Made for Another: John Paul II's Theology of the Body and Thomas Aquinas | Fr. Thomas Petri, O.P.
The Thomistic Institute
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The Five Principles of Marriage
Aquinas argued that there is a certain equality between husband and wife because equality is necessary for friendship. He believed that living marriage in any other way than monogamously would reduce wives to a position of inequality and servility to husbands. True friendship following Aristotle wants the good not only for oneself but for one's friend, he said.
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