Aquinas vs. Averroes on Faith and Reason

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  @heroicacts5218 · 3 years ago (edited)

  These lectures should be part of the High School’s mandatory curriculum. No one should enter adult life without listening to him.

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• BR

  @bradleymarshall5489 · 3 years ago

  There are no words to describe how much I love this series. These were the things we should've learned in University but didn't get to

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• DY

  @dynamic9016 · 3 years ago

  The more I learn, the less I know.

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• TO

  @tommore3263 · 3 years ago

  Aquinas seems the way back to sanity. Thank you Prof. Kreeft for your lifelong gift to us.

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• DA

  @davidrasch3082 · 2 years ago

  Kreeft's lectures invite more than one viewing....

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  @bestpossibleworld2091 · 3 years ago

  I am an Evangelical that was intoduced to Thomas Aquinas in one seminary class.  I was enthralled by his Treaties on the Virtues.  Years later I began working through the Summa Contra Gentiles which I did in 18 months.  This changed my life.  I am now part of an Aquinas Study Group.  We just finished the Summa Theologica.  I guess I am classified as an Evangelical Thomist.

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• IQ

  @iqgustavo · 3 years ago (edited)

  🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb3pyVa36Tw&amp;t=77">01:17</a> 🤝 Aquinas synthesized philosophy and theology, reason and faith better than anyone else, combining clarity and profundity.<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb3pyVa36Tw&amp;t=151">02:31</a> 🌍 Aquinas explored both supernatural and natural realms, emphasizing that Grace enhances and perfects Nature.<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb3pyVa36Tw&amp;t=246">04:06</a> 👥 Aquinas combined intellectual brilliance and common sense, offering clear and simple arguments on topics like free will and temptation.<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb3pyVa36Tw&amp;t=360">06:00</a> ❤️ Aquinas united the absolutes of truth and love, considering both to be divine attributes and key powers of the human soul.<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb3pyVa36Tw&amp;t=498">08:18</a> 📚 Aquinas is easy to understand once you grasp his technical philosophical vocabulary; he&apos;s both clear and commonsensical.<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb3pyVa36Tw&amp;t=540">09:00</a> 🔗 Aquinas argued that faith and reason cannot contradict each other; truths known by faith and natural reason are consistent.<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb3pyVa36Tw&amp;t=625">10:25</a> 🚫 No argument can prove essential Christian doctrines false, as truth cannot contradict truth; faith and reason coexist.<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb3pyVa36Tw&amp;t=1512">25:12</a> ⚖️ Aquinas addressed the crisis of faith and reason posed by Aristotle&apos;s ideas and Islamic philosophy, working to harmonize them with Christianity.<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb3pyVa36Tw&amp;t=1584">26:24</a> 🧠 Aquinas and Averroes were pivotal in the faith-reason debate among Muslim philosophers.<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb3pyVa36Tw&amp;t=1612">26:52</a> 🌙 Aquinas emphasized not relying on ever-changing scientific theories for philosophical positions.<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb3pyVa36Tw&amp;t=1638">27:18</a> 🕊️ Aquinas confronted and refuted opposing viewpoints through rational argument.<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb3pyVa36Tw&amp;t=1680">28:00</a> 🔀 Three responses to the faith-reason crisis emerged: fideism, rationalism, and synthesis.<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb3pyVa36Tw&amp;t=1761">29:21</a> 🚫 Irrationalism rejects reason, favoring faith alone; Al-Ashari advocated this approach.<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb3pyVa36Tw&amp;t=1883">31:23</a> 🧐 Rationalism, embraced by Averroes, sought to reconcile faith and reason through reinterpretation.<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb3pyVa36Tw&amp;t=1967">32:47</a> 👥 Averroes&apos; triple truth theory divided people into exhortation, demonstration, and theology classes.<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb3pyVa36Tw&amp;t=2050">34:10</a> 💬 Averroes&apos; theology aimed to balance faith and reason but had levels of truth for different groups.<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb3pyVa36Tw&amp;t=2120">35:20</a> 📚 Aquinas opposed the relativism of double truth theory, defending an objective truth.<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb3pyVa36Tw&amp;t=2221">37:01</a> ⚖️ Aquinas&apos; influence paved the way for Mainline Christian philosophy to reconcile faith and reason.

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• JA

  @jasonlund6023 · 2 years ago

  Around the 23 minute mark he starts blowing your mind apart and spitting truth after truth it’s so exciting

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• RU

  @Runforestruuun · 3 years ago

  So excited whenever they come out with a new episode! Peter Kreeft is a legend. If only I had discovered him as a troubled teenager lol

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• MO

  @mohnaim5824 · 1 year ago

  An altogether amazingly edifying lecture and series. Thank you Dr. Kreeft.

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• CO

  @COOLSTUDIOS-x1r · 3 years ago

  This is amazing. I love this guy! He does this so well! And the blue suit is smokin! Good job word on fire!

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• HI

  @Hierophantica · 3 years ago

  I’m so fortunate to have happened upon these lectures.

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