The Search for Happiness: Wisdom from Aquinas and the Classical Tradition | Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.
The Thomistic Institute
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The Noblest Part of the Human Being
"What is the noblest part of the human being? You know, we have certain things in common with like rocks, we exist. And so you could say, well, you know, I take a certain pleasure and like really being here," he says. "But that obviously that's a joke because those are the same kind of things." He then asks: What do we have that's higher than animals? We have reason,. So we have intellect and will. Then knowing the truth, that's a higher kind of thing, which animals aren't really capable of doing".
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