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Intrinsic Evils

Sed Contra: A Podcast of Catholic Theology

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Are You a Proper Interpretation of Aquinas?

The main opponents of the proportionless are today known as new natural lawyers. They say that according to their theory, when you're talking about an action before it's performed, you can only talk about it in physical terms like killing or asserting a falsehood. And so for Aquinas' moral calculus, if you are performing an action, and it has an object and there is an intention,. It can even have multiple objects, like if you steal something from a church, then that is both theft and sacrilege. If at any point in your moral consideration of an action, you arrive at something evil, you can't do it.

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