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March 10, 2020

True Friendship: A Thomistic Guide | Prof John Cuddeback

True Friendship: A Thomistic Guide | Prof  John Cuddeback

⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 This lecture was given to the DC Young Adults Chapter on 10 February 2020. John A. Cuddeback, PhD, is professor of Philosophy at Christendom College, where he has taught for twenty-four…

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March 9, 2020

The Passions in General (Aquinas 101)

The Passions in General (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 As the Psalmist sings, "My heart and my flesh rejoice in the living God." Rather than disturbances of the soul, the passions are the building blocks of love and the energy…

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March 9, 2020

God Is Not Nice | Prof Ulrich Lehner

God Is Not Nice | Prof  Ulrich Lehner

⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 This lecture was given at Baylor University on February 6, 2020. Ulrich L. Lehner specializes in religious history and theology of the Early Modern period, the Enlightenment, and the 19th century.…

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March 7, 2020

How Could a Good God Allow Evil? | Fr Gregory Pine, OP

How Could a Good God Allow Evil? | Fr  Gregory Pine, OP

⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 This lecture was given at the University of Arizona on January 28, 2020.. Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. serves presently as the Assistant Director for Campus Outreach with the Thomistic Institute in…

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March 6, 2020

What is Matter? | Prof Edward Feser

What is Matter? | Prof  Edward Feser

⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 This lecture was given at Cornell University on February 11, 2020. For more events and info please visit https://thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Prof. Edward Feser is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pasadena City College,…

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March 2, 2020

The Fonts of Morality (Aquinas 101)

The Fonts of Morality (Aquinas 101)

🎥, Keep the Aquinas 101 cameras rolling! Donate $5 today: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 “The question [of morality] is not so much about rules to be followed but about the full meaning of life... This question is ultimately an appeal to the absolute Good which attracts us and beckons us; it is the…

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Feb. 24, 2020

Human Action (Aquinas 101)

Human Action (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 Human beings are on a quest for happiness. God did not design us to settle for shallow, transitory and superficial things, but designed our nature to seek out goodness in the…

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Feb. 21, 2020

Can a Feminist Be Pro Life? | Prof. Angela Knobel

Can a Feminist Be Pro Life? | Prof.  Angela Knobel

⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 Can a Feminist Be Pro Life? | Prof. Angela Knobel This lecture was given at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health on February 4, 2020. Angela Knobel is an Associate…

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Feb. 19, 2020

True Friendship: Insights from the Classical and Christian Traditions | Prof. Joshua Hochschild

True Friendship: Insights from the Classical and Christian Traditions | Prof. Joshua Hochschild

⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 True Friendship: Insights from the Classical and Christian Traditions | Prof. Joshua Hochschild This lecture was given on 4 February 2020 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Joshua Hochschild is the…

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Feb. 17, 2020

Beatitude (Aquinas 101)

Beatitude (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 happiness and how do we become happy? Figuring out what will make us human beings perfectly happy, St. Thomas focuses on what is unique about us, what makes us…

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Feb. 15, 2020

What Is Medicine For? Conscience and Clinical Practice | Dr. Farr Curlin, MD

What Is Medicine For? Conscience and Clinical Practice | Dr.  Farr Curlin, MD

⭐️ 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 Medicine For? Conscience and Clinical Practice | Dr. Farr Curlin, MD This lecture was given at Harvard Medical School on 4 February 2020. Farr Curlin is Josiah C. Trent…

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Feb. 14, 2020

Did Christ Die For Neanderthals? | Fr Simon Gaine, OP

Did Christ Die For Neanderthals? | Fr  Simon Gaine, OP

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Feb. 12, 2020

The Image of God and Original Justice (Aquinas 101)

The Image of God and Original Justice (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 image of God exists in the mind, not because it has a remembrance of itself, loves itself, and understands itself; but because it can also remember, understand, and love God…

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Feb. 11, 2020

The Priest and Confession | Fr. Romanus Cessario, OP

The Priest and Confession | Fr. Romanus Cessario, OP

⭐️ 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 Priest and Confession | Fr. Romanus Cessario, OP This lecture was given at the University of Oxford on 27 November 2019. Fr. Romanus Cessario, OP, holds a research fellowship at…

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Feb. 10, 2020

Thomistic Epistemology (Aquinas 101)

Thomistic Epistemology (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 Human beings do not invent the truth, but discover it. Skepticism and relativism are really forms of despair. In the philosophical tradition that comes down to us from Socrates, Plato, and…

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Feb. 10, 2020

St. Thomas Aquinas on Divinisation | Fr. Andrew Hofer, OP

St. Thomas Aquinas on Divinisation | Fr. Andrew Hofer, OP

⭐️ 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 on Divinisation | Fr. Andrew Hofer, OP This lecture was given at the University of Oxford on 21 November 2019. Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P., grew up as the…

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Feb. 5, 2020

Accompaniment and Moral Development | Fr. Romanus Cessario, OP

Accompaniment and Moral Development | Fr. Romanus Cessario, OP

⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 Accompaniment and Moral Development | Fr. Romanus Cessario, OP This lecture was given at the University of Oxford on 27 November 2019. Fr. Romanus Cessario, OP holds a research fellowship at…

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Feb. 5, 2020

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

Powers of the Soul: A Closer 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 We are always free to choose among options. Some options are better than others. All of the powers of the soul are directed toward achieving some good. Ultimately, we are made…

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Feb. 3, 2020

Body and Soul (Aquinas 101)

Body and Soul (Aquinas 101)

🎥, Keep the Aquinas 101 cameras rolling! Donate $5 today: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 A soul is not a ghost in a machine or a mere emergent property. It is not an occult claim or a material reduction—the soul is the form of the body, an animating force that separates the living from…

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Jan. 29, 2020

Philosophy Shows You Have an Immortal Soul (Aquinas 101)

Philosophy Shows You Have an Immortal Soul (Aquinas 101)

🎥, 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)

Angelic Knowledge and Choice (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 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?” (Isaiah 14:12) Have you ever…

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Jan. 22, 2020

Angels and Demons (Aquinas 101)

Angels and Demons (Aquinas 101)

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

The Problem of Evil (Aquinas 101)

🎥, Keep the Aquinas 101 cameras rolling! Donate $5 today: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 “If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?” -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)

Creation and Governance (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 Lord has made all things for Himself.” (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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