The Moral System of Dante's Inferno (9781234205539)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ... must, therefore, be caused either by ignorance or passion; and if, Ifor the moment, I may leave ignorance on one side, we can only conclude that the road to sins of malitia lies always through sins of passion., Thus, although malitia and passion are mutually exclusive, there is a sense in which all malicious sins are caused by sins of passion. A passionate sin predisposes the agent to commit it again, and repeated indulgence at last extinguishes the flame of passion and leaves a fixed habit in its place. Sins of passion may therefore be called the efficient causes of malicious sins. I do not mean that when an act is committed ex malitia its efficient cause at the moment can be passion--for that would be a.contradiction in terms---but one sin, as St. Thomas has taught, causes another efficiently: --cum ex uno actu peccati disponitur ad hoc quod alium actum consimilem facilius committit; ex actibus enim causantur dispositiones et habitus inclinantes ad similes actus. (S. 1. 2. lxxv. 4.) ' Thus, then, are sins of passion efficient causes of malicious sins. Final causes they most certainly are not, for no malicious sinner does or can make the fulfilment of passion his goal. ' Theassociation of malitia with /zabitus has enabled us to draw away from sins proceeding ex passione, but the relation of malitia to zlgnoran2 z'a has still to be determined. We have heard that the malicious sinner is permanently in a wrong attitude towards the true finis; that he pursuesan evil end deliberately because he believes it to be his good. The theory of habit helps to explain how so complete a perversion of voluntas can come about, but the proper definition of the ignorance thus stereotyped in the habitual sinner remains obscure. Is the zegnorantia.

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• Format Paperback | 152 pages
• Dimensions 189 x 246 x 8mm | 286g
• Publication date 15 Jan 2013
• Publisher Rarebooksclub.com
• Publication City/Country Miami Fl, United States
• Language English
• Illustrations note black & white illustrations
• ISBN10 123420553X
• ISBN13 9781234205539

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