The Philosophy of Sex According to St. Thomas Aquinas: An Abstract of a Dissertation
| Authors | Toon, Mark, O.S.B., M.A. |
| Series | Catholic University of America Philosophical Studies [156.12] |
| Tags | Thomas -- Aquinas Saint -- 1225?-1274, Saint Thomas Aquinas 1225?-1274, Sex -- Religious aspects -- Christianity, Sex, Sexual Behavior Sexualité, Sexualité -- Aspect religieux -- Christianisme, sexuality |
| Publisher | Catholic University of America Press |
| Published | 06 mag 1954 |
| Date | 06 mag 2022 |
| Languages | eng |
| Identifiers | oclc: 614849499, uri: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uva.x006053720 |
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cited in Griffin, Supernatural Fatherhood Through Priestly Celibacy, PDF p. 276 (p. 280) n64, a good summary of St. Thomas's view that sexual differentiation is to free men and women for contemplation:
Aquinas viewed virginity as more desirable than marriage, which entangles a person in the affairs of the world and withdraws him from heavenly things, and in which the vehemence of sexual activity clouds the use of reason.64
64. On the solicitude for temporal concerns that dominates the married life, see ST II-II.186.4; SCG III.136.10-13; and De Perf. cap. 8. On the impediment that sexual passion presents to the exigencies of contemplation, see in addition SCG III.27.10; ST Supp. 41.3 ad 2 and ad 6; Sent. IV, D. 26, Q. 1, A. 2, co.; Sent. IV, D. 33, Q. 3, A. 1, co. [II-II q. 152 a. 1; Quodl. VI q. 10 a. 1; ref:21.142]; and Sup. Gal. cap. 5, l. 6. […] Toon, “The Philosophy of Sex According to St. Thomas Aquinas," […]
cf. § "St. Thomas's Views on Sexual Intercourse" of this answer to the question "Are Catholics required to accept every article of Aquinas's «Summa Theologica»?"