A Thomistic Account of Truth | Prof. Timothy Pawl

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🗓️ 20 April 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This lecture was given on March 3, 2022 at the College of William and Mary. The handout for this lecture can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/4dbe7m5r. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Timothy J. Pawl is Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, and holds a Ph.D. from Saint Louis University in philosophy, with specialization in the philosophy of religion, metaphysics, Thomistic philosophy, analytic theology, and moral psychology. His books include In Defense of Conciliar Christology (Oxford, 2016), In Defense of Extended Conciliar Christology (Oxford, 2019), and The Incarnation (Cambridge, 2020). In addition, he has published more than thirty-five academic articles in his areas of expertise, and given almost 100 academic or popular-level talks or interviews about his work, including a series of interviews for the PBS show Closer to Truth. He is the husband of another philosopher, Faith Glavey Pawl, and the proud father of one son and four daughters.

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0:00.0	This talk is brought to you by the Thomistic Institute. For more talks like this, visit us at
0:06.3	tamistic institute.org. I want to talk tonight about Thomas Aquinas' account of what truth is.
0:17.4	And if you haven't yet gotten one, there should be handouts somewhere available for you.
0:21.6	I believe right over there. So if you don't have one yet, maybe just raise your hand.
0:25.6	And John? Yes. John can bring them to you. Wonderful. All right. Well, you guys are familiar with what Pilate said to Christ, or at least one of
0:38.7	the things Pilots said to Christ, not the only one.
0:41.4	But he asked, what is truth?
0:43.3	And if you know the context, well, you know he wasn't asking a philosophical question.
0:47.3	But that doesn't have to stop us from asking a philosophical question with the same content.
0:52.0	What is truth?
0:53.1	And what determines truth?
0:54.1	And what is it not?
0:55.0	These are the source of questions I want us to talk about tonight and then have a couple
0:59.0	practical applications from the talk for our lives to afterwards.
1:03.0	So look at your handout. On the front, I start with a question.
1:09.0	We have what is truth. And let's start first by what it's not.
1:12.6	If we can narrow down some things it isn't, we can get closer to what it is on our way.
1:16.6	So what if you just think there is no truth?
1:20.6	Might be, might be the case that there is no truth.
1:24.6	But when you think about that claim, there is no truth, something goes
1:29.3	awry, don't you think? Like, there's a problem with saying there is no truth. What's the,
1:35.9	anybody see the problems? Some of you are smiling in you, which makes me think, yeah, you do see it.
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