its cause. But pleasure hinders anger as stated in Rhet. ii,
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8162 3. Therefore pleasure is not an effect of anger.
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8163 </p>
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8164 <p id="FS_Q48_A1-p5">
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8165 <b>On the contrary,</b> The Philosopher (Ethic. iv, 5) quotes the saying that anger is "Sweet to the soul as honey to the taste" (Iliad, xviii, 109
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8166 [trl. Pope]).
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8167 </p>
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8168 <p id="FS_Q48_A1-p6">
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8169 <b>I answer that,</b> As the Philosopher says (Ethic. vii, 14), pleasures, chiefly sensible and bodily pleasures, are remedies against sorrow:
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8170 and therefore the greater the sorrow or anxiety, the more sensible are we to the pleasure which heals it, as is evident in
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8171 the case of thirst which increases the pleasure of drink. Now it is clear from what has been said (
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8172 <a id="FS_Q48_A1-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q47_A1.html">Q[47], AA[1]</a>,3), that the movement of anger arises from a wrong done that causes sorrow, for
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8173 which sorrow vengeance is sought as a remedy. Consequently as soon as vengeance is present, pleasure ensues, and so much the
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8174 greater according as the sorrow was greater. Therefore if vengeance be really present, perfect pleasure ensues, entirely excluding
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8175 sorrow, so that the movement of anger ceases. But before vengeance is really present, it becomes present to the angry man
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8176 in two ways: in one way, by hope; because none is angry except he hopes for vengeance, as stated above (
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8177 <a id="FS_Q48_A1-p6.2" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q46_A1.html">Q[46], A[1]</a>); in another way, by thinking of it continually, for to everyone that desires a thing it is pleasant to dwell on the thought
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8178 of what he desires; wherefore the imaginings of dreams are pleasant. Accordingly an angry man takes pleasure in thinking much
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8179 about vengeance. This pleasure, however, is not perfect, so as to banish sorrow and consequently anger.
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8180 </p>
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8181 <p id="FS_Q48_A1-p7">
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8182 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> The angry man does not grieve and rejoice at the same thing; he grieves for the wrong done, while he takes pleasure in the
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8183 thought and hope of vengeance. Consequently sorrow is to anger as its beginning; while pleasure is the effect or terminus
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8184 of anger.
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8185 </p>
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8186 <p id="FS_Q48_A1-p8">
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8187 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> This argument holds in regard to pleasure caused by the real presence of vengeance, which banishes anger altogether.
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8188 </p>
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8189 <p id="FS_Q48_A1-p9">
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8190 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Pleasure that precedes hinders sorrow from ensuing, and consequently is a hindrance to anger. But pleasure felt in taking
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8191 vengeance follows from anger.
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8192 </p>
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8193 <p id="FS_Q48_A1-p10"></p>
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8194 <p id="FS_Q48_A1-p11"></p>
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8195 <a href="summa.FS_Q48.html"></a>
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8196 <a href="summa.FS_Q48_A2.html"></a>
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8197 </div>
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8198 <div id="FS_Q48_A2" class="div4">
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8199 <a href="summa.FS_Q48_A1.html"></a>
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8200 <a href="summa.FS_Q48_A3.html"></a>
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8201 <h4 id="FS_Q48_A2-p0.1">Whether anger above all causes fervor in the heart?</h4>
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8202 <p id="FS_Q48_A2-p1"></p>
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8203 <p id="FS_Q48_A2-p2">
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8204 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that heat is not above all the effect of anger. For fervor, as stated above (
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8205 <a id="FS_Q48_A2-p2.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q28_A5.html">Q[28], A[5]</a>;
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8206 <a id="FS_Q48_A2-p2.2" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q37_A2.html"> Q[37], A[2]</a>), belongs to love. But love, as above stated, is the beginning and cause of all the passions. Since then the cause is more
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8207 powerful than its effect, it seems that anger is not the chief cause of fervor.
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8208 </p>
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8209 <p id="FS_Q48_A2-p3">
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8210 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, those things which, of themselves, arouse fervor, increase as time goes on; thus love grows stronger the longer
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8211 it lasts. But in course of time anger grows weaker; for the Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 3) that "time puts an end to anger."
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8212 Therefore fervor is not the proper effect of anger.
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8213 </p>
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8214 <p id="FS_Q48_A2-p4">
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8215 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, fervor added to fervor produces greater fervor. But "the addition of a greater anger banishes already existing anger,"
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8216 as the Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 3). Therefore anger does not cause fervor.
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8217 </p>
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8218 <p id="FS_Q48_A2-p5">
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8219 <b>On the contrary,</b> Damascene says (De Fide Orth. ii, 16) that "anger is fervor of the blood around the heart, resulting from an exhalation of
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8220 the bile."
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8221 </p>
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8222 <p id="FS_Q48_A2-p6">
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8223 <b>I answer that,</b> As stated above (
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8224 <a id="FS_Q48_A2-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q44_A1.html">Q[44], A[1]</a>), the bodily transmutation that occurs in the passions of the soul is proportionate to the movement of the appetite. Now
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8225 it is evident that every appetite, even the natural appetite, tends with greater force to repel that which is contrary to
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8226 it, if it be present: hence we see that hot water freezes harder, as though the cold acted with greater force on the hot object.
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8227 Since then the appetitive movement
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8228 of anger is caused by some injury inflicted, as by a contrary that is present; it follows that the appetite tends with great
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8229 force to repel the injury by the desire of vengeance; and hence ensues great vehemence and impetuosity in the movement of
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8230 anger. And because the movement of anger is not one of recoil, which corresponds to the action of cold, but one of prosecution,
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8231 which corresponds to the action of heat, the result is that the movement of anger produces fervor of the blood and vital
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8232 spirits around the heart, which is the instrument of the soul's passions. And hence it is that, on account of the heart being
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8233 so disturbed by anger, those chiefly who are angry betray signs thereof in their outer members. For, as Gregory says (Moral.
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8234 v, 30) "the heart that is inflamed with the stings of its own anger beats quick, the body trembles, the tongue stammers, the
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8235 countenance takes fire, the eyes grow fierce, they that are well known are not recognized. With the mouth indeed he shapes
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8236 a sound, but the understanding knows not what it says."
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8237 </p>
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8238 <p id="FS_Q48_A2-p7">
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8239 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> "Love itself is not felt so keenly as in the absence of the beloved," as Augustine observes (De Trin. x, 12). Consequently
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8240 when a man suffers from a hurt done to the excellence that he loves, he feels his love thereof the more: the result being
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8241 that his heart is moved with greater heat to remove the hindrance to the object of his love; so that anger increases the fervor
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8242 of love and makes it to be felt more.
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8243 </p>
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8244 <p id="FS_Q48_A2-p8"> Nevertheless, the fervor arising from heat differs according as it is to be referred to love or to anger. Because the fervor
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8245 of love has a certain sweetness and gentleness; for it tends to the good that one loves: whence it is likened to the warmth
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8246 of the air and of the blood. For this reason sanguine temperaments are more inclined to love; and hence the saying that "love
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8247 springs from the liver," because of the blood being formed there. On the other hand, the fervor of anger has
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8248 a certain bitterness with a tendency to destroy, for it seeks to be avenged on the contrary evil: whence it is likened to
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8249 the heat of fire and of the bile, and for this reason Damascene says (De Fide Orth. ii, 16) that it "results from an exhalation
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8250 of the bile whence it takes its name {chole}."
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8251 </p>
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8252 <p id="FS_Q48_A2-p9">
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8253 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> Time, of necessity, weakens all those things, the causes of which are impaired by time. Now it is evident that memory is
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8254 weakened by time; for things which happened long ago easily slip from our memory. But anger is caused by the memory of a wrong
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8255 done. Consequently the cause of anger is impaired little by little as time goes on, until at length it vanishes altogether.
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8256 Moreover a wrong seems greater when it is first felt; and our estimate thereof is
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8257 gradually lessened the further the sense of present wrong recedes into the past. The same applies to love, so long as the
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8258 cause of love is in the memory alone; wherefore the Philosopher says (Ethic. viii, 5) that "if a friend's absence lasts long,
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8259 it seems to make men forget their friendship." But in the presence of a friend, the cause of friendship is continually being
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8260 multiplied by time: wherefore the friendship increases: and the same would apply to anger, were its cause continually
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8261 multiplied.
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8262 </p>
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8263 <p id="FS_Q48_A2-p10"> Nevertheless the very fact that anger soon spends itself proves the strength of its fervor: for as a great fire is soon spent
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8264 having burnt up all the fuel; so too anger, by reason of its vehemence, soon dies away.
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8265 </p>
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8266 <p id="FS_Q48_A2-p11">
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8267 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> Every power that is divided in itself is weakened. Consequently if a man being already angry with one, becomes angry with
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8268 another, by this very fact his anger with the former is weakened. Especially is this so if his anger in the second case be
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8269 greater: because the wrong done which aroused his former anger, will, in comparison with the second wrong, which is reckoned
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8270 greater, seem to be of little or no account.
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8271 </p>
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8272 <p id="FS_Q48_A2-p12"></p>
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8273 <p id="FS_Q48_A2-p13"></p>
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8274 <a href="summa.FS_Q48_A1.html"></a>
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8275 <a href="summa.FS_Q48_A3.html"></a>
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8276 </div>
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8277 <div id="FS_Q48_A3" class="div4">
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8278 <a href="summa.FS_Q48_A2.html"></a>
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8279 <a href="summa.FS_Q48_A4.html"></a>
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8280 <h4 id="FS_Q48_A3-p0.1">Whether anger above all hinders the use of reason?</h4>
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8281 <p id="FS_Q48_A3-p1"></p>
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8282 <p id="FS_Q48_A3-p2">
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8283 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that anger does not hinder the use of reason. Because that which presupposes an act of reason, does not seem
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8284 to hinder the use of reason. But "anger listens to reason," as stated in Ethic. vii, 6. Therefore anger does not hinder reason.
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8285 </p>
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8286 <p id="FS_Q48_A3-p3">
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8287 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, the more the reason is hindered, the less does a man show his thoughts. But the Philosopher says (Ethic. vii, 6)
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8288 that "an angry man is not cunning but is open." Therefore anger does not seem to hinder the use of reason, as desire does;
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8289 for desire is cunning, as he also states (Ethic. vii, 6.).
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8290 </p>
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8291 <p id="FS_Q48_A3-p4">
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8292 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, the judgment of reason becomes more evident by juxtaposition of the contrary: because contraries stand out more
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8293 clearly when placed beside one another. But this also increases anger: for the Philosopher says (Rhet. ii, 2) that "men are
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8294 more angry if they receive unwonted treatment; for instance, honorable men, if they be dishonored": and so forth. Therefore
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8295 the same cause increases anger, and facilitates the judgment of reason. Therefore anger does
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8296 not hinder the judgment of reason.
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8297 </p>
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8298 <p id="FS_Q48_A3-p5">
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8299 <b>On the contrary,</b> Gregory says (Moral. v, 30) that anger "withdraws the light of understanding, while by agitating it troubles the mind."
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8300 </p>
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8301 <p id="FS_Q48_A3-p6">
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8302 <b>I answer that,</b> Although the mind or reason makes no use of a bodily organ in its proper act, yet, since it needs certain sensitive powers
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8303 for the execution of its act, the acts of which powers are hindered when the body is disturbed, it follows of necessity that
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8304 any disturbance in the body hinders even the judgment of reason; as is clear in the case of drunkenness or sleep. Now it has
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8305 been stated
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8306 <a id="FS_Q48_A3-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q48_A2.html">(A[2])</a> that anger, above all, causes a bodily
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8307 disturbance in the region of the heart, so much as to effect even the outward members. Consequently, of all the passions,
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8308 anger is the most manifest obstacle to the judgment of reason, according to
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8309 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q48_A3-p6.2" href="./asv.html#Ps.30.10" target="asv"> Ps. 30:10</a>: "My eye is troubled with wrath."
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8310 </p>
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8311 <p id="FS_Q48_A3-p7">
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8312 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> The beginning of anger is in the reason, as regards the appetitive movement, which is the formal element of anger. But the
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8313 passion of anger forestalls the perfect judgment of reason, as though it listened but imperfectly to reason, on account of
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8314 the commotion of the heat urging to instant action, which commotion is the material element of anger. In this respect it hinders
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8315 the judgment of reason.
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8316 </p>
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8317 <p id="FS_Q48_A3-p8">
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8318 <b>Reply to Objection 2:</b> An angry man is said to be open, not because it is clear to him what he ought to do, but because he acts openly, without
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8319 thought of hiding himself. This is due partly to the reason being hindered, so as not to discern what should be hidden and
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8320 what done openly, nor to devise the means of hiding; and partly to the dilatation of the heart which pertains to magnanimity
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8321 which is an effect of anger: wherefore the Philosopher says of the magnanimous man
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8322 (Ethic. iv, 3) that "he is open in his hatreds and his friendships . . . and speaks and acts openly." Desire, on the other
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8323 hand, is said to lie low and to be cunning, because, in many cases, the pleasurable things that are desired, savor of shame
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8324 and voluptuousness, wherein man wishes not to be seen. But in those things that savor of manliness and excellence, such as
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8325 matters of vengeance, man seeks to be in the open.
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8326 </p>
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8327 <p id="FS_Q48_A3-p9">
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8328 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> As stated above (ad 1), the movement of anger begins in the reason, wherefore the juxtaposition of one contrary with another
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8329 facilitates the judgment of reason, on the same grounds as it increases anger. For when a man who is possessed of honor or
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8330 wealth, suffers a loss therein, the loss seems all the greater, both on account of the contrast, and because it was unforeseen.
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8331 Consequently it causes greater grief: just as a great good, through being
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8332 received unexpectedly, causes greater delight. And in proportion to the increase of the grief that precedes, anger is increased
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8333 also.
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8334 </p>
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8335 <p id="FS_Q48_A3-p10"></p>
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8336 <p id="FS_Q48_A3-p11"></p>
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8337 <a href="summa.FS_Q48_A2.html"></a>
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8338 <a href="summa.FS_Q48_A4.html"></a>
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8339 </div>
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8340 <div id="FS_Q48_A4" class="div4">
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8341 <a href="summa.FS_Q48_A3.html"></a>
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8342 <a href="summa.FS.iv.html"></a>
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8343 <h4 id="FS_Q48_A4-p0.1">Whether anger above all causes taciturnity?</h4>
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8344 <p id="FS_Q48_A4-p1"></p>
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8345 <p id="FS_Q48_A4-p2">
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8346 <b>Objection 1:</b> It would seem that anger does not cause taciturnity. Because taciturnity is opposed to speech. But increase in anger conduces
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8347 to speech; as is evident from the degrees of anger laid down by Our Lord (
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8348 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q48_A4-p2.1" href="./asv.html#Matt.5.22" target="asv">Mat. 5:22</a>): where He says: "Whosoever is angry with his brother"; and " . . . whosoever shall say to his brother, 'Raca'"; and " .
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8349 . . whosoever shall say to his brother, 'Thou fool.'" Therefore anger does not cause taciturnity.
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8350 </p>
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8351 <p id="FS_Q48_A4-p3">
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8352 <b>Objection 2:</b> Further, through failing to obey reason, man sometimes breaks out into unbecoming words: hence it is written (
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8353 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q48_A4-p3.1" href="./asv.html#Prov.25.28" target="asv">Prov. 25:28</a>): "As a city that lieth open and is not compassed with walls, so is a man that cannot refrain his own spirit in speaking."
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8354 But anger, above all, hinders the judgment of reason, as stated above
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8355 <a id="FS_Q48_A4-p3.2" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q48_A3.html">(A[3])</a>. Consequently above all it makes one break out into unbecoming words. Therefore it does not
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8356 cause taciturnity.
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8357 </p>
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8358 <p id="FS_Q48_A4-p4">
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8359 <b>Objection 3:</b> Further, it is written (
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8360 <a class="scripRef" id="FS_Q48_A4-p4.1" href="./asv.html#Matt.12.34" target="asv">Mat. 12:34</a>): "Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh." But anger, above all, causes a disturbance in the heart, as stated
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8361 above
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8362 <a id="FS_Q48_A4-p4.2" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q48_A2.html">(A[2])</a>. Therefore above all it conduces to speech. Therefore it does not cause taciturnity.
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8363 </p>
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8364 <p id="FS_Q48_A4-p5">
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8365 <b>On the contrary,</b> Gregory says (Moral. v, 30) that "when anger does not vent itself outwardly by the lips, inwardly it burns the more fiercely."
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8366 </p>
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8367 <p id="FS_Q48_A4-p6">
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8368 <b>I answer that,</b> As stated above
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8369 <a id="FS_Q48_A4-p6.1" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q48_A3.html">(A[3];</a> Q[46], A[4]), anger both follows an act of reason, and hinders the reason: and in both respects it may cause taciturnity.
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8370 On the part of the reason, when the judgment of reason prevails so far, that although it does not curb the appetite in its
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8371 inordinate desire for vengeance, yet it curbs the tongue from unbridled speech. Wherefore Gregory says (Moral. v, 30): "Sometimes
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8372 when the mind is disturbed, anger, as
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8373 if in judgment, commands silence." On the part of the impediment to reason because, as stated above
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8374 <a id="FS_Q48_A4-p6.2" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q48_A2.html">(A[2])</a>, the disturbance of anger reaches to the outward members, and chiefly to those members which reflect more distinctly the
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8375 emotions of the heart, such as the eyes, face and tongue; wherefore, as observed above
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8376 <a id="FS_Q48_A4-p6.3" shape="rect" href="summa.FS_Q48_A2.html">(A[2])</a>, "the tongue stammers, the countenance takes fire, the eyes grow fierce." Consequently anger may cause such a disturbance,
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8377 that
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8378 the tongue is altogether deprived of speech; and taciturnity is the result.
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8379 </p>
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8380 <p id="FS_Q48_A4-p7">
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8381 <b>Reply to Objection 1:</b> Anger sometimes goes so far as to hinder the reason from curbing the tongue: but sometimes it goes yet farther, so as to
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8382 paralyze the tongue and other outward members.
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8383 </p>
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8384 <p id="FS_Q48_A4-p8"> And this suffices for the Reply to the Second Objection.</p>
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8385 <p id="FS_Q48_A4-p9">
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8386 <b>Reply to Objection 3:</b> The disturbance of the heart may sometimes superabound to the extend that the movements of the outward members are hindered
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8387 by the inordinate movement of the heart. Thence ensue taciturnity and immobility of the outward members; and sometimes even
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8388 death. If, however, the disturbance be not so great, then "out of the abundance of the heart" thus disturbed, the mouth proceeds
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8389 to speak.
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8390 </p>
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8391 <p id="FS_Q48_A4-p10"></p>
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8392 <p id="FS_Q48_A4-p11"></p>
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8393 <a href="summa.FS_Q48_A3.html"></a>
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8395 </div>
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8396 <a href="summa.FS_Q47_A4.html"></a>
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8397 <a href="summa.FS_Q48_A1.html"></a>
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8398 </div>
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8399 <a href="summa.FS_Q21_A4.html"></a>
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