Fantastic discussions. I am not a catholic but am a Christian. I discovered Aquinas two years ago and his Summa has become my main study next to my Bible. There are fascinating things said by this man about everything one might want to know.
trailtrs1 Yet Protestantism was an effect of the nominalist (anti-thomistic) metaphysics. It is philosophically Ockhamian, as Luther said of himself, or nominalistic. Its marks are in the definition of faith Luther gave (or the traditions squared in Protestantism moviments): the essence of things are not in reality anything universally accessible; rather there are not essences but ideas that constitute the reality idealized. That said, we can say faith for a Protestant came to be a confidence to be saved by believing that is so strong and arbitrary (although logically explained, meaning not random, but explainable) that it constitutes the reality of being saved itself. That revolutionary process is in the roots of modernity: the problems of relativism, nihilism and atheism would never be solid enough if it wasn’t by for the Protestant revolutionary process against, let me say, not the Church in its terrible times (that is historical fact) but against thomistic/classical metaphysics. I respect all our Protestant brothers, don’t get me wrong. From a friend in Brazil.
I think that Machiavelli should be more seriously considered as the open and public founder of modern philosophy. Catholic thinking often starts later with Kant or in this case Feuerbach who were derivative from Machiavelli, Bacon, Hobbes, and Descartes. Otherwise an insightful lecture.
Fantastic discussions. I am not a catholic but am a Christian. I discovered Aquinas two years ago and his Summa has become my main study next to my Bible.
There are fascinating things said by this man about everything one might want to know.
He's a brilliant guide, brother!
Mark Steven Pandan
A God inspired genius. My only regret is not discovering him in my youth
trailtrs1 Yet Protestantism was an effect of the nominalist (anti-thomistic) metaphysics. It is philosophically Ockhamian, as Luther said of himself, or nominalistic. Its marks are in the definition of faith Luther gave (or the traditions squared in Protestantism moviments): the essence of things are not in reality anything universally accessible; rather there are not essences but ideas that constitute the reality idealized. That said, we can say faith for a Protestant came to be a confidence to be saved by believing that is so strong and arbitrary (although logically explained, meaning not random,
but explainable) that it constitutes the reality of being saved itself.
That revolutionary process is in the roots of modernity: the problems of relativism, nihilism and atheism would never be solid enough if it wasn’t by for the Protestant revolutionary process against, let me say, not the Church in its terrible times (that is historical fact) but against thomistic/classical metaphysics.
I respect all our Protestant brothers, don’t get me wrong.
From a friend in Brazil.
Thank you TI and Professor Pecknold for this quarantine lecture. Much learning and points to ponder with further reading and exploration.
Our pleasure.
Thanks so much, Thomistic Institute and Prof. Chad Pecknold. A great lecture
Our pleasure, thanks for watching!
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I think that Machiavelli should be more seriously considered as the open and public founder of modern philosophy. Catholic thinking often starts later with Kant or in this case Feuerbach who were derivative from Machiavelli, Bacon, Hobbes, and Descartes. Otherwise an insightful lecture.