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Thomas Aquinas believed that human actions have species, such as theft or almsgiving. A problem arises, however, concerning his teaching on how such moral kinds are determined. Aquinas uses five different terms - end, object, matter, circumstance, and motive - to identify what gives species to human actions. Although similarities in meaning can be discerned between certain of these terms, apparent differences between others make it difficult to grasp how all five could refer to whatspecifies hum

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Author

Joseph Pilsner; Oxford University Press

Publisher

OUP Oxford

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199286058

Category

philosophy

Subjects

History, Religion, Philosophy

Updated

2026-03-25