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Thomas Aquinas.
Due to the popularity of my previous document, ONLINE WORKS BY AND ABOUT ST THOMAS
AQUINAS, I've decided to post more links. These links include written texts of lectures and
audio,video resources.
Keynote Address to the Thomistic Institutes Summer Lecture series, 1997 by Ralph McInerny.
From Mendel to Biotechnology: A Critical Look at the Historical Development and Philosophical
Foundations of Modern Biology, by Martin Hewlett, Ph. D
Relationship of Natural Science and Philosophy of Nature in Light of Recent Developments in Physics
by Leo Elders
Science, Philosophy, and Theology in the Thomistic Tradition by Fr. William Wallace, O.P.
Opening and Keynote Address Thomistic Institute, Summer Lect. Series, by Ralph McIrnerny
Does Void Exist?: The Thomistic Rejection of its Presence in the Natural World" by Mario Sacchi
"Natural, Human and Divine Creativity. A Reflection on the Presuppositions and Implications of
Scientific Progress." by Fr Mariano Artigas
"Scientific Method and the Human Soul in Aristotle's De anima" by Steve Snyder
Opening and Keynote Address Thomistic Institutes Summer Lect Series, 1999, by Ralph McIrnerny
"The Scientific Revolution and Contemporary Discourse on Faith and Reason." by William Carroll
"Entrusting Ourselves: Fides et Ratio and Augustine's de utilitate credendi" by Ann Gardiner
"The Third Millenium and the Philosophical Life or Celsus, Don't Despair" by Fr Michael Sherwin
"The Place of Philosophy in the Moral Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas" by Fr Servais Pinckaers
"The Exaltation of Metaphysics in John Paul II's Fides et ratio" by Mario Sacchi
"The Doctrine of Causality in Aquinas and the Book of Causes: One Key to Understanding the Nature
of Divine Action" by Fr Michael Dodds, O.P.
"Aristotle as Source for St. Thomas's Doctrine of Being" Fr Lawrence Dewan, O.P.
"Aristotle's De Anima as Source for Aquinas' Anthropological Doctrine" by Maria Lukac de Siter
"The Different Senses of 'Being' according to Aristotle and Aquinas" by Alejandro Llano
"'Bonum ex integra causa': Aquinas and the Sources of Ethics" by Angelo Copmodonico
Distinguer pour Unir: Aquinas v. Putnam on the Unity of Nature by John O'Callaghan
From Nature to God: The Physical Character of St. Thomas Aquinas' First Way by Mario Sacchi
The Natural and the Supernatural in St. Thomas' Early Doctrine of Truth by Michael Waddell
Regarding the Nature of the Object of the Moral Act According to St. Thomas Aquinas Steven Long
“The Divine in Aquinas’s Commentary on the Ethics: Can we be Good without God?” by Christopher
Kaczor
“«Lire les mystiques sans Dieu»: Interpersonal Communication, Mystical Language, and God in the
Late Roland Barthes” by Marco Maggi
“Aristotle vs. the Neo-Darwinians on Human Nature and the Foundations of Ethics” by Marie George
“How God Enters the Ethics that didn’t Allow for Him: Starting from Kant” by Luciano Sesta
“The Role of God in the Ethical Thought of Thomas Aquinas” by Giacomo Samek Lodovici
Universitas Journal
The Center For Thomistic Studies, Sydney, Austrailia
Joseph Magee.
Joseph Cahalan.
Audio/Video Lectures
Aquinas on the decalogue. 20 minutes
Reading Guides
These courses were taught using audio cassette tapes and printed reading books. The reading books
contained photocopied extracts from translations of medieval philosophers. The idea was that the
student would play the cassette, pressing the pause button from time to time to read another segment of
text from the reading book. The cassettes give a detailed commentary on the text.
The web pages listed below are (mostly) transcripts of the audio cassettes. Anyone wishing to use them
will need to have at hand, open on the desk, the text on which the cassette comments (or some
equivalent translation). The commentary is not likely to make much sense without the translations.
(Some of the pages do "stand alone", but most refer to a text.)
Medieval Philosophy: An Introduction
Greek Philosophical Background | Aristotle on the Web | Macquarie Library books on Aristotle
Reading Guide to Boethius, Consolation (The Consolation of Philosophy, tr. V.E. Watts (Penguin,
1969).)
Boethius on Porphyry (Richard McKeon (ed.), Selections from Medieval Philosophers (New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons).)|
Reading Guide to "The Essential Augustine" (ed. V.J. Bourke, Hackett, 1974)
Anselm's Monologion(J. Hopkins and H.W. Richardson, Anselm of Canterbury (New York: Edwin
Mellen Press, 1974).)
Anselm's Proslogion and Cur deus homo ( E.R. Fairweather, A Scholastic Miscellany: Anselm to
Ockham (London: SCM Press, 1956).)
Reading guide to Anselm's De concordia (Anselm of Canterbury, The Major Works, ed. B. Davies and
G.R. Evans (Oxford University Press, 1998), or Hopkins and Richardson.)
Peter Abelard (Peter Abelard's Ethics, tr. D.E. Luscombe (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971), and
Abelard's "Glosses on Porphyry", in A. Hyman and J.J. Walsh (eds.), Philosophy in the Middle Ages
(Indianapolis: Hackett).)
Abelard (cont.); Abbreviatio montana ( N. Kratzmann and E. Stump (eds.), Logic and the Philosophy
of Language (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).)
Al Ghazali and Averroes (Averroes, Tahafut al-Tahafut, translated S. van den Bergh (London: Luzac),
and Hyman and Walsh, Philosophy in the Middle Ages.)
Averroes, The Incoherence, thirteenth discussion (Averroes, Tahafut al-Tahafut, translated S. van den
Bergh (London: Luzac)
Thomas Aquinas on God (Summa theologiae)
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica (cont.)
The Eternity of the World St. Thomas, Siger de Brabant, St. Bonaventure: On the Eternity of the World
Cyril Vollert, S.J., Lottie Kendzierski, and Paul Byrne, Tr. (Marquette UP).)
Scotus on univocal concepts of God ( Hyman and Walsh, Philosophy in the Middle Ages.)
Scotus's proof of the existence of an infinite being ( Hyman and Walsh.)
Scotus on the primary object of the intellect ( Hyman and Walsh.)
Scotus on the primary object of the intellect (continued) ( Hyman and Walsh.)
Scotus on the primary object of the intellect (concluded); the Formal Distinction ( Hyman and Walsh.)
Scotus on Universals ( Hyman and Walsh.)
Scotus and Ockham on free will ( Hyman and Walsh.)
Ockham on Universals (William of Ockham, Philosophical Writings, ed. P. Boehner (Edinburgh:
Nelson, 1957).)
Ockham on Relations. ( Hyman and Walsh.)
Ockham's Theory of Knowledge ( Hyman and Walsh, William of Ockham, Philosophical Writings (ed.
Boehner), pp.22-4, and William of Ockham Quodlibetal Questions (ed. Freddoso), pp.413-7, 506-8. )
Medieval elements in Descartes (Descartes, Meditations)
Medieval elements in Berkeley, Locke and Hume
Martha Nussbaum on Aristotle. Five videos posted on my blog. This is an
interview hosted by British Philsopher Bryan Magee.
Frederick Copleston Talks About Schopenhauer. OK, so it's not about Aquinas.
Five part video posted on my blog. An interview with Bryan Magee. Copleston
wrote one of the great histories of philosophy and a good introduction to Aquinas
Preaching The Mystery: Grace And Truth in St Bernard Another St Thomas Day
Lecture.
St. Thomas Aquinas, Moral Theology, and the Structure of the Summa Theologiae
by Fr John Corbett. 21 minutes.
Audio Books on Aquinas. Sorry, you gotta pay for these.
St Thomas Aquinas: The Giants Of Philosophy. One of the audio books on the
page linked to above is this work, narrated by the late Charlton Heston. This is a
brief excerpt.