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- 1.1.1.7. A good is not better because it is more necessary."Many economists claim that in any free exchange each party must think that they are getting something better out of the deal. But people are not such fools. A widow who sells her wedding ring in order to buy food is fully aware that her ring is better than the food, but she also realizes that food is more necessary. Far from being pleased at the ‘free’ exchange giving her something better, she is sad that cruel necessity forces her to exchange the better for the worse."2 min
- 1.1.1.6. The end is better than that which is for the sake of the end."Health and medicine are both good, but medicine is for the sake of health, and health is better than medicine. Studying is good and knowing is good, but studying is for the sake of knowing and knowing is better than studying."1 min
- 1.1.1.5. The whole is better than the part."A whole chair is better than part of a chair. A whole car is better than part of a car. A whole garden is better than one flower."1 min
- 1.1.1.4. The better is not better because it is more wanted."In reality, virtue and wisdom are better and the Athenians only prefer pleasure and wealth out of ignorance; they do not know wisdom and virtue well enough to see how good they are."2 min
- 1.1.1.3. The good is the final cause."a definition of a cause by its effect. The good is a cause. It is the final cause, the end or purpose. Aristotle famously distinguishes four different causes: the material of which something is made, the form that that material has, the agent that gives the material its form, and the end for the sake of which the agent gives the material its form."3 min
- 1.1.1.2. The good is wanted because it is good."a great many examples of basic desires and their objects, and argues that in each case the object is not good because it is desired, but desired because it is good. Hunger is the desire for food, but food is not good because there is hunger. Rather, there is hunger because food is good and necessary for the preservation of one’s substance."7 min
- 1.1.1.1. The good is what all want."And this is the first definition of the good that Aristotle gives: the good is what all want, or desire."2 min
- 1.1.1. The Good, the Highest Good, & the Common Good
Full Text | by Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist. | "The following thirty-seven theses give a basic overview of the Aristotelian-Thomist account of the good, as interpreted by Laval School Thomists such as Charles De Koninck, Duane Berquist, and Marcus Berquist."
1 min - INTRO: Integralism in Three Sentences
"Catholic Integralism is a tradition of thought that, rejecting the liberal separation of politics from concern with the end of human life, holds that political rule must order man to his final goal. Since, however, man has both a temporal and an eternal end, integralism holds that there are two powers that rule him: a temporal power and a spiritual power. And since man’s temporal end is subordinated to his eternal end, the temporal power must be subordinated to the spiritual power."
2 min - SERIES: Catholic Integralism, Josias
"The Josias – seeking to articulate an authentically Catholic political stance from which to approach the present order of society." ** Website
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Classic works by Alamariu, Andreesen, Devlin, de Maistre, Escrivá, Heartiste, Josias, the Popes, Sertillanges.