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Justice in the Teaching of St Thomas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

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The purpose of this article is to see with St Thomas some aspects of the moral movement of man towards his creator, those aspects namely that have to do with his teliow travellers on the way to God, man's positive contribution to human social living. And this human social life, being human, should be rational; yet, as St Francis of Sales observes in his Introduction to the Devout Life, seldom do we meet rational animals who are reasonable! There is so much injustice in the world, in spite of reason's dictating to us that the good things of this world should be evenly distributed according to each one's need and place in society. Millions of our fellow men struggle to keep alive at bare subsistance level. The more one studies history, the more one sees it as continual warfare, cynics would say a losing battle, to obtain justice.

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Copyright © 1964 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers