Space: The Final Frontier

Recorded in August 2023, Colin hosts this special live episode with the return of Onsi Kamel and our most featured guest, Colin's brother Justin.

Colin, Onsi, and Justin discuss a paper Onsi delivered at the Bay Area Thomas Aquinas Society conference on a Thomistic view of "place". Albert the Great, Thomas' mentor, saw close links between metaphysics and his view of place physics - a physics which we now know is outdated. What did he believe about place? Does it hold up today with modern science? Can we salvage anything from medieval views of place and metaphysics?

Timestamps
00:00:00-00:11:35 - theology and science; Thomistic physics and metaphysics; place
00:11:43-00:23:51 - Albert the Great on place; place and form; what the sun does
00:24:02-end four elements; is space relative or absolute?; why space matters

Texts Discussed
De Natura Loci by Albert the Great

Music
Intro and Outro:
Midnight Stroll by Ghostrifter bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc
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Free Download: hypeddit.com/track/2gic0s

Link Music:
New Road by Ghostrifter bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc
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