Law, Conscience, and Their Relation to Sin
Even without knowing the Law of God, we would all fail to live up to our own superego. What we do not have, at least from or available to our nature, is the supernatural revelation of the redemption in available in Jesus Christ.
Aristotle on Unity: When Every Part of the Soul Desires the Same Objects
He wishes for himself both what is, and what he believes to be, good; and he does it (it being characteristic of the good man to work at what is good)
Aristotle – Practical Wisdom and Science Different Parts of the Soul
Well, we have now stated the nature and objects of Practical Wisdom and Science respectively, and that they belong each to a different part of the Soul. But I can conceive a person questioning their utility. “Science,” he would say, “concerns itself with none of the causes of human happiness (for it has nothing to […]
Aristotle – Three functions of the Soul; Sense, Intellect, and Appetition
Aristotle – Nicomachean Ethics – There are in the Soul three functions on which depend moral action and truth; Sense, Intellect, Appetition, whether vague Desire or definite Will.
Perfect Happiness Must Be a Kind of Contemplative Working
Our conception of the gods is that they are above all blessed and happy: now what kind of Moral actions are we to attribute to them?
To Pray Is to Breath – Kierkegaard – Sickness Unto Death
So to pray is to breathe, possibility, is for the self what oxygen is for breathing. But for possibility alone or for necessity alone to supply the conditions for the breathing of prayer is no more possible than it is for a man to breathe oxygen alone or nitrogen alone. For in order to pray […]