Human life freer than the brutes — self-directed end
Humans outrank brutes by freer self-motion, not only more acts.
Brutes: nature-pushed ends; no dominion over their acts.
Man sets ends, picks means, αὐτεξούσιος — master of his acts.
Latin
IX. Quapropter homo vivit vita longe perfectiori quam animalia bruta: non solum quia longe plures & praestantiores actiones exercet: sed quia seipsum movet, & a seipso agit modo multo excellentiori. Bruta enim, quae carent ratione & intelligentia, nec finem sibi praestituunt, neque se ad finem dirigunt, sed simpliciter ad finem ab authore naturae aguntur, eodemque ducuntur necessario impressionibus per sensus ab objectis materialibus acceptis. Itaque illorum operationes non sunt in eorum potestate, nec proprie habent illarum dominium. Homo vero ratione utens finem ipse sibi praestituit, & media ad finem ducentia pro arbitrio rejicit, vel eligit: nec in suis actionibus ab objectis materialibus, & sensuum impressionibus necessario pendet: Sed operationes suas ad finem deliberate, & ex proprio judicio dirigit, & ita est αὐτεξούσιος, & propriarum actionum dominus.
About this text
Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu, Sedan Theses, newly rendered from Latin: from theology proper through the Roman theses I–77 and the Reformed theses of Part Two. The theses only — not the collected works.
English follows locked Pitt Latin through Imaginum CLOSED + Sanctorum Cultu Romana CLOSED + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL. 1675 PDF ~384-390 (book ~370-376); Vision OCR + pdftotext + tess. No modern English. This slice densifies Sanctorum Pars Secunda I-XL. Next: Pars Secunda XLI–fin (~CI). Claim stays claimed (book densify not done).
Catalogue & scope
ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves). Densify through Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL (Pars Secunda not closed; not whole folio).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Theologia I-XLIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive PDF of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Checked print pdftotext of De Theologia pages (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive DjVu OCR of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Fide I-XXII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Authoritate Scripturae Pars I I-XLVII + Pars II I-XXXV + Pars III I-VIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Scripturae plenitudine densify (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
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