This thinker made a distinction between actions and underlying motives which he called exterior andinterior acts.
This thinker made a distinction between actions and underlying motives which he called exterior andinterior acts. He separated out eternal, divine, natural, and human forms of law, of which eternal lawconsists of the mind of God. He remarked that all his work seemed like "straw," refusing to write for thelast four years of his life. His typical formula was saying "On the contrary" and "I respond thatÂ…" aftergiving several objections to a problematic question. One section of his major work lays out the criteria for"just war." For 10 points, name this student of Albertus Magnus, a Dominican friar who created the Summatheologica.
This thinker made a distinction between actions and underlying motives which he called exterior andinterior acts.
 Saint Thomas Aquinas [or Tomaso Aquino; or Saint Thomas of Aquin; prompt on Saint Thomas]