Aquinas and Human Action - LewRockwell
Aquinas and Human Action Following are some notes from this two-part talk (all quoted items are paraphrases, hopefully reasonably accurate): It is taken for granted that human agents have free will or free agency – we have the experience, day to day, of being confronted with options and being able to opt between such options. This offers a truncated picture, a picture of lower appetites. This is David Hume’s “reason,” when he wrote: “Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.” It is the r...
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