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Our Aim of Truth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2025

Vincent McNabb O.P.
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The true speaking absolutely is prior to the good, as appears from two reasons. First because the true is more closely related to being, which is prior to good. . . . Secondly, . . . knowledge naturally precedes appetite.” (Summa, la Qu. 16, Art 4, Eng. trans.)

The object of the intellect (i.e. Truth) “is more simple and more absolute than the object of the will” (i.e. goodness). Therefore the intellect in itself and absolutely is higher and nobler than the will—yet “the love of God is better than the knowledge of God ; but on the contrary, the knowledge of corporeal things is better than the love thereof. Absolutely, however, the intellect is better than the will.” (Ibid., Qu. 82, Part 3.)

These two texts from the Summa of the Blackfriar St. Thomas Aquinas must outline the attitude of Blackfriars towards Truth.

Type
Research Article
Information
Blackfriars , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , April 1920 , pp. 6 - 10
Copyright
Copyright © 1920 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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