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Episode 22 – Thinking Like Angels - the Spark of Reason & the Fire of Intellectuality | Fr. Raymund Snyder, O.P.

Aquinas 101 - Course 2: Introduction to Thomistic Philosophy

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The Principles of Intuition and Divine Wisdom

From the very dawn of our consciousness as a little baby, we arrive at an immediate knowledge that being is not non being. We might add to this the principle of sufficient reason as well, that for any effect, there must be a cause. When there's a loud noise, even a little infant looks towards where the sound is coming from. He doesn't need to be taught that effects have causes and noises have noise makers. So these are things that do not need to be explained or proven. In fact, they do not even need to be reasoned to. We simply grasp them.

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