The Common Good of the Universe | Prof. Thomas Osborne

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🗓️ 24 November 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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This lecture was given on October 24, 2020 as part of "The Bonds of Love" Intellectual Retreat at the University of Texas, Austin.

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Speaker Bio:

Prof. Osborne is the chair of the philosophy department at the University of St. Thomas in Houston. His research focuses on medieval, late scholastic, and contemporary philosophy. He is particularly concerned with the way in which philosophical concepts are changed and created historically. His research focuses on Ethical Theory, Moral Psychology, Ethics, and Metaphysics. He also has related interests in Philosophy of Religion and Political Philosophy.

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0:10.5	So the common good of the universe.
0:18.2	So why is this important for this conference?
0:21.6	Because God is the common good of the universe, at least considered in one way,
0:28.6	and God is the object of charity, and charity has as its object precisely God as the common spiritual common good of the universe.
0:41.3	Not just according to nature, according to grace.
0:45.3	It's a source of supernatural goods.
0:47.3	We share in supernatural goods.
0:52.3	That's a common good.
0:58.2	And so Thomas often compares it with the political common good.
1:02.7	And I mentioned that yesterday.
1:07.1	So if you remember then, charity is supernatural,
1:13.6	supernatural in the sense that it has to be caused by God,
1:17.6	but mostly in this sense of what it's about.
1:20.6	It's about this common good that we don't have by nature.
1:25.6	We might not have had if God didn't decide to give it to us.
1:30.1	It's an order that God established through the incarnation and then the death of Christ.
1:40.8	And when we're talking about this love of God, then it's distinct from the natural love of God.
1:47.6	Remember, there's a natural love of God common to all creatures, just their appetites for perfection, their own, and that of the species.
1:56.0	But then human beings have intellect and will, and they can will other goods naturally, meaning without
2:04.4	grace, however due to corrupt human nature, we're required to will God more than ourselves,
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