{"id":48102,"date":"2013-10-25T00:23:54","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T07:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=48102"},"modified":"2014-12-29T20:59:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T03:59:26","slug":"emma-goldman-surprisingly-sounds-just-like-st-thomas-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2013\/10\/emma-goldman-surprisingly-sounds-just-like-st-thomas-here.html","title":{"rendered":"Emma Goldman, Surprisingly, Sounds Just Like St. Thomas here"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\u201cIn cases of need all things are common property, so that there would seem to be no sin in taking another\u2019s property, for need has made it common.\u201d (ST II-II, 66, 7<\/a>) \u2013 St. Thomas Aquinas<\/p>\n

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The right to property is not absolute.\u00a0 Human need trumps it because human beings are more important than things.<\/div>\n
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A smart Catholic says, \u201cHow about that.\u00a0 Emma Goldman figured out a Catholic truth here.\u201d<\/div>\n
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A stupid Catholic says, \u201cEek! Catholic Social Teaching sounds like Emma Goldman and *she* was a radical leftist!\u00a0 Catholic social teaching is radical leftism!\u201d<\/div>\n
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It\u2019s the difference between, on the one hand,\u00a0navigating by listening to the Church and evaluating human wisdom in light of it and, on the other hand,\u00a0navigating by tribal affiliations and shibboleths.\u00a0 Thomas did the former and so was able to mine the work of pagans like Aristotle and Muslims like Averroes for all sorts of good stuff.\u00a0 The Reactionaries of his time did the latter and so condemned him for being ritually impure and tainted by his associations with pagans and Muslim thinkers.<\/div>\n
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Guess who won that argument?<\/div>\n

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\u201cIn cases of need all things are common property, so that there would seem to be no sin in taking another\u2019s property, for need has made it common.\u201d (ST II-II, 66, 7) \u2013 St. Thomas Aquinas The right to property is not absolute.\u00a0 Human need trumps it because human beings are more important than things. 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