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041 - Xli That God Is The Sovereign Good · Summa Contra Gentiles, First Book (On God)

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  Speaker 1: Chapter forty one of Suma Contragentilees, First Book on God
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  Speaker 1: by Saint Thomas aquinas translated by the Fathers of the
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  Speaker 1: English Dominican Province. This LibriVox recording is in the public
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  Speaker 1: domain Chapter forty one. That God is the sovereign good.
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  Speaker 1: From this it is proved that God is the sovereign good,
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  Speaker 1: for the universal good stands far above any particular good,
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  Speaker 1: even as the good of the nation is greater than
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  Speaker 1: the good of an individual. First Book of Ethics, Chapter two.
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  Speaker 1: Since the goodness and perfection of the whole stand above
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  Speaker 1: the goodness and perfection of the part Now, the divine
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  Speaker 1: goodness of God is compared to all other things, as
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  Speaker 1: the universal good to the particular. For He is the
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  Speaker 1: good of every good, as we have proved. Therefore he
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  Speaker 1: is the sovereign good. Moreover, that which is predicated essentially
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  Speaker 1: is said more truly than that which is predicated by participation.
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  Speaker 1: Now God is good by his essence and other things
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  Speaker 1: by participation is shown above. Therefore he is the sovereign good. Again,
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  Speaker 1: the greatest in any genus is the cause of others
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  Speaker 1: in that genus, as stated in Metaphysics Book one A.
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  Speaker 1: Since the cause is greater than its effect. Now all
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  Speaker 1: other things derive their ratio of goodness from God, as
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  Speaker 1: we've shown. Therefore, he is the sovereign good. Moreover, just
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  Speaker 1: as that is more white, which has less admixture of black,
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  Speaker 1: so that is better, which has less admixture of evil.
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  Speaker 1: Now God is most of all unmixed with evil, since
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  Speaker 1: in him there can be no evil, neither in act
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  Speaker 1: nor in potentiality. And this becomes him by his very nature,
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  Speaker 1: as we have proved. Therefore he is the sovereign good.
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  Speaker 1: Hence it is said in First Kings two two there
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  Speaker 1: is none wholly as the Lord is. End of Chapter
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  Speaker 1: forty one, read by Michael Shane, Craig Lambert Elsie