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Thomas Aquinas College Lectures & Talks — 442 episodes · page 1 of 5
“Queen Dido and the Ivory Gate”
“How Can Evil Be a Species of Human Actions?”
“The Analogy of Proper Proportion and the Metaphysics of Gift in the Thought of Ferdinand Ulrich”
“The Science of the One qua One: Aristotle and Aquinas on Henology”
“The Instrumental-Efficient Causality of Christ’s Past Actions: The Metaphysical Basis of a Disagreement Among Thomists”
“The Metaphysics of Martyrdom and the Being of Truth”
“The Dignity of God: An Aspect of Divine Wisdom”
“Hic et Nunc: Intelligible Matter and the Origins of Mathematical Knowledge”
“Is St. Michael His Michaelness? Aquinas on the Distinction Between Angelic Person and Angelic Nature”
“The Predicative and Epistemic Restrictions of Prime Matter, ‘to’ Some Predicative and Epistemic Restrictions Regarding Prime Matter”
“St. Thomas Aquinas on Whether All Human Beings Can Be Metaphysicians”
“Heidegger’s Atheistic Ontology: A Comparison of Faith and Reason in the Writings of Martin Heidegger and Thomas Aquinas”
“From Ipsum Esse to Emmanuel: Beyond the Metaphysical Ascent”
“On the Importance of Understanding Universals for the Teaching of Logic — and for Using Logic as Well”
“Conformity to God’s Will and Conformity to Right Reason: Measure, Contingency, and Participation in Aquinas”
“How Might We Understand Mary’s Current Mediatory Role?”
“Can One Have an Experience of God in the Natural Order?”
“The ‘Digitus Sextus’ in the Summa Contra Gentiles IV, c.41 as an Analogy for the Union of the Human Nature and the Divine Nature of Christ in the Hypostatic Union”
“Secundum Esse et non Secundum Intentionem: The Analogy of Inequality in In Sent. I.19.5.2”
“The Holy Spirit as the Impulse of Divine Love According to St. Thomas Aquinas”
“The Self-Evidence of the Gradation Principle (of the Fourth Way)”
“Contingency and Per Accidens Causality in the Work of St. Thomas”
“‘The great flood-gates of the wonder-world swung open’: The Baby and the Book in Dante’s Divine Comedy and Melville’s Moby-Dick; Or, The Whale”
“Sapientis est Ordinare: Order in the Thomas Aquinas College Curriculum”
“The Presence of the Spirit Overcomes All Barriers”
“We are Called to Be Protectors”
Artificial General Intelligence_ Superintelligent AI and Humane Futures - John-Clark Levin | TAC
“The Lamb, the Beast, and the Machine” - John Johnson | The Mind and the Machine
Artificial Superintelligence and the Pursuit of Wisdom - Dr. Michael Augros|The Mind and the Machine
"Minding What Is Mindless" - Dr. Antón Barba-Kay | The Mind and the Machine
"AI: A Perspective from a Catholic Google Engineer" - Vic Gundotra | The Mind and the Machine
“Human Flourishing in the Machine Age” | Panel Discussion
"The Philosophic Implications of AI" - Rev. Philip Larrey, Ph.D. | The Mind and the Machine
“The Problem of Bread: Art and Nature in Thomas’s Ontology of Artifacts”
“Metaphysics of Peace”
“Theology as a Guide to Aquinas’s Cognitive Philosophy”
“Ways of Seeing: Experience of Lower Methods as Prior to Divine Science”
“Thomas Aquinas’s Philosophical Doctrine of Creation”
“Plotinus: Omnipresence and Transcendence of the One in VI 5 [23]”
“Two Distinctions of the Same Realities: Movement and Activity vs. Transitive and Immanent Action”
“Aquinas on Simplicity and Analogy: A Problem in Natural Theology”
“Privatizing the Good: The Metaphysical Roots of Envy in St. Thomas Aquinas”
“‘Let One the Ruler Be, One the King’: The Many Gods of Aristotle’s XII.8”
“Treatise on the Divine Essence within Sacra Doctrina: Its Importance & Its Theological Character”
“The Order of the Universe as the Greatest Good Intrinsic to It”
“Substance and Form in Human Being”
“Aquinas on the Western Tradition of Divine Simplicity”
“Hans Urs von Balthasar and St. Thomas Aquinas on Divine Suffering and Theological Predication”
“How to Start Metaphysics”
“Analogica Entis, Abstraction via Seperatio, and the Subject Matter of Metaphysics”
“St. Thomas the Hopeful Romantic”
"A Fractured Mirror? Multiplicity and Intellection in Aquinas's Account of Eucharistic Presence"
"The Sky Upholds the Earth"
“The Madness of Our Chase for Wisdom”
"Smugglers"
“Become Peacemakers in an Age of Confusion”
“This Wisdom is a Grasping of God”
“No Other End than the Truth Itself”
"Music of the Triduum: A Spring Concert"
"The Bible and Baptism"
"Thucydides as a Philosopher"
"What is Wisdom?"
"Rational Mind and Non-Rational Agency: Aquinas’ Augustinian Account of the Sinning Will"
"How the Idea of Divine Providence Shaped the Careers of Brown, Douglass, & Lincoln"
"Foreign Policy Principles Underlining the Constitution"
AI and Humanity: What our Machines Say About Us - The Mind and the Machine: Episode 10
The Mind and the Machine - Main Theme
The Mind and the Machine - Intro Sequence & Credits
The Transcendentals
An Unknown Quantity
Faith Seeking Understanding
AI Will Never Think — Thinking Requires Life - The Mind and the Machine, Episode 9
“The Eucharist and Typology”
"Aquinas and Consequentialism"
Why AI Will Never Truly Think - The Mind and the Machine: Episode 8
The Gödel Problem: A Mathematical Argument Against AI Thought, The Mind and the Machine, Episode 7
Does Ai Understand? - Mind and Machine: Episode 6
Does AI Understand? - Mind and Machine Episode 5
“The Noble Due: Aquinas and Debitum Morale”
Does AI Really Think? - The Mind and the Machine: Episode 4
How Minds Know - Mind and Machine Episode 3
What is Artificial Intelligence? The Mind and the Machine Episode 2
Is ChatGPT a Person - The Mind and the Machine Lesson 1
“How Scripture Requires All Christians to be Catholic”
“Literature and the Renewal of Moral Philosophy”
“At the Heart of Sexual Ethics: Reflections on Aquinas and Wojtyla”
“Art as Imitation: An Aristotelian Re-Activation”
"On the Definition of Person"
“A Dumb Ox's Prayer to Bellow”
“Homosexuality, a Corrupt Complexio and Brutishness”
“Aquinas vs Scotus vs Aquinas on the Intrinsic Divisibility of Dimensive Quantity”
“Aquinas, Boethius, and the Art of Commentary”
“Aquinas’s Application of the Essence-Energy Distinction to the Divine Attributes in the Summa”
“The Best Praeambulum Fidei”
“Edith Stein, the Perennial Philosophy, and the Problem of Women”
Analogy in Aquinas: Development or Consistency?
Magistri Est Ordinare
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Funny Profundity, or Inane and Profane?”
“‘þe best boke of roumaunce’: Form and Meaning in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”
“The Neo-Aristotelian Nature of the Sexes”