“Chastity,” Aquinas notes, “takes its name from the fact that reason ‘chastises’ concupiscence, which, like a child, needs curbing.” It’s no accident that foes of this virtue tend to respond to its …More
“Chastity,” Aquinas notes, “takes its name from the fact that reason ‘chastises’ concupiscence, which, like a child, needs curbing.” It’s no accident that foes of this virtue tend to respond to its defenders in a childish way, w/ insolence or foot-stomping anger instead of reason