Contents
Foreword by Ralph McInerny
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
A. The Equivocity of ‘Action’ and Analogical Equivocation
B. The Order of Agents: Actions and Their Subjects
C. The Analogy of ‘Action’
D. Common Features of Action
Introduction: Action at Its Lowest Level
A. The Act of the Agent is in the Patient
B. What Do Actions Consist In?
C. Motion as an Irreducible Event
D. Actions as Events that Consist in Causations
E. Agent and Patient in the Specification of Action
A. Finality as a Common Feature of Action
B. The Origin of the Notion of a Cause
C. Active Power
D. Action, Inclination and Causality
E. Direct and Indirect Agency
Chapter 4. The Agency of the Will
A. Autonomy or Agency?
B. Wanting as a Causal Disposition
C. The Distinction of Understanding and Willing
D. The Twofold Relation of the Will to Its Object
E. The Will and Conduct
Introduction: Some Terminology
A. Indirect Objects of Intention and Act-specification
B. The Diffusiveness and Non-divisiveness of Intention
C. Evil as Praeter Intentionem
D. Praeter Intentionem, the Involuntary through Ignorance, and the Specifiability of Action
Appendix. The Specification of Action in St. Thomas: Nonmotivating Conditions in the Object of Intention
Bibliography
Index of References to the Works of St Thomas Aquinas
Index of Names
Index of Subjects