“Saint Thomas, who was as simple as he was wise,” wrote Jacques Maritain, “defined the beautiful as that which, being seen, pleases: id quod visum placet. These four words say all that is necessary: a vision, that is to say, an intuitive knowledge, and a delight.”
At this summer’s Wyoming School of Catholic Thought, we began by looking at the Medieval cosmos. It is a beautiful vision that, alas, turns out not to be true. Then we looked at the modern vision—the vision of scientism—in which the universe is nothing but a randomly constituted result of elementary particles bumping into each other. It is a universe without goodness, beauty, or truth—save the truth (maybe) of mathematics and physics.
Yet the topic of our week together was, “Beauty is Truth: Science and the Catholic Imagination.”
After we reduced the Medieval cosmos to “fermions and bosons,” Dr. Jeremy Holmes began putting the world back together arguing that beauty is a necessary part of the scientific endeavor. His lecture was over an hour long, but will, I think, be well worth your time and concentration. Hearing it again brought great delight so, using Thomas' definition, it can be called a beautiful lecture.
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Lecture - Courage and "The Cure at Troy" by Dr. Virginia Arbery
Lecture - Courage in Conquest: Joshua and the People of Israel by Dr. James Tonkowich
Courage in the Face of Flood, Flames, and Fangs with Dr. James Tonkowich
Humanae Vitae: Contributing to the Creation of a Truly Human Civilization with Dr. Kent Lasnoski and Dr. Jeremy Holmes
Socrates' Apology: Courage or Comedy? by Dr. Virginia Arbery
Full Lecture: Courage and the City in Aristotle by Prof. Kyle Washut
Courage and Courageous Children: Lessons from Plato and Aristotle with Prof. Kyle Washut
St. Thomas Aquinas and the Emotion of Courage with Dr. Stanley Grove
Courage and Antigone's Choice by Dr. Virginia Arbery
Achilles: His Fate, His Courage, and His Shield with Dr. Glenn Arbery
The Wyoming School of Catholic Thought and the Paradox of Courage with Dr. Glenn Arbery
"Back in the Saddle Again": Horsemanship and the Liberal Arts with Lorine Sheehan
Thinking Carefully About Abortion with Dr. Michael Bolin
To Infinity and Beyond with Dr. Scott Olsson
Reflections on Graduation 2018 with Dr. Glenn Arbery
Literature, Poetry, and Literary Converts with Prof. Joseph Pearce
Reading and Believing: De Verbum with Prof. Kyle Washut
Dueling Founders: The Federalists and the Anti-Federalists with Dr. Jim Tonkowich
Hunting, Humanity, and the Liberal Arts with Dr. Jeremy Holmes
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