Sorrow, Beauty, and Mercy A Catholic Aesthetic Vision | Professor Thomas Hibbs

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🗓️ 17 July 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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This lecture was given at the University of Maryland at College Park on April 27th, 2023. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events Author Bio: Thomas Hibbs is currently J. Newton Rayzor Sr. Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University, where he is also Dean Emeritus, having served for 16 years as Dean of the Honors College and as Distinguished Professor of Ethic and Culture. Hibbs received a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame and has served as tutor at Thomas Aquinas College, Full Professor and Department Chair of Philosophy at Boston College, and President of the University of Dallas. Hibbs works in the areas of medieval philosophy, especially Thomas Aquinas, contemporary virtue ethics, and aesthetics. He has published more than thirty scholarly articles and seven books, as well as 100 reviews and discussion articles on film, theater, art, and higher education in a variety of venues.

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0:00.0	intellectually, it's really important and spiritually for me.
0:03.8	This is where I had a kind of adult conversion,
0:07.2	young adult conversion to my Catholic faith.
0:10.0	That was also an intellectual conversion for me.
0:12.9	Those were inseparable because it was these deep
0:16.1	intellectual doubts and questions which a year earlier,
0:20.1	no one who knew me would have thought that
0:22.4	something like that would have gripped me and made me take it seriously and the teachers
0:28.0	I had here did and they were also helpful even the atheists they were good teachers
0:31.9	they taught me how to write they taught me how to read carefully and one of them was an
0:36.6	ancient philosophy class where I read the plate on Aristotle which prepared me to read carefully. And one of them was an ancient philosophy class where I read,
0:38.5	Plato, which prepared me to read Aquinas eventually.
0:42.1	So I'm really, really delighted and honored to have this invitation
0:46.1	to be with the University of Maryland Catholic students and non-Catholic students here.
0:51.5	And I'm going to run through a few images, and then I'm going to talk a little bit,
0:57.1	and then we'll go back through the images. This series of black and white prints, the Miserei,
1:05.2	those of you who can read Latin at the bottom can see the Latin script there. This is from
1:10.5	the opening of Psalm 51, Have mercy on me, God,
1:14.7	according to your great mercy or compassion. That's the Psalm that the church in the
1:22.3	liturgy of the hours prays every Friday morning as part of the reminiscence of Good Friday. This is actually the
1:31.6	series of Prince is actually much more of a Lenton theme that it is an Easter theme, but we can
1:38.0	always go back. We have we have Lenton moments all through the year. George Ruo was a French painter who lived from the 1880s to the 1950s.
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