“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.
Chaplaincy and Spiritual Life at Wyoming Catholic with Msgr. Daniel Seiker
Pursuing Poetic Knowledge with Dr. Jim Tonkowich
The Constitution, Philosophy, and Pope John Paul II with Judge Leon Holmes
The Founding of Rome and the Question of Honor with Dr. Pavlos Papadopoulos
The Wrath of Achilles: Reading Homer's Iliad with Dr. Glenn Arbery
Lecture: "Beauty is Truth: How Poetry Enriches Science" by Dr. Tiffany Schubert
Lecture: "Beauty is Truth: Shattering the Medieval Vision" by Dr. Jim Tonkowich
Lecture: "Beauty is Truth: C. S. Lewis and the Medieval Vision" by Dr. Tiffany Schubert
Liberal Arts for Everyone (Part 2) with Dr. Kent Lasnoski
The Liberal Arts for Everyone (Part 1) with Dr. John Mortensen
"Learning in War-Time" and in Every Other Time with Dr. Jason Baxter
Ptolemy and the Shape of the Universe with Dr. Henry Zepeda
Through the Gate of Lodore with COR Missionary Bob Milligan
Pericles and the Golden Age of Athens with Dr. Pavlos Papadopoulos
Believing in Beauty by Dr. James Tonkowich
The Medieval Experience of Beauty with Dr. Jason Baxter
The Liturgical Music of the Christian East with Prof. Christopher Hodkinson
“Better is One Day in Your Courts”: Rethinking Sunday with Dr. Kent Lasnosk
Wyoming Catholic College's Class of 2020 by Dr. Glenn Arbery
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