Good and evil are essential differences of the act of the will. For good and evil pertain essentially to the will; just as truth and falsehood pertain to the reason, the act of which is distinguished essentially by the difference of truth and falsehood (according as we say that an opinion is true or false.) Consequently, good and evil volition are acts differing in species.


Summa Theologica, (Complete): (ed. Library of Alexandria, 1845) - ISBN: 9781465523815


Good and evil are essential differences of the act of the will. For good and evil pertain essentially to the will; just as truth and falsehood...

Good and evil are essential differences of the act of the will. For good and evil pertain essentially to the will; just as truth and falsehood...

Good and evil are essential differences of the act of the will. For good and evil pertain essentially to the will; just as truth and falsehood...

Good and evil are essential differences of the act of the will. For good and evil pertain essentially to the will; just as truth and falsehood...