["Actus
autem est _duplex_: _primus_ et _secundus_. Actus quidem primus est
forma, et integritas sei. Actus autem secundus est operatio." Thomas
Aquinas: _Summa_Theologica_, edition of Leo XIII, (1894), vol. I,
p. 391. Cf. also Blanc: _Dictionaire_de_Philosophie_, under 'acte.'
ED.]
2 [_Appearance_and_Reality_, second edition, p. 116.]
3 [_Kritik_der_reinen_Vernunft,_Werke_, (1905), vol. IV, p. 110
(trans. by Max Muller, second edition, p. 128).]
constitute and active as distinguished from an
inactive world.
But in this actual world of ours, as it is
given, a part at least of the activity comes
with definite direction; it comes with desire
and a sense of goal; it comes complicated with
resistances which it overcomes or succumbs to,
and with the efforts which the feeling of resistance
so often provokes; and it is in complex
experiences like these that the notions of
distinct agents, and of passivity as opposed
to activity arise. Here also the notion of
causal efficacy comes to birth. Perhaps the
most elaborate work ever done in descriptive
psychology has been the analysis by various
recent writers of the more complex activity-
situations.
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