Skepticism of Kant & Nietzsche VS Realism of Thomas Aquinas by Fr. Thomas Joseph White OP

Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P., offers a penetrating examination of one of modern philosophy’s central tensions: the skeptical turn of Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Nietzsche versus the robust realism of Thomas Aquinas. In this lecture, White traces how Kant’s epistemological limits and Nietzsche’s radical critique of truth reshaped the modern intellectual landscape, challenging confidence in metaphysical knowledge and objective meaning. Against this backdrop, he presents Aquinas’s realist metaphysics as a compelling alternative—one that grounds knowledge, morality, and being itself in the intelligibility of reality and the participation of the human mind in divine truth. With clarity and depth, White invites participants to consider whether the Thomistic vision can answer the crises of modern skepticism and recover a unified understanding of truth, reason, and existence. For more LNS events: Facebook:   / lnsociety   Instagram:   / leuven.newman.society   Website: http://newmanleuven.be/.