Aquinas on the Person and the Analogical Scale of Truth | Enrique Martinez
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🗓️ 25 January 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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This lecture was given as the annual lecture in honor of St. Thomas Aquinas at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC on January 24th 2019.
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| 0:00.0 | It is being increasingly assumed in current public opinion that we live in post-truth our area. |
| 0:11.4 | A consequence of this is that judgment of the most important realities of human life has been left in the hands of mere emotions, which in the opinion of Joshua Ratzinger is |
| 0:25.6 | building a dictatorship of relativism that that knows recognize anything as definitive, |
| 0:32.9 | and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's own ego and desires. |
| 0:40.7 | This is age of post-truth affect how the personal being is understood. |
| 0:46.8 | From the fruitful encounter between faith and reason, Western culture has articulated his |
| 0:53.7 | worldview of man and human life |
| 0:56.2 | based on the concept of the person. |
| 1:00.4 | However, these days we talk of non-human persons |
| 1:05.1 | when referring to orangutans, cyborg, etc. |
| 1:13.6 | In such a context, it is extremely useful to redirect our attention towards the concept of truth |
| 1:21.6 | in order to have adequately substantiated a reality as basic as that of the personal being. |
| 1:31.0 | And this is the subject of this present study. For this, we will attempt to argue that primacy |
| 1:40.7 | in the analogous meaning of what is true corresponds precisely to the person |
| 1:46.0 | as a subsistence whose essay is intelligible of himself |
| 1:52.1 | and from there it will be concluded that |
| 1:56.1 | the perfective dynamism of personal life |
| 1:58.8 | is conducted in eminent fashion in the communication of the truth |
| 2:03.7 | through the world. Following St. Thomas Aquinas, this thesis has been defended in the Thomistic |
| 2:13.4 | School of Barcelona, mainly by Jaime Bofi and Francisco Canals. |
| 2:20.1 | Summarizing what we wish to develop later regarding the question, the latter says, |
| 2:28.1 | not only in the line of transcendental good, but also in the line of transcendental truth, we must affirm |
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