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Freedom, Desire, and Happiness | Father Dominic Legge, O.P.

The Thomistic Institute

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The Order of Ends

Aquinas says you need to have a good end for an action to be good. This is the distinction between ends that are ordered, pairs say, or essentially ordered,. And ends that are order pair accidents, or accidentally ordered. In Aquinas's example of fighting well it is essentially ordered to victory.

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