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Often appears with: will, choice, and freedom · sin, guilt, and repentance · reason and the intellect · justice as a virtue · intellect and will · hating truth · gal 4:16 · faith and free sin · charity · causality as end and agent
Usually: argument (2) · injustice endured (1) · detachment (1) · exhortation (1)
“men love truth when it enlightens, they hate it when it reproves.” Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) · observation
A reply in the prima pars argues about the relation of intellect and will, claiming truth and good are closely linked and that the intellect can be said to move the will as good understood.
better than the knowledge of God; but, on the contrary, the knowledge of corporeal things is better than the love thereof. Absolutely, however, the intellect is nobler than the will. Reply Obj. 1: The aspect of causality is perceived by comparing one thing to another, and in such a comparison the idea of good is found to be nobler: but truth signifies something more absolute, and extends to the idea of good itself: …
Aquinas responds that while goodness cannot be hated, particular truths may be hated when they seem harmful or obstruct the good one loves, citing cases of sin, faith, and concealed wrongdoing.
4:16): "Am I become your enemy because I tell you the truth?" [*St. Thomas quotes the passage, probably from memory, as though it were an assertion: "I am become," etc.] *I answer that,* Good, true and being are the same in reality, but differ as considered by reason. For good is considered in the light of something desirable, while being and true are not so considered: because good is "what all things seek." Wheref…