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Foundations of Christian Thought — 296 episodes
Contemporary Philosophy
The History of Modern Philosophy
The History of Christian Philosophy
The History of Ancient Philosophy
Introduction to the History of Philosophy
Rights and Justice
Government, Authority and Laws
The Family
Society and the Common Good
Moral Acts
Moral Law and Conscience
The Common Good
The Last End
Good and Evil
Introduction to Ethics
Man in the World
The Person and Human Nature
The Human Soul
Freedom
The Will
Judgement
Simple Apprehension
Intelligence
Introduction to the Metaphysics of Man
Divine Operation
God is Ipsum Esse Subsistens
Ways of Demonstrating the Existence of God
God Is
Concluding Review of Metaphysics
Transcendental Properties of Being
Being and causality
The Activity of Created Being
The Act of Being and the Essence
The Essence
Potency and Act
Substance and Accidents
The Starting Point of the Metaphysical Road
General Introduction to Metaphysics
The History of Philosophy
The Method of Metaphysics
Other Aspects of Christian Philosophy and their Theological Relevance
Metaphysics of First Philosophy
The Nature of Philosophy
Disposition of the Christian toward Philosophy
Development of Philosophy in Christianity
The Philosophical Exercise of Reason as Instrument of Theology
Theology as a Science
Theological Training
Preface
P7Ch48e Existentialism
P7Ch48d Other Kinds of Materialism
P7Ch48c Marxism
P7Ch48b Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
P7Ch48a Overall View
P7Ch47e Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
P7Ch47d René Descartes (1596-1650)
P7Ch47c Modern Philosophy and the Church
P7Ch47b Humanism
P7Ch47a The Modernity Movement
P7Ch46f Decadence after St. Thomas
P7Ch46e St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
P7Ch46d St. Augustine (354-430)
P7Ch46c The Contents of Christian Philosophy
P7Ch46b The Formation of Christian Philosophy
P7Ch46a There is a Christian Philosophy
P7Ch45d Neo-Platonism
P7Ch45c Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
P7Ch45b Plato (427-348 B.C.)
P7Ch45a The Historical Setting of Christianity
P7Ch44b Overview of the History of Philosophy
P7Ch44a Philosophy as Instrument of Theology
P6Ch43c Private Property
P6Ch43b Rights and Duties
P6Ch43a Nature of the Juridical Order: The Juridical Mind
P6Ch42c Positive Law
P6Ch42b Authority and Obedience
P6Ch42a Government and Politics
P6Ch41d Marriage and Celibacy
P6Ch41c Fundamental Properties of Marriage
P6Ch41b The Common Good of Family
P6Ch41a The Nature of Marriage
P6Ch40g Peace and War
P6Ch40f Ordering of the Person to the Common Good of Society
P6Ch40e Ordering of Intermediate Societies to Civil Society
P6Ch40d History and Culture
P6Ch40c What is Society?
P6Ch40b Friendship and the Love of God
P6Ch40a Interrelations among Men
P6Ch39g Types of Virtues
P6Ch39f Virtues
P6Ch39e Effects of Sin
P6Ch39d Types of Sins
P6Ch39c Moral Evil or Sin
P6Ch39b Goodness and Malice of the Human Acts
P6Ch39a Will and Freedom
P6Ch38g Principles guiding Conscience
P6Ch38f Conscience
P6Ch38e Moral Sanction
P6Ch38d Content of the Natural Law
P6Ch38c Knowledge of the Natural Law
P6Ch38b Characteristics of the Natural Law
P6Ch38a Eternal Law and Moral Law
P6Ch37h. Direct Ordination of Spiritual Beings to the Common Good
P6Ch37g Ordination of Each Single Substance to the Common Good
P6Ch37f The Common Good shared in the Order of the Universe
P6Ch37e Ordination of Beings to the Common Good
P6Ch37d The False Philosophies
P6Ch37c Love with Order
P6Ch37b The Common Good of Mankind
P6Ch37a Proper Good and Common Good
P6Ch36d Possession of the Last End: Happiness
P6Ch36c Natural Last End and Supernatural Last End
P6Ch36b Identification of the Last End
P6Ch36a Existence of a Last End
P6Ch35i It is Impossible for God to Be the Cause of Evil
P6Ch35h Physical Evil
P6Ch35g Evil as such can neither Move nor Motivate
P6Ch35f Evil and Freedom
P6Ch35e Evil as Deordination
P6Ch35d Evil as Privation
P6Ch35c The Final Good moves Beings
P6Ch35b Participated Beings have a Good End or Purpose
P6Ch35a The Good
P6Ch34e Order of this Study
P6Ch34d Ethical Science and Moral Uprightness
P6Ch34c Ethics as Part of Metaphysics
P6Ch34b Free Actions
P6Ch34a Metaphysics of the End and of the Moral Order
Appendix for Part 5: Catholic Doctrine About Man
P5Ch33f Participation in Divine Action
P5Ch33e The Sanctification of Work
P5Ch33d Human Work
P5Ch33c Man and History
P5Ch33b Natural Societies
P5Ch33a The Social Nature of Man
P5Ch32c The Place of the Person in the Universe
P5Ch32b Person and Personality
P5Ch32a Nature is individuated
P5Ch31e Immortality of the Human Soul
P5Ch31d Origin of the Human Soul
P5Ch31c The Spiritual Perfection of Man
P5Ch31b The Soul as Substantial Form of the Body: No Reincarnation
P5Ch31a Spirituality of the Human Soul
P5Ch30g Free Volition of Evil
P5Ch30f Freedom and the Good
P5Ch30e Freedom and Necessity
P5Ch30d The Root of the Freedom of Man
P5Ch30c Freedom of Choice: Determinism
P5Ch30b Inner Freedom and Exterior Freedom
P5Ch30a What is Freedom
P5Ch29g The Will and Human Behavior
P5Ch29f Causality of the Act of the Will
P5Ch29e Will and Intelligence
P5Ch29d Natural Inclination of the Will as Distinct from Actual Choice
P5Ch29c The Will and the Last End
P5Ch29b The Good of Man
P5Ch29a Nature and Object of the Will. The Emotions
P5Ch28f Conclusion: Knowledge as Enrichment of Being
P5Ch28e Self-knowledge, Consciousness and Reflection
P5Ch28d Discursive Process of Reasoning
P5Ch28c Certainty and Belief
P5Ch28b Judgment and Truth
P5Ch28a The Operation of Judging
P5Ch27f Knowledge of the Singular
P5Ch27e Characteristics of Human Concepts
P5Ch27d The Act of Understanding
P5Ch27c Impression of the Intelligible Form on the Intellect
P5Ch27b Abstraction: From the Sensible to the Intelligible
P5Ch27a Understanding Begins in the Senses
P5Ch26c Process of Understanding
P5Ch26b Nature and Object of the Intelligence
P5Ch26a Overview
P5Ch25f Human Activity
P5Ch25e Man as Spiritual and Corporeal Creature
P5Ch25d Order and Method of Study
P5Ch25c Spirit and Matter: Social Sciences and Physical Sciences
P5Ch25b Object of the Metaphysics of Man
P5Ch25a Recapitulation: Metaphysics as Comprehensive Knowledge
P4Ch24g Divine Freedom and Providence
P4Ch24f God's Presence Everywhere
P4Ch24e God as Creator
P4Ch24d Divine Omnipotence
P4Ch24c Divine Will: God is Love
P4Ch24b Divine Knowledge
P4Ch24a God is Personal
P4Ch23f Immensity, Immutability, Eternity
P4Ch23e How God Should be Loved
P4Ch23d The Supreme Goodness of God
P4Ch23c The Transcendence of God
P4Ch23b The Simplicity of God
P4Ch23a The Essence of God
P4Ch22f The Fifth Way: Order and Intelligence
P4Ch22e The Fourth Way: Perfection (A summary of Metaphysics)
P4Ch22d The Third Way: Generation and Corruption
P4Ch22c The Second Way: Activity
P4Ch22b The First Way: Motion
P4Ch22a Elucidation of Terms
P4Ch21j The Principle of Immanence
P4Ch21i The Problem of Atheism
P4Ch21h Limits of the Human Knowledge of God
P4Ch21g Importance of the Natural Demonstration of God's Existence
P4Ch21f Agnosticism is Unreasonable
P4Ch21e Reason not the only Factor in our Knowledge of God
P4Ch21d Reason is led to God
P4Ch21c Philosophy cannot Ignore God
P4Ch21b Natural Theology as Highest Achievement of Metaphysics
P4Ch21a Man can Know God: Natural and Supernatural Knowledge
P3Ch20b Natural and Supernatural Wisdom
P3Ch20a The Analogy of Being and Our Knowledge of God
P3Ch19h The Beauty of Being
P3Ch19g Evil as the Absence of Good
P3Ch19f The Common Good: Law and Justice
P3Ch19e The Goodness of Being
P3Ch19d The Truth of Being
P3Ch19c The Unity of Being
P3Ch19b Metaphysical Discovery of the Transcendentals
P3Ch19a Predicamental Classification of Essences and Transcendental Vision of Being
P3Ch18h Importance of the Principle of Causality
P3Ch18g Direction to End; Freedom and Love: The Order of the Universe
P3Ch18f The Final Cause: Cause of All Causes
P3Ch18e The Instrumental Cause
P3Ch18d Efficient Cause: Creation and Causality
P3Ch18c Material Cause and Formal Cause: Theological Relevance
P3Ch18b Origin of the Concept of Cause: The Four Causes
P3Ch18a Elucidation of Terms
P3Ch17e Transient and Immanent Actions
P3Ch17d Activity as the Perfection of Being: Idleness and Work
P3Ch17c Beings Act According to Their Nature
P3Ch17b Application to the Value of Human Life
P3Ch17a "Esse" and Nature as Principles of Activity
P3Ch16e Individual and Person
P3Ch16d Subsistent Subject and Person: Activity follows Being
P3Ch16c The Participation of Being as the Basis of the Analogy of Being
P3Ch16b Predicamental and Transcendental Participation
P3Ch16a Ultimate Structure of the Finite Subsistent
P3Ch15c The Principle of Individuation
P3Ch15b Essence and Form
P3Ch15a Elucidation of Terms: Essence, Nature, Concept, Definition
P3Ch14c Other Metaphysical Insights of Potency and Act
P3Ch14b Motion as Passage from Potency to Act
P3Ch14a Simplicity of these Concepts, gathered from the Experience of Change
P3Ch13f Particular Importance of Relation
P3Ch13e The "Inesse" of the Accidents
P3Ch13d Substance and Accidents are related in Three Ways
P3Ch13c Accidents: Secondary Manners of Being
P3Ch13b The Notion of Being applies primarily to Substance
P3Ch13a The Evidence of Change and the Truth about Being
P3Ch12c Metaphysical Progress
P3Ch12b The Starting Point of Metaphysics
P3Ch12a Being: To Be, Essence, Existence
P3Ch11e Importance of Metaphysics for Theology
P3Ch11d The Principle of Non-contradiction
P3Ch11c Being is Analogical
P3Ch11b The Object of Metaphysics
P3Ch11a Metaphysics: The Science of Being as Being
P2Ch10b Cultural Relativism
P2Ch10a Metaphysics and Truth
P2Ch9e Intelligence and Imagination
P2Ch9d Intellectual and Sensible Certainty
P2Ch9c Intelligence and Senses
P2Ch9b Science as the search for the Universal and Necessary
P2Ch9a Philosophy begins with Wonder
P2Ch8d Metaphysics and Logic
P2Ch8c Theological Relevance of the Metaphysics of Nature
P2Ch8b Particular Sciences are in need of Metaphysics
P2Ch8a Metaphysics of Man and Sciences of Man
P2Ch7f Metaphysics and Theology
P2Ch7e The Properties of Being
P2Ch7d God as the Universal Cause of Being: Essence and the Act of Being
P2Ch7c Matter and Form
P2Ch7b Substance and Accidents, Potentiality and Actuality
P2Ch7a The Science of Being as Being
P2Ch6e Philosophy and the other Sciences
P2Ch6d Wisdom as Science
P2Ch6c A wise Man orders everything in relation to God
P2Ch6b Wisdom as Knowledge of Ultimate Causes
P2Ch6a History and Etymology of the term Philosophy
P2Ch5d The help of Faith not against the use of the Intelligence
P2Ch5c Christian Philosophy as a Common Cultural Heritage
P2Ch5b Philosophy and the Truths of the Natural Order
P2Ch5a God and the Natural Truths of Religion
P2Ch4c Continuity of Christian Philosophy
P2Ch4b The Original Synthesis of St. Thomas Aquinas
P2Ch4a Beginning of Theology in Christianity
P1Ch3c Historical origin of Theology: Christian Philosophy
P1Ch3b Continuity of all knowledge
P1Ch3a Spontaneous Knowledge and Philosophical Knowledge
P1Ch2c The Believer uses Reason in Theology
P1Ch2b The Source of Theological Knowledge: Divine Revelation
P1Ch2a The Object of Theology
P1Ch1d Content of Theological Study
P1Ch1c A Special Reason
P1Ch1b Reasons for this Study
P1Ch1a The need for Doctrinal Formation: a Consequence of our Divine Vocation
Foreword
Epilogue