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This talk was given on November 12th, 2022, at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Prof. George Corbett (University of St. Andrews) is Professor of Theology, and Director of Research at the School of Divinity. He has two principal areas of research and teaching: Theology and the Arts (with a focus on the theologian-poet Dante Alighieri) and Historical and Systematic Theology (with a focus on Aquinas’s theology and its influence, and on Catholic theology).
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0:51.7 | So my second talk, I'm aware, is a little bit more advanced. |
0:56.0 | The first talk was quite introductory. |
0:58.0 | So do try and stay with me, but we're going to enter some slightly tougher, |
1:05.0 | slightly more complex waters. |
1:07.0 | So don't worry if some things go over your head and I'm happy to respond to things in the questions as well. |
1:12.8 | So in the first talk, I think we could agree that especially given his own vocation, Dante was particularly |
1:22.7 | attracted to the passionate intellects that we find in his poem, |
1:28.3 | whether it be the outstanding pagan philosophers whom we discover in hell, |
1:33.3 | or the great Christian theologians and philosophers whom we meet in the heaven of the sun, |
1:37.9 | the heaven of Christian wisdom. |
1:40.3 | To whom of these great thinkers, though, was Dante most influenced by in his intellectual development and thought? |
1:52.0 | In the limbo of the virtuous pagans, Dante clearly acknowledges Aristotle as the master of those who know, as his authority, by excellence, in philosophy. |
2:04.6 | In the heaven of the wise simile, Dante appears to acknowledge Aquinas, as his authority in theology, a Christian science, |
2:13.6 | which comprises the truths of revelation from above, as well as the truths of a reason alone from below, |
2:21.3 | giving to St Thomas more words than that of any other character |
2:28.3 | in the Comedia, save Virgil and Beatrice. |
2:32.3 | Moreover, in his prose work, the convivio, Dante likewise singles out |
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