The Pursuit of Profound Rest: Friendship, Contemplation, and Work | Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP
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🗓️ 25 February 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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This talk was offered on February 15th, 2019. For more info about upcoming TI events in North America check out, thomisticinstitute.org/events-1/
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Speaker Bio:
Thomas Joseph White, O.P., entered the Order of Preachers in 2003. His research and teaching have focused particularly on topics related to Thomistic metaphysics and Christology as well as Roman Catholic-Reformed ecumenical dialogue.
He is the author of Wisdom in the Face of Modernity: A Study in Thomistic Natural Theology (Sapientia Press, 2009), The Incarnate Lord: A Thomistic Study in Christology (The Catholic University of America Press, 2015), Exodus (Brazos Press, 2016), and The Light of Christ: An Introduction to Catholicism (The Catholic University of America Press, 2017). He has edited several books, and is co-editor of the theological journal Nova et Vetera (English edition). In 2011 he was appointed an ordinary member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas. He is currently teaching at the Angelicum in Rome and is the Director of the Thomistic Institute at the Angelcum.
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| 0:00.0 | So what I'm going to try to do in the next half hour or so is talk a little bit about |
| 0:08.0 | challenge of profound rest or deep with those and how it is related to the activities of friendship and |
| 0:20.0 | how those activities can |
| 0:24.6 | qualify or characterize our work relationships with some people. |
| 0:30.6 | A lot of the interesting, very honest and very open things that you all shared were related to the vulnerabilities that we each |
| 0:39.9 | experience about our productivity, our success, our sins of our own story, our capacity to love |
| 0:49.9 | ourselves, and to think about the worth and value of our lives. |
| 1:01.6 | And achieving a kind of deep inner sense of self-love is very complicated. |
| 1:03.3 | It's very connected to happiness. |
| 1:10.6 | It's not the only ingredient to happiness, but it's a very important dimension of happiness. And happiness and self-love are achieved in large part through various kinds of activities. |
| 1:16.6 | Part of the complication of being a human being, the complexity of being a human being, |
| 1:21.6 | is that we achieve happiness through more than one kind of activity. |
| 1:26.6 | And I want to talk a little bit about three fundamental |
| 1:29.3 | activities that contribute to our happiness and how they're interrelated. |
| 1:35.3 | One being friendship, another being, which I'm a little of my little chart here |
| 1:41.3 | in the practical intellects. |
| 1:43.3 | Friendship is a certain way, is tended to |
| 1:46.1 | by the practical moral virtue of prudence, how to pursue friendships that are stabilizing, |
| 1:54.7 | enduring, fulfilling, loving, virtuous, and another activity, which is contemplation, which is about pursuing a kind of deeper gaze on |
| 2:05.2 | reality that doesn't really have to do transforming the world but appreciating reality loving reality |
| 2:12.4 | admiring it being fulfilled by the very givenness of things. |
| 2:20.7 | And then art or work. |
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