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Episode 7 – Aquinas on the Three Wisdoms - Philosophical, Theological, and Mystical | Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.

Aquinas 101 - Course 2: Introduction to Thomistic Philosophy

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The Order of Health Is the Order of Wisdom

The wise person understands the causes. And that's understood to mean not just like the efficient cause but the four causes. If you understand those causes, then you can set things in order. So Aquinas thing gives an example which will help make this kind of abstract point a little clearer I think. He uses the example of medicine or architecture. Okay, how is the one who is wise in medicine ordering things or having a higher perspective? In medicine you have say the doctor who is understanding the health of the person and then orders medicine from the pharmacist. But really it's the doctor who has the wisdom because he has the perspective of the whole person. And likewise the architect in the practice

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