Aquinas And The Fourth Way | Fr. Ambrose Little, O.P.

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🗓️ 22 June 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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This talk was given on April 8, 2022 at Virginia Tech. The handout for the talk can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/4snsdp6f For information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the Speaker: Fr. Ambrose Little, O.P. is a Dominican friar of the Province of St. Joseph. He was born and raised in Connecticut and studied philosophy at The Catholic University of America. He joined the Order of Preachers in 2007, making his solemn vows in 2011 and was ordained to the priesthood in 2013. Fr. Little has a Ph.L. from the School of Philosophy of The Catholic University of America and received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Virginia, where he completed a dissertation entitled Aristotelian Change and the Scala Naturae. He primarily works on topics of interest in Aristotelian-Thomism and natural philosophy. He has previously taught at Providence College and is now a member of the faculty of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC.

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0:00.0	This talk is brought to you by the Tamistic Institute.
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0:13.0	Well, thank you for having me here this evening.
0:15.1	I don't know how many of you are philosophers, probably not a ton.
0:18.8	So if this is your first philosophy lecture, if you're rather unfamiliar with it, I'm sorry,
0:23.1	but it's gonna be, and if you have a headache,
0:25.6	just think about it this way, right?
0:27.6	They're good headaches, they're bad headaches.
0:29.6	The good headaches are the ones that you get
0:30.6	when you're drinking a really cold milkshake
0:32.6	on a hot day, right?
0:33.6	You can call those brain freeze.
0:35.6	So what I'm hoping is that you leave here
0:37.6	with a bit of brain freeze this evening and you want more, right? That's the goal. Now,
0:42.2	follow your handouts because they're going to be helpful. Largely what I'm going to be doing
0:45.9	is going through St. Thomas Aquinas' fourth proof for the existence of God. So the first
0:51.8	page of your handout has the actual English text or the
0:55.3	English translation of the Poinus' text that's most common. Plus what is my reconstruction
1:02.4	of the argument in step-by-step form. And what I'm going to do is go through and explain
1:08.4	why each step in this argument, how it's supposed to work,
1:13.4	and why it proves what it says it's supposed to prove.
1:16.3	On the back of your handouts are a bunch of quotes that are going to help explain part of the
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