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The Service Of The Emotions In The Moral Life | Professor Scott Cleveland

The Thomistic Institute

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The Moral Life of Aquinas

Aquinas says passions serve the moral life by energizing our good actions. Passions also increase the moral goodness of our actions for Aquinas. By initiating passions appropriate to the good action which we intend, we choose to harness our emotional energy and that's praiseworthy. When passions are in good order, they produce psychological integrity.

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