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This lecture was delivered for the Student Leadership Conference on 7/2/2021.

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About the Speaker:
Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P. is the Director of the Thomistic Institute at the Angelicum. He did his doctoral studies at Oxford University, and has research interests in metaphysics, Christology, Trinitarian theology, and the theology of grace. His books include The Incarnate Lord, A Thomistic Study in Christology (2015) and The Light of Christ: An Introduction to Catholicism (2017). He is co-editor of the academic journal Nova et Vetera and in 2011 was appointed an ordinary member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas. In 2019 Fr. White was named a McDonald Agape Foundation Distinguished Scholar.

What Is Christian Grace? Aquinas On Grace and Theological Virtues | Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P.

This talk was given on June 25, 2021 as part of the 10th Annual Aquinas Philosophy Workshop, "Knowledge, Truth, and Wisdom in Aquinas." The handout for the talk can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/phksp393

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About the Speaker:
Edward Feser is Professor of Philosophy at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California.  He has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and a Visiting Scholar at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio.  He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of California at Santa Barbara, an M.A. in religion from the Claremont Graduate School, and a B.A. in philosophy and religious studies from the California State University at Fullerton.

Called by National Review “one of the best contemporary writers on philosophy,” Feser is the author of On Nozick, Philosophy of Mind, Locke, The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism, Aquinas, Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction, Neo-Scholastic Essays, Five Proofs of the Existence of God, and Aristotle's Revenge, the co-author of By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed: A Catholic Defense of Capital Punishment, and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Hayek and Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics.  He is also the author of many academic articles.  His primary academic research interests are in metaphysics, natural theology, the philosophy of mind, and moral and political philosophy.

Feser also writes on politics and culture, from a conservative point of view; and on religion, from a traditional Roman Catholic perspective.  In this connection, his work has appeared in such publications as The American, The American Conservative, The American Mind, Catholic Herald, Catholic World Report, City Journal, The Claremont Review of Books, Crisis, First Things, Liberty, National Review, New Oxford Review, Public Discourse, Reason, TCS Daily, and the Times Literary Supplement.

He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and six children.

Truth as Transcendental: Ontological Foundations | Dr. Edward Feser

This lecture was delivered at the University of Arizona on September 14, 2021. The handout can be found at https://tinyurl.com/4tj4vebb.

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About the speaker:
Gregory T. Doolan received his B.A. in political theory from Georgetown University in 1993 and his Ph.D. in philosophy from The Catholic University of America in 2003. He taught philosophy at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. from 2004–05 and joined the faculty of the School of Philosophy at the Catholic University of America in 2005. Dr. Doolan’s research interest is in the area of Aquinas’s metaphysics; in recent years, his focus has been on Aquinas’s account of the Aristotelian categories of being. A native of Philadelphia, Dr. Doolan currently lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife and three children.

Why Should We Believe God Exists? | Prof. Gregory Doolan

This talk was given on June 26th, 2021 at the 10th Annual Aquinas Philosophy Workshop: Knowledge, Truth, and Wisdom in Aquinas. The handout can be found at https://tinyurl.com/yv5by7f5

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About the speaker:
Robert C. (“Rob”) Koons is a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has taught for 33 years. M. A. Oxford, Ph.D. UCLA. He is the author or co-author of four books, including: Realism Regained (Oxford University Press, 2000), and The Atlas of Reality: A Comprehensive Guide to Metaphysics, with Timothy H. Pickavance (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017). He is the co-editor (with George Bealer) of The Waning of Materialism (Oxford University Press, 2010), and co-editor (with Nicholas Teh and William Simpson) of Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science (Routledge, 2018). He has been working recently on an Aristotelian interpretation of quantum theory, on defending and articulating Thomism in contemporary terms, and on arguments for classical theism.

On the Union of the Knower with the Known | Prof. Robert Koons

This talk was given on September 20, 2021 at Vanderbilt University.

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About the speaker:
Sister Jane Dominic Laurel, O.P., is a member of the Saint Cecilia Congregation of Dominican Sisters of Nashville, TN. Currently, she teaches Theology at Aquinas College in Nashville and assists with the theological formation of the newest members of the religious congregation. She studied theology at the Angelicum (The Pontifical University of St. Thomas) in Rome, Italy.

What Can an Adulteress Teach Us about Happiness? | Sr. Jane Dominic Laurel, O.P.

Den senaste tiden har det svängt friskt i ett antal bolag. Några av dem är biotechbolaget Oncopeptides och casinounderleverantören Evolution. I avsnittet gästas jag av Lars Frick och Peter Hedlund från tidningen Börsveckan för att reda ut vad som hänt, vad man kan lära sig och sist men inte minst hur man ska tänka nu.

Delikat lyssning på dig,
Nicklas

Episod 234 - Vad kan vi lära oss av Oncopeptides och Evolution?

I detta avsnitt blickar jag tillbaka på börsåret som gått tillsammans med Pär Ståhl, fondskribent på Placera. Det finns en herrans massa spännande teman från året att prata om, hur vi själva har agerat och mycket mycket mer!

God Jul,
Nicklas och Pär

Episod 240 - Börsåret 2021 i backspegeln med Pär Ståhl

This lecture was given at West Virginia University on November 5, 2021.

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About the speaker: 
Joshua Hochschild is the Monsignor Robert R. Kline Professor of Philosophy at Mount St. Mary’s University, where he also served six years as the inaugural Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. His primary research is in medieval logic, metaphysics, and ethics, with broad interest in liberal education and the continuing relevance of the Catholic intellectual tradition. He is the author of The Semantics of Analogy: Rereading Cajetan’s De Nominum Analogia (2010), translator of Claude Panaccio’s Mental Language: From Plato to William of Ockham (2017), and co-author of A Mind at Peace: Reclaiming an Ordered Soul in the Age of Distraction (2017). His writing has appeared in First Things, Commonweal, Modern Age and the Wall Street Journal. For 2020-21 he’s been elected to serve as President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association.

How Is My iPhone Changing Me? Neuroscience and Thomistic Psychology | Prof. Joshua Hochschild

A collab with @chaonaut & @half-unusual 
More on this 527th weekly Disquiet Junto project – Magic Number (3 of 3) (The Assignment: Complete an asynchronous trio begun by two other musicians) – at: https://disquiet.com/0527/

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Project discussion takes place on llllllll.co: https://llllllll.co/t/disquiet-junto-project-0527-magic-number-3-of-3/

Chaonautical HalF TwisT (disquiet0527)

This lecture was given on January 28, 2022 at the Dominican House of Studies as part of "Thomas Aquinas on Prayer, An Intellectual Retreat."

The handout for this lecture can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/2p8k24zu.

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About the speaker:
Adam Eitel is on the Yale Divinity School faculty as Assistant Professor of Ethics. Dr. Eitel focuses his research and teaching on the history of Christian moral thought, contemporary social ethics and criticism, and modern religious thought. Dr. Eitel has roughly a dozen books, chapters, edited volumes, and articles published or in progress. These include an ethical analysis of drone strikes and a theological account of domination. His current book project explores the role of love in the moral theology of Thomas Aquinas. A 2004 Baylor University graduate and a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Fribourg, Dr. Eitel received his M.Div. and Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary, completing the latter in 2015.

"Go Down to Nazareth": The Contemplative Life and the Nature of Prayer | Prof. Adam Eitel

Thursday 6wot 17feb22

My submission to the Disquiet Junto Project 0530 with the assignment: "Make the thing you think is the minimum viable music".
I like the elements of my music to have some connection, so three notes to make a chord would have been nice, but only two notes to make a melody is even better. No edits, no fancy timbres (the sounds are sinewaves), no interesting rhythms, the clock even runs at the default speed of 120bpm. But still I recognise this as music. It even sounds like a good ending, because the notes play a cadence.

Major thanks to Saga Söderback for having come up with this project.

More on this 530th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Minimally Viable Music (The Assignment: How much less is just shy of too little? ) — at: https://disquiet.com/0530/

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Minimal [disquiet0530]

Minimal[disquiet0530]

[산업: 절대센터건축과 3경제(5)] 흑암시대와 빛의 경제(사60:1~9)

ประเทศไทยจมอยู่กับ ‘วังวนแห่งปัญหา’ และติดกับสถานะ ‘ประเทศรายได้ปานกลาง’ มานานเสียจนหลายคนอาจจะลืมไปแล้วว่า ครั้งหนึ่งเราเคยเป็นประเทศที่ได้รับการจับตามองจากทั่วโลก จนใครๆ ต่างพากันคาดการณ์ว่าเรากำลังขึ้นสู่สถานะ ‘เสือตัวที่ 5 แห่งเอเชีย’
 
ทศวรรษ 1990 ช่วงเวลาต่อเนื่องจากยุคโชติช่วงชัชวาล ที่เศรษฐกิจของประเทศไทยเติบโตสูงอย่างไม่เคยเป็นมาก่อน จนนำมาสู่การเปิดเสรีทางการเงินอย่างเต็มรูปแบบ เพื่อคว้าโอกาสในการก้าวสู่ความเป็นประเทศเศรษฐกิจก้าวหน้า
 
เพราะเหตุใดเราจึงไปไม่ถึงฝั่งฝัน อะไรคือปัจจัยที่ทำให้เศรษฐกิจไทยเกิดสะดุด พลิกผัน และถูกฉุดลงสู่หุบเหวในที่สุด  

ติดตามได้ใน 50 Years: The Making of the Modern Thai Economy EP. 4 พอดแคสต์ซีรีส์พิเศษจากกลุ่มธุรกิจการเงินเกียรตินาคินภัทร และ THE STANDARD ส่งต่อบทเรียนจากประวัติศาสตร์เศรษฐกิจของประเทศไทย เพื่อเปิดทางไปสู่โอกาสแห่งอนาคต

The Making of the Modern Thai Economy EP.4 วิกฤตต้มยำกุ้ง จากความเฟื่องฟูสู่หุบเหวทางเศรษฐกิจ

Ami Pandemi - TPC #249

This lecture was given during a conference on Thomas Aquinas and the Greek Fathers at Ave Maria University, that was held January 26-27, 2018, entitled: "What is Beauty? Is God Beautiful?" This event was hosted by the Aquinas Center and the Thomistic Institute.

What Is Beauty? Is God Beautiful? | Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP

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What Is Christian Grace? Aquinas On Grace and Theological Virtues | Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P.

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