Download or read book The Specification of Human Actions in St. Thomas Aquinas written by Joseph Pilsner and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Aquinas believed that human actions can be identified by species, such as murder, theft, or almsgiving. He used five different terms - end, object, matter, circumstance and motive. This text examines how one determines to which species an act belongs.