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Aquinas's Wisdom
Philosophy itself is a search for wisdom, the word philosophy itself means love of wisdom. Aristotle explains that we think that we have sufficiently explained something when we ask the question why and he thinks there's four kinds of distinct answers to that question. And philosophy in a way inquires into these four causes. Now why do I bring this up here? So from there I'd like to speak then about what you find in Aquinas when he discusses wisdom. And really three types of wisdom that Aquinas thinks is available to us as human creatures. The first kind of wisdom, which is philosophical wisdom or you might say metaphysical wisdom.