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🗓️ 2 January 2025
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Why do human beings desire knowledge? Why should YOU care about philosophy? Join Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. of Aquinas 101, Godsplaining, and Pints with Aquinas for an off-campus conversation with Prof. Therese Cory about the role of wonder in philosophy, the right temperament with which to approach philosophy, how philosophy educators can awaken the desire to understand in their students, how to create space for healthy discourse, and what the future of philosophical conversations could look like.
You can watch this interview on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfCuyMjWa2Q.
About the speaker:
Therese Scarpelli Cory is the John and Jean Oesterle Associate Professor of Thomistic Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Her work focuses on medieval theories of mind, cognition, and personhood, with special focus on the thought of Thomas Aquinas and his thirteenth-century interlocutors. She serves on the executive committee of the "Aquinas and the Arabs Project" and is also a member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, appointed by Pope Francis in 2019.
This project/publication was made possible through the support of Grant 63391 from the John Templeton Foundation. The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the John Templeton Foundation.
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0:00.0 | Hello, my name is Father Gregory Pine, and I am a Dominican friar here in the province of St. Joseph |
0:14.4 | and assistant director for the Thomistic Institute, and I am delighted to welcome you back for another |
0:18.6 | installment of off-campus conversations, where we |
0:22.1 | tracked down a Thomistic Institute speaker in the wild and say, wow, what's it like in your natural |
0:27.1 | habitat? |
0:27.8 | That's actually not true. |
0:29.0 | We usually follow up on a conversation that that lecturer will have had with students on |
0:32.9 | campus, but this provides us the opportunity to dive a little deeper. |
0:36.8 | So for this installment, I am delighted to be joined by Professor Therese Corey. |
0:40.6 | Thanks for joining. |
0:41.8 | Hi, thanks for having me. |
0:44.5 | So among our listeners, some will know you, some will be your students at the University of Notre Dame. |
0:49.3 | Some will not know you. |
0:51.1 | And for that, they will profit from the conversation. But could you just say a brief word |
0:55.9 | of introduction, who you are, where you're from, what you do? Yeah. So I'm the director of the |
1:00.7 | Maritaine Center in the History of Philosophy Forum here at the University of Notre Dame. I'm also |
1:05.3 | an associate professor in the philosophy department. I work on Thomas Aquinas, of course, and generally |
1:11.8 | the thought of 13th century thinkers surrounding Aquinas and his Arabic influences on Aquinas. |
1:19.2 | We're actually very excited about Aquinas here at the University of Notre Dame. We've just had a |
1:23.6 | conference celebrating the 800th anniversary of his birth at the end of September. So we had |
1:30.4 | about 600 people who were celebrating Aquinas' birth and sharing their research and listening to |
1:36.7 | each other's research on the relevance of Aquinas today. So that was a very exciting opportunity |
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