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  • Constellatio in causa est; et influentia coeli morbum hunc movet, interdum omnibus aliis amotis.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Quid non faetui adhuc matri unito, subita spirituum vibratione per nervos, quibus matrix cerebro conjuncta est, imprimit impregnatae imaginatio? ut si imaginetur matum granatum, illius notas secum proferet faetus: Si leporem, infans editur supremo labello bifido, et dissecto: Vehemens cogitatio movet rerum species.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Ira bilem movet, sanguinem adurit, vitales spiritus accendit. moestitia universum corpus infrigidat, calorem innatum extinguit, appetituin destruit, concoctionem impedit, corpus exsiccat, intellectum pervertit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Succinum vero albissimum confortat ventriculum, statum discutit, urinam movet, &c. 4328.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Intelligentia quae, movet orbem mediante coelo, &c. Intelligences do all: and after a long discourse of miracles done of old, si haec daemones possint, cur non et intelligentiae, coelorum motrices?

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Imaginatio movet corpus, ad cujus motum excitantur humores, et spiritus vitales, quibus alteratur.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Although Aquinas subscribes to Aristotle's thesis that practical reasonableness (phronesis, prudentia) concerns means rather than ends, he eliminates any quasi-Humeian reading of that thesis by emphasizing that what “moves” prudentia is not one's passions but one's underivative understanding of the first practical principles and of the intelligible goods to which they point (synderesis movet prudentiam: ST II-II q. 47 a. 6 ad 3).

    Aquinas' Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy Finnis, John 2005

  • For, as I have often remarked, a final cause does not impel a man by being real, but by being known; causa finalis non movet secundum suum esse reale, sed secundum esse cognitum. 25 Whatever he failed to recognise or understand the first time could have no influence upon his will; just as an electric current stops when some isolating body hinders the action of the conductor.

    On Human Nature 2004

  • Nam si te movet quia Spiritum dixit, et hoc non putas derivandum ad mysterium assumptionis humanae; prosequere scripturas et invenies optime congruere de Christo, de quo bene convenit aestimari, quia firmavit tonitrua adventu suo; vim videlicet et sonum coelestium scripturarum; quarum velut quodam tonitru mentes nostrae redduntur attonitae, ut timere discamus, et reverntiam coelestibus deferamus oraculis.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Nam si te movet quia Spiritum dixit, et hoc non putas derivandum ad mysterium assumptionis humanae; prosequere scripturas et invenies optime congruere de Christo, de quo bene convenit aestimari, quia firmavit tonitrua adventu suo; vim videlicet et sonum coelestium scripturarum; quarum velut quodam tonitru mentes nostrae redduntur attonitae, ut timere discamus, et reverntiam coelestibus deferamus oraculis.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

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