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052 - Lii Reasons For Inquiring How There Is A Multitude Of Things Understood In The Divine Intellect · Summa Contra Gentiles, First Book (On God)

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  Speaker 1: Chapter fifty two of Suma Contragentilees, First Book on God,
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  Speaker 1: by Saint Thomas aquinas translated by the Fathers of the
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  Speaker 1: English Dominican Province. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter fifty two reasons for inquiring how there is a
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  Speaker 1: multitude of things understood in the Divine Intellect. From these
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  Speaker 1: very same reasons, it appears that it cannot be admitted
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  Speaker 1: that the multitude of the aforesaid intelligibles is in some
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  Speaker 1: other beside the divine intellect, either that of the soul
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  Speaker 1: or that of an angel or intelligence. For in that case,
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  Speaker 1: the Divine intellect in respect of one of its operations
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  Speaker 1: would depend on some secondary intellect, which also is impossible.
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  Speaker 1: Even as things that subsist in themselves are from God,
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  Speaker 1: so are those that exist in a subject. Wherefore, the
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  Speaker 1: existence of the affores or said intelligibles in some secondary
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  Speaker 1: intellect presupposes God's act of intelligence, whereby he is their cause.
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  Speaker 1: He would also follow that God's intellect is in potentiality,
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  Speaker 1: since his intelligibles would not be united to him. Even
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  Speaker 1: as each thing has its proper being, so has it
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  Speaker 1: its proper operation. Wherefore it is impossible that because one
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  Speaker 1: intellect is disposed to operate, therefore another exercises intellectual operation.
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  Speaker 1: But only that the same intellect where we find the disposition,
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  Speaker 1: even as a thing, is by its own essence and
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  Speaker 1: not by another's. Hence, it does not become possible for
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  Speaker 1: the first intellect to understand multitude through the fact that
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  Speaker 1: many intelligibles are in some second intellect. End of five
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  Speaker 1: Fty two read by Michael Shane, Craig Lambert. Else