Foundations of Christian Thought

This final episode describes the schools of thought that are prevalent during the 20th century and their influence on the times today. Emphasis is placed on the thinking of Hegel as well as the thinking of the schools of materialism and existentialism. Part 7 History of Philosophy Chapter 48 Contemporary Philosophy a. Overall view b. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) c. Marxism d. Other kinds of Materialism e. Existentialism

This episode describes how the modernist philosophic movement began as  a sequence of metaphysical errors and divisions which has deviated it from a Christian form of philosophical inquiry. Emphasis is laid on the immanentistic thinking of the humanists and the thinkers Rene Descartes and Immanuel Kant. Part 7 History of Philosophy Chapter 47 The history of modern philosophy a. The modernity movement b. Humanism c.  Modern philosophy and the church d. Rene Descartes (1596-1650) e. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)

This section describes the history of Christian philosophy and what makes it unique and Christian as a form of philosophical inquiry as well as what it has done for philosophy in the world. Emphasis is placed on the contribution of the great Christian thinkers Augustine and Thomas Aquinas. Part 7 History of Philosophy Chapter 46 This history of Christian philosophy a. There is a Christian philosophy b. The formation of Christian philosophy c. The contents of Christian Philosophy. d. St. Augustine (354-430) e. St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) f. Decadence after St. Thomas

This section begins with a discussion of the historical setting for which Christianity started forming from. It emphasizes the schools of thought from Greece, more specifically that of Plato and Aristotle. Part 7 History of Philosophy Chapter 45 The History of Ancient Philosophy a. The historical setting of Christianity b.  Plato (427-348 B.C.) c. Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) d. Neo-Platonism

This episode introduces the importance of philosophy on theological questioning and how this relation has changed through time.  Part 7 History of Philosophy Chapter 44 Introduction to the history of philosophy a. Philosophy as instrument of theology b. Overview of the history of philosophy

This episode discusses the nature of the enforcement of laws for the sake of the ordering of society and the attainment of the common good. It also discusses the nature of rights and duties for the individual.  Part 6 Ethics  Chapter 43 Rights and justice a. Nature of the juridical order: the juridical mind b. Rights and duties c. Private property

This episode discusses the achieving of the good of society in terms of authority and obedience. It describes the importance of government in the ordering of society as well as its limitations when it deviates from following the natural ordering of things Part 6 Ethics Chapter 42 Government, authority and laws a. Government and politics b. Authority and obedience c. Positive law

This episode describes the nature of family in light of the metaphysical understanding of man. It describes the importance of marriage and the family to society and the properties of marriage.  Part 6 Ethics Chapter 41 The Family a. The nature of marriage b. The common good of the family c. Fundamental properties of the family d. Marriage and celibacy

By making use of the metaphysical understanding of the common good for man this episode discusses the implications of this on society, the man who is a part of it. It talks of the structuring and ordering of society and the balance required for a society to flourish and the failings that arise when disorder or imbalance starts dividing society. Part 6 Ethics Chapter 40 Society and the common good a. Interrelations among men b. Friendship and the love of God c. What is society? d. History and culture e. Ordering of intermediate societies to civil society f. Ordering of the person to the common good of society g. Peace and war

This episode discusses mans willfull freedom to act as he wishes and the relation of morality to those actions. Therefore it raises the topic of sin, its effects and also virtue and their attainment. Part 6. Ethics Chapter 39 Moral acts a. Will and Freedom b. Goodness and malice of human acts c. Moral evil or sin d. Types of sins e. Effects of sin f. Virtues g. Types of virtues

This section discusses the relation of moral law and man. It discusses the natural and eternal laws and how they are observed and practiced and where the conscience of man relates to it.  Part 6. Ethics Chapter 38. Moral law and conscience a. Eternal law and moral law b. Characteristics of the natural law c. Knowledge of the natural law d. Content of the natural law e. Moral sanction f. Conscience g. Principles guiding conscience

Using the basis of ethics as laid out in the previous episodes this section begins by differentiating between the proper good and the common good and how they relate to mankind as well as individual persons as well as the obligation of men to look out for each other and the rest of reality. Part 6 Ethics Chapter 37 The common good a. Proper good and common good b. The common good of mankind c. Love and order d. The false philosophies e. Ordination of beings to the common good f. The common good shared in the order of the universe g. Ordination of each single substance to the common good h. Direct ordination of spiritual beings to the common good

This episode describes happiness as a beings attainment and possession of its last end, and the ways of understanding last end, both natural and supernatural.  P6 Ethics Chapter 35 The last end a. Existence of a last end b. Identification of the last end c. Natural last end and supernatural last end d. Possession of the last end: happiness 

This section describes goodness in practical metaphysical terms relating being to its end. It than discusses this good that each being ought to seek and the many aspects of evil which is a willful movement against the good.  Part 6 Chapter 35 Good and Evil a. The good b. Participated beings have a good end or purpose c. The final good moves beings d. Evil as privation e. Evil as deordination f. Evil and freedom g. Evil as such can neither move nor motivate h. Physical evil i. It is impossible for God to be the cause of evil

This episode discusses the basis of ethics through the metaphysical understanding of man in relation to his end. It also introduces the manner in which ethics will be described as well as good and evil, ethical science vs moral uprightness.  Part6 Ethics Chapter 34 Introduction a. Metaphysics b. Free Actions c. Ethics as part of metaphysics d. Ethical science and moral uprightness e. Order of this study

This episode discusses the implications of the metaphysical nature of man on all aspects of his life and interactions with himself, humanity, nature and God. It is followed by an appendix on Catholic doctrine about man Part 5 Metaphysics of Man Chapter 33 a. The social nature of man b. Natural sciences c. Man and history d. Human work e. The sanctification of work f. Participation in divine action Appendix: Catholic Doctrine About Man

This section describes man as an individual person with personality within the universe and the nature of man as universal and their relationship to eachother. Part 5 Metaphysics of man Chapter 32 The person and human nature a. Nature as individuated b. Person and personality c. The place of the person in the universe

This section discusses spirituality and the human soul from the foundations of metaphysics and the many implications for man and society. Part 5 Metaphysics of man Chapter 31 The human soul a. Spirituality of the human soul b. The soul as substantial form of  the body: no reincarnation c. The spiritual perfection of man d. Origin of the human soul e. Immortality of the human soul

This episode discusses the metaphysical nature of Freedom and the different types of freedom and that which touches itself on man as either good or evil. Part 5 Metaphysics of man Chapter 30 Freedom a. What is Freedom b. Inner freedom and exterior freedom c. Freedom of choice: determinism d. The root of the freedom of man e. Freedom and necessity f. Freedom and the good g. Free volition of evil

This section discusses the nature and object of the human will, emotions and goodness. It than relates all of these to human freedom and God as the last ends.  Part 5 Metaphysics of Man Chapter 29 The will a. Nature and object of the will. The emotions b. The good of man c. the will and the last end d. Natural inclination of the will as distinct e. Will and intelligence f. Causality of the act of the will g. The will and human behavior