Amazing! Learned more in a few minutes here than I did in 12 years at school. Sadly "twas public & not a Catholic school. 💒

@ThomisticInstitute

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Thanks again, TI. Almost 35 years studying Physics and nobody ever explained the difference between understanding, knowledge, wisdom, and their relation to principles. We definitely need Metaphysics and Theology to put things in order. Regards.

I have decided to live a virtuous life. I admire Saint Anthony and Saint Benedict. I also love the desert fathers. I have given the outer me up, and now it's time to empty myself and follow Christ.📿

Y’all keep blowing my mind. Thanks for putting so much in so little.

Thank you Aquinas 101, may God bless you!

It is been wonderful hearing your talk father. Stay blessed. And i am thanking Almighty to leads me into here.

This area has always been confusing for me. Thanks for explaining. Here's how I understand it: understanding is seeing a truth in light of a principle within a subject matter, knowledge is seeing how the truths in light of the principles interconnect within a subject matter, and wisdom is knowledge about reality, which comes from our knowledge of God. Do I have anything wrong? Thank you again.

@ThomisticInstitute

3 жыл бұрын

Generally, yes. Perhaps it would be better to say that understanding is the habit of mind that concerns the principles themselves (within a subject matter), while knowledge concerns how to understand the truths of a subject in light of the principles -- within a discrete or limited subject matter. If you could expand knowledge as widely as possible, so as to encompass the whole of reality (and so to understand all of the truths in light of the highest causes, or of the principles of reality as a whole), that is what Aquinas calls the intellectual virtue of "wisdom." Aristotle generally identified this as the science of metaphysics.

Thank you. I am working my way through the the Summa. I am now at understanding. I need to go through each question two or three times and maybe more. These brief presentations are so helpful. Thank you.

This is so useful. It can be hard to understand just from the Summa alone. Recently have been trying to explain this to a couple people. And here it is!

@ThomisticInstitute

3 жыл бұрын

We're very glad you have found it helpful!

2020 - it's about time to give intellect a voice ! Fine series that will balance what is usually offered in social media !

@ThomisticInstitute

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@christophmahler

3 жыл бұрын

@@ThomisticInstitute "Thanks" I can't tell, if the following is of any interest to You, but I would argue that a valid point can be made. I consider myself a heretic due to finding myself not at home at the 'first', nor 'second Rome', both arguably destined to be entangled in _Roman politics_ - but whatever conceptual approach I adopt from our modern 'saeculum', I can't help but notice the light that originates from the first hours of our 'era' - like a new born star that _sacrifices warmth_ to a new world. The modern world suffers from having revived Hellenistic paganism - without cultivating the systematic subtlety of the Greeks (e.g. 15th century 'Plethon'). Therefore _modern discourse lacks the sharp terms and intellectual agility_ that was still conserved in a Christian Church that constantly struggled to _relate revelation to the 'arts' and 'crafts'_ of 'secular' learning in it's theology. Burried within Christian tradition there is a language, a critical clarity and a holistic view that can truly 'enlighten' the seemingly fatal complexity of our times. And someone will have to 'pick up that cross' of retrieving and restoring it to a degree - and introducing the true 'gold' into the 'depreceated' and 'inflationary' public debates. EXAMPLES OF SUBJECTS ° _exploring_ the *cognitive psychology* of Thomas in his 'disputes' as already begun by _Edith Stein_ - which, eventually will lead to a modern understanding, not just of the 'natures of Christ', but how man relates to them (overcoming the misguided belief of Christians as mere 'Children' or a 'flock of sheep', parroting the interpretations of the human intellect by Ibn Rušd) ° restoring the work of the *School of Salamanca* - as 'coming to terms' with modern problems as no 'prince' would dare There's much more to do - but this outlines _a direction_ - and subject of debate...

That was a lovely informative video ,thanks Fr.so clearly explained too,to provide understanding.a very valuable video to note! Mary.

00:00 Intellectual virtues: Understanding, knowledge and wisdom towards Truth. 00:35 Reason oriented to knowledge 01:00 Process of learning: why things (what? facts) are the way they are (what reason for? explanation for the fact) 01:40 PRINCIPLES, range of truths around some subject, and the reason that explains the harmony, or unity about that subject leads to deeper understanding 02:56 UNDERSTANDING 03:47 KNOWLEDGE / SCIENCE 04:18 Difference between understanding (one truth of some subject) and knowledge (all truths of one subject) 05:00 WISDOM as the explanatory factor of the reality as a whole: aristotelian metaphysics 06:15 THEOLOGY: knowledge of God and reality as a whole through revelation, higher wisdom

Excellent explanation and beautiful animations!!👏

@ThomisticInstitute

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you think so!

Thank you God bless you

@ThomisticInstitute

11 ай бұрын

You're most welcome! Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment. May the Lord bless you!

When I heard that definition of wisdom, I was definitely taken aback. Before this video, I thought of wisdom as how to use knowledge for the sake of a greater good. I hadn’t thought about it on the wide scale of all of reality, but only in particular situations. To clarify, does wisdom refer to knowing all the truths of reality and the understanding the principles behind it?

Fr. Brent has to have some Italian in him the way he talks with his hands.

@gregoryweber5667

3 жыл бұрын

Ha ha!

Fr. James, I continue to appreciate and enjoy the clips. Q. How do you go so long between blinking your eyes! Must be that spiritual discipline! Keep up the great work.

@ThomisticInstitute

3 жыл бұрын

Concentration.

Ty 😮

The animals at the Bronx Zoo are also examples of intellectual virtues. I am a mother who you blessed pregnant so the blessed child loves the local zoo like I do! NIQABIS enjoy nature.

How can I find the English subtitles of this film? I like very much what Fr. Brent said here in this video.

@christophmahler

3 жыл бұрын

Usually, clicking 'auto-generated' and then 'English' would be sufficient - but it's bugged, here, assuming that the audio is _Vietnamese_ - which makes for hillarious translations... Try a version of the 'Summa Theologica' which adresses similar questions, briefly (and mentions the primary sources by Aristotle to which 'Thomistic' thought refers): www.newadvent.org/summa/3047.htm

awesome, God is the root or principle of reality. that is terrific. the beginning of wisdom is the fear of God.

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This subject always confused me. It explains a lot.

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Wonderful! Thank you for this, Father. But....is there really a meaningful difference between theology and metaphysics? Aren't they branches of the same area of study? Any honest philosophy/metaphysics will acknowledge the existence of God. Theology does of course go on to explore the nature of God, while metaphysics do not. Yet metaphysics has its role in explicating the reality that God has created. They seem to me too strongly related to be different areas of study altogether.

Hi. Good work as far as it goes, but you really need HONESTY in the list of virtues. Honesty is "the principle of truthfulness" when describing reality or knowledge, the "awareness of reality", which it explains correctly and accurately. It does not hide reality, cover it up, or pretend to have knowledge it doesn't have. Honesty is beyond any religion, because obviously whether a person is honest or not says more about their moral character than which religion they attend. Any person from any religion can be trusted if they are honest, and honesty gives them grace with God because God is truth as well as love. Should we ever discover alien intelligences in space, they will not have our religions, but they will understand honesty because it is fundamental in all genuine relationships. A billion years from now, honesty will be as morally important as it is now, it is an eternal moral truth. With all due respect to yourselves and a great thinker from the past, you should stop chasing shadows, emerge from Plato's cave, and walk into the light. Cheers, P.R.

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