Medieval Philosophy: St. Thomas Aquinas

International Catholic University video clip from a lecture by Prof. Ralph McInerny on St. Thomas Aquinas.

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Education

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• Medieval
• Philosophy
• St.
• Thomas
• Aquinas
• Thomism
• Scholasticism

[akwinata1]

You ask: how it is a choice? Very simple. If there were TWO Gods, you would have TWO possible choices, but you know and I that there is only ONE true God, so there is only ONE possible choice. What does it mean? It mean your freedom is not against truth. Your freedom is not to make new god. God is your happy end. Your freedom can do nothing about it, to change it. Your freedom was given to you by God in order to make it possible for you to give answer to God: yes or not. If "yes" you are happy.

[akwinata1]

One choice, because ONE God. So there is only ONE possible subject of your choice, which is ultimate and for all eternity. No other true and real God. Only ONE right choice. To choose God, your Creator and Saviour, Who truly loves you. But be very careful! Do it now. Do not wait till the moment of your death. It will be the last moment of your earthly life and in this last moment you will have possibility given by God, to make your final choice, valid for all eternity, to be with God or not.

[bongolongo]

@akwinata1 What you're saying is that we were given free will in order to pick only ONE correct choice, and if we choose anything else, we'll be punished severely. How is that a choice, exactly?

[kern0099]

Thomas Aquinas won a battle of attrition by baiting one opponent (scientists) vs. another (papal Rome). He argued politically from a philosophical position he didn't believe in (naturalism). This formed a coalition on the losing side, and furthered the status quo on the wining side, the church. His misrepresentations enabled the protracted feature of the Dark Ages more than any one actor. Of course he personally benefitted greatly, by appealing to human greed to further his own. Nakedly evil.

[dfpolis]

Very solid and illuminating.

[morvensky]

He is smart and knows his stuff, but he is a little dry.

[akwinata1]

You man are proud to be man but why? You will answer - because of reason and free will. Yes you are right, BUT God gave you reason and free will in order to make it possible to you to believe God. If you don't believe God, and God is Truth, Jesus is Truth, you reject to use your reason and free will in the most sublime way possible for you. You reject to use your reason and free will in the way which was the main reason you received them from God.You reject to use them for what you received them

[airplanman]

@lizazoon My friend a heretic ,are you faithful to God ? Do you know and understand Jesus the author of Love that gave his life on a cross for the world ?No Man would do this and all the while say forgive them for they know not what they do. Do you LOVE the lord your God with all you Heart ,All your Soul,Mind and Strength? Jesus (GOD)came in the form of a man..I saw the stigmata. I know Truth.Early church fathers lived their life for God.Do you know God's LOVE.God let me love you every second.

[lizazoon]

This man, who wrote the script, how to deal with heretics, hence the Inquisition, was promoted a " doctor of the Church " How appropriate  !!!

[airplanman]

@indirectapproach I did not hear that.but in any case the word decent means respectable,proper, fitting ,fair and the word noble means high moral qualities, stately, exellent .There are those qualities that are addressed in we humans , natural order or God's way.If we work or play against natural order LAW there is almost always consequence.Do this,youtube Rick Larsen's star of bethlehem and tell me what you think.I will give you more to check.remember I was about a hard core atheist. Watch !