Is Belief in God Rational? Aquinas on Skepticism and Theological Knowledge | Prof. Joshua Hochschild

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🗓️ 13 January 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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This event was given at Rutgers University on December 3, 2019.

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Joshua Hochschild is the Monsignor Robert R. Kline Professor of Philosophy at Mount St. Mary’s University, where he also served six years as the inaugural Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. His primary research is in medieval logic, metaphysics, and ethics, with broad interest in liberal education and the continuing relevance of the Catholic intellectual tradition. He is the author of The Semantics of Analogy: Rereading Cajetan’s De Nominum Analogia (2010), translator of Claude Panaccio’s Mental Language: From Plato to William of Ockham (2017), and co-author of A Mind at Peace: Reclaiming an Ordered Soul in the Age of Distraction (2017). His writing has appeared in First Things, Commonweal, Modern Age and the Wall Street Journal. For 2020-21 he’s been elected to serve as President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association.

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0:00.0	Thank you, Stephen, for that kind introduction. Thank you to the Temistic Institute. Thank you to the Rutgers Philosophy Department.
0:11.0	Thank you to the Chairman of the Philosophy Department, Dean Zimmerman. I was a graduate student at Notre Dame when Dr. Zimmerman was a professor there before he came here.
0:22.6	So this is kind of neat for me to see him.
0:25.6	And you know how academia works.
0:27.6	So unless you tell me afterwards that I can't do this, I'm going to put that this was co-sponsored
0:31.6	by the Rutgers Philosophy Department on my CV.
0:34.6	That's definitely going on my CV.
0:36.6	Before I start officially, I'm going to hand out or ask for help to hand out a handout.
0:43.3	Steven, we do help this week?
0:46.3	And I'll try this.
0:50.3	If while I'm talking, you have a question you want to interrupt me I can handle
0:55.3	you don't have to wait until the end hopefully like if you're just a little
1:01.2	confused you might trust me that I'll explain myself but if I say something that
1:05.1	doesn't make sense or do you think there's some obvious objection that I should
1:09.3	take account of go ahead take as many of those as you need.
1:12.6	Then go ahead and raise your hand, and if I'm courageous, I'll call on you.
1:23.6	The topic that was assigned to me is, is it rational to believe in God?
1:30.3	Thomas Aquinas on skepticism and theological knowledge.
1:35.3	Just to get this out of the way right up front, I am not going to be rehearsing the five ways.
1:42.3	Aquinas' famous proofs for the existence of God,
1:45.0	the little snippet of text that for lack of anything else that seems more appropriate philosophy
1:53.0	professors subject undergraduates to all across the country and probably even at Rutgers sometimes. What I want to talk about is actually focusing, especially on the idea of Thomas Aquinas
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