Agents, Actions and Ends
Kretzmann, Norman
Medieval Philosophy and Theology, Volume 9, Number 2, September 2000
Abstract
Aquinas concludes his introductory chapter by announcing that his first task in Book III, a task to which he devotes sixty-two chapters, is to investigate “God himself in so far as he is the end of all things” (1.1867b). That compressed description of a very big topic is likely to arouse some misgivings. Why should we think that absolutely all things do have ends or goals? Even if we’re given good reasons to think that they do, why should we think that all those ends or goals converge in a single end for all things?
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Agents, Actions and Ends
Kretzmann, Norman
Medieval Philosophy and Theology, Volume 9, Number 2, September 2000
Abstract
Aquinas concludes his introductory chapter by announcing that his first task in Book III, a task to which he devotes sixty-two chapters, is to investigate “God himself in so far as he is the end of all things” (1.1867b). That compressed description of a very big topic is likely to arouse some misgivings. Why should we think that absolutely all things do have ends or goals? Even if we’re given good reasons to think that they do, why should we think that all those ends or goals converge in a single end for all things?
Click here to read this article from Medieval Philosophy and Theology
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