Summa Made Simple Ep 45: The Argument Against Aquinas Part 2
An elderly couple can’t have children. Is their sexual relationship therefore sinful? If not, why would contraception be different?Part 2 takes that apparent contradiction seriously and follows Aquinas’s reasoning all the way through. The key turns out not to be whether conception actually happens, but whether we deliberately stand in its way.That distinction—between nature withholding an outcome and the will deliberately preventing it—opens up Aquinas’s entire argument about sex, pleasure, reproduction, and what it means to accept an action for what it actually is.A note from the author: The…
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