Thursday, August 28, 2025

The Sensual


 

—Lo sensual es la presencia del valor en lo sensible.

—The sensual is the presence of a value in the

sensible.


What does NGD mean by this?  To be crude, it is not the so-called sensuality of the modern ideas of sexuality.  It is an intimacy, but of of St. Thomas Aquinas’ statement: “It must be that God is in all things most intimately” (Summa Theologiae, I, q. 8, art. 1). 

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