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S1E34 - The Soul of Freedom | Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P.

Aquinas 101 - Course 3: God and Creation

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Aristotle and St. Thomas's Understanding of Nature

The good life is not something to be discovered clarified and progressively lived according to a normative standard rather it's something to be constructed. We see how that modern notion of freedom is rooted in a modern notion of nature now we're going to build up an alternate proposal. In Aristotle and St. Thomas's understanding of nature nature is a principle of motion and of rest at first that may seem uninspired and not especially compelling but let's unpack it so what we are what we are considering of. When we're talking about a nature is the essence of a thing okay it's horrible identity it's very substanceWe're asking what the thing is and what makes it to be what it is I'm

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