The rational soul is composed of these three powers: intellect, will, and passions Pixabay The picture above can be interpreted as the...

Public Domain Sometimes in the moral life we find ourselves in a situation in which there seem to be two or more duties that are binding...

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Public Domain What will we become? Every great person was in the beginning a small, helpless baby in the arms of his or her mother. What...

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Aquinas knew there was something prior to essence and being. Western culture lost sight of it. The Summa (lest the reader think I'm...