Today’s debate didn’t go very far due to the typical Thomist penchant for avoiding answering objections by simply repeating the position. When we agreed on what Thomism teaches, I asked specific questions which resulted in further stating of the Thomist position. When I said the conversation was “bs” the opponent whined it was a personal […]
Orientation Why is eyewitness testimony been proven so fallible in courts? How do we account for emotional outbursts which, at their worst, cost us relationships? Why are we so inept at gauging probabilities? Why do we have to be taught methods for developing an unbiased sample in research projects? Supposedly, in the scientifically evolved West, […]
Courtenay Turner organized an amazing round table discussion with myself, Dr James Lindsay and Stephen Coughlin. We cover the history of Western dialectics, manipulation, Plato and Aristotle, Hegel and Marx and how the dialectic is used to control how the masses think and see reality. This is a powerful podcast with heavy hitters. “Recognized as […]
John Griffin If you ever thought of becoming a philosopher, now’s the time. In fact, now is the only and last chance you have. The philosophical adventure – many thousands of years old – is about to be shut down for good. In some idle moment you may have entertained the idea that philosophy is …
In late 6th century Athens (BCE), it was all the rage. Introduced by Thespis, “play-acting” quickly attained widespread popularity among Athenians who, like most people, were looking for diverting forms of entertainment to fill the evening hours. On one such evening the aged patriarch Solon, celebrated lawmaker and civic founder, was persuaded to attend a performance. His reaction?: […]
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Today we will do the icon stream on the philosophy and reality of symbols: type, prototype, archetype and the ultimate reference point for Orthodox philosophy. The symbolic world of correspondences in our worldview is much more than mere analogy, similitude or metaphor: For us the symbolic is directly grounded in the logical (logoi), and […]
Today we are having open forum with the discord voice room where you can challenge me, chat with me, debate me, or ask questions. We haven’t done this in a couple months and the response last week was good. Any topics or questions outside of the YT policies won’t be read. Superchat via Streamlabs. […]
Dr. Torstein Tollefsen joins me to cover his masterful work on the Christocentric Cosmology of St Maximos and the Logoi doctrine. We discuss the advanced issues St. Maximos covers in his metaphysics, the concept of the Porphyrian tree, the relationship of Neoplatonism to St. Maximos, universals and particulars, recapitulation, the logoi of being and […]
Join me as Dr. Josh Rasmussen and I discuss and compare classical theistic arguments, presuppositional and transcendental arguments, epistemology, and apologetics in general. In this long anticipated discussion, these two apologists will compare and contrast two paradigms and whether the evidentialist framework actually does what it intends to do logically. Indeed, many people come to […]
Impromptu chat – Jimbob asked me to hop on his IG livestream as he fields questions from his audience on monism, dualism, pantheism, deism and Aristotle, the peripatetic axiom, basic empiricism and modern new atheists, David hume and Ayn Rand, natural law and Mark Passio, and much more!
