00:00Is everything subject to fate?
00:02For Saint Thomas Aquinas, the answer is no.
00:05But first we need to understand what he calls destiny here.
00:08It is not some mysterious force that decides everything,
00:10That's more or less the natural order of things in the world.
00:12that is, the way in which events go through different causes to happen.
00:16Consequently, everything that happens through this chain of events
00:20fits well into what he calls destiny.
00:22For example, an encounter, a natural event, a series of circumstances.
00:27All of this can be part of this world order.
00:30But Saint Thomas adds an important limitation.
00:32Some things come directly from God, without going through any intermediate stages.
00:37For example, the creation of the world,
00:39or certain spiritual realities that depend directly on him.
00:43These things, therefore, do not fall under the category of destiny in the sense in which he uses the term here.
00:47In other words, the more something depends on the causes of the world,
00:51the more she is subject to fate.
00:52And the more directly it depends on God, the less it falls into this order.
00:57Therefore, for Saint Thomas, destiny does not concern everything in the same way.
01:01It touches on the order of the created world, but not what God does directly.
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