[geocentrism] Re: 12 Angry Men
- From: "Robert Bennett" <robert.bennett@xxxxxxx>
- To: <geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:12:14 -0400
Dear Phil -osophical Phil
The points below are a bit confusing.
Start with the command to "love the Lord your God with your whole heart and
your whole mind and your whole soul"
Aquinas distinguished the faculty we call intellect, whose proper object is
the truth.
Will is the faculty of deciding what action to take, whose proper object is
the good.
Heart is the core of the total personality and seat of the emotions
.., "It's simply a case of, as Neville put it,'The true spirit of God guides
us through our heart, not through our head.' "
As the Truth and the Good and the Life, Jesus is the proper object of all
three human components.
To me this is untenable... The true Spirit of God guiding us by grace
through our soul and reason [and heart], causes us to affirm our faith as
an act of the will, through works of charity.
Charity alone? Then how would contemplative monks isolated from the world
affirm their faith?
.......This does not preclude Catholics from acting out their heart with
feelings, but their faith is an ACT of the wll, NOT the heart. We do not
deny the weaker sex such feelings do we?
An act of faith must be an act of the heart - by definition. Our actions
may be based on logic or emotions, but they are still our actions.
Blessed are those who have NOT seen and yet BELIEVE.
Consider the simplicity of a child. He is forbidden to take a cookie from
the table.. In his heart he desires the cookie. But in his intellect he
wills to obey his mother whom he loves.
Intellect is separate from will . He knows how good a cookie is, and he
knows his mother's rule. Neither bit of knowledge changes. Yet one time he
may pass up the cookie, but later on take it. Why?
Free will.
RB
Philip.
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