El problema del bien. El bien del hombre según Santo Tomás de Aquino

Resumen

The transcendental notion of good indicates perfection, actuality and perfectivity of the entity, that is, its appetibility. Good in itself implies perfection and actuality. And as each finite being ─by its act-potential structure, that is, by being a shared good─ tends to its own perfection, the good is also understood as the perfective and actualizing of another way of end; for the very thing of the act is to be communicated. And the perfectivity also manifests that finite beings are not perfect but perfectible. In this sense, since being is better than not being, and good is superior to evil, good is what all things desire. Hence, at the human level, by necessity of practical reason, one must do and seek good, and avoid evil. In Thomas Aquinas we find a development of the good of man which, on the one hand, considers the human being from the plane of his ontological dignity as an honest, substantial and subsisting good, and for which, every human being is loved and wanted by himself, is useful for others and whose coexistence and coexistence becomes pleasant. And on the other hand, the Aquinate understands bonum hominis as the good for human being, considered from the plane of its nature and its tendencies, that is, the practical-moral good that each one of us pursues with his actions and free choices. Of course, good is the only thing we know, desire and seek, but neither do we know it enough nor the success with the real good is naturally assured in our actions and free decisions. Moreover, despite being rational, we do not always act rationally. That is why we need virtue and law to not only live, but also live well.