Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

346 THOMASAQUINAS Wherefore it is not yet perfectly happy. Consequently, for perfect happiness the intellect needs to reach the ...

SUMMATHEOLOGICA(I–II, Q.94) 347 nature not only of man, but also of every creature, as was shown in the First Part (Q. 12, A. 4) ...

348 THOMASAQUINAS Obj.2. Further, the natural law is consequent to human nature. But human nature, as a whole, is one; though, a ...

SUMMATHEOLOGICA(I–II, Q.94) 349 Secondly, there is in man an inclination to things that pertain to him more specially, according ...

350 THOMASAQUINAS to matters of detail, the more frequently we encounter defects. Accordingly then in speculative matters truth ...

SUMMATHEOLOGICA(I–II, Q.95) 351 QUESTION 95: OF HUMAN LAW First Article WHETHERITWASUSEFUL FORLAW S TOBEFRAMED BYMEN? We Procee ...

352 THOMASAQUINAS desist from evildoing, and leave others in peace, and that they themselves, by being habituated in this way, m ...

SUMMATHEOLOGICA(I–II, Q.95) 353 human laws were derived from the natural law, it would follow that they too are the same for all ...

354 THOMASAQUINAS QUESTION 96: OF THE POWER OF HUMAN LAW Second Article WHETHERITBELONGS TO THEHUMANLAW TOREPRESSALLVICES? We P ...

SUMMATHEOLOGICA(II–II, Q.40) 355 these imperfect ones, being unable to bear such precepts, would break out into yet greater evil ...

356 THOMASAQUINAS salutary advice in the Gospel would rather have been counselled to cast aside their arms, and to give up soldi ...

SUMMATHEOLOGICA(II–II, Q.40) 357 (Rom. xiii. 4):He beareth not the sword in vain: for he is God’s minister, an avenger to execut ...

358 William was born in Ockham, Surrey, near London, between 1280 and 1290. He joined the Franciscan order as a young man. In 13 ...

INTRODUCTION 359 philosophy from theology and reason from faith more completely than had any of his predecessors. Ockham is prob ...

360 WILLIAM OFOCKHAM Plague Victim, from Das Buch der Cirurgia,1497, by Hieronymus Brunschwig. Beginning in 1347 the Bubonic Pla ...

ONUNIVERSALS 361 ON UNIVERSALS (in part) SUMMALOGICAE, PARTI CHAPTER14: ON THEUNIVERSAL It is not enough for the logician to hav ...

362 WILLIAM OFOCKHAM because it is one cause and not many. In the same way the intention of the soul is said to be a universal b ...

ONUNIVERSALS 363 and, consequently, He would destroy the universal which is in that thing and in others of the same essence. Con ...

364 WILLIAM OFOCKHAM That the universal is an intention of the soul is clearly expressed by Avicenna in the fifth book of the Me ...

ONUNIVERSALS 365 Again, whenever one thing is distinct from another it is distinguished from that thing either of and by itself ...