Aquinas | Freedom's Discourse

Explain how virtue has its origin in nature, free acts and God’s work.

Virtues are partly from outside and partly within according to St. Thomas and Aristotle. If virtues were only from outside the soul, they would be an imposition on nature; if they were wholly within, one would be innately...

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Theology

Four Ways

St. Thomas’s solution to the natural desire to see God is found in the intellect, not the will1 and this desire is only fulfilled with the vision of God.2 Man’s intellect can know of God in four ways. He can know God...

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Theology

Six Arguments for the Natural Desire to See God

First and foremost, it is important to assert that the natural desire to see God “is not a desire of the will.”1 St. Thomas’s use of the word “desire” is a broad use as, for example, he uses desire...

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Reflections

Killing Justly: Right Intent

Arising from the rabbit hole I earlier developed (Read the first part), I seek to answer the question of how one can justly take a life. As so brilliantly termed by GK Chesterton, “Any one setting out to dispute anything...