Human Perversity: Why Do We Reject What Is Good?
from CultureCast Hosted by Daniel Dal Monte
In this episode, I discuss an episode in the Gospel of Matthew in which the people of Nazareth dismiss Christ for his wisdom and miracles. I was wondering how people could be so foolish and perverse? They have a “crabs in the bucket” mentality. I turn to Aquinas to illuminate how we do not directly choose evil, but instead mistakenly choose a certain pleasure that comes with an evil. We do not have a “diabolical will”—one of Kant’s ideas-because we don’t seek to rebel against the law for its own sake. We have mistaken priorities in which we value a small pleasure over the real goodness of God.
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