The Specific Passions (Aquinas 101)

[@ThomisticInstitute]

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[@renecordero1242]

It is incredible how St. Thomas' mind is so far above my mind. I see myself as a brain midget, even if I have a MS in Engineering and a Ph.D. in the social sciences, when I listen to some of these videos.

[@ThomisticInstitute]

Keep plugging! You're doing great! Also, for working into this video, it helps to watch: 1) Powers of the Soul: A First Look, 2) Powers of the Soul: A Closer Look, and 3) The Passions in General.

[@jayzlvillafanianebre546]

I was brought up in the Augustinian Tradition. But I guess, the Holy Spirit wants me to have a relationship with Thomas Aquinas. After all, he was the saint on the day of my birth in the Old Calendar. Thank you, my dear Angelic Doctor for guiding me all these years. And for gathering these lovely men to continue leading us to God through the tradition of Father Dominic.

[@SUZMIC1]

Thank you Father for the explanation! I will listen again to get it right in my mind. Thank you for teaching so clearly!

[@ThomisticInstitute]

Delighted to hear!

[@PInk77W1]

The three degrees of intimacy • to know • to see • to touch

[@josephzammit8483]

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[@amielaberilla1299]

Thank you Fr. Gregory

[@TT-tx5ng]

I shared this with my 16 y.o. son. Hope it'll bring some awareness to him about habits.

[@MartySarmaidoff]

Because it matters what you think.

[@ThomisticInstitute]

Amen.

[@kristindreko3194]

Thank you for this video! May our Lord Jesus Christ bless you!

[@scottcowen4071]

Did he say bats? Praise be to God that so many educated Catholics are sharing what I have never known. Thank you and this cast for all the wisdom you provide. God bless you and the Virgin protect you

[@LisaFitzhugh315]

I think Fr said “ bath”.

[@ThomisticInstitute]

@@LisaFitzhugh315 Bath indeed!

[@adventureinallthings]

really interesting

[@fojedaquintana]

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[@ThomisticInstitute]

Woot!

[@bradwalton3977]

He looks like he knows what he's talking about.

[@bobpolo2964]

Seemed like a platonic explanation without foundation. I haven't read the Summa yet, i just ordered a copy.

[@fojedaquintana]

It's anything but platonic in my opinion. Search the meaning of what he says in your own experience. Anyway, this video is an excellent introduction to what's to come: virtues

[@bobpolo2964]

@@fojedaquintana Search for the meaning in my own experience? What does that mean?

[@fojedaquintana]

@@bobpolo2964 think of anything you've ever desired or hoped for, for example. Wasn't you attracted to it as to something good? The same with the rest of the passions. The classification of them also makes sense to me

[@bobpolo2964]

@@fojedaquintana Sure, it's still a platonic explanation. What is the good? According to this video, it's something abstract out there. Where do these desires come from? Were they given to us by a Creator who has ordered our beings to Himself? I don't know. This video doesn't tell me. I'm asked to fill in my own meaning. Very dangerous

[@fojedaquintana]

@@bobpolo2964 alright then. I think you're asking too much for a 10 minutes video, which are actually a collection. The question about teleology is answered in another one. The participation concept is taken by Aquinas from Plato and the Augustinian tradition, and is very important in Catholic theology

[@carlpeterson8182]

interesting. Question is what if you love something that is not good? Is it still love? I know these are not virtues here but i am confused. Can love be a negative passion if you love the wrong thing? If I do not love my ultimate good first (God) then is my love wrong? So the passion of love can be good or bad. but then what about sorrow? Can it be good or bad also? I think hatred can. WE can hate sin that is good. Does this make sense?

[@john-maryknight2012]

The passions are concerned with apparent goods and evils. One loves evil if one judges it to be good and hates good if it is judged to be evil. This is a state of disorder that results from or inclines to vice.

[@bradwalton3977]

amor est causa odii.

[@alvideor]

A Catholic critique of Orthodox theology (or any other non-intellectual approach) comes out here: you can't love what you don't know. If God isn't known in some way, then love of him is impossible. The retort might be that knowledge in fact corrupts love by mediating it, and true love is an immediate relation without the intermediary of intellect.

[@drummerlovesbookworm9738]

What if a person just doesn’t experience ‘love?’

[@josephezekielsegismar]

He is a robot. if you love doing a simple thing, like you love cleaning in your room as it satisfies you...

[@lalabito]

Please speak yo dejar friar

[@lalabito]

Thank you for the explanation but please speak up dear friar

[@fragwagon]

Baths....but not bourbon? lol

[@jamesfee1966]

He had the excuse that the Good of Bourbon was not yet known in his time

[@ThomisticInstitute]

@@jamesfee1966 He had yet to create the great State of Kentucky as part of the ongoing revelation of his Chosen People.