[2021 Summer] Science: Aristotle’s Organon
In order to be a proper ἀκροᾱτής (akroates), i.e., hearer or student of Aristotle’s, such that one might read and understand the Stagyrite’s treatment of specific subjects like nature (Physics), the soul (De Anima), ethics (Nicomachean Ethics), politics (Politics) or metaphysics (Metaphysics), one must first obtain a general understanding of Aristotle’s rigorous logical method. This […]
[2021 Summer] Thomistic Psychology: World and Passions
The passions, though born into us by nature and fitting to our lives, must obey the orders of reason, else they bring disorder to the whole of our being. But since the passions are not disordered by nature (though of reason’s voice they are hard-of-hearing in a postlapsarian existence), we must uncover the causes of their disorder so prevalent today if we are to understand how they fail, and how they might succeed, in attaining their proper and fitting good. This is the goal of our seminar.
