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Jan. 29, 2020

Philosophy Shows You Have an Immortal Soul (Aquinas 101)

šŸŽ„, Keep the Aquinas 101 cameras rolling! Donate $5 today: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 The soul makes the heart not only to be, but to beat. Soul makes the eyes not only to be, but to see. The soul is the organizational pattern of all parts, and all the parts of all the…

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Jan. 27, 2020

Angelic Knowledge and Choice (Aquinas 101)

ā­ļø Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 ā€œHow art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, who didst rise in the morning? How art thou fallen to the earth, that didst wound the nations?ā€ (Isaiah 14:12) Have you ever…

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Jan. 22, 2020

Angels and Demons (Aquinas 101)

šŸŽ„, Keep the Aquinas 101 cameras rolling! Donate $5 today: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 ā€œTo pretend they [Angels] do not exist because we do not see them is like pretending that we never sleep because we have never caught ourselves asleep.ā€ -Fr. Walter Farrell, O.P. The Catholic church firmly teaches the existence of…

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Jan. 20, 2020

The Problem of Evil (Aquinas 101)

šŸŽ„, Keep the Aquinas 101 cameras rolling! Donate $5 today: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 ā€œIf God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?ā€ -St. Augustine We can be sure that God only permits evil for the sake of some much better and higher good, including not…

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Jan. 15, 2020

Creation and Governance (Aquinas 101)

ā­ļø Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 ā€œThe Lord has made all things for Himself.ā€ (Proverbs 16:4) Creation is not God igniting the first spark of physical things or changing or moving things from one state to another.…

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Jan. 15, 2020

Natural Rights and Public Right in the American Founding | Charles Kesler

ā­ļø Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 Natural Rights and Public Right in the American Founding A lecture by Charles Kesler (Claremont McKenna College) delivered at the conference "What Are Natural Rights?" on April 1, 2017 in NYC.…

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Jan. 13, 2020

The Missions of the Trinity (Aquinas 101)

ā­ļø Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 ā€œInspired by the Father, each procession of the Light spreads itself generously toward us, and, in its power to unify, it stirs us by lifting us up. It returns us back…

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Jan. 13, 2020

What's the Problem With Natural Rights? | Nigel Biggar | Oxford University

ā­ļø 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's the Problem With Natural Rights? A lecture by Nigel Biggar (Oxford University) delivered at the conference "What Are Natural Rights?" on April 1, 2017 in New York City. Subscribe to…

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Jan. 13, 2020

Do Thomists Have Rights? Does Anyone? | Fr. Dominic Legge

ā­ļø Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 Do Thomists Have Rights? Does Anyone? A lecture by Fr. Dominic Legge, OP (Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception) delivered at the conference "What Are Natural Rights?" on April 1, 2017…

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Jan. 8, 2020

The Persons of the Trinity (Aquinas 101)

ā­ļø 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 Holy Trinity is a mystery in the strict sense—is the mystery of God in Himself. Our knowledge of this mystery depends exclusively on God's revelation and above all, on the…

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Jan. 6, 2020

The Triune God (Aquinas 101)

ā­ļø Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 [I believe] in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of life, Who proceedeth from the Father and the Son, Who, together with the Father and the Son, is adored and…

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Jan. 1, 2020

Predestination (Aquinas 101)

šŸŽ„, Keep the Aquinas 101 cameras rolling! Donate $5 today: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 ā€œHe chose us in him before the foundation of the world that we should be Holy and blameless before Him. He predestined us in love to be His sons through Jesus Christ according to the purpose of His will,…

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Dec. 30, 2019

Freedom (Aquinas 101)

ā­ļø 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 is it possible that God's grace can move us freely to make saving acts of faith, hope, and love? Isn't this simply a contradiction? The highest good of the human…

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Dec. 25, 2019

Providence and Chance (Aquinas 101)

ā­ļø Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 Aquinas holds that creation is characterized by order, that all things come forth from God according to an ordered plan and all things are ordered back to God as their ultimate…

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Dec. 23, 2019

What is God's Will? (Aquinas 101)

ā­ļø Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 ā€œLord, what wilt Thou have me do? Behold the true sign of a totally perfect soul: when one has reached the point of giving up his will so completely that he…

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Dec. 18, 2019

God's Knowledge (Aquinas 101)

ā­ļø Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 ā€œThe philosopher says that God's knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man's knowledge.ā€ -Jacques Maritain God's knowledge is not in the world or from…

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Dec. 16, 2019

Naming God (Aquinas 101)

ā­ļø 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 then can we speak of the divine names? How can we do this if the Transcendent surpasses all discourse and all knowledge, if it abides beyond the reach of mind…

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Dec. 11, 2019

The Divine Attributes (Aquinas 101)

ā­ļø Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 Deus Caritas Est: God is Love. John in his first letter says, "God is love", essentially love in all he is. None of us can say, "I am loveā€ or "I…

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Dec. 9, 2019

Five Ways to Prove God Exists (Aquinas 101)

šŸŽ„, Keep the Aquinas 101 cameras rolling! Donate $5 today: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 ā€œEver since the creation of the world his invisible nature, namely, his eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made.ā€ (Romans 1:20) The writings of ancient pagan philosophers confirmed the biblical teaching…

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Dec. 2, 2019

Habits: A First Look (Aquinas 101)

ā­ļø Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 By habit, whether virtue or vice, man sows the seeds of his destiny, determining in choice what he is and what he is to become. In order to get better and…

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Nov. 27, 2019

Powers of the Soul: A First Look (Aquinas 101)

ā­ļø 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 refers to the human person as the horizon of creation—the meeting of heaven and earth. We are composite beings—embodied souls—with a complex makeup. In Aristotle and St. Thomas’s…

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Nov. 25, 2019

Good and Evil (Aquinas 101)

ā­ļø Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 ā€œWhether for good or evil, each man lives by his love.ā€ -St. Augustine of Hippo What is the good? For St. Thomas Aquinas, this question is absolutely central. He begins by…

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Nov. 20, 2019

Moderate Realism (Aquinas 101)

ā­ļø Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 Straddling between two extremes, St. Thomas Aquinas follows Aristotle in proposing a theory of moderate realism. Against Plato, St. Thomas insists that the universals are first in things themselves. Against William…

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Nov. 18, 2019

Opinion, Doubt, Knowledge, and Belief (Aquinas 101)

ā­ļø Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 On St. Thomas Aquinas’ account, belief is not simply a sentiment. Rather, it involves coming into contact with a truth and having the truth come into our minds, even though we…

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