The Fourth Way and How it Works: Proving the Existence of God | Fr. Ambrose Little, O.P.

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🗓️ 11 November 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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This talk was given on October 10, 2022 at Oxford University. For more information please visit thomisticinstitute.org About the speaker: Fr. Ambrose Little, O.P. is a Dominican friar of the Province of St. Joseph. He was born and raised in Connecticut and studied philosophy at The Catholic University of America. He joined the Order of Preachers in 2007, making his solemn vows in 2011 and was ordained to the priesthood in 2013. Fr. Little has a Ph.L. from the School of Philosophy of The Catholic University of America and received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Virginia, where he completed a dissertation entitled Aristotelian Change and the Scala Naturae. He primarily works on topics of interest in Aristotelian-Thomism and natural philosophy. He has previously taught at Providence College and is now a member of the faculty of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC.

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0:00.0	This talk is brought to you by the Tamistic Institute.
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0:10.0	All right, let's begin in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
0:18.0	Amen.
0:19.0	Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
0:21.6	Blessed are thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
0:25.6	God, grace, the sins now.
0:29.6	Amen.
0:30.6	Heavenly Father, help us to help and guide our minds that we may come to understand the proof that St. Thomas has so that we may see you more clearly
0:39.6	and love you with all our hearts. And we ask this through Christ, our Lord.
0:43.3	Amen.
0:44.0	The name of the Father and the Son of the Holy Spirit.
0:47.7	Well, as Brother John was opening the windows, I know there's a reflection coming in my direction,
0:52.8	so I'm hoping it will kind of like shine right there.
0:55.0	It'll be a bit of a mystic below, we might say.
0:58.0	Well, thank you for coming this evening. I'm glad that you're here, and this is, I think, the kickoff for the Tmistic Institute here at Oxford this term.
1:06.0	So I hope that you can join us going forward, but thank you for being here this evening.
1:11.8	And tonight, I will be lecturing on the fourth of St. Thomas's famous five ways proving the
1:17.7	existence of God. Now, this is admittedly a difficult task. And what makes this task particularly
1:25.7	difficult is that it is probably the argument most distasteful to modern sensibilities and resistant to friendly contemporary analysis.
1:36.3	Even a scholar as friendly to Thomas Aquinas as Peter Geach had the following to say about the fourth way. He writes,
1:45.4	the statement of the fourth way in scare quotes there in the Summa Theologica is odd
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