Browsing the "aristotle" Tag

September 14, 2023 - 0 Comments

Today’s debate didn’t go very far due to the typical Thomist penchant for avoiding answering objections by simply repeating the position. When we agreed on what Thomism teaches, I asked...

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December 8, 2022 - 0 Comments

Courtenay Turner organized an amazing round table discussion with myself, Dr James Lindsay and Stephen Coughlin. We cover the history of Western dialectics, manipulation, Plato and Aristotle, Hegel and Marx...

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February 8, 2022 - 0 Comments

 In this stream I am joined by Jay Dyer to discuss the problem of circularity as it relates to foundationalism, worldviews, and why it is so important concerning Christian...

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April 23, 2021 - 0 Comments

 Today we will do the icon stream on the philosophy and reality of symbols: type, prototype, archetype and the ultimate reference point for Orthodox philosophy.  The symbolic world of...

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December 9, 2020 - 1 Comments

Today we are having open forum with the discord voice room where you can challenge me, chat with me, debate me, or ask questions.  We haven’t done this in a...

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November 12, 2020 - 0 Comments

 Dr. Torstein Tollefsen joins me to cover his masterful work on the Christocentric Cosmology of St Maximos and the Logoi doctrine.  We discuss the advanced issues St. Maximos covers...

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October 22, 2020 - 0 Comments

Join me as Dr. Josh Rasmussen and I discuss and compare classical theistic arguments, presuppositional and transcendental arguments, epistemology, and apologetics in general.  In this long anticipated discussion, these two...

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September 18, 2020 - 0 Comments

 Impromptu chat – Jimbob asked me to hop on his IG livestream as he fields questions from his audience on monism, dualism, pantheism, deism and Aristotle, the peripatetic axiom,...

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September 10, 2020 - 0 Comments

We often hear the same objections to TAG based on similar mistakes.  A year ago I did a specific stream presenting TAG and why it holds up against TANG found...

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August 29, 2020 - 3 Comments

 Today I will be taking Dr. Feser’s Five Proofs book and analyzing the pros and cons.  I will start with the chapter “Augustinian Proofs” since it comes the closest...

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July 16, 2020 - 0 Comments

 Made by JimB0b joins me to discuss big philosophy questions in relation to debate, logic, life, meaning and the arts.  We will be covering atheistic materialism and its assumptions,...

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May 6, 2020 - 0 Comments

 Tonight we will examine the introductory elements of Aristotle and consider how he was highly influential on the Eastern fathers, especially St. Maximos and St. John of Damascus.  Together...

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February 14, 2020 - 0 Comments

 Fr Dcn Dr Ananias joins me to review the debate with Stefan Molyneux. We will look at the strong points made, where there were weak points, areas that were...

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December 31, 2019 - 0 Comments

 #atheism #debate #theism Continuing our series I cover my top ten for rejecting atheism, materialism, naive empiricism and all the other attendant superstitions that accompany the modern/post-modern world. The...

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December 23, 2019 - 4 Comments

By: Jay Dyer The recent debate has, in my mind, solidified the completely unworkable and impossible scheme known as Roman Catholicism – whether it’s the traditional forms found in sedevacantism,...

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December 13, 2019 - 1 Comments

 Fr Dcn Dr Ananias Sorem joins me to discuss two important Roman Catholic figures: Anselm of Canterbury and John Duns Scotus.  We will cover the insights here and there,...

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November 6, 2019 - 0 Comments

 Fr. Dcn. Dr. Ananias Sorem (his channel is here) joins me to discuss the important issue of key Greek and Hellenic terms and how the fathers transformed them. Orthodoxy...

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September 19, 2019 - 0 Comments

   I started screwing with Quantum Entanglement and reading Tyrone McKenna on the Food of the Gods and it warped me to Greenville to meet Jamie. We explore a...

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August 25, 2019 - 4 Comments

 The Val show is on hold since today is a perfect day to contrast the Thomistic view of analogia and actus Purus to the Logos/Logoi doctrine of St Maximos...

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August 20, 2019 - 1 Comments

Matt Dillahunty and Jay Dyer square off in a long-requested discussion about the existence of God and the validity of the transcendental argument. Matt Dillahunty is a well known public...

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