Philosophy Episodes

Jan. 7, 2025

Analogy and the Semantics of Simplicity: Learning from the Limits of …

This lecture was given on May 31st, 2024, at Mount Saint Mary College as part of the Annual Aquinas Workshop titled: "St. Thomas Aquinas on Divine Simplicity."

Episode page
Jan. 6, 2025

Is Belief in God Rational? | Prof. Joseph Trabbic

This lecture was given on November 15th, 2024, at University of Georgia.

Episode page
Jan. 3, 2025

What is Beauty? Aquinas and Contemporary Culture | Prof. Thomas Hibbs

This lecture was given on September 12th, 2024, at University of Pittsburgh.

Episode page
Jan. 2, 2025

Why Do You Desire to KNOW? Human Nature & Philosophy w/ Fr. Gregory P…

Why do human beings desire knowledge? Why should YOU care about philosophy? Join Fr. Gregory Pine and Prof. Therese Cory as they talk about the role of wonder in philosophy.

Episode page
Jan. 1, 2025

Truth, Goodness, and Fantasy Literature | Fr. Philip-Neri Reese, O.P.

This lecture was given on November 2nd, 2024, at Thomistic Institute in Limerick.

Episode page
Dec. 31, 2024

Aquinas on Art and Contemporary Film | Prof.Thomas Hibbs

This lecture was given on October 22nd, 2024, at University of North Texas.

Episode page
Dec. 30, 2024

Good, Simple, and Eternal: What Philosophy Can Tell Us About God | Pr…

This lecture was given on March 14th, 2024, at Fordham University.

Episode page
Dec. 27, 2024

Scotus on Why Christ's Assumed Human Nature Is Not a Person | Prof. M…

This lecture was given on February 24th, 2024, at The Dominican House of Studies as a part of a conference titled: "Majesty and Lowliness: On the Hypostatic Union of Divine & Human Natures in Christ."

Episode page
Dec. 26, 2024

What is "Meaning" and Why Should I Care Whether My Life Has it? | Fr.…

This lecture was given on April 20th, 2024, at St. Albert's Priory as a part of an intellectual retreat titled, "Happiness and the Meaning of Life."

Episode page
Dec. 20, 2024

What Makes a Person Good? | Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.

This lecture was given on September 23rd, 2024, at University of Edinburgh.

Episode page
Dec. 19, 2024

What is Knowledge? | Prof. Tomas Bogardus

This lecture was given on April 26th, 2024, at University of California, Berkeley.

Episode page
Dec. 2, 2024

Saint Thomas and the Acquired Virtues | Prof. Candace Vogler

Professor Candace Vogler examines Thomas Aquinas' approach to virtue by highlighting Thomas' development of the Aristotelian notion of virtue, and explaining the role of the acquired and infused cardinal virtues in correcting human flaws.

Episode page
Nov. 29, 2024

Friendships and Social Life - Thomistic Insights | Prof. Thomas Hibbs…

Professor Thomas Hibbs and Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau discuss the importance of friendship and social life from a Thomistic perspective, highlighting the decline in friendships in modern society with philosophical insights from Aristotle and Aquinas.

Episode page
Nov. 12, 2024

Natural Inclinations, the Passions, and Human Acts | Fr. Kevin Flanne…

This lecture was given on September 6th, 2024, at The Dominican House of Studies as part of a Thomistic Circles conference titled: Disentangling the Emotions: St. Thomas on Moral Taxonomy and Integration.

Episode page
Nov. 6, 2024

Judging Truth: Moral Intolerance or the Dictatorship of Relativism | …

This lecture was given on November 8th, 2023, at Ave Maria University.

Episode page