“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.
Hobbes, Locke, Political Philosophy and the American Founding with Dr. Pavlos Papadopoulos
Medieval Manuscripts and the Movement of the Heavens with Dr. Henry Zapeda
Comedy, Tragedy, Satire, and "The Frogs" with Dr. Tiffany Schubert and Dr. Kent Lasnoski
Christ, the Incarnation, and the Scriptures with Prof. Travis Dziad
Reading Democritus Today with Dr. Michael Bolin
Making a Good Beginning with Dr. Glenn Arbery
The Challenge of the Sermon on the Mount with Dr. Jeremy Holmes
Courtly Love, Knightly Friendship, and the Once and Future King with Dr. Tiffany Schubert
Friendship: A Philosophical Perspective by Dr. Pavlos Papadopoulos
Friendship in an Age of Romance by Dr. Tiffany Schubert
"Unexpected Friendship: The Murderer and the Harlot" by Dr. Virginia Arbery
Loving Friends by Loving God: St. Thomas Aquinas on Friendship by Dr. Jeremy Holmes
Friendship and Politics by Dr. Virginia Arbery
"Friendship between Women: Jane and Elizabeth Bennet" by Dr. Tiffany Schubert
Friendship Between Men in The Iliad and in Moby Dick by Dr. Glenn Arbery
"Friendship in the Bible: The Story of David and Jonathan" by Dr. James Tonkowich
Vacation, Leisure, and Philosophy with Dr. Michael Bolin
"Is It Okay to Hate Math?" with Dr. Scott Olsson
Eastern Church, Western Church with Fr. David Anderson
"Yet": Wyoming Catholic College from Vision to Reality with Bishop David Ricken
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