Aquinas, Sense Pleasure, and the State of Grace
This essay uses Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae to argue that a person living in what the Catholic tradition calls the “state of grace” has a greater capacity to appreciate sense pleasure than one who is not. Aquinas believes sense pleasures conduce to good if reason elevates them and integrates them into...
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New blackfriars
Year: 2021, Volume: 102, Issue: 1100, Pages: 459-471 |
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