Is there a Distinction Between Faith and Reason? | Prof. Robert Koons

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🗓️ 6 October 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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This talk was given at the University of Texas at Austin on September 21, 2020.

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About the speaker:

Robert C. (“Rob”) Koons is a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has taught for 33 years. M. A. Oxford, Ph.D. UCLA. He is the author or co-author of four books, including: Realism Regained (Oxford University Press, 2000), and The Atlas of Reality: A Comprehensive Guide to Metaphysics, with Timothy H. Pickavance (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017). He is the co-editor (with George Bealer) of The Waning of Materialism (Oxford University Press, 2010), and co-editor (with Nicholas Teh and William Simpson) of Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science (Routledge, 2018). He has been working recently on an Aristotelian interpretation of quantum theory, on defending and articulating Thomism in contemporary terms, and on arguments for classical theism.

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0:00.0	Often when people talk about faith and reason, the question is, you know, are they compatible?
0:05.9	Can you have both faith and reason? And I'm starting this lecture from the opposite point of view.
0:11.4	Faith and reason are so interconnected and so interdependent. Is there even a distinction between the two?
0:16.6	Isn't faith, at least in a Catholic way of thinking about it, just reason, apply it to God and to things of salvation.
0:24.5	Is there anything that really distinguishes between the two?
0:27.3	So I'm gonna start from that perspective,
0:29.5	about that question anyway.
0:31.4	And let's go ahead and look at the next slide.
0:33.8	And so yeah, I'm gonna draw mostly on St. Thomas Aquinas,
0:37.1	this is Sumo Theologica,
0:40.3	which is, you know, I apologize, this is real elementary for some of you, but I just wanted to start from the ground floor up, so to speak.
0:48.3	This was the work that Quineas wrote over a 10-year period, really at the end, near the end of his life.
0:55.2	And it's a summary, it means a summary of theology.
0:58.2	And it was really designed as a kind of theology 101 course.
1:04.8	But it's a huge one-oh-one course, 101, 102, 103, and so on.
1:09.9	It's a pretty extensive course.
1:11.6	We're probably just started right from the beginning.
1:13.6	I was teaching in Rome and University of Paris.
1:16.6	There are three parts to it, and then there are 614 questions, which are something like topics, really.
1:25.6	They're not questions in our sense. The articles are actually the questions, so it's a little confusing.
1:31.3	So each article starts with a question as to this lecture, right?
1:34.3	Is there a distinction between faith and reason? That would be a typical kind of question for an article.
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