Thomas Aquinas on ‘peccatum naturae’ and privation of grace
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https://doi.org/10.53439/stdfyt43.22.2019.13-36Keywords:
original sin, Thomas Aquinas, peccatum naturae, philosophical anthropology, human natureAbstract
The goal of this paper is to find out whether for Thomas Aquinas the peccatum naturae consists only in the privation of supernatural grace, i.e. that human nature would be bereft of divine grace but would not present an additional weakness relative to its own moral strength, which consists in the capacity to act according to reason. The issue is at the intersection between theology and philosophy but its resolution has a direct impact on our philosophical understanding of man and of his moral condition. Neither a naïvely optimistic nor a hopelessly pessimistic reading of man’s situation follow from the Christian revelation about the origins of human history.
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