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Often appears with: will, choice, and freedom · last end · intention in action · duty, conscience, and obligation · augustine quotation
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“One need not always be thinking of the last end, whenever one desires or does.” Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) · precept
Aquinas argues that whenever people desire anything, they do so under the aspect of their last end, even if they are not consciously thinking of it at each moment.
that end. But man does not always think of the last end in all that he desires or does. Therefore man neither desires nor does all for the last end. *On the contrary,* Augustine says (De Civ. Dei xix, 1): "That is the end of our good, for the sake of which we love other things, whereas we love it for its own sake." *I answer that,* Man must, of necessity, desire all, whatsoever he desires, for the last end. This is…