Thomism Episodes

Feb. 11, 2025

Affairs of the Heart: The Ethical Significance of Anger | Prof. Jenni…

Professor Jennifer Herdt examines the cognitive dimensions and ethical significance of anger, distinguishing human anger, linked to justice and reason, from animal anger, within an Aristotelian-Thomistic framework.

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Feb. 7, 2025

Cosmological Apologetics: For and Against Creation | Prof. William E.…

Does the Big Bang prove God? In this lecture, Prof. William E. Carroll explores how cosmological arguments for and against a creator often get it wrong by confusing creation with a temporal beginning, a mistake that Thomas Aquinas can help …

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Jan. 22, 2025

What is the Separated Human Soul? Incomplete Person, Survivalism or C…

Professor Daniel De Haan explores the Thomistic debate surrounding the nature of the separated human soul after death, contrasting survivalism, corruptionism, and incompletionism to understand whether the soul retains personhood after death.

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Jan. 21, 2025

What Happens After Death? | Prof. Jeffrey Brower

Professor Jeffrey Brower explores Aquinas's view of human nature, contrasting it with materialism and substance dualism, focusing on the relationship between body and soul and what happens at death.

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Jan. 9, 2025

The Error of Beginnings and the Beginning of Errors: Creation and the…

This lecture was given on August 29th, 2024, at Brown University.

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Dec. 4, 2024

If Your Head Causes You to Sin | Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P.

Fr. Gregory Pine discusses the pitfalls of undisciplined thinking, advocating for a return to structured thought guided by the Catholic intellectual tradition, particularly the teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas.

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Nov. 29, 2024

Friendships and Social Life - Thomistic Insights | Prof. Thomas Hibbs…

Professor Thomas Hibbs and Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau discuss the importance of friendship and social life from a Thomistic perspective, highlighting the decline in friendships in modern society with philosophical insights from Aristotle and Aquinas.

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Oct. 30, 2024

C. S. Lewis and Aquinas: Was Lewis Influenced by Thomism? | Prof. Pet…

This lecture was given on February 20th, 2024, at Regent University.

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Oct. 8, 2024

Light and Life: Cellular Responses to Light | Prof. Keith Kozminski

This lecture was presented on July 20th, 2024, at The Dominican House of Studies as part of a professional conference called "Lumen Mundi: The Nature of Light and Its Effects in Nature".

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Oct. 7, 2024

The Ontological Status of Light and Color in St. Thomas Aquinas | Pro…

This lecture was presented on July 18th, 2024, at The Dominican House of Studies as part of a professional conference called "Lumen Mundi: The Nature of Light and Its Effects in Nature".

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Sept. 27, 2024

Where Does Electromagnetic Radiation Fit in a Thomistic View of Natur…

This lecture was presented on July 19th, 2024, at The Dominican House of Studies as part of a professional conference called "Lumen Mundi: The Nature of Light and Its Effects in Nature". This publication was made possible through the support …

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Sept. 23, 2024

The Sun as a Universal Cause in Aristotelian-Thomistic Tradition | Pr…

This lecture was presented on July 20th, 2024, at The Dominican House of Studies as part of a professional conference called "Lumen Mundi: The Nature of Light and Its Effects in Nature".

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