This is an important message for Catholic parents regarding raising kids in our secular culture. Taken from a talk delivered to the Archdiocese of Newark’s Men’s Conference 2017.
This course covers the following topics (and more):
- Why Philosophy is Important
- Why Aquinas’ Philosophy Is Commonsensical And Based On Evidence
- A Quick Note On Aquinas’ Spirituality
- Aquinas On The Distinction Between Philosophy and Theology
- Why Divine Revelation Is Needed In Addition To Philosophy
- Important Things That Reason Can Tell Us About The World
- Why This Philosophical Doctrine “Matters”
- What things are REALLY made out of
- How to understand Aquinas’ famous “five proofs” for the existence of God
- Why the human mind can know things apart from modern scientific methods
- WHAT THOMAS AQUINAS THINKS ABOUT THE NATURE OF GOD
- The Problem Of How We Can Even Talk About God And How To Solve It
- Why All Of God’s Attributes Are Really United As One
- WHAT ST. THOMAS AQUINAS THINKS ABOUT CREATION
- What Does It Mean To Create “Out Of Nothing”?
- Why Only God Can Create
- How Did God Create The World?
- Why Did God Create The World At All?
- Why Did God Create This Particular World?
- Why Did God Create A World With Evil In It?
- The Mystery Of Evil
- What Does The Statement “God Can Do Anything” Mean?
- Can God Make a rock so big that He cannot lift it?
- WHAT DOES ST. THOMAS AQUINAS THINKS ABOUT THE SOUL?
- What Is The Soul?
- Why The Soul Cannot Be A Body
- Why Humans are Body-Soul Composites
- WILL THE SOUL DIE?
- ST. THOMAS AQUINAS ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL?
- Is The Soul Immortal And How Do We Know?
- WHAT DOES ST. THOMAS AQUINAS THINK ABOUT FREE WILL?
- What Is The Will?
- How Free Will Is Possible
- The Important Difference Between Real And Apparent Goods
- WHAT CAN WE KNOW AND HOW DO WE KNOW IT? ST. THOMAS AQUINAS ON HUMAN KNOWLEDGE
- Why the question of knowledge is an important one
- How We Can Have Metaphysical Knowledge
- WHAT IS RIGHT AND WRONG?
- ST. THOMAS AQUINAS’ MORAL THEORY (and why our modern society is very confused about these questions)
- Why life has a purpose and what that purpose is.
- Why No Created Things Can Completely Satisfy Us
- Why Only God Can Give Us Perfect Satisfaction
- What Good And Bad Actions Really Are
- The Importance Of Moral Virtue
- How To Understand The Natural Law What Does The Natural Law Teach?
- How Aquinas’ Philosophical Ethics Are Perfected By Theology
- WHAT ST. THOMAS AQUINAS SAYS ABOUT POLITICS
- Why Government Has A Natural Origin:
- Why Government Is Willed By God
- What Are The Proper Roles Of The Church And State?
- Why The State Does Not Have Supreme Authority
- How Unjust Laws Exist
- What Is The Best Form Of Government?
