Charakter miłości według św. Tomasza z Akwinu

Abstract

Structure of love conditions the charity as supernatural habit of soul, as divine commandment and the most precious value of Christianity. Therefore the Author intends to analyse it, and by this way to declare as far as possible that fundamental problem of Catholic morality. First, he proposes the genesis of act of love, in its connexion with the appetite natural, animal and rational. The basic degree of love is complacence in good corresponding to the appetitive faculty. This forms the fundamental factor of love. In the complacene we perceive clearly three elements of it: the subjective appetitive faculty, the objective good desiderated by the subject, and the inclination which connects his appetite with its object. In the further part of the article, for the better discernement of the act before mentioned, the Author tries to explain the relation between love and cognition, which its a starting-point of love, and coherence of love with the different affects, to which the love is source and root.