Tradiciones helenísticas y medievales sobre la causalidad del obrar humano. Cicerón y Tomás de Aquino ante el alcance de la voluntad / Hellenistic and Medieval Traditions on the Causality of Human Action. Cicero and Thomas Aquinas with Respect to the Object of the Will

Abstract

This study considers the ranges of the power of self-determination in human action, attending to the « status quaestionis » of the matter as it is contained in statements of Cicero on the Stoic position, his own thoughts on this matter, and the reception and re-reading of the theme in Thomas Aquinas. We thus attend to the Ciceronian exposition in De natura deorum, De divinatione and De fato on the Stoic position regarding the need for causal connection. We also study the criticism added by Cicero to its transmission, and the projections of the problematic in Aquinas’s quaestio De fato, in the Summa Theologiae, and in other parallel passages.