Letters From a Young Catholic

My reflections as a Catholic young adult passionate about the Faith, seeking to grow in knowledge and understanding of God and discerning the will of the Lord in my life.

Saturday, April 22, 2006

Another one bites the dust.

And the count is now at 4 down. 2 to go.

The Philosophy of the Human Person exam went well. We watched half an hour of some superficial MTV show called "Laguna Beach" and then we got to write about how the different persons in the show were experiencing self-alienation and alienating themselves from one another, and how their passions were disordered and out of control when considered in light of Aristotelian-Thomistic philosophy of the human person.

The second question was on how Aristotelian-Thomistic philosophy responds to responds to various heresies, how it proves the immaterial/incorporeal reality of the human person, and how it provides evidence for the passive and active intellect. Then we were supposed to discuss how the philosophy of the human person impacts our understanding of our relationship with God. Ok, that last bit, that was just a huge question. What a loaded question. Basically, what does being a human person mean in your relationship with God. Ok, not the kind of question you can really mess up on. . . but it's hard to cut that one down.

Anyways, I'm going to go eat dinner, study some more, go visit Jesus, and sleep. That's my big exciting plan for the evening.