Contemplation in Philosophical Perspective | Prof. Michael Gorman

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🗓️ 5 November 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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This talk was given at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. as part of the Thomistic Circles Conference "Aquinas on Contemplation: Philosophy, Theology, and the Spiritual Life" held on October 10, 2020.

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About the speaker:

Prof. Michael Gorman is Ordinary Professor of Philosophy at CUA. He received a doctorate in philosophy from SUNY Buffalo and a doctorate in theology from Boston College. He is also a scholar in the Templeton Virtue Project and a fellow of CUA's Institute for Human Ecology. He recently published a book, Aquinas on the Metaphysics of the Hypostatic Union, published by Cambridge University Press.

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0:00.0	So the paper's called Contemplation in Philosophical Perspective.
0:07.0	In the book of Syrac, chapter 32, we find some remarks on behavior at dinner parties.
0:14.0	If you're older, feel free to speak, but don't interfere with the music.
0:20.0	If you are young, don't speak unless they ask you twice, and then keep it short.
0:26.7	When the party's over, don't hang around, but leave promptly and then...
0:32.8	Well, what then?
0:34.8	As the Vulgate has it, Horosur Gendi, non-treatches, precure out him prior endomum toam,
0:42.9	at iluk avocare, at ilic lude, and agae conceptiones to us.
0:49.5	The Dewe version renders this as follows, at the time of rising, be not slack, but be first to run home to
0:57.8	thy house, and there withdraw thyself, and there take thy past time, and do what thou hast a mind.
1:05.9	The confraternity version, which is a sort of successor to the Dewe version, goes like this.
1:11.6	When it is time to leave, tarry not, be off for home.
1:15.6	There take your ease and there enjoy doing as you wish.
1:20.6	Lude at Agencepcionis to us.
1:24.6	Take thy pastime and do what thou hast a mind.
1:28.3	Enjoy doing as you wish.
1:31.3	Sounds like fun.
1:33.3	Of course, the sacred text goes on to add
1:37.3	et non indolictes et verbo superbo without sin
1:41.3	and without prideful words.
1:43.3	All this is good advice, no doubt, but then you might ask, without sin and without prideful words.
1:48.1	All this is good advice, no doubt, but then you might ask,
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