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

- Part 2/2 lectures on Aristotle's study of reasoning and the syllogism - This part considers the derivation of the valid categorical assertoric syllogisms --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thomas-aquinas/support

- 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 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thomas-aquinas/support

- 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 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thomas-aquinas/support

- 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" --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thomas-aquinas/support

- 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 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thomas-aquinas/support

- 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 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thomas-aquinas/support

- 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? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thomas-aquinas/support

- 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? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thomas-aquinas/support

- 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? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thomas-aquinas/support

- 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? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thomas-aquinas/support

- 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? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thomas-aquinas/support

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? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thomas-aquinas/support

- 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? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thomas-aquinas/support

- 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? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thomas-aquinas/support