Summa Made Simple Ep 39: The Daughters of Lust Part 1 - How Lust Blinds the Mind
Saint Thomas teaches that every capital vice spawns a whole army of smaller sins in its wake — he calls them the “daughters” of that vice. In this three-part series, we’re examining the eight daughters of lust: blindness of mind, thoughtlessness, inconstancy, rashness, self-love, hatred of God, love of this world, and despair of the future. These aren’t random side effects — they flow directly from how lust works on the human person. In Part 1, we establish the core principle: when a lower power (like sex) is strongly moved toward its object, the higher powers (reason and will) become…
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