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109: Would Aquinas listen to Metallica? (What makes music beautiful), With Fr. Gregory Pine

Pints With Aquinas

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The Transcendentals of Evil

When we talk about transcendentals, that would trans... You tell me what does that mean, etymologically? So it means that it steps through or over all of the categories. They're called transcendentals because they transcend all 10 categories. Why does everything which exists have to be good? Yeah, some people listening may have been told, well, Satan's evil, you can't possibly say Satan's good. Sure. I guess one kind of parenthetical thing is, so evil in the Thomistic tradition, according to St. Augustine, and those who follow him is a privation of the good. What evil describes is a disorder or a lack or basically something that

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