
St. Thomas Aquinas on Suffering and Evil | Fr. Thomas Petri, O.P.
The Thomistic Institute
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I Need More Iron in My Diet, Right?
J budushesky was here at the last lectures at right. This is an example he often uses, which i love. So for instance, you see me in the dining hall to morrow morning. I'm pursuing my flourishing as i need more iron in my diet. The means by which i'm doing it is evil, because that's not human nature. And this is why, when people say god permits evil, he know that av use that language. It's not that god permits evil so that good may come of it. He wills only the good. Yes, he's maintaining the nexus. But then it would be a world without creatures like us.
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