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The Wisdom That Directs Reason, by Joseph R. Wood – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Joseph R. Wood, The Catholic Thing, October 17, 2025

Joseph Wood is Collegiate Assistant Professor in the School of Philosophy of The Catholic University of America. He is a pilgrim philosopher and easily accessible hermit.

 

In His discourse at the Last Supper, Christ teaches the Apostles about three related themes: knowing and seeing God, loving God, and being one with God. He holds out these three as different aspects of a single phenomenon.

Christ tells the group, “Where I go you know, and the way you know.” Thomas insists they don’t know where Christ is going. Christ assures him, “If you had known me, you would have known my Father. And henceforth you do know him, and you have seen him.”

Seeing and knowing are linked. What it is to know, the field of epistemology, is one of the most vexing areas of philosophical investigation. …

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