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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

zeal and sorrow

i see how zeal is really connected to sorrow and envy - at least the occasional passionate twinge nad even a necessity to actually fight off resenting someone else - inasmuch as one's own good is so beloved and one is that much more zealous about it because suffering of it - and seeing others attain something with ease when one has lost leads one to be unhappy.... this is not the vainglory kind of envy...
aquinas is very careful to distinguish zeal from envy -

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