St. Thomas Aquinas

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Published 2012-10-25
Chapter Thirteen from Book Two, Part Two of Bertrand Russell's "The History Of Western Philosophy" (1945).

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  • @eniopasalic
    When I was a child, I often saw the Light of Heaven. It is like silent lightning from the blue sky, a pure benediction with absolute conviction that everything is forever safe and sublime. It passes quickly, leaving you with the desperate hope that it will happen again.
  • @lukeabbott3591
    Russell's dislike of Christianity is apparent in parts of this chapter, but I think he's still being factually accurate. However, if you want to balance things out, maybe try reading Coplestone on St. Thomas. By the way, the defense of the indivisibility of marriage due to the father's superior reason and strength to punish children was NOT written by Aquinas, but was added by later writers (the "supplementum").
  • @rgaleny
    Aristotle taught the Golden Mean in things. Where is that in St. Tom?
  • I shore wush I had a big mess of collards wiff a greasy chunk of fatback in em.
  • The title of this video should be 'Betrand Russell's Assessment of St. Thomas Aquinas'. Russell criticises St. Thomas for moulding philosophy around pre-arranged answers, namely the dogma of the Catholic Church. He relegates St Thomas to being a minor thinker because of this- he asks questions he already knows the answers to. I thought this was a fairly standard technique in teaching. I think Russell is also being unsympathetic towards the creative process of writing, as if by having a plot outline, the whole work is relegated to the minors. How many of the greatest novels and plays must be in that minor section. Are we not allowed to have a clue before we start? Russell, like contemporary liberal skepticism, cannot respect a thinker who is ultimately not his or her own master. Modernism rejects the past, and post-modernism rejects all creeds. Christian apologists are not in fashion.
  • @rgaleny
    Better to say that Truth is God.
  • @rgaleny
    GOD IS THE PESONIFICATION OF THE DEVINE
  • Stay far away from Bertrand Russell, unless its for his writings on logic and mathematics! Russell will always be remembered.... (as a footnote in history) for being a brief teacher to Ludwig Wittgenstein. Honestly, Wittgenstein did all the work himself.
  • @rgaleny
    St Tom is NOT as honest as Socrates.