Event as Act: the Procedure of Moral Act in the Teachings of Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, and Duns Scotus

• Main Author: Dushin Oleg
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cherepovets State University 2019-12-01
• Series: Historia provinciae: журнал региональной истории
• Subjects: event; act; will; intelligence; moral act; moral behaviour
• Online Access: http://en.hpchsu.ru/archived-issues/the-journal-of-regional-history-v-3-no-4/event-as-act-the-procedure-of-moral-act-in-the-teachings-of-aristotle-thomas-aquinas-and-duns-scotus/

The article considers the problem of understanding the event as a strategy of the act, the study being focused on the moral act procedures presented in the ethical teachings of Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus, which makes it possible to differentiate the initial attitudes and ways of realizing human behaviour in terms of priority of the intellect or the will. As a result, it is argued that the Aristotelian-Thomist intellectualist-discursive concept of morality explicates clear understanding of ethical behavioural strategies as the implementation of the permanent evential outline of life of a noble moral personality, while the voluntaristic position of Duns Scotus allows us to explain the reactive nature of an individual’s actions, which, in turn, acquire the status of truly exclusive events.