Pints With Aquinas

01: Who are you, St. Thomas?

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Mar 29, 2016
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INSIGHT

Happiness As Achieved Virtue

  • Happiness is a good attained by will and secured through virtue, not by riches or pleasure.
  • Aquinas treats happiness as an achieved moral state rather than an accidental gain.
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Evil As Privation

  • Good is synonymous with being, while evil is a deprivation of being.
  • Therefore evil cannot exist without good, because it is a lack within a good thing.
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Two Lenses On Sin

  • Sin can be seen two ways: theology calls it an offense against God, philosophy calls it contrary to reason.
  • Aquinas highlights that moral evaluation shifts with perspective and discipline.
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