The Powers Of The Soul | Fr. James Brent, O.P.

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🗓️ 15 July 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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This talk was given on May 27th, 2022 at the 11th Annual Aquinas Philosophy Workshop on Aquinas on the Soul. The handout for the talk can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/mr224yuv For information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Fr. James Dominic Brent, O.P. was born and raised in Michigan. He pursued his undergraduate and graduate studies in Philosophy, and completed his doctorate in Philosophy at Saint Louis University on the epistemic status of Christian beliefs according to Saint Thomas Aquinas. He has articles in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Natural Theology, in the Oxford Handbook of Thomas Aquinas on “God’s Knowledge and Will”, and an article forthcoming on “Thomas Aquinas” in the Oxford Handbook of the Epistemology of Theology. He earned his STL from the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, and was ordained a priest in the same year. He taught in the School of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America from 2010- 2014, and spent the year of 2014-2015 doing full time itinerant preaching on college campuses across the United States.

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0:00.0	This talk is brought to you by the Tamistic Institute. For more talks like this, visit us at
0:05.4	tamistic institute.org. All right, let's begin our day today with a prayer. In the name of the
0:14.7	Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen. Come, Holy Spirit, fill our hearts,
0:23.8	and kindle in us the fire of your divine love. Send forth thy spirit and they shall be created, and you shall renew the face of the earth.
0:29.1	Let us pray.
0:30.1	O God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit did instruct the hearts of thy faithful people,
0:35.5	grant us by the same light that we always may be wise and ever
0:38.3	rejoice in his consolation through the same Christ our Lord. Mary Queen of Peace, St. Joseph,
0:45.9	St. Thomas Aquinas. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.
0:59.0	The title of the talk this morning is the human soul and its properties. Yesterday we spoke about soul in general as the principle, the interior principle of all living things.
1:06.0	Today we're zeroing in more specifically on the human soul and its properties. So the
1:12.1	handout titled The Human Soul and its Properties is the one to look at first.
1:16.1	Please leave the other handout aside. We'll talk about that towards the very end.
1:20.6	So one of the main points we made yesterday is that the human soul is the form of the human body,
1:29.0	or the soul is the form of the body, but specifically when it comes to humans,
1:32.3	the human soul is the form of the human body.
1:37.0	So the form, in this sense, the substantial form makes a thing to be, to be what it is,
1:43.3	and to be to be one.
1:46.0	So the human soul makes your body, my body, makes the human body to be,
1:53.0	to be human, and to be one.
1:58.0	So the form establishes throughout it, its organization, its various parts,
2:04.6	and the organization of all those parts, and all the parts of the parts, all the way down,
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