Fr. Gregory Pine

You know, so it's not, you don't actually plunge the roots of your soul into metaphysical soil.

You don't actually like nourish yourself on what is.

You're just whatever.

St.

Thomas says like, you can know and you can love.

Good question.

Short answer, I have no idea.

Long answer is I suspect it had something to do with the traumas that Europe passed through in the 16th and 17th centuries.

And you see that reflected in philosophical thought.

I'd like to introduce my friend Father Bonaventure into the conversation who teaches specifically 18th century pietist precursors to Kantian thought.

morning, noon, and night.

Yeah, when you said at the beginning, like a lot of people are asking, who is this Thomas Aquinas?

I thought to myself, how many people, you know, at least maybe four.

Yeah, I can't rule it out.

That's okay.

I'm in a cottage industry.

Well, when it comes to the things that I'm interested in, it's like St.

Thomas Aquinas and like Philadelphia sports.

I have a lot more, nevermind, keep going, Gregory.

But the basic idea is this, you know, so like Descartes, for instance, the beginning of the discourse on method is revolutionary.