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Dec. 9, 2019

Five Ways to Prove God Exists (Aquinas 101)

🎥, Keep the Aquinas 101 cameras rolling! Donate $5 today: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 “Ever 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.” (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)

⭐️ 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)

⭐️ 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)

⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 “Whether for good or evil, each man lives by his love.” -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)

⭐️ 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)

⭐️ 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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Nov. 13, 2019

The Three Acts of the Mind (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 “... Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: Deals out that being indoors each one dwells; Selves — goes itself; myself it speaks and spells..." -As Kingfishers Catch Fire,…

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Nov. 11, 2019

Analogy (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 Everything that exists in some way has being, is good, has a kind of unity to it, and a truth or intelligibility. But what about the source of all that exists?…

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Nov. 6, 2019

Intro to Primary and Secondary Causality (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 Unlike every creature, God simply is. God is Being itself, and therefore absolutely uncaused. He is not simply in our world, he is the cause of our world. All things fundamentally…

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Nov. 4, 2019

Teleology (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 chicken does not exist only in order to produce another egg. He may also exist to amuse himself, to praise God, and even to suggest ideas to a French dramatist.”…

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Oct. 30, 2019

The Four Causes (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 “Knowledge is the object of our inquiry, and men do not think they know a thing till they have grasped the ‘why’ of the thing.” - Aristotle, Physics One of the…

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Oct. 29, 2019

Welcome to Aquinas 101 | Enroll Today

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Oct. 28, 2019

Substance and Accidents (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 world is not a place of static individuals, but of active realities. Thomas Aquinas thought that all of reality could be classified according to the distinction between substance and accident.…

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Oct. 25, 2019

Ultimate Fulfillment & Human Perfection | Prof. Candace Vogler

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Oct. 23, 2019

Nature and Natures (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 Is there such a thing as human nature, or is that simply a conventional idea? Think about an adolescent; that adolescent used to be a baby; that baby used to be…

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Oct. 21, 2019

Universals and Particulars, Genus and Species (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 “Each stage of cognitive development is grounded in the previous stage and the structure of the world itself helps us to ascend from the Cave of Ignorance. It is only because…

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Oct. 18, 2019

Experiencing Love & Friendship: Human & Divine | Prof. Adam Eitel

⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 Experiencing Love & Friendship: Human & Divine | Prof. Adam Eitel This talk was offered as part of our conference "Made for More: Happiness, Friendship, and the Good life," held at…

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Oct. 17, 2019

Human Nature, Positive Psychology, and Perennial Principles | Fr. James Brent, O.P.

⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 Human Nature, Positive Psychology, and Perennial Principles | Fr. James Brent, O.P. This talk was offered as part of our conference "Made for More: Happiness, Friendship, and the Good life," held…

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Oct. 16, 2019

The Real Distinction (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 “It is clear, therefore, that an intelligence is form and existence, and that it has existence from the First Being, which is existence alone. And this is the First Cause, which…

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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.

⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 Is Lasting Happiness Really Possible? | Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P. This talk was offered as part of our conference "Made for More: Happiness, Friendship, and the Good life," held at Yale…

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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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