Re: The Absence of Love
Posted by Douglas on November 27, 2001 at 19:42:09:

In Reply to: The Absence of Love posted by Bruce on November 27, 2001 at 13:31:31:

Nam in omni actione principaliter intenditur ab agente, sive necessitate natura sive voluntarie agat, propriam similitudinem
explicare; unde fit quod omne agens, inquantum buiusmodi, delacatur, quia, cum omne quod est appetat suum esse, ac in agendo
agentis, esse quodammodo amplietur, sequitor de necessitare delectatio . . . . Nihil igitur agit nisi tale existens quale patiens fieri
debet

Dante

“For in every action what is primarily intended by the doer, whether he acts from natural necessity or out of free will, is the
disclosure of his own image. Hence it comes about that every doer, in so far as he does, takes delight in doing; since everything that
desires its own being, and since in action the being of the doer is somehow intensified, delight necessarily follows . . . . Thus
nothing acts unless by acting it makes patent its latent self.”

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