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For relevant related reading, see the 2007 revised and expanded edition of Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette's 1992 book The King Within: Accessing the King [Archetype] in the Male Psyche (but the King archetype is also in the female psyche, just as the Queen archetypes is in both the male psyche and the female psyche).

(4) Page 138: "The greatness of the human person consists in this: that we are capable of the universe."

For relevant further reading, see the French Franciscan Eloi Leclerc's 1970 book in French translated as The Canticle of Creatures: Symbols of Union: Analysis of St. Francis of Assisi, translated by Matthew J. O'Connell (1977).

(5) Page 139: "Human beings have an intellect somehow equal to the angels because of the property and capability of souls [psyches]."

For relevant related reading about angels, see Mortimer J. Adler's accessible short 1982 book The Angels and Us.

(6) Page 176: "The root of all virtue is the desire for joy and happiness."

For relevant related reading, check out what the Declaration of Independence says about the pursuit of happiness.

(7) Page 301: "The image is a principle of our knowledge. It is that from which our intellectual activity begins, not as a passing stimulus, but as an enduring foundation."

For relevant related reading about imagistic thinking, see Eric A. Havelock's 1963 book Preface to Plato (but note that Plato is often one of the targets of Aquinas' critiques).

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Thomas James Farrell is professor emeritus of writing studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD). He started teaching at UMD in Fall 1987, and he retired from UMD at the end of May 2009. He was born in 1944. He holds three degrees from Saint Louis University (SLU): B.A. in English, 1966; M.A.(T) in English 1968; Ph.D.in higher education, 1974. On May 16, 1969, the editors of the SLU student newspaper named him Man of the Year, an honor customarily conferred on an administrator or a faculty member, not on a graduate student -- nor on a woman up to that time. He is the proud author of the book (more...)
 

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