Alan Watts
c/alan-watts
The largest collection of talks by Alan Watts — the British-American philosopher who made Eastern wisdom accessible through witty and profound teachings.
c/alan-watts
The largest collection of talks by Alan Watts — the British-American philosopher who made Eastern wisdom accessible through witty and profound teachings.
…god created the material world. So the material world is real but a lower kind of reality than spiritual reality. St Thomas Aquinas would define the material world as having contingent being as distinct from necessary being. Necessary being is being that is…
…What is the point of being kind to one's neighbor and of raising the state of life of the naked and the hungry? St Thomas Aquinas was very frank about this. In one of his writings he says that all civil law, all moral agencies and all moral acts…
…So you see if you want to be in some kind of an in group, you must put everybody else beyond the pale. St Thomas Aquinas gave the show away, actually because he said that the blessed in heaven will often walk to the battlements and look down and…
…the name of st Paul's Athenian convert. He was a Syrian Monk living in the 6th century. Both meister Eckhart, St Thomas Aquinas, John Scotus Origina and many other Great Medieval Theologians studied Dionysus the Areopagite. He wrote a book called the…