Does Moral Knowledge Require God?: An Introduction To Thomistic Epistemology | Prof. Tomás Bogardus

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🗓️ 9 February 2022

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Prof. Bogardus' slides can be viewed here: https://tinyurl.com/dc329b72 This lecture was given on November 30, 2021 at the University of Texas at Austin. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Tomás Bogardus is associate professor of philosophy at Pepperdine University. He was born in Long Beach, California, and earned his BS in biology at UC San Diego, his MA in philosophy at Biola University, and his PhD in philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He works mainly in metaphysics and epistemology, and is most interested in the mind-body problem and the rationality of religious belief.

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0:00.0	This talk is brought to you by the Thomistic Institute.
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0:10.9	Okay, so the title for my talk this evening is, does moral knowledge require God?
0:16.2	We're going to try to offer a temistic perspective.
0:20.0	Analytic philosophers are notoriously bad at building any kind of suspense.
0:23.6	I'll just tell you, I think the answer is yes.
0:26.6	That's the answer.
0:27.6	So I'll try to explain why I think that's the answer.
0:30.6	So I'm going to do three things this evening.
0:34.6	The first thing I'm going to do, although I specialize in contemporary
0:38.2	analytic philosophy, especially epistemology, I'm going to do my best impression of a
0:44.3	specialist in Aquinas this evening, and my best impression of somebody who's competent at
0:49.7	pronouncing ecclesiastical Latin. So I'm going to first offer a little summary and some things that Aquinas said about
0:58.1	ponizio and notitia.
1:02.3	I think that was great.
1:03.9	All right.
1:04.8	So we're going to do that.
1:05.6	Thank you.
1:06.8	I think that Aquinas makes a really interesting observation and offers an interesting distinction.
1:11.6	And what I'm going to suggest is this distinction that Aquinas offers points in a certain direction,
1:19.6	namely a contemporary view about what knowledge is.
1:22.6	So I'm going to try to connect up some things that Aquinas said about knowledge with things that
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