“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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The Age of Gnosticism: Transgenderism, Transhumanism, and Human Identity in the Digital Age with Miss Abigail O’Brien
Augustine’s Confessions with Dr. Daniel Shields
Wyoming Catholic College and Technology with Dr. Kent Lasnoski
Pro-Life After Dobbs 2: The Arguments for Abortion Rights with Dr. Michael Bolin
Pro-Life After Dobbs 1: Humanae Vitae with Dr. Jeremy Holmes
Jesus Baptism and Ours with Prof. Kyle Washut
”Nativity” by John Donne with Dr. Glenn Arbery
Christmas Poems with Izzy Ecoff, Gregory Bowman, Catherine Stancliffe, Elizabeth Shepherd, and Jonathan Alllen
Caesar, Virgil, and The Aeneid with Dr. Pavlos Papadopoulos
The Doctrine of the Immaculate Conception with Dr. Kent Lasnoski
”Fathers and Sons” with Dr. Tiffany Schubert
How and How Not to Be Happy with Dr. J. Budziszewski
The Truth About Sparta with Dr. Stephen Hodkinson
”Markmaker” with Mary Jessica Woods
Lumen Gentium and All Saints’ Day with Prof. Kyle Washut
The Exodus and the American Imagination with Dr. Virginia Arbery
The Book of Exodus with Dr. Kent Lasnoski
The Philosophical Side of Theology: St. Thomas’s Compendium with Dr. Jeremy Holmes
Plutarch, Politics, and the Gracchi Brothers with Dr. Tiffany Schubert
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