Showing posts with label evil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label evil. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Monday, February 12, 2018

Wednesday, December 09, 2015

Aquinas’s ‘Disputed Questions on Evil’: A Critical Guide.

CUP - via Thomistica.net

The first essay I would definitely read; what about the authority and dependability of the rest of the contributors?

Thursday, April 30, 2015

Fr. Fessio Taking the Minority View?

Contraception and Abortion. Which Is the Greater Evil by Sandro Magister

The first withholds life from one who could be born. The second takes it from one who is already alive. A back-and-forth between two theologians, on a question that remains open to free discussion

Saturday, November 01, 2014

Fr. Fortea on Halloween


Monday, October 28, 2013

Is to think that one should be free from sadness a feeling of entitlement or its result, only a symptom of narcissism or disordered self-love? Is sadness an evil, not just a sensible reaction to some evil or to a privation/deprivation? (Let us focus exclusively on the privation of necessary goods, rather than what is superfluous. We would not feel sad if we did not attain something we desired that was not truly necessary for our well-being.) Did God desire for us to feel or experience sadness? In a creation rightly ordered, would there be sadness? Everyone would be acting virtuously, and there would be no physical evils. There is no feeling or experience of sadness in heaven. What of feeling sad because of social discord or enmity? Are friends luxuries rather than a good that is necessary to us and our flourishing?