Whether Every Human Action Is Good, or Are There Evil Actions?
 Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica (1274). copy citation

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Author Thomas Aquinas
Source Summa Theologica
Topic good
Date 1274
Language English
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Note Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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“Whether a circumstance places a moral action in the species of good or evil? (11) Whether every circumstance that makes an action better or worse, places the moral action in the species of good or evil? ________________________ FIRST ARTICLE [I-II, Q. 18, Art. 1] Whether Every Human Action Is Good, or Are There Evil Actions? Objection 1: It would seem that every human action is good, and that none is evil. For Dionysius says (Div. Nom. iv) that evil acts not, save in virtue of the good. But no evil is done in virtue of the good.” source