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xii, 111 pages ; 21 cm Includes index The order of the parts of the universe to each other exists in virtue of the order of the whole universe to god -- The creature is vanity in so far as it comes from nothingness, but not in so far as it is an image of god -- There can be good without evil, but there cannot be evil without good -- Intellectual nature have a greater affinity to the whole than other beings -- Our intellect in understanding is extended to infinity -- Morality presupposes nature -- Reason is man's nature. Hence whatever is contrary to reason is contrary to human nature -- The desire of the last end is not amoung those things over which we have mastery -- The happienes of the active life lies in the action of prudence by which man rules himself and others -- Moral virtue does not exclude the passion -- Through virtue man is ordered to the utmost limit of his capacity -- Pleasure prfects operation just as beauty perfects youth -- Grace and virtue imitate the order of nature which is instituted by the divine wisdom -- The theologian considers human actions in so far as through them man is ordered to beatitude -- Each being naturally loves god more than itself -- Things

Author

Thomas, Aquinas Saint; Josef Pieper; Drostan MacLaren

Publisher

New York: Sheed & Ward

Published

1948

Language

EN

Subjects

Philosophy, Humanities