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Why Is Truth Stronger than Wine, Women, and Kings?

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Thomas Aquinas’s writings on natural law (ST 1–2.94) are well-known. Around the same period of writing, Thomas wrote his twelfth Quodlibet (1272), including one famous article about why truth is stronger than wine, women, and kings (QQ 12.13.1). The two texts are parallel in surprising ways. Although the Quodlibet passage is overly brief, similar arguments concerning whether love is stronger than hatred (Summa theologiae 1–2.29.3) and whether all things tend to the good (De veritate q. 22, a. 1) complete the Quodlibet’s argumentation. Furthermore, Thomas’s understanding of natural law in the human heart as a participation in the eternal law, especially in terms of natural inclinations, gives theoretical justification for why truth is strongest.

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Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association

Title: Why Is Truth Stronger than Wine, Women, and Kings?

Description:

Thomas Aquinas’s writings on natural law (ST 1–2.

94) are well-known.

Around the same period of writing, Thomas wrote his twelfth Quodlibet (1272), including one famous article about why truth is stronger than wine, women, and kings (QQ 12.

13.

1).

The two texts are parallel in surprising ways.

Although the Quodlibet passage is overly brief, similar arguments concerning whether love is stronger than hatred (Summa theologiae 1–2.

29.

3) and whether all things tend to the good (De veritate q.

22, a.

1) complete the Quodlibet’s argumentation.

Furthermore, Thomas’s understanding of natural law in the human heart as a participation in the eternal law, especially in terms of natural inclinations, gives theoretical justification for why truth is strongest.

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