End, (in Scholasticism)
End, (in Scholasticism)
That object for the attainment of which the agent moves and acts. End which (finis qui)That good the agent intends to attain, e.g. health, which a sick man intends. End for whom (finis cui)Refers to the person or subject for whom the end which (finis qui) is procured, e.g. the sick man himself for whom health is procured.
Formal. Or end by which (finis quo) is the actual attainment of the good itself, e.g. beatitude itself in the blessed.
Of the work or of knowledge (finis operis seu scientiae)That to which an act or habit (habitus) is ordered through itself and in its proper nature — as the end of logic is the correctness of the actions of the mind. The end of the one working or knowing (finis operantis seu scientis) is that which the one acting proposes to his will, in the exercise of the action or in the acquisition of knowledge, e.g. — one who learns a science on account of its usefulness.
Simply ultimateThat to which all things are actually or virtually referred, — and which itself is ordered to nothing further, as God. A relatively ultimate end (finis secundum quid ultimus)That which terminates some seiies of acts, in which it is intended ultimately and in itself, but nevertheless can be referrcd to another end, as health is the end of the art of medicine, but nevertheless it can be ordered to another end, e.g. to working. — H.G.