Showing posts with label Knowledge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Knowledge. Show all posts
Thursday, April 19, 2018
Discussion on Thomistic Philosophical Anthropology
The
discussion of Thomistic Philosophical Anthropology at NC State University with
TIC President Fulvio Di Blasi and University of Notre Dame Professors Thérèse
and David Cory is now available on TIC YouTube channel!
Monday, April 2, 2018
Are We Really Free?
A very short class to explain how freedom depends on knowledge and virtue.
Click here to watch it!
Are We Really Free? Is a fourteen years old boy really free to choose to study medicine rather than law? In a way, he is. In another sense, if he does not know well the difference between the two types of study, as well as the professions to which law and medicine respectively give access it is difficult to define him as being truly free. Let’s change example. Who is free to choose to play Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Rhapsody in Blue by Gershwin or Honky Tonk Train Blues by Keith Emerson? We are all more or less free to put our hands on the keyboard of a piano and move them in some way. But what about playing those songs? The concept of freedom is too often taken for granted, as if freedom was something we already possess and not something to be achieved through commitment, study and virtue.
Are We Really Free? Is a fourteen years old boy really free to choose to study medicine rather than law? In a way, he is. In another sense, if he does not know well the difference between the two types of study, as well as the professions to which law and medicine respectively give access it is difficult to define him as being truly free. Let’s change example. Who is free to choose to play Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Rhapsody in Blue by Gershwin or Honky Tonk Train Blues by Keith Emerson? We are all more or less free to put our hands on the keyboard of a piano and move them in some way. But what about playing those songs? The concept of freedom is too often taken for granted, as if freedom was something we already possess and not something to be achieved through commitment, study and virtue.
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