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The Search for Happiness: Wisdom from Aquinas and the Classical Tradition | Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.

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The Commandments Are Not Fulfilling the Commandments

The point of the commandments is actually to educate us in what is threatening or what is good. Fulfilling the commandments is like the minimum condition for pointing us towards what we're really supposed to be doing. So if you set up a whole moral Schema and define right and wrong completely by commandments, you're missing something. It's not that what you're doing is totally false, but it's just going to be insufficient.

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