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“Consequently the excellence of the gifts corresponds with the order in which they are enumerated; but so far as wisdom and understanding are given the preference to the others, their excellence is considered simply, while, so far, as counsel and fortitude are preferred to knowledge and piety, it is considered with regard to their matter.” Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) · insight
She argues for simpler principles in love and friendship, claims that vanity and duplicity degrade women, and insists that education should build understanding, wisdom, and the energy to love and trust.
privileges of friendship, or the momentary homage which the heart pays to virtue, when it flashes suddenly on the notice--mere animal spirits have no claim to the kindnesses of affection. Wishing to feed the affections with what is now the food of vanity, I would fain persuade my sex to act from simpler principles. Let them merit love, and they will obtain it, though they may never be told that: "The power of a fi…
In discussing Isaias’ order of the seven gifts, Aquinas argues that their excellence can be measured absolutely or by their matter, and thus their order corresponds with their enumeration.
counsel pertains to inquiry. But judgment is more excellent than inquiry. Therefore knowledge is a more excellent gift than counsel; and yet it is set down as being below it. Obj. 4: Further, fortitude pertains to the appetitive power, while science belongs to reason. But reason is a more excellent power than the appetite. Therefore knowledge is a more excellent gift than fortitude; and yet the latter is given the p…
He quotes or discusses John Smith on reason as a light not owned as a faculty, then returns to justify non-literal readings of Genesis through allegorical interpretation of biblical figures and terms.
country. The common sense of a people is the moveable *index* of its average judgment and information. Without metaphysics science could have had no language, and common sense no materials. But to return to my subject. It cannot be denied, that the Mosaic Narrative thus interpreted gives a just and faithful exposition of the birth and parentage and successive moments of *phænomenal* sin (*peccatum phænomenon; crimen…