Agere sequitur esse. This venerable scholastic dictum—i.e., “action follows upon being”—encapsulates the point at issue in Summa Theologiae I, Q. 4–6. What a thing does is a ‘second act’ following upon what a thing is, its ‘first act’—i.e., its act to be
Scholium on Summa I, 4–6
Scholium on Summa I, 4–6
Scholium on Summa I, 4–6
Agere sequitur esse. This venerable scholastic dictum—i.e., “action follows upon being”—encapsulates the point at issue in Summa Theologiae I, Q. 4–6. What a thing does is a ‘second act’ following upon what a thing is, its ‘first act’—i.e., its act to be