God's Permission of Moral Evil w/ Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. & Prof. Thomas Osborne

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🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Join Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. of Aquinas 101, Godsplaining, and Pints with Aquinas for an off-campus conversation with Prof. Thomas Osborne about his latest Thomistic Institute lecture, "God's Permission of Moral Evil". God's Permission of Moral Evil w/ Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. & Prof. Thomas Osborne (Off-Campus Conversations) You can listen to the original lecture here: https://soundcloud.com/thomisticinstitute For more information please visit thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Thomas M. Osborne, Jr. (Ph.D., Duke 2001), is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy, and a member of the Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St. Thomas (Houston). He has written many articles on medieval and late-scholastic philosophy and other topics, and is the author of Love of Self and Love of God in Thirteenth-Century Ethics (2005), Human Action in Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and WIlliam of Ockham (2014), and Aquinas's Ethics (2020).

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Father Gregory Pine, one of the assistant directors at the Thimistic Institute, delighted to welcome you back for another installment of off-campus' conversations, where we follow up with the Mystic Institute speakers who have given
0:21.1	lectures on campus or beyond. So that way we can chase down some of the insights from their lectures
0:25.9	and grow in the knowledge and love of God. So for this installment, I'm very delighted to be
0:30.6	joined by Professor Tom Osborne. Thanks so much for joining. Thank you. It's nice to be involved with the Institute and this kind of activity.
0:40.8	Hey, cheers. So many folks will know you from your many publications and interventions,
0:46.4	Thomistic Institute, and otherwise. But for those who don't know you, would just say a word,
0:51.7	you know, who you are, where you're from, and what you do?
1:02.2	Well, I'm Thomas Osborne. I'm at the Center for Tomistic Studies. It's a graduate program at the University of St. Thomas. So it's part of our philosophy department. I teach
1:07.3	undergraduate and graduate students. I was an undergrad at Catholic U near the House of Studies.
1:14.6	I knew some of the young Dominicans of that generation.
1:17.6	Masters from Boston College, PhD from Duke,
1:20.6	then I went to Toronto for an LMS postdoc.
1:24.6	My first job was at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas,
1:28.9	but I've been here for 20 years now.
1:31.6	I've published books mostly on ethics and moral psychology,
1:36.7	so a book, and The Love of God and Love of Self and 13th Century Ethics,
1:41.3	notions of, you know, is Aristotle's ethics selfish? Is it based on self-love? If so,
1:47.7	in what way? I published a book on Human Acts and Thomas Aquinas, Gautus and Akham,
1:55.2	the important differences, the important either contributions or confusions introduced by later figures.
2:03.7	Published a little book Aquinas' Ethics, that's the cheapest one.
2:07.1	It's paperback from Cambridge.
2:09.2	And then a longer book, Thomas Aquinas on Virtue.
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