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🎥, 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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⭐️ 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…
⭐️ 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…
⭐️ 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…
⭐️ 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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⭐️ 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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⭐️ 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…
⭐️ 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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⭐️ 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…
⭐️ 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…