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Aquinas on the sin of rash judgment

September 29, 2022 Dr. Edward Feser 4

Christ famously taught: “Judge not, that you be not judged” (Matthew 7:1).  As Aquinas points out, Christ by no means intended to rule out all judgments about another person’s actions or character.  Rather, he was […]

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The Commonness of the Common Good

June 22, 2022 Jonathan Culbreath 12

In The Primacy of the Common Good Against the Personalists (1943), the Thomist philosopher Charles Dekoninck put his finger on the metaphysical origins of all war and conflict. The root of such evils is a distortion […]