
Is the Perverted Faculty Argument Sound?
Sed Contra: A Podcast of Catholic Theology
00:00
The Charge of Physicalism
The author of the article was trying to argue that a human eat a need to be interpreted in a much stricter way than people were taking it. Aquinas use something like the perverted faculty argument when dealing with a similar problem, not contraception, but still having to do with sex. And I think it's book one of the sumo-contradentilias chapter 122, but don't quote me on that. But if you look at it, his argument isn't just zeroing in on the faculty, it's focusing much more broadly on what generation does and how it works.
Transcript
Play full episode