Revisiting Aquinas' Five Ways w/ Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P., Prof. Robert Koons, & Prof. Daniel Bonevac

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Aug 1, 2024

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Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P.

Join Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P., a philosopher and theologian, alongside Professors Robert Koons and Daniel Bonevac, both experts in metaphysics and logic. They dive into the contemporary significance of Aquinas' Five Ways, discussing common misconceptions about motion and causality. The guests challenge mechanical views of time, emphasizing a metaphysical First Mover. They also explore God's simplicity and the relevance of Aquinas' thought today, highlighting the dynamic interplay between philosophy and theology.

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Intro

00:00 • 2min

Revisiting Aquinas' Five Ways

02:00 • 9min

Exploring Motion, Time, and the Metaphysical First Mover

11:11 • 4min

Exploring Aquinas' Five Ways

15:10 • 25min

Exploring God's Simplicity and the Five Ways of Existence

40:23 • 2min

Exploring the Intersection of Philosophy and Theology

42:06 • 2min

Are Aquinas' Five Ways for proving the existence of God still relevant today? Join Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. of Aquinas 101, Godsplaining, and Pints with Aquinas for an off-campus conversation with Prof. Robert Koona & Prof. Daniel Bonevac about new insights that contemporary scholars glean from these arguments after 750 years.

You can watch this interview on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzPv-zo7R68.

About the speakers:

Robert C. (“Rob”) Koons is a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, M. A. Oxford, Ph.D. UCLA. He is the author or co-author of five books, including The Atlas of Reality with Timothy H. Pickavance (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017) and Is Thomas’s Aristotelian Philosophy of Nature Obsolete? (St. Augustine Press, 2022). He is the co-editor of four anthologies, including The Waning of Materialism (OUP, 2010) and Classical Theism (Routledge 2023). He has been working recently on an Aristotelian interpretation of quantum theory, on defending and articulating hylomorphism in contemporary terms, and on interpreting and defending Thomas's Five Ways.

Prof. Daniel Bonevac is a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He works mainly in metaphysics, philosophy of mathematics, semantics, and philosophical logic. His book Reduction in the Abstract Sciences received the Johnsonian Prize from The Journal of Philosophy. The author of five books and editor or co-editor of four others, Professor Bonevac's articles include “Against Conditional Obligation” (Noûs), "Sellars v. the Given" (Philosophy and Phenomenological Research), "Reflection Without Equilibrium," (Journal of Philosophy), "Free Choice Permission Is Strong Permission" (Synthese, with Nicholas Asher), "The Conditional Fallacy," (Philosophical Review, with Josh Dever and David Sosa), “The Counterexample Fallacy” (Mind, also with Dever and Sosa), and “The Argument from Miracles” and “Two Theories of Analogical Predication” (Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Religion). He was Chairman of the Department of Philosophy from 1991 to 2001.