It is incredible how St. Thomas' mind is so far above my mind. I see myself as a brain midget, even if I have a MS in Engineering and a Ph.D. in the social sciences, when I listen to some of these videos.
Keep plugging! You're doing great! Also, for working into this video, it helps to watch: 1) Powers of the Soul: A First Look, 2) Powers of the Soul: A Closer Look, and 3) The Passions in General.
I was brought up in the Augustinian Tradition. But I guess, the Holy Spirit wants me to have a relationship with Thomas Aquinas. After all, he was the saint on the day of my birth in the Old Calendar. Thank you, my dear Angelic Doctor for guiding me all these years. And for gathering these lovely men to continue leading us to God through the tradition of Father Dominic.
Did he say bats? Praise be to God that so many educated Catholics are sharing what I have never known. Thank you and this cast for all the wisdom you provide. God bless you and the Virgin protect you
It's anything but platonic in my opinion. Search the meaning of what he says in your own experience. Anyway, this video is an excellent introduction to what's to come: virtues
@@bobpolo2964 think of anything you've ever desired or hoped for, for example. Wasn't you attracted to it as to something good? The same with the rest of the passions. The classification of them also makes sense to me
@@fojedaquintana Sure, it's still a platonic explanation. What is the good? According to this video, it's something abstract out there. Where do these desires come from? Were they given to us by a Creator who has ordered our beings to Himself? I don't know. This video doesn't tell me. I'm asked to fill in my own meaning. Very dangerous
@@bobpolo2964 alright then. I think you're asking too much for a 10 minutes video, which are actually a collection. The question about teleology is answered in another one. The participation concept is taken by Aquinas from Plato and the Augustinian tradition, and is very important in Catholic theology
interesting. Question is what if you love something that is not good? Is it still love? I know these are not virtues here but i am confused. Can love be a negative passion if you love the wrong thing? If I do not love my ultimate good first (God) then is my love wrong? So the passion of love can be good or bad. but then what about sorrow? Can it be good or bad also? I think hatred can. WE can hate sin that is good. Does this make sense?
The passions are concerned with apparent goods and evils. One loves evil if one judges it to be good and hates good if it is judged to be evil. This is a state of disorder that results from or inclines to vice.
A Catholic critique of Orthodox theology (or any other non-intellectual approach) comes out here: you can't love what you don't know. If God isn't known in some way, then love of him is impossible. The retort might be that knowledge in fact corrupts love by mediating it, and true love is an immediate relation without the intermediary of intellect.
