How to Think Like a Thomist: Argument and Dialectic

Everyday, we wrestle with differing opinions and truth claims. Are we left to despair that we cannot find a way through these conflicting claims? The calling of St. Thomas Aquinas was to pose all the most relevant questions, face all the most relevant difficulties involved in each question, and draw all the relevant distinctions. In this video, you’ll learn about a certain method of inquiry used by Aristotle and how Aquinas used this method in the composition of his Summa.

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