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What is Needed for Happiness? | Father Dominic Legge, O.P.

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The Nature of Desire

Do we have a natural desire as rational creatures to know what God is? Or to know like to be friends with God really is. This is a huge debate in Catholic theology in the 20th century. Aquinas makes clear you can only get there by grace. And then later in the summa, I think he makes very clear this idea that our nature is never really oriented towards that supernatural good actively only passively. It's awaiting God's gift to activate it.

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