Thomas Aquinas on Peace: Part Two | Fr. Cajetan Cuddy, O.P.

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🗓️ 18 October 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This lecture was given on Jun 12th, 2024, at The Dominican House of Studies.

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About the Speaker:

Fr. Cajetan Cuddy, O.P., is a priest of the Dominican Province of St. Joseph. He serves as the general editor of the Thomist Tradition Series, and he is co-author of Thomas and the Thomists: The Achievement of St. Thomas Aquinas and His Interpreters. He has written for numerous publications on the philosophy and theology of St. Thomas Aquinas and the Thomist Tradition.

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0:24.6	Okay, so we continue with our examination of peace
0:30.6	as ordered to our examination of war.
0:36.6	And the reason why we're spending two days yesterday and today to our examination of war.
0:37.8	And the reason why we're spending two days yesterday and today
0:41.8	on peace is because war is a result of a certain privation.
0:47.3	There's only three principles of being, potency act,
0:49.8	privation.
0:51.3	I should say this is the most fundamental.
0:53.6	And we can't understand something that is sought as a good under the formal active sense,
1:02.0	unless we can't understand a privation, an absence of a due good unless we understand the good.
1:07.0	So the peace is at the heart.
1:09.0	War will be unintelligible without some
1:11.9	conception of peace and just to remind us where we're going and why this is
1:19.2	important and the dynamics of war are so unique is because we have within
1:27.1	reality that God has made, according to the eternal law
1:32.3	how God knows the world to be, we have anything that is as a nature.
1:35.9	There's no such thing as a natureless being.
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