Edited sentence: , what traditional Christian ascetical tradition designates as the 'passions'.Any claims to immediate divine inspiration as imparting a knowledge of the divine will is ultimately authoritive only for the claiment and those who choose to believe him and it has to be assumed that any such claim is subject to the usual subconscious psychological forces that underlie and destort the human subjective consciousness, i.One might note that one would seem to be left with no objective standard by which to judge what is and what is God's will.Owen Carroll notes that the medieval philosophical tradition Realism, to which Aquinas belonged, assumes that the model that God used when creating the universe was within Himself so that the goodness of this world reflects and participates in some limited way and extent in the infinite goodness of God's own divine nature.The moral consequence of the latter position is that whatever God wills is good, even if it is inherently contradictory and morally arbitrary according to the light of human reason.The position of the opposing school of Nominalism maintains that the model that God used when creating the universe is outside of God and thus the goodness of this world is alien to the goodness of God Himself.Thus if God wills the damnation of any individual person the entirety of his creation is good simply because God wills it