The First Principle of Practical Reason

If we didn't have the first principle of practical reason to do good and avoid evil, we couldn't have any moral discussions. Saint thomas won't let us get two carried away in several passages where he explains how human reason borders upon angelic knowledge. Even at our best, we don't really think like angels, because our minds are set up in a different way altogether. The smartest genius will never outwit the lowest angel. There're simply no competition. They wouldn't be good chess parkers a moment ago. I claim that we only have our foot in the door of the intellectual domain of being. But saint thomas also explains that, although we only haveOur foot in