Stichwort: Bewegung

Autor, Quelle: Lonergan, Bernard J.F., The Trinune God: Systematics

Titel: Identität: Bwegung - actio, passio

Index: Reale Identität: Bewegung - actio, Bewegung - passio

Kurzinhalt: And since the act that proceeds from the agent is the same as that which is received in the recipient, namely, the motion produced by the agent and received in the recipient, it follows that both action and passion are really identical with motion.

Text: 283b The classic example of this is the real identity that Aristotle affirmed between motion and action and between motion and passion. He defines action as 'the act of a thing considered as being from this thing,' that is, an act of an agent considered as proceeding from the agent, and passion he defines as 'the act of a thing considered as being in this thing,' that is, the act of a recipient considered as being received in the recipient. And since the act that proceeds from the agent is the same as that which is received in the recipient, namely, the motion produced by the agent and received in the recipient, it follows that both action and passion are really identical with motion. One can see from this example why this theorem is apparently so difficult for so many. For 'action' and 'passion' add to motion the relations 'as from this' and 'as in this'; but this added intelligibility is far different from the intelligibility of the motion of an absolute, and therefore to many it seems extremely difficult to see that such diverse intelligibilities of the absolute and of relatives are present in one and the same reality. (Fs) (notabene)