A Thomistic Take on the Work of Fear (and How to Work with Fear) in the Human Heart | Sr. Anna Wray, O.P.

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🗓️ 28 June 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

This lecture was given on April 12th, 2024, at Florida State University.

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About the Speaker:

Sister Anna Wray is a native of Connecticut and a member of the Dominican Sisters of Saint Cecilia of Nashville, TN. Sister received her phD in philosophy from The Catholic University of America, having written her dissertation on Aristotle’s account of the activity of contemplation. Sister is an assistant professor on the faculty of CUA's School of Philosophy in Washington, DC, where she regularly teaches courses in the history of philosophy, logic, rhetoric, ethics, philosophy of religion, and philosophical psychology. She is also an adjunct professor for Aquinas College, where she teaches metaphysics and epistemology to her sisters in formation. When time permits, sister enjoys the occasional trip that allows her to speak to (and with) others who share her loves.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tomistic Institute podcast.
0:06.8	Our mission is to promote the Catholic intellectual tradition in the university, the church, and the wider public square.
0:13.1	The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Temistic Institute chapters around the world.
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0:25.4	In the first reply of the first article, of the first question, of the first part, of the second part of the Summa Theologica,
0:43.8	St. Thomas says, what is first in intention is last in execution. In less compressed terms, and especially in case you got disoriented by all the
0:50.9	firsts, in any given activity, what you do last is what you have in mind
0:56.2	from the very first moment of your acting. Or what you do last is what you do all of the middle
1:03.1	things for. What I have in mind to do last is to offer some practical application of St. Thomas's account of fear. What I have in mind
1:13.9	to do first is to convince you that listening to me talk about St. Thomas's account of fear
1:19.9	is something worthy of your time and attention. Since we tend to recognize the value of something
1:26.0	only by comparing it with other similar things,
1:29.3	I propose that listening to this talk is at least initially more valuable to you than two other activities.
1:36.3	First, it's more valuable than my simply reading to you, the parts of the Summaa in which St. Thomas mentions fear.
1:45.4	Although you hopefully will read, or at least want to read the suma after the talk,
1:50.8	beginning your examination of fear by reading the suma can be a bit challenging.
1:55.7	Since Thomas's comments about fear are presented in the framework designed for a scholastic academic debate,
2:02.6	the practical potential of his account is far from obvious to the casual reader. It's this
2:08.0	practical potential of Thomas's account that I intend to highlight in this talk. So consider this
2:14.3	your warning, that what I'll be proposing in this talk is to mystic,
2:18.7	but not straight up Thomas.
2:21.2	That's to say, I'll be connecting a few dots that Thomas doesn't connect,
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