“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.
Lecture: Romano Guardini and the Modern World by Dr. Thaddeus Kozinski
Romano Guardini, the End of the Modern World, and the Options We Face with Dr. Thaddeus Kozinski
Lecture: Dante's Exile by Dr. Jason Baxter
The Garden of Eden and Dante's Return from Exile with Dr. Jason Baxter
Lecture: Plato's Cave by Dr. Thaddeus Kozinski
Lost in a World of Images: Plato’s Cave with Dr. Thaddeus Kozinski
Lecture: Moses and Israel: From Exile to Freedom by Dr. Jeremy Holmes
Returning from Exile: Egypt, the Wilderness, and the Promised Land with Dr. Jeremy Holmes
Lecture: Exile from Eden by Dr. Glenn Arbery
John Milton's Paradise Lost and the Primal Exile with Dr. Glenn Arbery
Modernity, Postmodernity, and Beyond, Part 2 with Dr. Thaddeus Kozinski
Modernism, Postmodernism, and Beyond, Part 1 with Dr. Thaddeus Kozinski
Great Music Amid the Great Books with Dr. Peter Kwasniewski
And Justice for All: Plato's Republic with Dr. Virginia Arbery
The Book of Wisdom and the Path of Life with Dr. Kent Lasnoski
Books, Reading, and Changed Lives with Fr. Robert Sirico
“The Heavens Declare the Glory of God”: Education in the Great Outdoors with Dr. Stanley Grove
Take Up and Read: St. Augustine's On Christian Doctrine with Dr. Kent Lasnoski
The Splendor of Imagination with Dr. Glenn Arbery
The Greeks, the Persians, and the Father of History with Dr. Virginia Arbery
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