'Go Down to Nazareth': The Contemplative Life and the Nature of Prayer | Prof. Adam Eitel
The Thomistic Institute
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Speculative Knowledge
When it comes to knowledge, aquinas thinks, there are basically two things. On the one hand, you spend of time seeking to know things for the sake of action. That's one kind of knowing, and a lot of our life is devoted to that. But there's this other domain of human life which may even be vanishingly small. You're irresistibly prone to ask about the truth for its own sake. There are a couple of latin terms that are annexed to this kind of desire,. One of them is speculare. Another near cognate contemplare. Me give an example of of speculative knowledge and the and the desire for speculative truth. No pun intended on the
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