What Happens To The Soul After Death | Father Ambrose Little, O.P.

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🗓️ 16 August 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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This lecture was given on April 27th, 2023 at Cornell University. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events Speaker Bio: 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	Well, good evening, and thank you for having me here this evening. I'm honored to be speaking here at Cornell,
0:06.0	and I'm grateful to kind of be here at the end of the semester to talk with you about the soul,
0:12.0	which of course is a topic of special interest to me, not just as a priest, but specifically also as a philosopher.
0:19.0	Now, of course, what I'm going to give you this evening is an unabashedly to mystic account of the soul,
0:26.2	and why it might survive the death of the body,
0:29.6	and also particularly why the resurrection is necessary.
0:34.1	And so I'm going to give you in about 40 minutes what I normally teach my students in a semester.
0:40.6	It's going to be fun, don't worry.
0:42.3	But it does mean that I can't go into details about everything.
0:45.0	That's what the Q&A is going to be about.
0:47.5	Now, some of the ways in which St. Thomas talks about the soul might and probably should be surprising to you.
0:53.8	But it will also, I think, explain why it is
0:56.8	what it is that makes the to mystic account of what the soul is unique and why it is uniquely
1:03.8	suited to explain the necessity of the resurrection of the body, which is, of course, a central
1:09.6	and core belief of Christianity.
1:11.6	So I've also was told that sometimes in some of the question and answer periods this year
1:18.6	in the various talks on the soul, there has been some confusion about whether or not Catholics
1:24.6	and specifically St. Thomas has a dualistic understanding of the soul.
1:28.3	And so part of what I'm going to do here is try to address what makes St. Thomas' understanding of the soul different than, say, a dualist position on mind.
1:38.3	And so I'm going to begin by giving a brief overview of the theory of soul and then end the lecture by discussing
1:44.5	the peculiar character of the soul as it is separated from the body. And so with
1:51.5	that let's begin. Now again I want to add a caveat to the people in the audience
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