How to Think Like Aquinas, Kevin Vost
How to Think Like Aquinas, Kevin Vost
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How to Think Like Aquinas
The Sure Way to Perfect Your Mental Powers

Author: Kevin Vost

Narrator: Tom Parks

Unabridged: 6 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/23/2024


Synopsis

In this book, you'll learn St. Thomas Aquinas's unique powers of intellect and will, and how he can train us to perfect them. The bestselling author of The One-Minute Aquinas offers here a fully guided 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

● How to spot twenty common logical fallacies

● And much more

About Kevin Vost

Kevin Vost, PsyD, is the author of twenty books, including Memorize the Faith! and How to Think Like Aquinas, and has taught psychology at Aquinas College in Nashville, Tennessee, the University of Illinois at Springfield, Lincoln Land Community College, and MacMurray College. He is a member of the Research Review Committee for American Mensa, which promotes the scientific study of human intelligence.


Reviews

I have been a fan of Dr. Kevin Vost's writings since first encountering them in 2006. That was the year he published his first Catholic book, since that time he has published 18 works, covering a wide range of topics. But one he comes back to often is memorization. And in this new book he uses the t......more

Goodreads review by Gary

If procuring your mental powers necessitates the construction of a series of mnemonic images, then this book is for you. In my case, it’s far too strenuous to devise elaborate mental images in order to recall the main points of Aquinas’s philosophy; I’ll just look them up in this handy book! The author......more

Goodreads review by Luke

This was a quarantine read for me and a good one too. My thoughts on the book are: 1. Vost opens with a letter attributed to Aquinas that he wrote on how to be a good student. Basically the analogy is that of a river and the delta. The best place to start is at the spring of the river, when the river......more

Goodreads review by Eduardo

Tome usted a una de las más poderosas mentes de la historia y fabrique un método que intente capacitar a las personas para acercarse a cómo razonaba Tomás de Aquino. El autor hizo eso precisamente. Escribió una especie de manual o instructivo que promete al lector mejorar su sistema de razonamiento.......more