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!
We often hear the same objections to TAG based on similar mistakes. A year ago I did a specific stream presenting TAG and why it holds up against TANG found here. I covered the supposed transcendental argument for the non-existence of God, but we saw this was based on a fallacious understanding of theological voluntarism. Today we will cover more common and simpler objections to TAG which are usually based on misunderstandings, fallacies and basic blunders.
As is the case with discord the sound is not always reliable. We did the best we could but this “debate” was more of a debacle. Enjoy!
Today I will be taking Dr. Feser’s Five Proofs book and analyzing the pros and cons. I will start with the chapter “Augustinian Proofs” since it comes the closest to the transcendental argument for God, as well as looking at other works about the inadequacy of bare monotheism, St Basil Vs Aristotle’s “great architect of the universe god” and thus no natural theology in the Thomistic sense, as well as some rejoinders to these problems from St. Maximos, as well as Q n A and super chats. The full lecture is for paid subs to JaysAnalysis.
[T]he hard but just rule [of science] is that if the ideas didn’t work, you must throw them away.
— Carl Sagan1
A recent “debate” on one of the largest discord servers. Atheists are now arguing that informal fallacies are valid arguments, so feel free to now use nothing but ad hominems, since informal fallacies are valid arguments. “What is the justification for knowledge, ethics, and metaphysics in your worldview.”
Atheist Reply: the single mocule dimension isn’t a contradiction.
This hilarious low IQ reply wasn’t a coherent counter example, argument or justification.
Catechism class part 1 from Met. Jonah. Met. Jonah covers the basics of repentance and metanoia, the healing of the nous in Orthodox soteriology and our rejection of this world and the devil. This is part 1 of a series steamed to our discord.
Snek joins me to discuss the nature of iconoclasm and its gnostic roots. Man, made in the image and likeness of God, is a little icon of the Triad, say St. Maximos and St. Gregory Palamas. Iconography is thus a natural outworking of the incarnational principle. The sanctification of matter is part and parcel of the Word becoming flesh. Live at 5PM CST
Author Donald Davis joins me to discuss his book on worldview warfare. Davis has investigated multiple layers and levels of reality to construct a metaphysics of worldview warfare. We will see here, at a meta level, the interconnectedness of spiritual warfare, the demonic, psychological operations, religious engineering, history, music and more, all collide to initiate the modern masses into a new paradigm. Donald’s book can be purchased here. Live at 8PM CST
Made by JimB0b joins me to discuss big philosophy questions in relation to debate, logic, life, meaning and the arts. We will be covering atheistic materialism and its assumptions, Neoplatonism and its insights, how math relates to metaphysics, the question of the one and the many – what it is and how it relates to ontology and more! Live at 9Pm CST
