Understanding the Renaissance

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In the Classical Liberal Arts Academy, we need to understand real classical Catholic culture (Aristotle, Aquinas) and distinguish it from ancient pagan culture and modern culture. The fake classical education movement doesn’t understand this distinction and is restoring a culture that is neither truly classical nor Catholic. This video by Dr. Adam Walker (Harvard) helps to identify the sources of the Renaissance, which led from classical Catholic culture to modern secular culture. WCM

The Latin Language and Its History

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In this lesson you will learn where the Latin language came from, who used it, and why it is still studied today. Latin began as the speech of one small people. In the middle of Italy there is a plain called Latium, and the people who lived there were called the Latins. Their language was therefore called Latin. On that plain, beside the river Tiber, the city of Rome was built. Rome was at first only one town among the towns of Latium, and its language was the ordinary language of its neighbours. Rome grew. It mastered the rest of … Continue

Can We Prove that God Exists?

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As we must speak with unbelievers in modern secular society, we must know whether the existence of God can be proven and what the arguments are by which this can be done. In the video below, a Dominican friar provides a brief explanation of the subject. Below the video the original teaching of the Dominican saint, Thomas Aquinas, can be read in full. Whether God exists? by St. Thomas AquinasSumma Theologica, Part I, Question 2, Article 3 The existence of God can be proved in five ways. The first and more manifest way is the argument from motion. It is … Continue

Understanding Apostolic Succession (Dominican)

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Christ’s saving mission continues to our day through chosen disciples, the Church’s clergy. Today’s bishops are the Apostles’ direct successors, and these bishops pass the fullness of holy orders to other men through ordination. In this Aquinas 101 video, Fr. Dominic Langevin, O.P., explains the role of apostolic succession within the sacrament of holy orders.

Arithmetic, the Science of Number

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Return to MAT-251 Modern Arithmetic III MAT-251 Lesson 001 – Arithmetic, the Science of Number Welcome to Modern Arithmetic III, the third and final course in your study of Arithmetic. If you have completed the earlier courses, you already know how to count and write numbers of any size, how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide, how to work with fractions and decimals, with measures, percentage, and proportion. You have learned the whole of Arithmetic once, and then a second time more deeply. Why, then, should you study it a third time? The answer is the key to this entire … Continue

Eucild’s Elements – Book I, Proposition 02

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Return to QRV-321 Classical Geometry I In this lesson, we will study Euclid, Book I, Proposition 2. I. ENUNCIATION The proposition we are now to contemplate is stated by Euclid in these words: “To place at a given point (as an extremity) a straight line equal to a given straight line.” Read the words slowly. We are given two things: a point somewhere, and a straight line somewhere else. We are required to produce a straight line which has the given point for one of its ends, and which is equal to the given straight line. The parenthesis, “as an … Continue

Eucild’s Elements – Book I, Common Notions or Axioms

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Return to QRV-321 Classical Geometry I QRV-321 Lesson 003 – Book I, Common Notions I. INTRODUCTION This lesson studies the five Common Notions placed at the head of Book I of Euclid’s Elements of Geometry. Every science is built out of two kinds of statements: those that are proved, and those from which the proofs are made. The statements that are proved are called propositions, theorems and problems. The statements from which proofs are made are called principles. A science cannot prove everything, because every proof must start from something already granted; if nothing were granted, nothing could ever be … Continue

Eucild’s Elements – Book I, Postulates

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Return to QRV-321 Classical Geometry I QRV-321 Lesson 002 – Euclid Elements, Book I, Postulates I. INTRODUCTION This lesson studies the five postulates set down at the beginning of the first book of Euclid’s Elements. Geometry is the science of continuous magnitude — of lines, angles, surfaces and solids considered according to their measure, shape and position. Like every science, geometry proves its conclusions. But nothing can be proved out of nothing. Every proof rests on something already granted. The postulates are among the things granted at the beginning of geometry, before any proposition is proved, so that everything afterward … Continue