Let's Go Walk and Listen!

by Luigi Giussani00:00:21 The Itinerary of Conviction00:07:29 a) The Discovery of an Incomparable Man00:17:17 b) Power and Goodness00:23:34 A Question Arises, A Certainty Breaks Forth00:31:19 A Case of Moral Certainty

by Luigi Giussani00:00:54 The Fact as Criterion00:15:32 Concerning the Method00:26:55 The Starting Point

by Luigi Giussani00:05:21 A Radical Overturning of the Religious Method00:08:38 No Longer Just an Hypothesis00:13:19 A Problem that Must be Solved00:19:06 A Problem of Fact

by Luigi Giussani00:02:26 Some Examples00:24:17 Facing an Unimaginable Claim

by Luigi Giussani00:06:50 Some Attitudes of Religious Constructiveness00:25:56 A Spectrum of Hypotheses

by Luigi Giussani.00:00:00 Preface00:02:19 Introduction00:12:29 The Dizzying Human Condition00:23:42 Reason in Search of a Solution

From the American Humanist Association: Good without a Godhttps://americanhumanist.org/what-is-humanism/manifesto3/

Homo Abyssus: The Drama of the Question of Being by Ferdinand Ulrich. Translated by D.C. SchindlerLEXICONPlease note: The meaning of fundamental philosophical terms can never be adequately given in a simple definition, in abstraction from all context. The following exposition of terms is meant principally as a heuristic device, both to indicate the original German terms behind the English translations, and more generally to offer the reader initial help with the text, in which the terms and phrases will take on a richer sense and receive the proper qualifications. A = Aabsolute system (das absolute System)analogia proportionalitatis and analogia attributionis anthropological reduction (die anthropologische Reduktion)ad-vent (die Zu-kunft)anti-space and anti-time (Wider-raum und Wider-zeit)the “beginning” (der “Anfang”)being present (ontologische Gegen-wart)bonicity (die Bontät)cleared/spaced (geräumt)clinging-to-itself (an-sich-halten)contradiction (der Widerspruch)convertibility of being and “nothing” (die selbige Verwendung von Sein un “Nichts”)crisis of being (die Krisis des Seins)depotentiation (die Depotenzierung)distress (of the contradiction) (die Not)ensentitativeEr-eignisesseessential past (das Ge-wesen)essentiell (essentiell)exinanitio (or kenosis) (die Exinanitio)extro-version/intro-version (exitus/reditus) (Aus-kehr/Ein-kehr)facticity (die Faktizität)foregrasp (out into being) (der Vorgriff)freedom open all the way to the ground (Freiheit-zum-Grunde)“fullness of time” (die “Fülle der Zeit)generate/temporalize (zeitigen)Geschick (or the “self-sending” of being)gift/task of being (die Auf-Gabe)guiding pattern (die “Richte”)hypostasization (die Hypostasierung)ideal vacillation (ideale Schwebe)ideality (Idealität)indifferentiating (die Indifferenzierung)intellectus agens and intellectus possibilisintellectus capax entis (die “seinsvernehmende” Vernunft)in via (unterwegs)listening obedience (die Hörigkeit)the “little way” (der “kleine Weg”)judgment of existence/primal division of being (Seinsurteil, Ur-Teil des Seins)logicized spirit (der logisierte Geist)luminous night (Licht-Nacht)metaphysics as reenactment (die “Metaphysik in der Wiederholung”)motusmovement into subsistence (Subsistenzbewegung)movement into finitization (Verendlichungsbewegung)necessary sense of being (der notwendige Seins-sinn)need-relieving/neccesary (das “Not-wendige”)ontological difference (die ontologische Differenz)ontological moments (die Seinsmomente)ontological spatiotemporality (ontologische Raumzeitlichkeit)onto-theo-logy (die Onto-theo-logie)participation per compositionemparticipation per similitudinempneumatic reason (pneumatische Vernunft)posited or positing (gesetzt or die Setzung)positivity (die Postitivität)possibiliapotency-for-concrete-existence (Daseinsmöglichkeit)pseudo-subsistence (pseudo-Subsistenz)quantitas dimensivaratio/intellecuts (Verstand/Vernunft)reality (Realität)reflection or reflexivity (die Reflexion)res“sameness” (“Selbigkeit”)self-necessitation (sich-vernötigen)simplex apprehensiospeculation (die Spekulation)sublation (Aufhebung)subsistence (Subsistenz)substantiellsuperessentiality (die Überwesenhaftigkeit)temptation (die Versuchung)theologoumenonthing-of-the-past (das Ge-wesen)totum potestativumtransnihilation (Durchnichtung)uncaused character (Nichtverursachtsein)vacillation of being (or ontological vacillation) (Seinsschwebe)

Homo Abyssus: The Drama of the Question of Being by Ferdinand Ulrich. Translated by D.C. SchindlerCh. 7 - Ontological Spatiotemporality1. Ontological Spatiotemporality and the Movement into Subsistence - 00:00:002. A Consideration of Physical Temporality: Some of the Aberrations That Occur in the Unfolding of Time and Ontological Spatiotemporality - 00:15:123. Ontological Spatiotemporality and the Concrete Substance - 00:24:194. Ontological Spatiotemporality and the Reception of Being - 00:30:485. Ontological Spatiotemporality and the "Fullness of Time" - 00:38:04

by Francesco BellucciPublished in The Review of Metaphysics (March 2025): 467-490The Thesis:A complete sign is a proposition. (major premise)The definition of "sign" is actually a definition of "complete sign." (minor premise)Hence, the definition of "sign" is actually a definition of the proposition.I. - 00:00:00II. - 00:10:40III. - 00:35:46IV. - 00:45:27V. - 00:58:34

by Sean Foley and Jonathan ButtaciPublished in The Review of Metaphysics (March 2025): 403-443Criterion 1. The receptive intellect must play a constitutive role in the human activity of contemplation.Criterion 2. If the agent intellect is a human intellectual principle, it must play a role in the human activity of contemplation that reflects its divine character.I - The Divinity of the Agent IntellectII - Criteria for Interpretive Adequacy 00:08:00III - A Justification for Applying Criterion 2 Ex Hypothesi 00:21:11IV - Assimilationist Proposals 00:24:02V - Dispositionalist Proposals 00:39:45VI - Initiationist Proposals 00:46:26VII - Abstractionist Proposals 00:50:12VIII - Preliminary Conclusions 01:12:05

by Apolonio and Siobhan LatarCommunio 51 (Winter 2024). © 2024 by Communio: International Catholic Review" [I]t is precisely in his courageous, fruitful will not to grasp, his refusal to claim for his own what is not given, that the deepest truth, beauty, and goodness of man's nature is displayed most radiantly."1. Introduction2. Giussani on Virginity 00:04:283. Tolkien and the Virginity of Subcreation 00:28:064. Conclusion 00:56:56

Excerpt from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallacepgs. 692-6981996

Can We Create Ourselves?“Humanist and Christian Theologies of the Body”By Benedict M. Ashley, O.P.1985Part IV Chs. 12-14: A Process Theology of the BodyChapter 12: The Spiritual Bodyi: Glorious Wounds1) The Dead Body of Christ2) Why Did He Die?3) Meritii: The Immortal Body (00:51:34)1) Life After Death?2) The Body Transformed3) Guesswork4) The Intermediate State5) The Self-CondemnedChapter 13: The Glorified Body (03:23:56)i: The God Revealed in Jesus1) Father, Son, and Spirit2) Does the Christian God Exist?ii: Persons Without Bodies (04:17:50)1) Do Angels Exist?2) Encountering the Angelsiii: The Eucharistic, Transformed World (05:07:39)1) Eucharistic Transformation2) The Trinity Centered Universe3) The Transformed WorldChapter 14: The Godliness of Matter (06:31:32)i: How Matter Mirrors Godii: The Human Body: God’s Image (06:42:03)iii: The Body is God’s Glory (06:45:05)

Can We Create Ourselves?“Humanist and Christian Theologies of the Body”By Benedict M. Ashley, O.P.1985Part IV Chs. 10-11: A Process Theology of the BodyChapter 10: Ethics of Co-Creative Stewardshipi: Ecologyii: Food (00:30:31)1) The Stewardship of Food and Drink2)The Christian Ideal of Povertyiii: Security (00:52:28)1) Stewardship and Aggression2) The Christian Ideal of Martyrdom and Non-Violenceiv: Sexuality and Sociality (01:10:19)1) Evolutionary and Other Meanings of Sexuality2) The Future of Sex3) A Creative Ethics of Sexualityv: Information, Society, Creativity (02:12:08)1) Communication2) Governmentvi: Ethics and History (02:44:21)Chapter 11: God’s Fullness in Bodily Form (Col. 2:9) (03:19:10)i: The Son of God1) Christology from Below, from Above, from Without, from Within2) The Annunciation of the Virginal Conception3) Baptism, Temptation, Transfiguration, Sacrifice4) The Historical Authenticity of these Experiencesii: The Body of Christ (04:48:41)1) True Man2) The Christian Church as the Body of Christ3) Ministryiii: The Mother of God (06:37:02)1) The Mother of Jesus2) True God

Can We Create Ourselves?“Humanist and Christian Theologies of the Body”By Benedict M. Ashley, O.P.1985Part III: A Radical Process Interpretation of ScienceChapter 7: Primary Units in Processi: The Meaning of the Evolutionary Process1) The Variety of Evolutionary Processes2) Evolution and Causalityii: False Clues (00:26:12)1) Reductionism2) Process Philosophies3) Clearing Away the Nonsenseiii: Primary Unites (01:00:28)1) Empirical Being2) The Natural Unit3) Units in Process4) Kinds of ProcessChapter 8: Process and Creativity (02:22:10)i: Natural Processes1) Categories and Causes2) Too Many Categories?ii: Transcendent Process: Body and Mind (02:59:26)1) Interiority and Transcendence2) Human Creativity3) The Mind-Body Problem4) Bodily Beauty5) A Radical Process PhilosophyChapter 9: Historicity and the Human Body (04:39:54)i: Two Conceptions of Human Historicity1) Humanism and Historicity2) Christianity and Historicityii: Cultural Relativism (05:19:38)1) Nature, Nurture and History as a Science2) Morality and Cultural Relativismiii: The Bible, Human Historicity and Ethics (06:23:20)1) Adam and Biblical Anthropology2) Natural Law and Christology

Can We Create Ourselves? “Humanist and Christian Theologies of the Body” By Benedict M. Ashley, O.P. 1985 Part II: Christian Theologies of the Body Chapter 4: The Platonic Christian Theology i: Biblical Themes 1) The Body is a Tomb 2) Bible and Body 3) Liberation and Resurrection Theme 4) Creation or Image Theme 5) Sin-Death-Cross Theme 6) Wisdom Theme 7) Stewardship Theme 8) Fertility Theme 9) Suffering Servant Theme 00:32:10 ii: Eastern Platonic Christian Theology 1) From the Jewish to Greek World-View 2) Anthropology of Origen and the Cappadocians 3) Anthropology of the Pseudo-Dionysius and St. Maximus 01:20:08 iii: Western Platonic Christian Theology 1) The Anthropology of St. Augustine 2) Medieval Theology Before the Rise of the Universities 02:00:27 Chapter 5: The Aristotelian Christian Theology i: The Aristotelian Alternative 1) Aristotle in the Eastern Church 2) Aristotle in the Latin Universities 3) The Survival of Platonic Dualism 02:49:56 ii: Nominalism and the Shift from Nature to Law 1) Nominalism and Voluntarism 2) From Nature to Law 03:05:47 iii: Renaissance and the Platonic Idealization of the Body 1) The Ideal Body 2) The Mathematization of Natural Science 03:35:34 iv: The Body and the Sacraments 1) The Reformation Subordination of Sacrament to Word 2) The Counter-Reformation Reduction of Sacrament to Law 3) The Desacralized Body 04:32:03 Chapter 6: Christian Theology Confronted by Humanism i: The Cartesian Transition 1) The Phenomenal Body 2) The Cartesian Christian Theology 05:02:38 ii: Christian Reaction to the Rise of Humanism 1) The Rise of Empiricism 2) The Experiment with Idealism 05:36:36 iii: Compromises 1) Protestant Approachement 2) Catholic Approachement 05:57:59 iv: The Dialogue with Scientistic or Positivistic Humanism 1) The Thomistic Revival 2) Recent Renewals 3) The Lessons of History

Can We Create Ourselves? “Humanist and Christian Theologies of the Body” By Benedict M. Ashley, O.P. 1985 Part I: Science, the Body and the Humanist Theology Chapter 1: Can We Create Ourselves? i: We Are Bodies ii: Can We Create Ourselves? - 6:05 iii: The Body and Ethics - 14:19 iv: A Hermeneutical Method - 17:19 1) The Interpretative Dilemma 2) An Expanding Horizon Chapter 2: What Does Science Say We Are? - 38:22 i: We are Thinking Bodies 1) The Scientific Vision 2) We are Communicators 3) We are Self-Aware ii: Our Bodies Serve Our Brains - 47:59 1) We are Brains 2) We are Homeostatic Systems 3) We are Genetic Codes iii: We are Matter-Energy - 1:17:49 1) We are Matter 2) We are Energy iv: We Have Evolved and Will Perish in the Cosmic Epoch - 1:39:02 1) We Have a Cosmic History 2) We are Upstream Swimmers v: A Scientific Definition of the Human Person - 1:57:45 Chapter 3: Humanist Theologies of the Body (1700-2000) - 2:01:03 i: The World-View of Humanism 1) The Humanist Interpretation of Science 2) Contemporary Humanism and the Human Body 3) What Separated Humanism from Christianity? ii: The Empiricist Development of the Humanist World-View - 2:36:50 1) The Newtonian World-View and Deism 2) Darwin and the Evolutionary View of Nature 3) Einstein and the Relativistic World-View iii: The Idealist Critique of the Empiricist Interpretation of Humanism - 3:01:29 1) The Kantian Epistemological Revolution 2) Idealism and Historicity 3) Humanism, Phenomenology, and Hermeneutic Philosophy 4) The Human Body in Art and Literature iv: Resolution of the Inner Contradictions of Humanism - 3:55:33 1) The Marxist Critique 2) Process Philosophy as a Revision of Humanism 3) The Strength of Humanism v: Conclusion of Part I - 4:16:51

The Heart: An Analysis of Human and Divine Affectivity by Dietrich von Hildebrand A Doctoral Dissertation. https://archive.org/details/heartanalysisofh0000vonh Part 3: The Human Heart Transformed Ch. 1 - The Heart of the True Christian Ch. 2 - Amare in Deo - 20:40 Appendix: Introduction to the 1965/77 Edition of The Heart Dietrich von Hildebrand - 47:00

The Heart: An Analysis of Human and Divine Affectivity by Dietrich von Hildebrand A Doctoral Dissertation. https://archive.org/details/heartanalysisofh0000vonh Part 2: The Heart of Jesus Ch. 1 - The Affectivity of the God-Man Ch. 2 - The Mystery of the Sacred Heart - 1:11:26 Ch. 8 - The Heart as the Real Self - 3:31:54