Kevin White The theme of the “passions of the soul” invites reflection both because of its moral and practical urgency and because of its vivid contribution to theoretical consideration of human nature. Analogously, Aquinas’s unprecedentedly elaborate “treatise” on the passions is of interest both for its part in the great argument of the Summa theologiae, where it is subordinated to the goal of clarifying the action by which the rational creature finds
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