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Oct. 16, 2019

The Real Distinction (Aquinas 101)

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Oct. 14, 2019

Essence and Existence (Aquinas 101)

⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 “All chairs are quite different.” - HG Wells “If they were so different you could not call them all chairs.” - GK Chesterton The Pre-Socratics tried to explain everything as elemental…

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Oct. 11, 2019

Is Lasting Happiness Really Possible? | Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.

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Oct. 9, 2019

Form and Matter (Aquinas 101)

⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 What is truth? What is love? What is justice? In asking the question, one asks for the essences of things, or more simply, what they are. The ancient philosopher Plato called…

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Oct. 7, 2019

Act and Potency (Aquinas 101)

⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 How can the water in a river always be flowing by and yet it remains the same river? By wrestling with this and various puzzles regarding change, Aristotle discovered the distinction…

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Oct. 2, 2019

Being and Metaphysics (Aquinas 101)

🎥, Keep the Aquinas 101 cameras rolling! Donate $5 today: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 The object of metaphysics is being itself. Everything that has being is in some way one and unified, true or intelligible, good and thus desirable, beautiful and therefore pleasing. At this point, when you’ve begun thinking why that might…

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Sept. 30, 2019

Argument and Dialectic (Aquinas 101)

⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 The calling of St. Thomas Aquinas was to pose all the most relevant questions, face all the most relevant difficulties involved in each question, and draw all the relevant distinctions. Argument…

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Sept. 25, 2019

The Principle of Non-Contradiction (Aquinas 101)

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Sept. 23, 2019

The Science of Theology (Aquinas 101)

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Sept. 18, 2019

How Do You Read an Article of the Summa? (Aquinas 101)

⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 St. Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae is not simply a reference book; rather, it offers a pedagogical approach to all of theology. How Do You Read an Article of the Summa? (Aquinas…

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Sept. 16, 2019

Why is the Summa Important? (Aquinas 101)

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Sept. 11, 2019

Why Read St. Thomas Aquinas? (Aquinas 101)

⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 You might wonder, why read St. Thomas Aquinas? Pope Leo XIII writes that Saint Thomas inherited the intellect of all the ancient doctors of the Church. He is esteemed as a…

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Aug. 25, 2019

Welcome to Aquinas 101

🎥, Keep the Aquinas 101 cameras rolling! Donate $5 today: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 Welcome to Aquinas 101 - Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. Go to http://www.Aquinas101.com to sign up for one of our free video courses on Aquinas. And don’t forget to like and share with your friends, because it matters what you…

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Aug. 14, 2019

What Did St. Thomas Write? (Aquinas 101)

⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 The writings of St. Thomas range in content from the Divine Names to the number of angels that could dance on a pin. A prolific writer, by the end of his…

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Aug. 14, 2019

St. Thomas Aquinas on Faith and Reason (Aquinas 101)

🎥, Keep the Aquinas 101 cameras rolling! Donate $5 today: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 “Unless thou hadst believed, thou wouldst not understand.” (Isaiah 7:9) Is faith unreasonable? Is it contrary to reason, or in tension with it? St. Thomas Aquinas holds that God, being the ultimate source of reality, is therefore the source…

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Aug. 14, 2019

Who is St. Thomas Aquinas? (Aquinas 101)

🎥, Keep the Aquinas 101 cameras rolling! Donate $5 today: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 Who is St. Thomas Aquinas? A saint and scholar, St. Thomas Aquinas is especially well-known for the wisdom which he demonstrated in his philosophical and theological works. He is remembered for purity and chastity, which he possessed in perfection.…

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Dec. 13, 2018

Defending the Common Good: Mercy and Punishment, from Stoicism to Christianity | Prof. Sarah Byers

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Dec. 13, 2018

Faith, Natural Law And The Common Good | J.Budziszewski

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Dec. 13, 2018

Shakespeare, the Book of Sir Thomas More, and the Common Good | Prof. Gerard Wegemer

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Dec. 13, 2018

From the Common Good to Public Order (and Back)| Gladden Pappin

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Aug. 10, 2018

Credo Trailer | Introducing the Dominicans

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July 11, 2018

Soul, Mind, and Personhood in Modern Biology | Prof. Stephen Meredith

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July 10, 2018

Hylomorphism and the New Mechanist Philosophy of Neuroscience | Dr. Daniel De Haan

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July 9, 2018

Thomistic Objections Against Evolution: Returning to First Principles | Prof. Brian Carl

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