How to Think Like a Thomist: Universals and Particulars, Genus and Species

“Each stage of cognitive development is grounded in the previous stage and the structure of the world itself helps us to ascend from the Cave of Ignorance. It is only because the world offers a course along which man’s inquiries can run that his desire to know has any hope of being satisfied.” – Jonathan Lear, “Aristotle: The Desire to Understand”

In this video, you will learn more of the philosophical and theological jargon that St. Thomas Aquinas uses throughout his corpus (his body of work): universal, particular, genus, and species.

This Aquinas 101 video is a production of the Thomistic Institute. Check out supplemental readings and podcasts here.

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