The Thomistic Institute Emotion, Affection & Friendship: Aquinas on the Nature of Love | Fr. Gregory Pine OP
May 22, 2019
Fr. Gregory Pine OP explores Aquinas' views on love, discussing its animalistic and spiritual aspects. Friendship is highlighted as the highest form of human affection, emphasizing the transformative power of companionship and the importance of cultivating deep connections based on shared virtues and pursuits.
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Airport Cookies Transformed A Miserable Evening
- Pine tells a Chick‑fil‑A airport story: fresh-baked cookies at the right moment transformed his mood from self-pity to delight.
- The trivial snack illustrated how the apprehension of a fitting good can quickly renovate interior states.
How Beatrice Remade Dante's Life And Poetry
- Pine recounts Dante meeting Beatrice twice and how that sight reshaped Dante's life and poetry, inspiring the sweet new style.
- That early, ecstatic encounter became a lifelong transformative orientation toward beauty and vocation.
Twofold Structure Of Human Love
- Aquinas distinguishes love of concupiscence (regarding the good) and love of friendship (regarding the person), both present in every act of love.
- Love first aims at a good (bread, wine), then finds completion in willing that good for a person (eating, communion).