Manuducio
One of the loveliest ideas in St. Thomas articulated in his use of the word manuducio: “being led by the hand”. This word conveys the central idea in discipleship. Man is for some time in life led by the hand by a master, and he is aways led in this life by the things of sensation, and by his angel, and he is led by God both in this life and the next. St. Thomas sees manuducio as esential to the intellectual life. Philosophers should see themselves more as being led than as leading.
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