Fathers & Doctors: A Podcast for Sacred Scripture, Tradition, and Philosophy: Recent Episodes

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• Part 2/2 lectures on Aristotle's study of reasoning and the syllogism

• This part considers the derivation of the valid categorical assertoric syllogisms

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• Part 1/2 lectures on Aristotle's study of reasoning and the syllogism

• This part concerns the syllogism in general, modal qualifiers, and conversion rules

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• This is an introductory lecture on the nature of science (scientia) and the division of the sciences and arts according to St. Thomas

• This also discusses the various kinds of intellectual habits—good, bad, and neutral

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• Part 3/3 of lectures on Aristotle's study of "enunciations" (propositions / declarative sentences)

• This part looks at the division of enunciations according to truth, which gives us the famous "Square of Opposition"

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• Part 2/3 of lectures on Aristotle's study of "enunciations" (i.e., propositions / declarative sentences)

• This part concerns the division of enunciations by their unity, their quality, and their quantity

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• Part 1/3 of lectures on Aristotle's study of "enunciations" (i.e., propositions / declarative sentences)

• This first part concerns the semantic triangle between names, things, and concepts

• It also looks at the general division of significant vocal sound into simple and composite parts

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• Part 3/3 of lectures on Aquinas's "On Principles of Nature" (De Principiis Naturae)

• This lecture brings in not only De Principiis, c. 6, but also Aquinas's outside teachings on analogy (e.g., In I Ethicorum, l. 7; ST I, q. 1)

• What is the difference between analogy, equivocity, and univocity?

• What are the different kinds of analogy according to St. Thomas?

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• Part 2/3 of lectures on Aquinas's "On the Principles of Nature"

• What are the four Aristotelian causes: matter, form, end, and agent?

• What are the different kinds of necessity and priority?

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• Part 1/3 of lectures on Aquinas's "On the Principles of Nature"

• What are matter, form, and privation?

• What are generation and corruption? What are the different kinds of generation and corruption?

• What is prime matter? What is secondary matter?

• What is a substantial form, and how does it differ from an accidental form?

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• Part 3/3 of lectures on Aquinas's On Being and Essence (De Ente et Essentia)

• What are accidents? How do accidents differ from substantial forms?

• What are the different kinds of accidents?—properties, inseparable accidents, separable accidents, etc.

• What are the different ways in which accidents can be defined and how does this relate to the ten categories?

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• Part 2/3 of lecture on Aquinas's On Being and Essence (De Ente et Essentia)

• What is God? What are angels? How does the human soul differ from the essence of an angel?

• How is essence found in different ways in God, in created spirits, in material things?

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A lecture explaining Aquinas's Summa theologiae I, q. 2, a. 3: five arguments for the existence of God, his answer to the Problem of Evil, and his answer to the God-of-the-Gaps objection. Does the existence of evil disprove the existence of God? Do Darwinian evolution and free-market economics undermine Aquinas's arguments for the existence of God?

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• What are the most general names or categories?

• What's the difference between equivocation (equivocity) and univocation (univocity)?

• Did St. Thomas Aquinas answer Immanuel Kant's objection to Aristotle's list of categories over 500 years before Kant?

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• What are the different senses of "being"?

• What is an "essence"?

• What are material beings? matter? form? hylemorphic composites?

• How do we know material beings?

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