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RealisticCatholic
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The will moves intrinsically, but only in the sense if the intellect presents something as good. The two go hand-in-hand.
In which case, it still seems — as I understand Aquinas — that someone is not truly free to choose a lesser good over God to the extent that he would be fully culpable for that action. And, ultimately, it seems absurd that anyone could go to hell in that case.
The issue at hand is how does the person become “ill-disposed in respect of the end itself”? Besides ignorance and passion, I cannot gather how it is possible to choose a lesser good over a greater good.Article 4 (excerpt) “he who sins through certain malice is ill-disposed in respect of the end itself, which is the principle in matters of action; and so the defect is more dangerous than in the case of the man who sins through passion”.
In which case, it still seems — as I understand Aquinas — that someone is not truly free to choose a lesser good over God to the extent that he would be fully culpable for that action. And, ultimately, it seems absurd that anyone could go to hell in that case.