Aquinas and the Life of the Mind, Stephen Brock
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- Stephen Brock, Professor of Medieval Philosophy, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, gives a public lecture on Thomas Aquinas and the mind as a form of life. Brock is Visiting Scholar with Virtue, Happiness & the Meaning of Life, and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago.
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"The will is the intellectual appetite"? Hmm. So is the will primarily responsible for desire, action, or both?
Well, desire finds it's expression in action, correct? Or, desire is actualized in and through action. However, the will can sometimes be hindered in finding expression depending on circumstances such as limited ability based on unfavorable conditions ( a man may have the will to drink alcohol and become drunk yet lack the means to get the alcohol, a man may have the will, or desire to rob a bank but is hindered by fear of getting caught and punished, although in some circumstances some may and do overcome this fear, etc).
I think a better phrasing would be “The ordered will is the satisfaction of the intellectual appetite.” As phrased it seems incomplete.
The will is the choosing faculty according to reason! Faith and reason work together! So remember to deliberate carefully! I could go on and on!
This is one of the best conferences on Aquinas I’ve heard. I’ve listened to it already five times over the past two years and I always get more out of it each time. One of the questions asked at the end was about people who live the practical life. Are they called to be contemplatives? I think all of us have something of the contemplative in us. Whether that is much or little has to be discovered by oneself. After all, the best activity is born of contemplation. On this line, I highly recommend Josef Pieper’s little but powerful book: Leisure the Basis of Culture. And finally, it was Will Durant who said: “No man in a hurry is quite civilized.”
Finally a good lecture on aquinas
hmmm... the very nature of humans is towards practical life which is designed for this world. Contemplative life may be a gift, it could be open for everybody but it is only for the receiver.
Aquinas converted Christianity to everything intellect. The Cardinal’s comment is spot on.
It's always interesting when a lecture on Thomas Aquinas doesn't care to mention that he quoted Pseudo Dionysius 1700 times in his Summa Theologica...
The entirety of Christian Metaphysics is based on Platonic thought but nobody ever mentions it.
I am both annoyed and disappointed with this drivel. I am not anti philosophy, even I know that the more you know the more you realise what you don't know. These obviously clever people should spend there time on climate research or anti racism etc...
O.o?
According to who, should they spend their time on climate research or anti racism? If that is what you wish to learn about go do it, but please don’t just run down a lecture because the content does not fit your agenda. If this content is drivel, please provide your own lecture on Aquinas. I would like to to hear some further insights and perspectives into his teachings.
Is this sarcasm?
Boring? St. Thomas was one of the minds of the last millennium. I'd rather spend time thinking of Thomist ideas as opposed to the numerous sites that purport to be anti racism or climate change blogs but more often are materialist screeds that are neither philosophy or science but ideology. And I say this as a scientist and liberal.
I found Aquinas anything but boring! I found Aquinas illuminating and beyond his time!