11 May 2022

Being and Metaphysics

Lesson Four in Introduction to Thomistic Philosophy, with Fr Thomas Joseph White, OP, DPhil (Oxon), STL, Rector of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome.

The object of metaphysics is being itself. Everything that has being is in some way one and unified, true or intelligible, good and thus desirable, beautiful and therefore pleasing. At this point, when you’ve begun thinking why that might be the case, you’ve arrived; you’re doing metaphysics.

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