Defending and Meditating on First Principles

Dr. Matthew Minerd presents a lecture on "Defending and Meditating on First Principles: Wisdom and Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange".
Dr. Minerd has translated several works of Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange (links below) and here explains the insight and wisdom of the great Thomist.
ABSTRACT: From an Aristotelian perspective, domains of discursive knowledge which are called “science,” or epistêmê, are concerned above all with the drawing of per se conclusions in light of first principles. Though such knowledge is concerned with its first principles, its bent is turned toward the conclusions that those principles illuminate. By contrast, wisdom, sophia, sapientia, takes up a loftier task still: defending and meditating upon its very principles, as well as all other things in light of those principles. This lecture will briefly present this theme in the work of Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P., discussing how sapiential meditation on first principles undergirded much of his philosophical and theological work, imbuing it with a deceptive simplicity which, in fact, is quite illuminating.
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Interdependent principles of metaphysics.
Non-contradiction:
Identity:
Substance:
Raison d'etre:
Efficient causality:
Final causality:
Change:
Episteme is conclusion (object of a science) focused. While the object of sophia is also episteme, in the case of metaphysics it is the principles themselves that are united to the knower whereas in natural philosophy having episteme is less about principles by which the science proceeds as the conclusions it reaches.