/lit/ - Literature

>>12120128
It's what is normally called an argument, the point being that even if we were to grant the objection, even if the entire world were to maintain in virginity from a "[love of God] out of a pure heart, and good conscience, and faith unfeigned," what is surely an impossibility given the reality of our world, then even from this supposed calamity a remarkable good would arise, meaning the objection is bunk. In the same passage he further says, 'Whence it seems to me, that at this time, those only, who contain not, ought to marry, according to that sentence of the same Apostle, "But if they contain not, let them be married: for it is better to be married than to burn."'

http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1309.htm

>>8502821
Why does anything exist? Why do we exist? Why do we naturally seek the good for ourselves and others? And what is the ultimate and perfect expression of the Good?