The DHB volumes

The DHB volumes #

Three printed volumes collect his handouts: I, The First Philosophers; II, The School of Plato; III, The School of Aristotle.

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DHB Vol I - The First Philosophers #

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Introduction to Philosophy & Logic (1999) — 6. Coming into Philosophy through Reason: Shakespeare’s Exhortation and the Ability for Discourse (from 5:01) · p. 78 — Answer to These Objections
Introduction to Philosophy & Logic (1999) — 23. The Art of Definition II: Substance and Accident, and How to Hunt Down a Definition (from 5:27) · p. 31 — The Royal Fragment
Logic (2016) — 36. Reason Knowing Itself; The Second and Third Figures of the Syllogism (from 3:23) · p. 11 — Know Thyself
Natural Hearing — 8. The Central Question of Philosophy: Plato, Aristotle, and Whether the Way We Know Is the Way Things Are (from 3:33) · p. 103 — The First Statement and King of Statements
Natural Hearing — 9. Thales and Anaximander: Reasonable Guesses About the First Matter (from 24:58) · p. 115 — Thales
Natural Hearing — 10. Simplicity, Pantheism and Digressions: Einstein, Hegel, Shakespeare, and Reflections on Reason (from 36:40) · p. 157 — Anaximenes
Natural Hearing — 11. Anaximenes, Pythagoras and Heraclitus: Air, Form, and the Problem of Change (from 31:36) · p. 125 — Anaximenes
Natural Hearing — 12. Heraclitus: Contradiction, Hidden Harmony, Strife and Fire (from 29:34) · pp. 97–130 — Reason in the Beginning Guesses and Has Opinions Rather Than Knowledge
Natural Hearing — 15. Empedocles’ Love and Hate, Chance vs. Mind, and Anaxagoras on Matter and the Continuous (from 50:37) · pp. 145–146 — Anaximenes
Natural Hearing — 17. Anaxagoras on the Mind: Unlimited, Self-Ruling, and Separate (from 11:36) · pp. 34–155 — The Royal Fragment
Natural Hearing — 18. Heraclitus to the Moderns, Determinism, and Democritus’s Atoms (from 15:04) · p. 157 — Anaximenes
Natural Hearing — 21. Anaxagoras’ Mind, Hope and Fear, and Heraclitus’ Common Ways Forward (from 9:39) · p. 161 — Anaximenes
Natural Hearing — 24. Modern Physics, Knowing by Making, and the Closed Circle of Man (from 48:52) · p. 103 — The First Statement and King of Statements
Natural Hearing — 25. Aristotle’s Physics I.11: Why Two Contraries Need a Third Thing · p. 103 — The First Statement and King of Statements
Natural Hearing — 26. Contradiction and the Progress of Knowledge: Heraclitus, Aristotle and the Untying of Knots (from 28:16) · pp. 36–80 — The Royal Fragment
Natural Hearing — 27. Contradiction in Science and Theology: Planck, Bohr, Einstein, Augustine and Thomas, plus Q&A (from 16:43) · p. 36 — The Royal Fragment
Natural Hearing — 36. Smallest Pieces and Modern Physics: Arguments 2-7 Against Anaxagoras, Locke and Ability (from 1:00:28) · p. 146 — Anaximenes
Natural Hearing — 37. Aristotle, Plato and the Good Student: Preparing for Matter and Lack of Form · p. 146 — Anaximenes
Natural Hearing — 55. Beginning the Study of Time: Puzzles About the Now (from 7:23) · p. 146 — Anaximenes
Natural Hearing — 63. Physics VI: The Continuous Is Not Composed of Indivisibles, and Democritus’ Cone (from 18:51) · p. 146 — Anaximenes
Natural Hearing — 66. Points Cannot Compose a Line: Aristotle’s Arguments in the First Reading (from 35:48) · p. 146 — Anaximenes
De Anima — 24. The Kinds of Sensibles (De Anima II.6), Sweetness as Metaphor, and Happiness vs. Joy (from 39:09) · p. 85 — The Roads in Human Knowledge
De Anima — 40. The Mind as the Place of Species: Universals, Truth and Understanding vs. Reason (from 8:16) · p. 103 — The First Statement and King of Statements
De Anima — 41. How the Senses and Reason Are Acted On Differently, Two Kinds of Ability, and What Reason Knows (from 33:21) · p. 151 — Anaximenes
De Anima — 49. Phantasms and Understanding: Aristotle on Intellect, Mill on Higher Pleasures, and the Five Intellectual Virtues (from 13:28) · p. 54 — Follow the Common
De Anima — 51. Imagination vs. Thought: Truth in Statements, Universal vs. Singular, Words and Metaphor, Music, and Loving Reason and Wisdom (from 17:07) · p. 153 — Anaximenes
De Anima — 63. Summa I q.75 a.2: Is the Human Soul Subsisting? Why the Intellect Is Not a Body (from 34:55) · p. 146 — Anaximenes
De Anima — 76. Replies to the Objections, the Central Question of Philosophy, and Thessalonians 5 and Psalm 99: Rejoice, Pray, Give Thanks (from 12:38) · p. 103 — The First Statement and King of Statements
De Anima — 81. The One Substantial Form: Being Simply vs. Being in Some Way, and How Higher Forms Contain the Lower (from 22:49) · p. 87 — The Roads in Human Knowledge
De Anima — 93. Reply to Augustine and Plato: Truth Between Two Extremes, and Must We Know Things the Way They Are? (from 20:14) · p. 103 — The First Statement and King of Statements
De Anima — 105. Summa Theologiae I, Q.79, Articles 3-4: The Agent Intellect, and Whether It Belongs to the Soul (from 56:58) · p. 49 — Follow the Common
De Anima — 119. Summa I, Q.79 a.12: Synderesis as the Natural Habit of Practical First Principles (reason as nature, Heraclitus on listening to reason, habit and power) (from 55:38) · p. 102 — The First Statement and King of Statements
De Anima — 120. Summa I, Q.79 a.13: Conscience as an Act; Studiousness, Figures of Speech (Antonomasia, Synecdoche, Metonymy), and Emotions Ruled by Reason (from 30:37) · pp. 17–102 — The Royal Fragment
De Anima — 130. Summa I, Q. 82, Art. 4: Does the Will Move the Understanding? End and Agent as Two Kinds of Mover (from 35:37) · p. 153 — Anaximenes
De Anima — 135. Summa I, q.84 a.1: Does the Soul Know Bodies Through the Understanding? Heraclitus, Plato’s Forms, and the Central Question of Philosophy (from 13:46) · p. 103 — The First Statement and King of Statements
De Anima — 139. Summa I q.84 a.6: Does Our Knowledge Come from the Senses? Democritus, Plato, and Aristotle’s Middle Way (from 45:10) · p. 103 — The First Statement and King of Statements
De Anima — 142. Summa I, Q.85 a.1, Replies: Two Kinds of Abstraction, Plato’s Error, and Common vs. Individual Matter (from 8:51) · p. 103 — The First Statement and King of Statements
De Anima — 147. Summa I, Q.85, Articles 7–8: Why Some Understand Better Than Others, and Whether We Know the Indivisible First (from 29:25) · p. 163 — Anaximenes
Love & Friendship — 16. Self-Love, Likeness, Time and Rootedness in Friendship: Shakespeare, Johnson and Irving (from 28:15) · p. 14 — Nothing Too Much
Wisdom (2005) — 2. The First Road in Our Knowledge: From Sensation and Memory to Experience and Art (from 35:09) · p. 32 — The Royal Fragment
Wisdom (2005) — 6. Metaphysics I, Proemium: Liberal Knowledge, Not a Human Possession, the Knowledge of God (from 29:14) · p. 5 — Know Thyself
Wisdom (2005) — 7. Metaphysics I, Proemium: Wonder Fulfilled, Iris Daughter of Thaumas, and Learning from Predecessors (from 12:00) · p. 29 — The Royal Fragment
Wisdom (2005) — 8. The Four Causes and the First Philosophers: Thales and Anaximander (from 23:26) · p. 115 — Thales
Wisdom (2005) — 9. Anaximenes, Pythagoras and Heraclitus: Air, Number, and the Puzzle of Change (from 46:20) · p. 128 — Anaximenes
Wisdom (2005) — 10. Heraclitus: Hidden Harmony, Strife as Father of All, and Fire (from 16:30) · p. 132 — Anaximenes
Wisdom (2005) — 11. Empedocles: The Four Elements, Ratios, and Change as Mere Mixing (from 42:12) · p. 140 — Anaximenes
Wisdom (2005) — 12. Empedocles on Love and Hate, Mind vs. Chance, and Anaxagoras on Everything in Everything (from 35:14) · p. 145 — Anaximenes
Wisdom (2005) — 13. Anaxagoras on Matter and Mind: Infinite Division, the Continuous, and Why the Ruler Must Be Separate (from 12:41) · p. 146 — Anaximenes
Wisdom (2005) — 14. Anaxagoras on Mind, Part 2: How the Mind Rules Itself, the Ten Attributes of Mind, and a Greater Mind That Is Angelic Rather Than Divine (from 50:39) · p. 161 — Anaximenes
Wisdom (2005) — 21. Metaphysics III, Reading 1: Tying and Untying the Knots — Doubting Well and How Discoveries Are Made (from 24:28) · p. 35 — The Royal Fragment
Wisdom (2005) — 22. The Role of Contradiction in Discovery: Heraclitus, Planck, Bohr, Heisenberg, Einstein and Theology (from 8:32) · pp. 36–80 — The Royal Fragment
Wisdom (2005) — 23. Metaphysics III, Second Reading: Which Causes Wisdom Studies, the Axioms, and Whether the Way We Know Must Be the Way Things Are (from 43:11) · p. 103 — The First Statement and King of Statements
Wisdom (2005) — 24. Wisdom’s Questions About Substance and the Plan of the Third Reading: Is There a Cause Besides Matter? (from 22:07) · p. 17 — The Royal Fragment
Wisdom (2005) — 26. Metaphysics Book III, Part 1: How Many First Causes? Corruptible and Incorruptible Things, the One and Being, and Universal vs. Individual Causes (from 23:11) · p. 161 — Anaximenes
Wisdom (2005) — 34. Metaphysics Book 6, Part 1: Wisdom’s Subject, and How the Making, Doing and Looking Sciences Are Divided (from 56:12) · p. 6 — Know Thyself
Wisdom (2005) — 37. Is Moral Effect Accidental to the Poet? Accidental Causes, No Science of the Accidental, and Modern Determinism (from 22:13) · p. 162 — Anaximenes
Wisdom (2005) — 40. Metaphysics VIII, Reading 1: Summing Up Book VII, Change, and Knowing First Matter by Proportion (from 40:11) · p. 128 — Anaximenes
Wisdom (2005) — 42. Metaphysics VIII, Reading 3 (Part 1): Form Compared with Plato’s Separate Species (from 40:47) · p. 103 — The First Statement and King of Statements
Wisdom (2005) — 43. Metaphysics VIII, Reading 3 (Part 2): Definitions and Forms Are Like Numbers (from 4:40) · p. 146 — Anaximenes
Wisdom (2005) — 50. Metaphysics IX, Reading 5: Act Known by Induction and Proportion; Motion vs. Perfect Act (from 28:48) · p. 146 — Anaximenes
Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 43. Tocqueville, Democratic Customs, and the Influence of Science on Descartes, Kant and Marx (from 48:04) · p. 17 — The Royal Fragment
Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 49. Doubting Well Before Understanding Well: Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Anaxagoras’s Nous, and Heraclitus’s Strife (from 9:19) · p. 34 — The Royal Fragment
Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 54. Wonder, Curiosity, and the Proemium: Q&A on Providence, Free Will, and the Central Question (from 36:18) · p. 103 — The First Statement and King of Statements
Prima Pars — 2. Dei Filius Chapter 1: God Distinct from the World, Creation, Providence and the Canons Against Pantheism (from 22:47) · p. 161 — Anaximenes
Prima Pars — 24. Summa I, Q.5: Is Good Prior to Being, and Is Every Being Good? (Arts. 2–3): Per Se vs. Per Accidens, Evil as Privation, First Matter and Mathematics (from 42:00) · p. 103 — The First Statement and King of Statements
Prima Pars — 53. Summa I, q.13, aa.10–12: Univocal, Equivocal and Analogous Names; ‘He Who Is’ as God’s Most Proper Name; Affirmative Statements About God (from 45:52) · p. 103 — The First Statement and King of Statements
Prima Pars — 58. Faith, Hope and Charity in Jude; Is God’s Knowledge Discursive? Is It the Cause of Things? (Summa I, q.14, aa.7–8) (from 58:00) · p. 103 — The First Statement and King of Statements
Prima Pars — 63. Summa I, Q.14, aa.14–15: God’s Knowledge of Statements and Why It Never Changes; Does Truth Require We Know Things as They Are? (from 42:52) · p. 103 — The First Statement and King of Statements
Prima Pars — 64. Summa I, Q.14 a.16 and Intro to Q.15: Is God’s Knowledge Looking (Speculative) or Practical? Plato’s Forms and Whether Truth Requires That the Way We Know Be the Way Things Are (from 33:16) · p. 103 — The First Statement and King of Statements
Prima Pars — 65. Summa I, Q.15 aa.1-3: Ideas in the Divine Mind (Whether There Are Ideas, Whether Many, and Whether of All Things God Knows) (from 49:43) · p. 161 — Anaximenes
Prima Pars — 66. Summa I q.16 a.1: Is Truth in the Mind or in Things? (Doctors of the Church, Truth vs. Goodness, the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth) (from 39:44) · p. 103 — The First Statement and King of Statements
Prima Pars — 68. Summa I q.16 a.4–5: Is the true before the good? Is God truth? (Simply vs. in some respect; appropriation; ’through itself’) (from 13:07) · p. 153 — Anaximenes
Prima Pars — 86. Sweet and Right: A Psalm Commentary on God’s Mercy and Justice, and Whether All Things Fall Under Providence (Summa I, Q.22 a.2) (from 1:02:46) · p. 7 — Know Thyself
Prima Pars — 113. Aquinas on the Trinity (Summa I, q.30 a.4 and q.31): ‘Person’ Shared by Three, the Word ‘Trinity’ and Saying ’the Father Alone’ (from 15:48) · p. 103 — The First Statement and King of Statements
Prima Secundae — 36. Summa I-II, Question 10, Articles 1–2: Does the Will Will Anything Naturally, and Is It Moved Necessarily by Its Object? (from 4:05) · p. 103 — The First Statement and King of Statements
Prima Secundae — 128. Q52 A2–3: Habits Don’t Grow by Addition, the Four Kinds of Order, and Whether Every Act Strengthens a Habit (from 38:08) · p. 10 — Know Thyself
Prima Secundae — 167. Last Replies on the Twelve Fruits, Fruits vs. Works of the Flesh (Art. 4), and Is All Knowledge Good? (from 23:57) · p. 18 — The Royal Fragment
Prima Secundae — 175. Comparing Sins II: Opposed Virtues and Carnal vs. Spiritual Sins (ST I-II q.73 aa.4-5) (from 36:01) · p. 146 — Anaximenes
Prima Secundae — 265. Grace, Part 1 (ST I-II q.109 a.1): Can We Know Truth Without Grace? God as First Mover, and How Words Like ‘Act’ and ‘Motion’ Carry Over (from 5:13) · p. 49 — Follow the Common
Prima Secundae — 274. The Plan of the Summa Contra Gentiles and Divisions of Grace (Summa I-II, Q. 111, aa. 2-3) (from 5:59) · p. 10 — Know Thyself
Tertia Pars — 16. Summa III, Q.4, Arts. 4–6: Not Abstract Human Nature, Not All Individuals, but from Adam’s Stock (with a Digression on Universal Cause vs. Universal Predication) (from 24:01) · p. 103 — The First Statement and King of Statements
Tertia Pars — 41. Aquinas on Christ’s Emotions: Sadness and Fear (Summa III, Q.15, Arts. 6–7) (from 5:44) · p. 201 — Practical Fragments of the First Philosophers
Tertia Pars — 98. God Became Man: ‘Standing For’, the Fallacy of Accident, and the Senses of ‘Necessary’ – Introduction to the Passion (ST III q.46) (from 41:16) · p. 201 — Practical Fragments of the First Philosophers
Tertia Pars — 110. Abstract and Concrete Names of God, and Why It Was Fitting for Christ to Die (Question 50, Articles 1–2) (from 18:20) · p. 103 — The First Statement and King of Statements

DHB Vol II - The School of Plato #

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Introduction to Philosophy & Logic (1999) — 12. Name and Speech, and Aristotle on Learning from Pre-existing Knowledge: Syllogism, Induction, Enthymeme, Example (from 18:19) · p. 35 — Phaedo Talk
Introduction to Philosophy & Logic (1999) — 15. Porphyry’s Five Predicables: Property, Accident, and Genus vs. Species as Relative Distinctions (from 28:01) · p. 2 — A Division of the Meno
Introduction to Philosophy & Logic (1999) — 34. Second Figure Syllogisms, the Power of the Figures, and Why Universal Negatives Convert (from 7:08) · p. 35 — Phaedo Talk
Natural Hearing — 63. Physics VI: The Continuous Is Not Composed of Indivisibles, and Democritus’ Cone (from 44:47) · p. 12 — Second Main Part of the Dialogue (80d-86c)
De Anima — 65. Article Three: Are Animal Souls Subsistent? Sense vs. Intellect, Proportion, and Greek Humility (from 5:29) · p. 38 — Phaedo Talk
De Anima — 69. Summa I q.75 a.6: Why the Human Soul Is Incorruptible (Per Se and Per Accidens, Form and Existence, No Contrariety in the Understanding) (from 32:30) · p. 36 — Phaedo Talk
De Anima — 140. Summa I q.84 a.7: Why We Think Through Images, and Why the Brain Isn’t the Organ of Thought (from 30:23) · p. 12 — Second Main Part of the Dialogue (80d-86c)
Wisdom (2005) — 49. The Meanings of ‘Necessary’ and Metaphysics IX, Reading 4: Rational Ability, Choice, and Mind versus Love as First Mover (from 8:15) · p. 34 — Phaedo Talk
Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 34. Truth and the Cause: Why Wisdom Most Considers Truth, and the Beginning of the First-Cause Argument (from 5:27) · p. 7 — Meno
Prima Secundae — 18. Aquinas on Beatitude II: The Vision of God’s Essence, the Wonder to Know What Things Are, and Pleasure in Beatitude (q.3 a.8, q.4 a.1) (from 6:08) · p. 27 — Phaedo Talk

DHB Vol III - The School of Aristotle #

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Introduction to Philosophy & Logic (1999) — 1. Aristotle’s Proemium I: The Natural Desire to Know and Wisdom as Knowledge of Causes (from 17:12) · p. 923 — Distinction of the Roads in Our Knowledge
Introduction to Philosophy & Logic (1999) — 4. Natural Beginnings of Philosophy: Wonder, the Natural Road, and Axioms (from 2:21) · pp. 928–1053 — An Introduction to the First Road in Our Knowledge
Introduction to Philosophy & Logic (1999) — 5. Why Begin from Nature: Beginnings, Order, and Heraclitus on the Common (from 8:54) · pp. 299–954 — Distinction
Introduction to Philosophy & Logic (1999) — 6. Coming into Philosophy through Reason: Shakespeare’s Exhortation and the Ability for Discourse (from 23:46) · p. 1214 — Happiness is the Chief Good and End of Man
Introduction to Philosophy & Logic (1999) — 8. The Senses of Before and After, Order, and the Exhortation’s Five Reasons to Use Reason (from 11:46) · pp. 682–1215 — Shakespeare’s Exhortation to Use Reason
Introduction to Philosophy & Logic (1999) — 9. Why Philosophy Requires Reason: Review, Error and Mistake, and Better vs. More Necessary (from 6:03) · pp. 682–683 — Shakespeare’s Exhortation to Use Reason
Introduction to Philosophy & Logic (1999) — 10. Thomas’s Proemia: Logic as the Art of Arts and Its Division by the Three Acts of Reason (from 1:41) · pp. 2–19 — The Proemia to Logic
Introduction to Philosophy & Logic (1999) — 11. Logic as Tool and Liberal Art: Ordering Thoughts Through Words (from 0:16) · pp. 19–21 — Thomas Aquinas: Major Proemium to Logic
Introduction to Philosophy & Logic (1999) — 16. Genus, Difference, and Lowest Species Reviewed: Why the Division Is Exhaustive, and Are There Lowest Species? (from 54:39) · p. 453 — The Matter and Order of Wisdom
Introduction to Philosophy & Logic (1999) — 18. Lowest Species and Highest Genera: Why Being Is Not a Genus (from 17:51) · p. 185 — Towards Something - Chapter Seven
Introduction to Philosophy & Logic (1999) — 24. The Art of Division: Integral and Universal Wholes, Distinction, and the Rule of Two or Three (from 0:36) · pp. 286–479 — Distinction
Introduction to Philosophy & Logic (1999) — 25. Logic of the Second Act: Distinctions, Division, and the Statement · pp. 479–635 — The Matter and Order of Wisdom
Introduction to Philosophy & Logic (1999) — 26. True and False in the Simple Statement: Saying More or Less Than the Truth, and Contradictories (from 6:20) · p. 635 — Note for Sixth Book of Wisdom, Reading 4
Introduction to Philosophy & Logic (1999) — 31. Three Kinds of Syllogism: The Four Forms of If-Then Speech, the Meno and Euclid (from 5:54) · pp. 868–983 — The First Definition of Reason
Introduction to Philosophy & Logic (1999) — 32. Form and Matter of the Syllogism: Either-Or and If-Then Syllogisms, Right Opinion, and Proportion (from 14:49) · pp. 83–1090 — Step Six
Introduction to Philosophy & Logic (1999) — 36. Demonstration: Cause, Necessity and Through Itself (from 39:14) · p. 1030 — Shakespeare on Error
Introduction to Philosophy & Logic (1999) — 39. Syllogism Figures, Wisely and Slow, and the Eight Recurring Forms of Argument (from 8:03) · pp. 927–1138 — An Introduction to the First Road in Our Knowledge
Introduction to Philosophy & Logic (1999) — 42. The Dialectician’s Tools: Probable Premises, Senses of Words, and Differences (from 16:20) · p. 1078 — A Note on Practical Philosophy
Introduction to Philosophy & Logic (1999) — 43. Seeing Likeness and Proportion, Then Q&A on Places and Comedy (from 31:03) · p. 1465 — On Dividing Shakespeare’s Plays
Logic (2016) — 2. Logic’s Three Acts of Reason, Univocal and Equivocal Names, and the Genus (from 6:17) · pp. 362–948 — Note for Book One, Reading Thirteen
Logic (2016) — 5. Ante-Predicaments II: Said Of and In a Subject, Individual Substance, and the Ten Categories (from 12:44) · p. 460 — The Matter and Order of Wisdom
Logic (2016) — 6. The Ten Categories in Aristotle’s Text and Thomas on Being Divided by Ways of Predication (from 53:26) · p. 130 — Chapter Four of the Categories
Logic (2016) — 7. Deriving the Ten Categories: Substance, Inherent Accidents, and Extrinsic Denomination by Cause and Measure (from 3:34) · pp. 131–132 — Chapter Four of the Categories
Logic (2016) — 9. Crossing Two Divisions, How Words Become Equivocal by Reason, and the Start of the Chapter on Substance (from 7:36) · pp. 107–460 — Chapter Two of the Categories
Logic (2016) — 11. The Properties of Substance, the Hypostasis of Christ, and Thomas’s Texts on Substance (from 7:28) · p. 155 — Substance - Chapter 5
Logic (2016) — 12. The Beauty of Order: Numbers in the Treatise on the Trinity, Limit in Art, and Why the Genera of Being Are Not the First Distinction (from 52:35) · p. 159 — Quantity - Chapter Six
Logic (2016) — 13. Quantity by Its Parts and Measures: Two Definitions of the Continuous, Logician versus Wise Man, and Music versus Painting (from 31:55) · pp. 159–163 — Quantity - Chapter Six
Logic (2016) — 14. Divisions of Five, the One Convertible with Being, and the Species of Quantity (from 12:23) · pp. 164–165 — Quantity - Chapter Six
Logic (2016) — 15. Quantity, Time and Reason: Individuation, the Properties of Quantity, and Number as Abstraction (from 0:00) · pp. 165–169 — Quantity - Chapter Six
Logic (2016) — 16. Categories, Chapter 6 on Quantity: Intentions of the Mind, Number and the Unity of Piles (from 27:01) · pp. 173–175 — Quantity - Chapter Six
Logic (2016) — 17. From Quantity to ‘Towards Something’: Categories, Chapter 7 on Relation (from 1:40) · pp. 175–870 — Division of Chapter Six on Quantity
Logic (2016) — 18. Predication and the Category of ‘Towards Something’: Cajetan, Aristotle’s Two Definitions, and the Senses of Being (from 16:09) · pp. 180–182 — Towards Something - Chapter Seven
Logic (2016) — 19. Real Relations and Relations of Reason: Knowledge, God’s Unchanging Eternity, the Trinity, and Why God Allows Evil (from 0:00) · p. 182 — Towards Something - Chapter Seven
Logic (2016) — 20. Relation, Part 1: Relatives Secundum Esse and Secundum Dici, the Trinity, and Beings of Reason · p. 184 — Towards Something - Chapter Seven
Logic (2016) — 21. Relation, Part 2: Thomas on Real Relations and Relations of Reason, and the Weak Being of Relation (from 2:45) · pp. 184–188 — Towards Something - Chapter Seven
Logic (2016) — 22. Relation (Ad Aliquid): Real Relations, Their Causes, and the Knower and the Known (from 25:08) · p. 195 — Towards Something - Chapter Seven
Logic (2016) — 23. Relations of Reason in De Potentia, and Aristotle’s Chapter on Quality (from 25:46) · pp. 198–203 — Towards Something - Chapter Seven
Logic (2016) — 24. Relations of Reason and the Four Species of Quality: Dividing by Two or Three, Virtue as the Road to Happiness, and Number in the Trinity (from 4:50) · pp. 177–204 — Towards Something - Chapter Seven
Logic (2016) — 25. Quality Said in Many Ways: Qualis and ‘How’, Why Habit Comes First (Prima Secundae), Modus, and the Four Senses of End (from 23:38) · pp. 209–211 — Quality - Chapter 8
Logic (2016) — 26. Quality in Theology: Powers, Grace, Sacramental Character and Words Taken from the Continuous (from 19:00) · p. 216 — Quality - Chapter 8
Logic (2016) — 27. The Last Six Categories, God’s Eternity, and a Review of the Ante- and Post-Predicaments (from 34:23) · p. 107 — Chapter Two of the Categories
Logic (2016) — 30. Kinds of Opposites and the Trinity: Heaven’s Praise, Evil as Privation, and Why the Father Is Not Before the Son (from 1:14) · pp. 344–971 — Note for Book One, Reading Eleven
Logic (2016) — 34. Truth and Falsity in Statements: Either/Or and If-Then Statements and Syllogisms (from 18:07) · p. 682 — Shakespeare’s Exhortation to Use Reason
Logic (2016) — 35. If-Then Arguments, Conversion of Statements, and the First Figure of the Syllogism (from 3:18) · p. 868 — The First Definition of Reason
Logic (2016) — 42. Demonstration and Dialectic: Form and Matter of the Syllogism, Probable Opinions, Propter Quid and Quia, the Four Questions, and Why Definition Needs Genus and Difference (from 9:49) · p. 983 — The Order in Which to See the Statement About Contradiction as a Seed
Logic (2016) — 43. Definition as Demonstration, the Rule of Two or Three, God’s Ordered Likeness in Creatures, and the Four Tools of the Dialectician (from 53:15) · p. 364 — Note for Book One, Reading Thirteen
Logic (2016) — 44. The Four Tools of Dialectic; How Aquinas Orders God’s Attributes in the Two Summas (from 15:14) · pp. 364–365 — Note for Book One, Reading Thirteen
Logic (2016) — 45. Distinctions and Likeness Among the Tools; Why Aristotle’s Metaphysics Book III Begins with Doubting Well (from 25:57) · p. 245 — Before - Chapter 12
Logic (2016) — 46. God’s Simplicity, Macbeth’s ‘Fair Is Foul’ and the Two Roots of Error: Speech vs. Things in the Fallacies (from 3:42) · pp. 682–1032 — Shakespeare’s Exhortation to Use Reason
Logic (2016) — 48. Who Is Sylvia? Shakespeare, the Wisdom of Reason, and the Fallacy of Figure of Speech (Seeing Is Not Kicking) (from 10:08) · p. 1211 — Happiness is the Chief Good and End of Man
Natural Hearing — 1. Aristotle’s Physics: Proemium and the Confused Before the Distinct (Three Kinds of Examples) (from 12:54) · pp. 307–341 — First Book of Natural Hearing Reading One
Natural Hearing — 2. Why the Confused Is Known First: Imperfect Before Perfect, and Descartes Versus Aristotle (from 46:04) · p. 312 — Note for Book One of Natural Hearing, Reading I
Natural Hearing — 4. Natural Road, Common vs. Private Experience, and Experimental Science (from 4:40) · pp. 317–341 — Note for Book One of Natural Hearing, Reading I
Natural Hearing — 6. Aristotle Defines Nature: Five Parts, Nature vs. Art, and Experimental Science (from 6:04) · pp. 317–927 — Note for Book One of Natural Hearing, Reading I
Natural Hearing — 14. Empedocles: The Four Elements, Numerical Ratios, and Change as Change of Place (from 35:43) · p. 382 — Note for Book One, Reading Nine
Natural Hearing — 15. Empedocles’ Love and Hate, Chance vs. Mind, and Anaxagoras on Matter and the Continuous (from 12:11) · p. 375 — Note for Book One, Reading Nine
Natural Hearing — 19. Despair, Boldness, and Finding What Is Common Among Disagreeing Philosophers (from 0:28) · pp. 320–325 — Note for Book One of Natural Hearing, Reading 2
Natural Hearing — 21. Anaxagoras’ Mind, Hope and Fear, and Heraclitus’ Common Ways Forward (from 26:00) · pp. 320–331 — Note for Book One of Natural Hearing, Reading 2
Natural Hearing — 22. Change by Contraries: Aristotle Becomes Strong in the Common Basis (from 2:36) · pp. 329–331 — Aristotle, First Book of Natural Hearing (Physics), Reading Ten
Natural Hearing — 23. Three Kinds of Beginnings, Custom, and the Role of Contradiction (from 9:26) · p. 329 — Aristotle, First Book of Natural Hearing (Physics), Reading Ten
Natural Hearing — 25. Aristotle’s Physics I.11: Why Two Contraries Need a Third Thing (from 8:04) · p. 342 — Aristotle, First Book of Natural Hearing (Physics), Reading Eleven
Natural Hearing — 26. Contradiction and the Progress of Knowledge: Heraclitus, Aristotle and the Untying of Knots (from 48:48) · p. 904 — Texts on Necessity and Difficulty of Beginning Well
Natural Hearing — 28. Substance, Accident and Dialectical Probability: Resolving the Apparent Contradiction in Physics I (from 7:02) · pp. 342–343 — Aristotle, First Book of Natural Hearing (Physics), Reading Eleven
Natural Hearing — 29. Three Is Enough: The Number Three in Logic, Rhetoric, Music, Physics and Theology (from 0:03) · pp. 1–343 — The Proemia to Logic
Natural Hearing — 30. Becoming, the General Before the Particular, and Why the End Is Better Than the Means (from 13:10) · pp. 351–1078 — Aristotle, First Book of Natural Hearing (Physics), Reading Twelve
Natural Hearing — 31. Heisenberg on Natural Language, Number and One, and Student Questions on Nature and Motion (from 2:32) · pp. 312–1083 — Note for Book One of Natural Hearing, Reading I
Natural Hearing — 32. Reading 12: Common Understanding of Becoming: Three Things in Every Becoming (from 4:56) · pp. 351–355 — Aristotle, First Book of Natural Hearing (Physics), Reading Twelve
Natural Hearing — 33. Reading 13: Only Two Causes, and Lack versus Contrary (Virtue, Vice, Ignorance, Error) (from 1:31) · pp. 352–359 — Aristotle, First Book of Natural Hearing (Physics), Reading Twelve
Natural Hearing — 34. Reading 13: First Matter Known by Proportion, Ability, and the Soul as Substantial Form (from 27:45) · p. 360 — Aristotle, First Book of Natural Hearing (Physics), Reading 13
Natural Hearing — 35. Anaxagoras Refuted: Fewness, Infinity and the Limits of Natural Quantity (Part 1) (from 11:03) · pp. 365–868 — Note for Book One, Reading Thirteen
Natural Hearing — 36. Smallest Pieces and Modern Physics: Arguments 2-7 Against Anaxagoras, Locke and Ability (from 7:24) · pp. 376–868 — Note for Book One, Reading Nine
Natural Hearing — 38. Matter vs. Lack of Form: Heisenberg, Plato’s Confusion, and Augustine against the Manichaeans (from 10:00) · pp. 389–393 — Aristotle, First Book of Natural Hearing (Physics), Reading Fifteen
Natural Hearing — 39. Ability and Lack: Sartre’s Freedom, the Meaning of Bad, Fallacies, and the Perfection of Man · p. 389 — Aristotle, First Book of Natural Hearing (Physics), Reading Fifteen
Natural Hearing — 40. First Matter, the Five Attributes of God, and the Four Kinds of Cause (Reading Five) (from 1:03) · pp. 389–390 — Aristotle, First Book of Natural Hearing (Physics), Reading Fifteen
Natural Hearing — 41. The Four Kinds of Causes: Matter, Form, Mover, End (from 1:14) · p. 561 — Note for Word Cause
Natural Hearing — 47. Nature Acts for an End: Replies to the Objections and the Infinity of Mind (from 50:56) · p. 1023 — Pride as a Cause of Error
Natural Hearing — 48. Natural Hearing III: Why Motion, Place and Time Come First (from 41:32) · p. 331 — Note for Book One, Reading Ten
Natural Hearing — 51. Can Motion Be Defined? Why Descartes and Locke Say No, and Aristotle’s Approach to Definition (from 16:04) · p. 185 — Towards Something - Chapter Seven
Natural Hearing — 52. Act and Ability: Being versus Becoming and Aristotle’s Definition of Motion (from 21:02) · p. 185 — Towards Something - Chapter Seven
Natural Hearing — 54. The Eight Senses of ‘In’, Equivocation and the Axioms (from 36:37) · p. 460 — The Matter and Order of Wisdom
Natural Hearing — 56. Aristotle’s Physics IV: Time Is Not Motion, but Something of Motion (from 57:06) · p. 869 — The First Definition of Reason
Natural Hearing — 57. Time as the Number of Motion, and the Problem of the Now (from 11:58) · p. 783 — The First Definition of Reason
Natural Hearing — 59. Time, Metaphor and Boethius: Measuring Time and the Numbering Soul (from 11:33) · p. 783 — The First Definition of Reason
Natural Hearing — 61. Why the Philosophy of the Continuous Matters: Motion, Time, Zeno and the Limits of Imagination (from 1:04:40) · p. 869 — The First Definition of Reason
Natural Hearing — 65. The Continuous and Its Basic Role: Beginning, End, and the Point Without a Limit (from 37:18) · p. 1078 — A Note on Practical Philosophy
Natural Hearing — 66. Points Cannot Compose a Line: Aristotle’s Arguments in the First Reading (from 5:41) · p. 556 — Note for Word Beginning
Natural Hearing — 67. Which Definition Comes First? Circularity in Aristotle’s Reasoning (from 7:16) · p. 923 — Distinction of the Roads in Our Knowledge
Natural Hearing — 69. Ends and Limits, and the Dependence of Philosophy on the Natural (from 25:57) · p. 1058 — Friar Laurence on Stumbling
Natural Hearing — 70. Motion and Time Divisible Forever: Aristotle’s Argument from Faster and Slower (from 32:38) · p. 479 — The Matter and Order of Wisdom
Natural Hearing — 73. The Now as Indivisible Limit of Past and Future (from 8:05) · pp. 243–556 — Before - Chapter 12
Natural Hearing — 75. Nature and Reason: Distinction, Equivocal Names, and Why the Beginning Matters (from 18:15) · p. 286 — Distinction
Natural Hearing — 76. Physics Book VI: The Division of Motion, the Three Roads, and First and Last Philosophy (from 4:11) · p. 286 — Distinction
Natural Hearing — 80. Q&A: Motion and Rest in the Now, More Known to Us, Purgatory and Baptism (from 43:34) · p. 879 — The First Definition of Reason
Natural Hearing — 82. Wisely and Slow: Friar Lawrence, Shakespeare, and Seven Places Where the Wise Man Proceeds Slowly (from 13:48) · pp. 1051–1455 — Friar Laurence on Stumbling
Natural Hearing — 83. Shakespeare’s ‘Stumbling on Abuse’: Nature, Bad as Privation, and Equivocal Words (from 44:40) · p. 453 — The Matter and Order of Wisdom
Natural Hearing — 84. Can a Philosopher Deny God? Humility, Wisdom and Likeness to God (from 22:42) · p. 1215 — Happiness is the Chief Good and End of Man
De Anima — 1. Where the De Anima Fits: Aristotle’s Books on Nature and Life, and the Value of Common Experience (from 37:33) · p. 317 — Note for Book One of Natural Hearing, Reading I
De Anima — 2. The Proemium of the De Anima: Why Knowledge of the Soul Is Most Desirable, and What ‘Soul’ Means (from 13:06) · pp. 316–622 — Note for Book One of Natural Hearing, Reading I
De Anima — 3. Why Knowing the Soul Is Hard: How Natural Science Reasons, and the Phaedo’s Two Views of the Soul (from 1:08) · pp. 316–877 — Note for Book One of Natural Hearing, Reading I
De Anima — 7. Are the Passions of the Soul Bodily? Emotions, the Will, and Immortality (De Anima I, Proemium) (from 28:59) · p. 1123 — Nature and Kinds of Love
De Anima — 21. Purity and Temperance: Shame and Honestas, Catharsis, and Aristotle’s Rules for Acquiring Virtue (from 1:36:58) · p. 1318 — A Definition of Comedy
De Anima — 22. Sensing as Undergoing: Empedocles, Potency and Act (De Anima II.5, Part 1) (from 53:26) · p. 1195 — Fifth Effect of Love - Lover Better or Worse
De Anima — 23. Two Abilities and Two Acts: Knowing, Learning and the Senses (De Anima II.5, Part 2) (from 8:59) · p. 729 — An Exposition of Hamlet’s Exhortation to Use Reason
De Anima — 33. De Anima III.3: Grasping and Judging, Sensing vs. Reason, and the Prevalence of Error (from 25:42) · pp. 868–1010 — The First Definition of Reason
De Anima — 41. How the Senses and Reason Are Acted On Differently, Two Kinds of Ability, and What Reason Knows · p. 1030 — Shakespeare on Error
De Anima — 42. The Object of Reason: What a Thing Is, Universals and Immaterial Understanding (from 3:14) · p. 1030 — Shakespeare on Error
De Anima — 44. Why the Understandable Doesn’t Always Understand; Reading Aristotle through Thomas; Liberal Education (from 14:51) · pp. 934–1009 — An Introduction to the First Road in Our Knowledge
De Anima — 45. De Anima III.5: The Agent Intellect as Light—Separable, Impassible, Unmixed, and Act (from 14:44) · p. 929 — An Introduction to the First Road in Our Knowledge
De Anima — 50. De Anima III.8: The Soul Is in Some Way All Things – the Hand as Tool of Tools, and Locke’s General Triangle (from 31:18) · p. 375 — Note for Book One, Reading Nine
De Anima — 54. De Anima III.10: Desire, Practical Reason, and Looking Before and After · p. 300 — Distinction
De Anima — 55. Knowing in Some Way, Choosing the Apparent Good, and the Deliberative Imagination (from 2:23) · pp. 300–1078 — Distinction
De Anima — 56. The Soul as Gateway, Naming God’s Simplicity, and Student Questions (from 15:13) · p. 954 — The Before and After in the Acts of (Looking) Reason
De Anima — 60. The Soul in the Summa: Introduction to Question 75 (from 37:43) · p. 404 — Note on the Eight Books of Natural Hearing
De Anima — 64. Replies to Article Two: Hoc Aliquid, and Is the Brain the Organ of Thought? (from 27:47) · p. 316 — Note for Book One of Natural Hearing, Reading I
De Anima — 65. Article Three: Are Animal Souls Subsistent? Sense vs. Intellect, Proportion, and Greek Humility (from 28:25) · pp. 364–365 — Note for Book One, Reading Thirteen
De Anima — 66. Summa I, Q.75 a.4: Is the Soul the Man? Body and Soul, and Truth as the Mean Between Extremes (from 32:59) · p. 635 — Note for Sixth Book of Wisdom, Reading 4
De Anima — 74. Averroes’ Mistakes, the Soul Not Wholly Immersed in the Body, and St. Teresa, Mother of Spiritual People (from 21:32) · p. 1128 — Nature and Kinds of Love
De Anima — 80. ST I q.76 a.4: Is There Another Substantial Form in Man? The Objections (with Digressions on Antonomasia, Synecdoche and Mixture) (from 1:33) · pp. 1234–1377 — Happiness is the Chief Good and End of Man
De Anima — 83. Summa I, Q.76 A.5: Why the Understanding Soul Is Joined to Such a Body (Touch, Reason and the Hand) (from 22:14) · p. 1234 — Happiness is the Chief Good and End of Man
De Anima — 88. Summa I q.77 a.1–2: Differences and Properties, the Definition of Faith, and Why the Soul Has Many Powers (from 5:18) · p. 860 — The First Definition of Reason
De Anima — 92. Summa I q.77 a.5: Are All the Powers of the Soul in the Soul as Their Subject? Soul and Spirit, and the Meanings of ‘Of’ · p. 635 — Note for Sixth Book of Wisdom, Reading 4
De Anima — 93. Reply to Augustine and Plato: Truth Between Two Extremes, and Must We Know Things the Way They Are? (from 1:42) · p. 635 — Note for Sixth Book of Wisdom, Reading 4
De Anima — 95. Before and After: Senses of Priority and Why Breathing Isn’t Better than Philosophizing (ST I q.77 a.7, Part 1) (from 32:09) · p. 1077 — A Note on Practical Philosophy
De Anima — 97. Powers of the Separated Soul: Article 8, Love and Emotion, and Mozart’s Music (from 5:07) · p. 1123 — Nature and Kinds of Love
De Anima — 104. Q.79 a.1, last replies, and a.2: Angels and mind, the first cause as the best thing, Socratic consistency, and understanding as a passive power (from 12:42) · pp. 486–768 — The Matter and Order of Wisdom
De Anima — 110. Summa I q.79 a.7: Is Intellectual Memory a Separate Power? Augustine, Peter Lombard and the Authority of Aquinas (from 14:14) · p. 426 — Note for Book Two About the Soul, Readings 5-6
De Anima — 111. Article 7 Replies and Article 8: Reason and Understanding as One Power, Motion and Rest, Episteme and Natural Understanding (from 38:49) · p. 949 — The Before and After in the Acts of (Looking) Reason
De Anima — 116. Summa I, Q.79, Art.11: Are Speculative and Practical Intellect Different Powers? (Seeing vs. Doing; Knowing vs. Loving) (from 7:35) · pp. 364–622 — Note for Book One, Reading Thirteen
De Anima — 118. The Five Virtues of Reason: Foresight, Art, Natural Understanding, Episteme and Wisdom (with Equivocal Names) (from 38:47) · p. 362 — Note for Book One, Reading Thirteen
De Anima — 119. Summa I, Q.79 a.12: Synderesis as the Natural Habit of Practical First Principles (reason as nature, Heraclitus on listening to reason, habit and power) (from 33:46) · p. 923 — Distinction of the Roads in Our Knowledge
De Anima — 137. Summa Theologiae I, Q.84, Article 4: Against Avicenna, Understanding Requires the Senses (from 9:12) · p. 316 — Note for Book One of Natural Hearing, Reading I
De Anima — 138. Summa Theologiae I, Q.84, Articles 5-6: Knowing in the Eternal Reasons, and Heraclitus on Common Reason (from 8:27) · pp. 316–324 — Note for Book One of Natural Hearing, Reading I
De Anima — 139. Summa I q.84 a.6: Does Our Knowledge Come from the Senses? Democritus, Plato, and Aristotle’s Middle Way (from 17:21) · pp. 316–635 — Note for Book One of Natural Hearing, Reading I
De Anima — 140. Summa I q.84 a.7: Why We Think Through Images, and Why the Brain Isn’t the Organ of Thought (from 4:15) · pp. 316–868 — Note for Book One of Natural Hearing, Reading I
De Anima — 141. Summa I, Q.84 a.8 and Q.85 a.1: Judgment, Sleep and the Binding of the Senses; Understanding by Abstraction from Images (from 12:24) · p. 316 — Note for Book One of Natural Hearing, Reading I
De Anima — 144. Aquinas’ Replies on Universals: Two Orders of Nature, Whole and Part, and the Mistakes of Descartes, Spinoza and Hegel (from 8:53) · p. 310 — Note for Book One of Natural Hearing, Reading I
De Anima — 145. Aquinas, Summa I q.85 a.4-5: Knowing Many Things at Once, Discrete vs. Continuous Time, and Why We Must Compose and Divide (from 42:57) · p. 316 — Note for Book One of Natural Hearing, Reading I
De Anima — 146. Aquinas, Summa I q.85 a.5-6: The Mind’s Statements and Identity, and Whether the Understanding Can Be False (from 3:50) · p. 316 — Note for Book One of Natural Hearing, Reading I
De Anima — 151. Know Thyself: How the Understanding Soul Knows Itself Through Its Act (Summa I, Q.87, a.1), with Descartes, and Why the Indistinct Is More Certain (from 6:06) · pp. 311–535 — Note for Book One of Natural Hearing, Reading I
De Anima — 152. How We Know Our Habits Through Their Acts (Q.87, a.2): Faith, Charity, and the Principle ‘Propter quod unumquodque tale, et illud magis’ (from 4:57) · pp. 535–786 — Note for Second Book of Wisdom, Readings 2-4
De Anima — 154. Part 2: Truth and good, wits and dimwits, self-rule of the mind, and whether we can know immaterial substances (ST I q.87 a.4 – q.88 a.1) (from 7:13) · p. 1009 — Pride as a Cause of Error
De Anima — 156. Q88 a1–a3: Knowing immaterial substances through material things, and whether God is the first thing we know (from 38:22) · p. 1083 — What is Good & What is Better - the Order of the Discourse
De Anima — 157. Summa I, Q.88–89 a.1: God Is Not the First Thing We Know; Why the Soul Is Joined to the Body (Brevity, the Square, and Teaching Weaker Minds) · p. 1083 — What is Good & What is Better - the Order of the Discourse
Ethics — 1. What Is Good? The First Definition and the Socratic Question of Cause vs. Effect (from 35:32) · p. 1071 — A Note on Practical Philosophy
Ethics — 3. The Good, the Better, and the Three Kinds of Human Goods (from 7:22) · pp. 1009–1083 — Pride as a Cause of Error
Ethics — 4. The End of Man: Own Act, Virtue, and the Act with Reason Done Well (from 1:53) · pp. 851–1089 — The First Definition of Reason
Ethics — 5. The Good, the Better and the End of Man: Own Act, Virtue and Proportion (from 1:46) · pp. 535–1465 — Note for Second Book of Wisdom, Readings 2-4
Ethics — 6. Goods of the Soul, Body and Exterior: Socrates vs. the Athenians, and the Scope of Practical Philosophy (from 4:00) · p. 1078 — A Note on Practical Philosophy
Ethics — 7. Good, Better, and the End of Man: Review and the Two Kinds of Human Virtue (from 4:55) · pp. 851–1089 — The First Definition of Reason
Ethics — 9. Defining Moral Virtue: A Habit of Choosing the Mean, and the Virtues Between Their Extremes (from 55:19) · pp. 513–635 — Note for Aristotle’s Proemium to Wisdom
Ethics — 10. Aristotle’s Proemium to the Ethics: The Highest End, Method and Fit Hearers (from 2:14) · pp. 513–1067 — Note for Aristotle’s Proemium to Wisdom
Ethics — 11. Nicomachean Ethics I.7: Drawing a Line Around the End of Man—Reason as Man’s Proper Function (from 0:56) · p. 1085 — Drawing a Line Around the End of Man - N. Ethics, Bk. I, Reading Ten
Love & Friendship — 1. Loving as Giving and as Undergoing: Shakespeare, Teresa and Thérèse on the Wound of Love (from 5:51) · pp. 1108–1123 — Nature and Kinds of Love
Love & Friendship — 2. Why Love Is Undergoing Yet Called Giving: Aristotle on Truth and Good, and Love in the Concupiscible Appetite (from 0:33) · pp. 1106–1120 — Nature and Kinds of Love
Love & Friendship — 3. Love as an Undergoing: Conformity of the Heart, and Sense Love in Shakespeare (from 6:22) · pp. 1114–1377 — Nature and Kinds of Love
Love & Friendship — 4. Amor and Dilectio, the Love of Wishing Well and the Love of Wanting (from 0:13) · pp. 1123–1133 — Nature and Kinds of Love
Love & Friendship — 5. The Good as Cause of Love: Shakespeare and Aquinas ST I-II q.27 a.1, and Knowledge as Cause of Love in Shakespeare (from 1:09) · pp. 1133–1141 — Causes of Love
Love & Friendship — 6. Knowledge as Cause of Love (q.27 a.2) and Likeness as the Third Cause of Love (from 1:00) · pp. 1141–1152 — Causes of Love
Love & Friendship — 7. Likeness as a Cause of Love: Aquinas on Why Like Attracts Like, and Why Rivals Clash (from 2:41) · pp. 1152–1163 — Causes of Love
Love & Friendship — 8. Hope, Desire and Being Loved: Other Causes of Love, and Whether Love’s Capacity Has a Limit (from 1:51) · pp. 1164–1169 — First and Third Causes of Love
Love & Friendship — 9. Aquinas on Love: Review of the Treatise’s Divisions and Union as the First Effect of Love (from 17:19) · pp. 1171–1176 — Effects of Love
Love & Friendship — 10. Mutual Indwelling, Ecstasy and Zeal: Aquinas and Shakespeare on the Effects of Love (from 0:41) · pp. 1176–1190 — Effects of Love
Love & Friendship — 11. Aquinas on Love: Review, and Jealousy and Zeal as an Effect of Love (from 24:05) · pp. 1188–1192 — Second Effect of Love - Mutual Staying Within
Love & Friendship — 12. Does Love Make the Lover Better or Worse? Love’s Effect on the Lover (Aquinas ST I-II q.28 a.5) (from 2:06) · pp. 1192–1199 — Second Effect of Love - Mutual Staying Within
Love & Friendship — 13. Is Love the Cause of All That the Lover Does? Love as the Root of All Passions (from 0:31) · pp. 1199–1201 — Fifth Effect of Love - Lover Better or Worse
Love & Friendship — 14. Aristotle’s Six Reasons to Study Friendship, and Friendship in Shakespeare: Its Excellence, Concord, and Return of Love (from 0:00) · pp. 1201–1332 — Fifth Effect of Love - Lover Better or Worse
Love & Friendship — 15. Envy, Flattery, Virtue and Self-Love as Tests of Friendship: Shakespeare, the Novelists and Homer (from 9:38) · pp. 1225–1321 — Happiness is the Chief Good and End of Man
Love & Friendship — 16. Self-Love, Likeness, Time and Rootedness in Friendship: Shakespeare, Johnson and Irving (from 33:32) · pp. 1151–1180 — Causes of Love
Love & Friendship — 17. Number and Freedom in Friendship, then Aristotle’s Ethics: What Is Friendship? The Three Lovables and Perfect Friendship · p. 1180 — Second Effect of Love - Mutual Staying Within
Wisdom (2005) — 2. The First Road in Our Knowledge: From Sensation and Memory to Experience and Art (from 11:46) · p. 923 — Distinction of the Roads in Our Knowledge
Wisdom (2005) — 3. Metaphysics I.1 (end): Why Knowing the Cause Is Wiser Than Experience (from 0:47) · pp. 515–1134 — Note for Aristotle’s Proemium to Wisdom
Wisdom (2005) — 4. Metaphysics I.2: The Six Marks of the Wise Man; Wisdom as Knowledge of What Is Said of All (from 31:40) · p. 453 — The Matter and Order of Wisdom
Wisdom (2005) — 7. Metaphysics I, Proemium: Wonder Fulfilled, Iris Daughter of Thaumas, and Learning from Predecessors (from 45:34) · p. 501 — Part Four
Wisdom (2005) — 8. The Four Causes and the First Philosophers: Thales and Anaximander (from 1:57) · p. 501 — Part Four
Wisdom (2005) — 13. Anaxagoras on Matter and Mind: Infinite Division, the Continuous, and Why the Ruler Must Be Separate (from 2:18) · p. 375 — Note for Book One, Reading Nine
Wisdom (2005) — 14. Anaxagoras on Mind, Part 2: How the Mind Rules Itself, the Ten Attributes of Mind, and a Greater Mind That Is Angelic Rather Than Divine (from 58:33) · p. 501 — Part Four
Wisdom (2005) — 17. Why Truth Belongs to the Wise Man: Wisdom, Truth, and the Balance of Hope and Fear (Metaphysics II, Reading 2) (from 5:04) · pp. 535–1083 — Note for Second Book of Wisdom, Readings 2-4
Wisdom (2005) — 20. Metaphysics II, Reading 5: Custom, Certitude, and Matching the Way of Proceeding to the Subject (from 8:25) · p. 539 — Aristotle, Book Two of Wisdom, Reading Five
Wisdom (2005) — 22. The Role of Contradiction in Discovery: Heraclitus, Planck, Bohr, Heisenberg, Einstein and Theology (from 28:59) · p. 904 — Texts on Necessity and Difficulty of Beginning Well
Wisdom (2005) — 23. Metaphysics III, Second Reading: Which Causes Wisdom Studies, the Axioms, and Whether the Way We Know Must Be the Way Things Are (from 28:34) · p. 556 — Note for Word Beginning
Wisdom (2005) — 25. Dividing to Reach the Beginnings: Kinds of Whole and Part, Universals, and Hegel’s Error (from 11:26) · p. 295 — Distinction
Wisdom (2005) — 28. Wisdom as the Knowledge of Being as Being: ‘Through Itself’, the First Cause, and Words Equivocal by Reason (from 28:50) · pp. 851–1134 — The First Definition of Reason
Wisdom (2005) — 29. Substance as the First Meaning of Being, the Philosopher, and Why Wisdom Must Consider the Axioms (from 45:32) · p. 460 — The Matter and Order of Wisdom
Wisdom (2005) — 30. Why Wisdom Defends the Axioms and the ‘Great Turnaround’ in the Order of Wisdom (Book IV, Reading 5; Overview of Book V) (from 8:02) · pp. 456–495 — The Matter and Order of Wisdom
Wisdom (2005) — 32. Metaphysics V, Reading 17: The Senses of Being – Being by Happening, the Ten Categories, Being as True, and Act and Ability (from 24:23) · p. 318 — Note for Book One of Natural Hearing, Reading I
Wisdom (2005) — 33. Metaphysics V, Reading 18 on ‘Perfect’ and the Start of Book VI: How Wisdom Differs from the Making and Doing Sciences (from 27:25) · p. 535 — Note for Second Book of Wisdom, Readings 2-4
Wisdom (2005) — 35. Metaphysics Book 6, Part 2: Natural Philosophy, Mathematics and First Philosophy; Introducing Accidental Being (from 16:11) · p. 615 — Note for Sixth Book of Wisdom, Reading One
Wisdom (2005) — 38. Metaphysics VI: The Whole Truth, Contradiction, and Truth in the Mind, Good in Things; Predicates and Definition in Logic (from 0:28) · pp. 73–635 — The Skopos or Aim of the Categories
Wisdom (2005) — 39. Isagoge vs. Categories, What a Thing Is, and Metaphysics VII: Defining Substance, Accident and Motion · p. 73 — The Skopos or Aim of the Categories
Wisdom (2005) — 40. Metaphysics VIII, Reading 1: Summing Up Book VII, Change, and Knowing First Matter by Proportion (from 1:35) · pp. 365–648 — Note for Book One, Reading Thirteen
Wisdom (2005) — 41. Metaphysics VIII, Reading 2: Substantial Form Compared with Accidental Form, and Why Proportions Matter (from 0:38) · pp. 648–649 — Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book Eight
Wisdom (2005) — 42. Metaphysics VIII, Reading 3 (Part 1): Form Compared with Plato’s Separate Species (from 7:22) · p. 650 — Reading Three
Wisdom (2005) — 43. Metaphysics VIII, Reading 3 (Part 2): Definitions and Forms Are Like Numbers (from 0:38) · p. 651 — Reading Three
Wisdom (2005) — 44. Metaphysics Book 8, Reading 4: How Matter Relates to Its Products, to the Other Causes, and to Coming to Be (with Wine and Vinegar and Socrates’ Argument from Contraries) (from 2:53) · pp. 652–653 — Reading Three
Wisdom (2005) — 45. Metaphysics Book 8, Reading 5: How Matter and Form Are One, and an Introduction to Book 9 on Act and Ability (from 4:20) · pp. 654–938 — Reading Three
Wisdom (2005) — 46. Metaphysics IX, Reading 1: Substance, the Categories, and the Senses of Ability (Active and Passive Potency) (from 0:47) · pp. 656–657 — Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book Nine
Wisdom (2005) — 47. Metaphysics IX, Reading 2: Rational vs. Natural Abilities — Knowledge of Contraries and the Modern Misunderstanding of Reason and Nature (from 11:30) · pp. 338–657 — Note for Book One, Reading Ten
Wisdom (2005) — 48. Metaphysics IX, Readings 1–3: Kinds of Ability, the Megarian Error, and Why Motion Seems Most Real (from 11:17) · pp. 459–659 — The Matter and Order of Wisdom
Wisdom (2005) — 49. The Meanings of ‘Necessary’ and Metaphysics IX, Reading 4: Rational Ability, Choice, and Mind versus Love as First Mover (from 16:08) · pp. 659–660 — Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book Nine
Wisdom (2005) — 50. Metaphysics IX, Reading 5: Act Known by Induction and Proportion; Motion vs. Perfect Act (from 1:29) · pp. 661–662 — Reading Five
Wisdom (2005) — 51. Juliet’s Beauty and God’s Self-Knowledge; Reading 6 on Proximate Ability; Opening of Reading 7 on the Senses of ‘Before’ (from 30:34) · pp. 245–662 — Before - Chapter 12
Wisdom (2005) — 52. Metaphysics IX, Readings 7–8: Act Before Ability in Definition, Time and Perfection (The Chicken or the Egg) (from 1:45) · pp. 663–1083 — Reading Five
Wisdom (2005) — 53. Metaphysics IX, Reading 9: Eternal and Corruptible Things, Necessary and Impossible, Pure Act, and What Is More Knowable to Us (from 0:56) · pp. 316–1083 — Note for Book One of Natural Hearing, Reading I
Wisdom (2005) — 54. Metaphysics IX, Readings 9–10: Act Is Better Than Ability, the Transcendentals, and the Ability for Contraries (from 32:38) · pp. 666–667 — Reading Five
Wisdom (2005) — 55. Metaphysics IX, Reading 10: Evil as Privation, God as Pure Act and the Best Thing, and Why Act Is More Knowable (from 0:09) · pp. 667–933 — Reading Five
Wisdom (2005) — 56. Metaphysics IX, Chapter 10: Truth and Falsity in the Mind’s Composing and Dividing (from 24:28) · p. 668 — Reading Five
Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 1. Why ‘Metaphysics’ Is the Wrong Name: Wisdom, Reason and Shakespeare’s Definition of Reason (from 15:20) · pp. 514–1134 — Note for Aristotle’s Proemium to Wisdom
Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 2. Looking Before and After: The Senses of Order, Distinction and Error, and Two Ways of Dividing a Book (from 45:21) · p. 514 — Note for Aristotle’s Proemium to Wisdom
Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 3. Custom as Tyrant, Method and Matter, and the Logical Division of the Fourteen Books of Wisdom (from 28:37) · pp. 514–561 — Note for Aristotle’s Proemium to Wisdom
Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 4. Metaphysics Book Nine, Reading 1: Distinguishing Kinds and Senses, and the Meanings of Ability (from 5:44) · pp. 294–561 — Distinction
Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 5. Ability and Beginning: Mover and Matter, and Thomas’s Texts on Power (with Shakespeare and Mozart Asides) (from 17:50) · p. 294 — Distinction
Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 6. Metaphysics IX, Lectio 2: Natural vs. Rational Ability, and Nature vs. Will (from 6:29) · pp. 294–1396 — Distinction
Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 8. Names Equivocal by Reason: Six Kinds and the Senses of ‘Nature’ (from 0:48) · p. 299 — Distinction
Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 10. Metaphysics IX: Motion as the Most Known Act, and Heraclitus and Hegel (from 1:47) · pp. 593–815 — Texts for Name Being
Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 11. Metaphysics IX: The Second Error, ‘Everything Is Possible’, and the Definition of the Possible (from 0:38) · pp. 593–868 — Texts for Name Being
Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 13. Shakespeare’s Definition of Reason, the Exhortation to Use Reason, and Wisdom (from 26:07) · p. 1214 — Happiness is the Chief Good and End of Man
Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 15. Act Cannot Be Defined: Induction by Proportion, Descartes and Locke, and the Love of Wisdom (from 1:52) · pp. 401–1465 — Note on the Eight Books of Natural Hearing
Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 16. Defining Motion by Act: Imperfect Abstraction and Two Kinds of Distinction (from 5:22) · p. 401 — Note on the Eight Books of Natural Hearing
Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 17. Act as Form and Act as Operation: Metaphysics IX, Perfect vs. Imperfect Act, and Happiness (from 20:16) · p. 682 — Shakespeare’s Exhortation to Use Reason
Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 19. Prior and Posterior: The Order of Thomas’s Proofs, and Aristotle’s Physics on Reason’s Look Before and After (from 38:30) · p. 1214 — Happiness is the Chief Good and End of Man
Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 20. Substantial vs. Accidental Form, Existence as Act, and the Transcendentals (from 3:32) · p. 365 — Note for Book One, Reading Thirteen
Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 23. Metaphysics IX, Lectio Seven: Actuality is Prior to Potency in Definition, Time, and Substance (from 12:49) · p. 663 — Reading Five
Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 25. Before and After in the Acts of Reason: Guessing, Thinking Out, and Discourse (from 12:43) · pp. 453–877 — The Matter and Order of Wisdom
Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 27. Good, Bad and Privation: Why Act Is Better than Ability (from 47:39) · p. 534 — Note for Second Book of Wisdom, Reading One
Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 28. Bad as Non-Being, Faith and the Road to Knowing (from 22:37) · p. 458 — The Matter and Order of Wisdom
Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 29. Act Before Ability: Knowability, Truth and the End of Book IX (from 16:51) · pp. 456–933 — The Matter and Order of Wisdom
Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 30. First Cause, First Being, and the Order of the Books of Wisdom (from 0:39) · pp. 456–466 — The Matter and Order of Wisdom
Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 31. Can Objections Undo Faith or the Axioms? Introducing Book II and How Man Knows Truth (from 19:37) · p. 466 — The Matter and Order of Wisdom
Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 32. Dispositions of the Will for the Philosopher, and Hope and Fear in Pursuing Truth (Metaphysics II intro) (from 18:37) · pp. 466–561 — The Matter and Order of Wisdom
Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 33. Is Truth Easy or Difficult? Metaphysics II: Three Ways It Is Easy, Two Causes of Difficulty, and Gratitude to Predecessors (from 32:02) · p. 473 — The Matter and Order of Wisdom
Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 34. Truth and the Cause: Why Wisdom Most Considers Truth, and the Beginning of the First-Cause Argument (from 24:17) · p. 535 — Note for Second Book of Wisdom, Readings 2-4
Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 37. Metaphysics II, Reading 4: Why There Must Be a First End and a First Form (from 52:07) · p. 83 — Step Six
Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 38. Metaphysics II, Reading 5: The Roads in Our Knowledge and the Natural Road (from 36:17) · pp. 855–929 — The First Definition of Reason
Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 39. The Three Roads of Knowledge: Natural, Common and Private Ways of Proceeding (from 12:24) · pp. 318–614 — Note for Book One of Natural Hearing, Reading I
Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 47. The Six Marks of the Wise Man and the Universal ‘Said of All’ vs. Cause of All (Hegel, Plato) (from 12:24) · p. 458 — The Matter and Order of Wisdom
Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 50. Metaphysics Book Three: The Fourteen Questions Around Plato’s Position (from 14:35) · p. 399 — Note on the Eight Books of Natural Hearing
Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 51. Books Two to Four: Truth, Dialectic, Being as Being and the Axioms (from 39:14) · p. 458 — The Matter and Order of Wisdom
Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 52. The Great Turnaround, the Order of the Sciences and Preview of Book Nine (from 4:11) · p. 458 — The Matter and Order of Wisdom
Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 53. Aristotle’s Proemium: Wonder, Liberal Knowledge, and the Most Divine Wisdom (from 8:52) · pp. 458–486 — The Matter and Order of Wisdom
Wisdom (2006, Colorado) — 54. Wonder, Curiosity, and the Proemium: Q&A on Providence, Free Will, and the Central Question (from 30:40) · p. 130 — Chapter Four of the Categories
Wisdom (2016) — 4. Metaphysics I Proemium (cont.): Wonder, Chance, and the End of Inquiry; Wonder What and Why, Why God Has No Cause, and the Order of Sense, Memory and Experience (from 15:15) · p. 1030 — Shakespeare on Error
Wisdom (2016) — 8. Metaphysics I, Reading 1: The Natural Road from Sense to Reason, and Why God’s Love Causes Goodness (Part 1 of 3) (from 2:45) · p. 929 — An Introduction to the First Road in Our Knowledge
Wisdom (2016) — 9. Metaphysics I, Reading 2: The Six-Part Description of the Wise Man — Universality, Certitude, Causes, Knowledge for Its Own Sake, and the Origin of ‘Philosopher’ (Part 2 of 3) (from 16:11) · p. 460 — The Matter and Order of Wisdom
Wisdom (2016) — 11. Metaphysics Proemium: The Natural Road and the Six Marks of the Wise Man (from 23:23) · p. 682 — Shakespeare’s Exhortation to Use Reason
Prima Pars — 3. The Necessity of Belief and the Two Roads to God: Vatican I on Revelation (from 29:36) · p. 296 — Distinction
Prima Pars — 6. Dei Filius IV: How Reason Serves the Mysteries of Faith, Why Faith and Reason Cannot Contradict, and Why Theology Judges Philosophy (from 22:15) · pp. 460–479 — The Matter and Order of Wisdom
Prima Pars — 9. Summa I, q.1, a.6–7: Sacred Doctrine as Wisdom and God as Its Subject (from 20:52) · p. 965 — Contradiction and the Growth of Reason
Prima Pars — 11. Summa Theologiae I, Q.1 aa.9–10 and the Prologue to Q.2: Metaphor in Scripture, the Four Senses, and the Plan of the Summa (from 5:07) · p. 1052 — Friar Laurence on Stumbling
Prima Pars — 14. Summa I, q.2, a.3: The Third, Fourth and Fifth Ways, the Most Universals, and Replies on Evil and Enough Causes (from 37:58) · p. 535 — Note for Second Book of Wisdom, Readings 2-4
Prima Pars — 17. Summa Theologiae I, Q.3, Articles 3–4: God is His own nature and His own existence (from 2:01) · p. 952 — The Before and After in the Acts of (Looking) Reason
Prima Pars — 19. Summa I, Q.3, Art.7: Is God Altogether Simple? Five Arguments, Pure Act, and the Mistake About the First Cause (from 34:20) · p. 946 — Second Road in Our Knowledge
Prima Pars — 22. Summa I, Q.4 a.3 and Q.5 Introduction: How Creatures Are Like God, and the Most Universal Things (Being, One, True, Good) (from 48:12) · p. 185 — Towards Something - Chapter Seven
Prima Pars — 25. Summa I, Q.5, A.4: Why We Want the Good, and the Good as Final Cause (from 7:26) · p. 1073 — A Note on Practical Philosophy
Prima Pars — 27. Summa Theologiae I, Q.6, aa.1–3: God Is Good, the Highest Good, and Good by His Essence (from 16:28) · p. 1234 — Happiness is the Chief Good and End of Man
Prima Pars — 31. Is God in All Things and Everywhere? (Summa I, q.8, a.1–2) (from 6:23) · p. 860 — The First Definition of Reason
Prima Pars — 35. Summa I q.10 a.3-5: Is Only God Eternal? How Eternity Differs from Time, and the Aevum Introduced (from 12:25) · pp. 860–1054 — The First Definition of Reason
Prima Pars — 47. Aquinas on the Names of God, Part 1: Can God Be Named, and Do Names Signify His Substance? (Summa I, Q.13, Aa.1–2) (from 51:00) · p. 365 — Note for Book One, Reading Thirteen
Prima Pars — 55. Summa I, Q.14, Article 2: Does God Understand Himself? (from 31:23) · p. 364 — Note for Book One, Reading Thirteen
Prima Pars — 61. Summa I q.14 a.12: Whether God Knows Infinite Things – Senses of ‘In’, Potency vs. Act, and Limits in Modern Physics (from 43:13) · p. 375 — Note for Book One, Reading Nine
Prima Pars — 64. Summa I, Q.14 a.16 and Intro to Q.15: Is God’s Knowledge Looking (Speculative) or Practical? Plato’s Forms and Whether Truth Requires That the Way We Know Be the Way Things Are (from 20:27) · p. 954 — The Before and After in the Acts of (Looking) Reason
Prima Pars — 66. Summa I q.16 a.1: Is Truth in the Mind or in Things? (Doctors of the Church, Truth vs. Goodness, the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth) (from 18:30) · pp. 535–635 — Note for Second Book of Wisdom, Readings 2-4
Prima Pars — 71. Summa Theologiae I, Q.17 aa.1–2: Falsity in Things and in the Senses (fool’s gold, likeness and deception, proper, common and accidental sensibles) (from 26:07) · p. 460 — The Matter and Order of Wisdom
Prima Pars — 72. Summa I, Q.17, a.3: Whether Falsehood Is in the Understanding; Natural vs. Reasoned-Out Understanding; the Four Kinds of Opposition (from 19:50) · p. 1030 — Shakespeare on Error
Prima Pars — 74. Aquinas on Life (ST I q.18 a.1–3): Moving Oneself, Life as Being, and the Grades of Life up to God (from 16:20) · pp. 11–1150 — Thomas Aquinas: Major Proemium to Logic
Prima Pars — 76. Summa I, Q.19, Arts. 1–2: Light and Life in St. John; Whether There Is Will in God and Whether He Wills Other Things (from 14:24) · p. 773 — The First Definition of Reason
Prima Pars — 77. Summa I, Q.19, Arts. 3–4: Absolute vs. Suppositional Necessity in God’s Will; God’s Will as the Cause of Things (from 11:13) · p. 365 — Note for Book One, Reading Thirteen
Prima Pars — 83. Part 2: Whether God always loves the better more, and the justice of God (Q.20, a.4 – Q.21, a.1) (from 14:50) · p. 1078 — A Note on Practical Philosophy
Prima Pars — 86. Sweet and Right: A Psalm Commentary on God’s Mercy and Justice, and Whether All Things Fall Under Providence (Summa I, Q.22 a.2) (from 38:36) · p. 524 — Note for the Second Book of Wisdom
Prima Pars — 89. Predestination in the Divine Mind, Reprobation, and Divine Choice and Love (Summa I, Q.23 a.2–4) (from 20:55) · p. 364 — Note for Book One, Reading Thirteen
Prima Pars — 93. Divine Power (Q. 25, a. 1): Active and Passive Ability in God (from 7:59) · p. 847 — The First Definition of Reason
Prima Pars — 98. Order of Teaching About God, and Whether There Is Procession in God (Arius and Sabellius) (from 1:02:52) · p. 635 — Note for Sixth Book of Wisdom, Reading 4
Prima Pars — 99. Inward Procession, the Word, and Why the Word’s Procession Is Called Generation (ST I q.27 a.1–2) · p. 635 — Note for Sixth Book of Wisdom, Reading 4
Prima Pars — 105. Summa I, Q.28, Art. 4 and Intro to Q.29: The Four Real Relations in God and the Plan of the Treatise on the Divine Persons (from 7:00) · p. 635 — Note for Sixth Book of Wisdom, Reading 4
Prima Pars — 106. Summa I, Q.29, Art. 1: Boethius’ Definition of Person as an Individual Substance of a Rational Nature (from 15:45) · p. 404 — Note on the Eight Books of Natural Hearing
Prima Pars — 110. Summa I, Q. 30, a. 1: Are There Many Persons in God? Subsistent Relations, and Numbering vs. Numbered Number (from 0:00) · p. 286 — Distinction
Prima Pars — 112. Aquinas on the Trinity (Summa I, q.30 a.3): Numbers in God, the Transcendental ‘Many’ and Two Kinds of ‘One’ (from 16:20) · p. 295 — Distinction
Prima Pars — 114. Summa I, Q.31, Articles 1–2: Is There a Trinity in God, and Is the Son ‘Other’ (Alius) Than the Father? (from 32:03) · p. 1377 — Shakespeare’s Understanding of a Play
Prima Pars — 118. Summa I, Q.32 a.3–4 and Q.33 intro: The Five Notions, When Opinions About Them Become Heresy, and Whether the Father Is ‘Beginning’ Without Being ‘Before’ (from 44:45) · p. 556 — Note for Word Beginning
Prima Pars — 125. Summa I, q.36, aa.3-4: From the Father Through the Son, and the Father and Son as One Source of the Holy Spirit (from 1:31) · p. 466 — The Matter and Order of Wisdom
Prima Pars — 127. The Holy Spirit as Love and as Gift (ST I, q.37 a.2 replies; q.38) and the Order of the Treatise on the Trinity (from 8:23) · p. 1123 — Nature and Kinds of Love
Prima Pars — 138. Aquinas on the Trinity: Whether Fatherhood Comes Before Generation, and Why Notional Acts Are Attributed to the Persons (from 24:58) · pp. 364–473 — Note for Book One, Reading Thirteen
Prima Pars — 139. Aquinas on the Trinity: Does the Father Generate the Son by Will or by Nature? Nature, Will, and the Senses of ‘Necessary’ (from 9:43) · pp. 682–1396 — Shakespeare’s Exhortation to Use Reason
Prima Secundae — 1. Thomas’s Premium to the Ethics: Wisdom, Order and the Parts of Moral Philosophy; Aristotle’s Opening — the Good Is What All Want (from 9:49) · pp. 685–1065 — Shakespeare’s Exhortation to Use Reason
Prima Secundae — 2. Is It Good Because We Want It? The Order of Ends and Arts, the Chief Good, and Political Science (from 20:39) · pp. 1065–1066 — Aristotle, Proemium, N. Ethics, Book I, Reading 1
Prima Secundae — 3. Aristotle’s Ethics I: The Good, the Last End, Certitude in Ethics, and Man’s Own Act (from 5:16) · pp. 851–1085 — The First Definition of Reason
Prima Secundae — 4. Happiness as Activity by Virtue: The General Meaning of Virtue, Moral Virtue and Choice, and Shakespeare on Reason (from 0:47) · pp. 1085–1377 — Drawing a Line Around the End of Man - N. Ethics, Bk. I, Reading Ten
Prima Secundae — 5. Prologue to the Second Part and Question 1, Article 1: Does Man Act for an End? (from 35:26) · p. 851 — The First Definition of Reason
Prima Secundae — 7. Aquinas on the Last End (Summa I-II, Q1, Art. 4): One Feast, One House, One Mutual Happiness — Why Ends Cannot Go On Forever (from 6:59) · p. 1211 — Happiness is the Chief Good and End of Man
Prima Secundae — 8. Aquinas on the Last End (Summa I-II, Q1, Art. 5): Can a Man Have Many Last Ends? No One Can Serve Two Masters (from 38:50) · p. 579 — Note for Word One
Prima Secundae — 9. Summa I-II, Q.1, Articles 6–7: Whether we will everything for the sake of the last end, and whether all people share one last end (jest, speculation, taste and the sweetness of the Lord) (from 7:54) · p. 851 — The First Definition of Reason
Prima Secundae — 10. Summa I-II, Q.1, Article 8 and Q.2, Articles 1–2: God as the end of all things, and why happiness is not in riches or honor (from 38:40) · p. 797 — The First Definition of Reason
Prima Secundae — 11. Felicitas as Fruit, Boethius on False Happiness, and Why Happiness Is Not Honor or Glory (ST I-II q.2 aa.1-3) (from 5:12) · pp. 797–1402 — The First Definition of Reason
Prima Secundae — 12. Why Happiness Is Not Power, Bodily Goods, or Pleasure (ST I-II q.2 aa.4-6) (from 32:16) · pp. 851–1134 — The First Definition of Reason
Prima Secundae — 17. Aquinas on Beatitude I: Seeing God and Sinlessness, the Speculative Sciences, and Knowing the Angels (Prima Secundae q.3 a.6–7) (from 47:09) · p. 535 — Note for Second Book of Wisdom, Readings 2-4
Prima Secundae — 19. Shakespeare’s Definition of Reason and the Trinity; Is Beatitude Chiefly Vision or Pleasure? (Summa I-II, Q.4, A.2) (from 17:36) · p. 954 — The Before and After in the Acts of (Looking) Reason
Prima Secundae — 21. Loving God as a Friend, Knowing God “Too Much,” and Whether Souls Without Bodies Can Be Blessed (I-II, Q.4, a.5) (from 35:50) · p. 316 — Note for Book One of Natural Hearing, Reading I
Prima Secundae — 22. Replies on the Separated Soul; Does Beatitude Need a Perfect Body or Outside Goods? (I-II, Q.4, aa.5–7) (from 8:00) · pp. 316–1134 — Note for Book One of Natural Hearing, Reading I
Prima Secundae — 23. Aquinas on Beatitude: Whether Friends Are Needed in Heaven, and Whether Man Can Achieve Beatitude (I-II, Q.4 a.8 – Q.5 a.1) (from 38:35) · p. 316 — Note for Book One of Natural Hearing, Reading I
Prima Secundae — 33. Dividing Theology, the End as a Cause, and Whether the Understanding Moves the Will (Question 9, Article 1) (from 18:38) · p. 426 — Note for Book Two About the Soul, Readings 5-6
Prima Secundae — 39. Summa I-II Q.12, Arts. 1-2: Intention as an Act of the Will, and Intending the Last End and Intermediate Ends (from 27:45) · p. 344 — Note for Book One, Reading Eleven
Prima Secundae — 45. Aquinas on Consent (ST I-II q.15, aa.1-3): Will or Intellect, Animals, End or Means (from 45:41) · p. 535 — Note for Second Book of Wisdom, Readings 2-4
Prima Secundae — 61. Summa I-II Q.21 a.4: Merit Before God; Why Thomas Treats Human Acts Before the Emotions; Faith, Hope and Charity and the Senses of ‘Before’ (from 17:13) · p. 1047 — Friar Laurence on Stumbling
Prima Secundae — 67. Aquinas on the Order of the Passions: Love First Among the Concupiscible, Hope First Among the Irascible (ST I-II q.25 a.2-3) (from 15:34) · pp. 682–1174 — Shakespeare’s Exhortation to Use Reason
Prima Secundae — 68. The Four Principal Passions, Comedy and Hope, and the Start of the Treatise on Love (ST I-II q.25 a.4; q.26 a.1) (from 36:44) · p. 1107 — Nature and Kinds of Love
Prima Secundae — 69. Aquinas on Love (ST I-II q.26, aa.2-3): Love as a Passion, and Amor vs. Dilectio (from 13:35) · pp. 1115–1377 — Nature and Kinds of Love
Prima Secundae — 70. Aquinas on Love (ST I-II q.26 a.4, q.27 aa.1-2): Love of Friendship vs. Love of Wanting, and the Good, Beauty and Knowledge as Causes of Love (from 9:23) · pp. 1129–1377 — Nature and Kinds of Love
Prima Secundae — 71. Aquinas on the Causes of Love: Likeness and the Other Passions (ST I-II q.27 a.3-4) (from 3:22) · pp. 1157–1164 — Causes of Love
Prima Secundae — 72. The Effects of Love: Union and Mutual Indwelling (ST I-II q.28 a.1-2) (from 20:39) · pp. 1175–1183 — Effects of Love
Prima Secundae — 73. Aquinas on the Effects of Love: Ecstasy, Zeal, and Whether Love Harms the Lover (ST I-II q.28 aa.3-5) (from 2:32) · pp. 1186–1198 — Second Effect of Love - Mutual Staying Within
Prima Secundae — 74. Love as the Cause of All Action, and the Start of Hate: Its Object and Its Cause in Love (ST I-II q.28 a.6; q.29 aa.1-2) (from 34:19) · p. 1030 — Shakespeare on Error
Prima Secundae — 75. Summa I-II q.29 aa.2-4: Love Stronger Than Hate, and Whether a Man Can Hate Himself (from 25:12) · p. 1225 — Happiness is the Chief Good and End of Man
Prima Secundae — 77. Concupiscence I: Is It Only in the Senses, and Is It Its Own Passion? (ST I-II q.30 a.1–2) (from 15:12) · p. 682 — Shakespeare’s Exhortation to Use Reason
Prima Secundae — 78. Concupiscence II: Natural and Acquired Desires, and Whether Desire Is Infinite (ST I-II q.30 a.2 replies, a.3–4) (from 12:27) · p. 1054 — Friar Laurence on Stumbling
Prima Secundae — 83. Truth, Life and Appropriation in the Trinity; the Meter of the Adoro te; Operation as the Cause of Pleasure (ST I-II q.32 a.1) (from 13:52) · p. 1030 — Shakespeare on Error
Prima Secundae — 91. Theobald, Shakespeare and Homer on ‘Looking Before and After’; Is Every Sadness Contrary to Every Pleasure? (Summa I-II, Q35, A4) (from 12:26) · p. 833 — The First Definition of Reason
Prima Secundae — 96. The Desire for Unity, Greater Power, and Sadness’s Effects on Learning and the Soul (Q.36, Arts. 3-4; Q.37, Arts. 1-2) (from 5:47) · p. 635 — Note for Sixth Book of Wisdom, Reading 4
Prima Secundae — 106. Aquinas on Fear, Part 2: Fear of Fear, Sudden and Irremediable Evils, and the Causes of Fear (Summa I-II Q.42 a.4–6, Q.43) (from 23:39) · p. 1128 — Nature and Kinds of Love
Prima Secundae — 111. Aquinas on Anger, Part 1: Is Anger a Special Passion, and Is Its Object Good or Bad? (Articles 1–2, with side topics on ‘simply’ versus ‘in some way’, the natural desire to see God, and the art of logic) (from 55:20) · p. 635 — Note for Sixth Book of Wisdom, Reading 4
Prima Secundae — 113. Aquinas on Anger, Part 1: Anger vs. Hate, Who We Get Angry At, and the Kinds of Anger (Summa I-II, Q. 46, Articles 6–8) (from 31:56) · p. 823 — The First Definition of Reason
Prima Secundae — 121. Summa I-II Q50 a3: Habits in the Sensing Powers, with Asides on Imagination, Homer and Euclid, and Memory (from 28:32) · p. 1465 — On Dividing Shakespeare’s Plays
Prima Secundae — 125. Infused Habits and the Growth of Habits: Carrying Words Over, Greatness as Perfection, and the Four Opinions on More and Less (from 50:50) · p. 562 — Note for Word Cause
Prima Secundae — 129. Aquinas on Habits: How They Are Corrupted and Diminished (Summa I-II, Q. 53) (from 26:14) · p. 868 — The First Definition of Reason
Prima Secundae — 135. Summa I-II q.57: Order of the Virtues, Speculative Habits as Virtues, and Understanding, Science and Wisdom (from 57:44) · p. 460 — The Matter and Order of Wisdom
Prima Secundae — 136. Principles vs. Conclusions, Why Opinion Is Not a Virtue, and Art vs. Foresight (Prudence) · p. 460 — The Matter and Order of Wisdom
Prima Secundae — 152. Summa I-II Q.64 a.2–3: The Middle of Reason, Justice, and the Middle of the Intellectual Virtues (Truth, Contraries, and Opposites) (from 24:54) · p. 635 — Note for Sixth Book of Wisdom, Reading 4
Prima Secundae — 156. Summa I-II, Q. 66, Arts. 2–4: Equality of the Virtues, Intellectual vs. Moral Virtue, and Justice as the Chief Moral Virtue (from 3:29) · pp. 823–1377 — The First Definition of Reason
Prima Secundae — 157. Summa I-II, Q. 66, Arts. 5–6: Wisdom as the Greatest Intellectual Virtue and Charity as the Greatest Theological Virtue (from 1:12) · pp. 460–1377 — The Matter and Order of Wisdom
Prima Secundae — 161. Charity Never Fails, and How the Gifts of the Holy Spirit Differ from the Virtues (Summa I-II q.67 a.6, q.68 a.1) (from 25:38) · p. 954 — The Before and After in the Acts of (Looking) Reason
Prima Secundae — 163. Summa I-II Q.68 aa.4–7: How the Seven Gifts Are Distinguished, Their Connection in Charity, Whether They Remain in Heaven, and Their Order of Dignity (from 4:43) · p. 1465 — On Dividing Shakespeare’s Plays
Prima Secundae — 174. Comparing Sins I: Are All Sins Connected or Equal, and Does Gravity Depend on the Object? (ST I-II q.73 aa.1-3) (from 20:26) · p. 286 — Distinction
Prima Secundae — 177. Summa I-II q.73 aa.8–10: Harm Done, the Person Sinned Against and the Standing of the Sinner (from 23:24) · p. 1231 — Happiness is the Chief Good and End of Man
Prima Secundae — 185. Summa I-II Q.77 aa.3–6: Sins of Weakness, Love of Self, the Three Concupiscences, and Whether Passion Lessens Sin (from 0:41) · p. 682 — Shakespeare’s Exhortation to Use Reason
Prima Secundae — 194. Where Original Sin Lives: Flesh or Soul, Chief and Instrumental Causes (ST I-II q.83 a.1) (from 28:56) · p. 823 — The First Definition of Reason
Prima Secundae — 196. Infected Powers, Avarice as the Root and Pride as the Beginning of Sin (ST I-II q.83 a.4; q.84 a.1–2) (from 1:32) · p. 1164 — First and Third Causes of Love
Prima Secundae — 199. Antonomasia in Scripture: ‘The Evil One’ and ‘The Good’; Summa I-II q.85 aa.2-3: Can Sin Destroy Nature’s Good, and the Four Wounds of Nature (from 50:59) · p. 1123 — Nature and Kinds of Love
Prima Secundae — 204. Mortal Sin and Eternal Punishment: Aquinas on Aversion, Conversion, and the Beginning of Order (Q. 87, aa. 3–5) (from 12:25) · p. 682 — Shakespeare’s Exhortation to Use Reason
Prima Secundae — 210. Wood, Hay and Straw, Venial Sin in the State of Innocence, and Why Angels Cannot Sin Venially (Aquinas, Question 89, Articles 2-4) (from 39:48) · p. 1164 — First and Third Causes of Love
Prima Secundae — 213. Law and Reason, Law and the Common Good (Summa I-II, Q. 90, Articles 1–2): ‘Beginning’ and Its Meanings, Ways to Divide Sacred Doctrine, and the Wise Man’s Judgment of Axioms (from 6:39) · p. 11 — Thomas Aquinas: Major Proemium to Logic
Prima Secundae — 216. Summa I-II q.91 aa.5–6 and q.92 a.1: The old law and the new law, the ’law of hot blood’, and whether law makes men good (from 28:12) · p. 1184 — Second Effect of Love - Mutual Staying Within
Prima Secundae — 217. Dividing in Twos and Threes, and the Acts of Law: Command, Prohibit, Permit, Punish (ST I-II q.92 a.2) (from 14:34) · p. 318 — Note for Book One of Natural Hearing, Reading I
Prima Secundae — 219. Eternal Law, Part 1: Is the Eternal Law Known to All? Distinction, Before and After, and the Last Instant of Change (from 7:19) · p. 823 — The First Definition of Reason
Prima Secundae — 222. Aquinas on Law, Part 2: The Precepts of the Natural Law, Virtuous Acts, and Whether the Natural Law Is the Same for Everyone (Q94 a2–4) (from 0:37) · pp. 460–1184 — The Matter and Order of Wisdom
Prima Secundae — 224. Natural Law II and Human Law: Replies on Grace and Unjust Laws; Why Human Laws Are Needed and How They Derive from Natural Law (from 2:35) · pp. 1030–1184 — Shakespeare on Error
Prima Secundae — 229. Why Reason Is Not a Body (Thomas’s Three Arguments, Sentences II d.19) and Custom as Law (Summa I-II q.97 a.3) (from 1:07:21) · p. 1030 — Shakespeare on Error
Prima Secundae — 245. Aquinas on the Old Law Sacrifices (Holocaust, Sin and Peace Offerings) and the Trinity as Alpha and Omega (from 38:08) · p. 789 — The First Definition of Reason
Prima Secundae — 257. Aquinas on the Old Law’s Judicial Precepts (I-II q.105 a.1-2): Rulers and the Best Mixed Government, Sharing Goods, Inheritance, the Jubilee and Loans (from 37:32) · p. 1128 — Nature and Kinds of Love
Prima Secundae — 262. Hope in Shakespeare’s All’s Well and the Theological Virtues; New Law vs. Old Law (ST I-II q.107, aa.1-2) (from 6:51) · p. 1172 — Effects of Love
Prima Secundae — 265. Grace, Part 1 (ST I-II q.109 a.1): Can We Know Truth Without Grace? God as First Mover, and How Words Like ‘Act’ and ‘Motion’ Carry Over (from 23:18) · p. 815 — The First Definition of Reason
Prima Secundae — 280. Justification of the Impious (I-II q.113 aa.6-7): Remission of Guilt and Why Justification Happens in an Instant (from 44:00) · p. 294 — Distinction
Secunda Secundae — 7. Distinction and Order, the Senses of ‘Before’, and Augustine’s Definition of Believing (II-II q.2 a.1) (from 12:55) · p. 245 — Before - Chapter 12
Secunda Secundae — 10. Explicit and Implicit Faith: The Learned and the Simple, and Belief in the Mystery of Christ (II-II q.2 aa.5-7) (from 22:26) · p. 736 — An Exposition of Hamlet’s Exhortation to Use Reason
Tertia Pars — 1. From the Head to the Feet: The Word Made Flesh and the Plan of the Tertia Pars (from 4:37) · p. 460 — The Matter and Order of Wisdom
Tertia Pars — 7. Summa III, Q.2, Arts. 3–5: One Hypostasis in Christ, the Sense in Which His Person Is ‘Composed’, and the Union of His Soul and Body (from 32:36) · p. 635 — Note for Sixth Book of Wisdom, Reading 4
Tertia Pars — 16. Summa III, Q.4, Arts. 4–6: Not Abstract Human Nature, Not All Individuals, but from Adam’s Stock (with a Digression on Universal Cause vs. Universal Predication) (from 17:16) · p. 1134 — Causes of Love
Tertia Pars — 26. Habitual Grace Follows the Union (Q.7, a.13); Mixing Up Word Senses; Introduction to Q.8 on Christ as Head of the Church (from 23:26) · p. 460 — The Matter and Order of Wisdom
Tertia Pars — 39. Summa III q.15 a.1–3: Whether Christ Had Sin, the Fomes of Sin, or Ignorance (with music, moral virtue and reason’s rule over the emotions) (from 1:57) · p. 910 — Texts on Necessity and Difficulty of Beginning Well
Tertia Pars — 41. Aquinas on Christ’s Emotions: Sadness and Fear (Summa III, Q.15, Arts. 6–7) (from 5:44) · p. 1134 — Causes of Love
Tertia Pars — 44. Summa III q.16 a.2–4: ‘Man Is God’, the ‘Lordly Man’, and Saying Human Things of God (from 12:34) · p. 1465 — On Dividing Shakespeare’s Plays
Tertia Pars — 45. Aquinas on the Incarnation (ST III q.16, a.5–6): Can Human Things Be Said of the Divine Nature? Was God Made Man? (from 4:48) · p. 1231 — Happiness is the Chief Good and End of Man
Tertia Pars — 54. Summa III, Q. 20: Is Christ Subject to the Father and to Himself? (with the ‘crowning’ sense of before and conjecture about the Trinity) (from 35:17) · p. 823 — The First Definition of Reason
Tertia Pars — 84. The Creed’s Articles on Christ’s Humanity; John’s Baptism: Why It Continued and Why Its Recipients Were Baptized Again (from 6:06) · p. 1134 — Causes of Love
Tertia Pars — 102. Seeing God as He Is, and Whether Christ Suffered in His Whole Soul (ST III q.46 a.7-8) (from 36:15) · p. 1054 — Friar Laurence on Stumbling
Tertia Pars — 110. Abstract and Concrete Names of God, and Why It Was Fitting for Christ to Die (Question 50, Articles 1–2) (from 7:05) · p. 473 — The Matter and Order of Wisdom
Tertia Pars — 111. Christ’s Soul and Body in Death: Still United to the Word, Not a Man During the Three Days, Not Corrupted in the Tomb (Question 50, Articles 3–6) (from 13:58) · p. 1465 — On Dividing Shakespeare’s Plays
Tertia Pars — 120. Christ Ascends by His Own Power, Above All the Heavens and All Spiritual Creatures; How the Ascension Causes Our Salvation (from 33:44) · p. 1187 — Second Effect of Love - Mutual Staying Within