How to Think Like Aquinas: The Sure Way to Perfect Your Mental Powers

by Kevin Vost

Overview

In these pages, you'll learn St. Thomas Aquinas's unique powers of intellect and will, and how he can train us to perfect them. Best-selling author of The One-Minutea Aquinas offers here a fully guided, illustrated tutorial of exercises to perfect your intellectual powers of memory, understanding, logical reasoning, shrewdness, foresight, circumspection, practical wisdom, and so much more that lead to happier and holier lives. You'll also learn:

• The connections between thinking, happiness, and holiness
• How to perfect intellectual powers you may not know you possess
• Why a failure to understand human nature impairs our ability to understand anything
• The three fundamental acts of practical wisdom
• The eight parts of prudence every Catholic should keep in stock
• How training our memories can make us deeper thinkers
• How critical thinking alone is insufficient for reaching the truth
• Why Catholics should cherish reason as well as faith #&8212 and know how to use it!
• How to spot twenty common logical fallacies

How thinking like Aquinas can inoculate you from twenty damaging isms and worldviews wreaking havoc in our world today.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940161788547
Publisher:	Sophia Institute Press
Publication date:	08/08/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Kevin Vost holds a Doctor of Psychology in Clinical Psychology (Psy.D.) degree from the Adler School of Professional Psychology in Chicago. He has taught at Aquinas College in Nashville, the University of Illinois at Springfield, Mac-Murray College, and Lincoln Land Community College. Dr. Vost drinks great drafts of coffee while studying timeless, Thomistic tomes in the company of his wife, two sons, and their two dogs in Springfield, Illinois.