Dr. J. Budziszewski

And so I think what could...

What could a bunch of casual sex with a prostitute mean for that?

I mean, I won't say that there's never been temptation or mistakes of various kinds, but my gosh, I've been saved from an awful lot of catastrophe.

You know, Thomas Aquinas even has a term for that.

There's connatural knowledge.

The connatural knowledge of another person, for example, it isn't that you learn by observing on the outside, or it isn't propositional knowledge.

You learn that person by becoming like that person.

And he says it's like this in our relationship with our God, too.

Because in this life, we aren't beholding the face of God.

We aren't beholding with the eye of the mind God in his own being yet.

but in a sense we know him because he is making us more like him well anyway so advice connatural knowledge can also mean you learn things by a a a young guy that i know uh was in a seminar on thomas aquinas and we were talking about connatural knowledge and he says i know what you mean he says he says i've just had kids and there are all kinds of things that i understand now that i didn't understand before about fatherhood and about children

But I would have thought that I knew them before, but I didn't.

Or I would have thought, gee, that could be true, and that's very abstract.

But now it is obvious.

It is obvious.

And...

I mean, that's all amazing stuff.

So I'm telling you to tell me things I'll think I understand, but don't.

Yeah, okay.

Do that.