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Aquinas Lecture by Elenore Stump, Ph.D.

It’s excellent to see that there is more and more prominent thomists’ videos are being hosted publicly in areas such as YouTube. Here we have a  ”2009 Aquinas Lecture, Desires of the Heart: Finding True Fulfillment, … delivered January 25, 2009, by the internationally renowned Thomist, Elenore Stump, Ph.D.”  

Piotr Jaroszynski, Beauty and Being: Thomistic Perspectives

Product Description This book represents an attempt to distinguish and define what beauty is in metaphysical terms, to arrive at a better understanding of beauty as a transcendental property of being, and to establish beauty’s place in philosophy alongside truth and the good through an exploration of whether there can truly be a philosophy of…

Quote of the Day

Great discussion on thomism list. There was a recent quote posted that really peaked my interest: “We ask why the Philosopher has so often used such an obscure mode of teaching. Here is the reason: in temples, one uses veils to prevent anyone, even the profane, from approaching what they are not worthy to approach.…

Thomism and Atheism by James V. Schall SJ

I just got alerted to this new work. I have not recieved any other information other than this abstract but this should be interesting. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1741-2005.2010.01370.x/abstract Keywords: Thomism; atheism; acidia; infidelity; pride; self-creation Abstract Atheism, the thesis that God does not exist and Thomism, the thesis that there are “proofs” for the existence of God based…

Thomas Aquinas & Contemporary Scholarship

Yet another great looking conference on Aquinas and contemporary scholarship   The Thomistic Institute of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., and theCatholic and Dominican Institute of Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, NY jointly present an inaugural workshop on Thomas Aquinas & Contemporary Philosophy. This workshop will bring together scholars and students…

Thomistic Reflections on the Psychology of Love

From: http://theologyphilosophycentre.co.uk/ Aquinas Lecture 2011 ‘If Love It Is…’: Thomistic Reflections on the Psychology of Love Michael Sherwin, OP (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) Wednesday 26 January 2011 5.00pm The Aquinas Institute Blackfriars Oxford Further Information from [email protected] Download the event poster here.   Posted: January 17th, 2011 Permalink Announcements, Events