Abstract
The evaluation of the felix culpa view depends on understanding the perfection of the true self and the scale of value by which that perfection is measured. This chapter presents Aquinas’s notion of perfection in general in order to clarify a scale of value by which to measure the perfection of the true self. On Aquinas’s metaphysics, in loving God, a person actualizes the species-specific potentiality in human nature; and in union with the God who loves him, he perfects the image of God in his human nature. In this condition, his deepest heart’s desire converges with his thriving. And so, in his final and full union with God, he has the perfection of his true self.
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