Showing posts with label Natural Law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Natural Law. Show all posts

Monday, May 28, 2012

J. Bud - Natural Law

In this audio, Dr. J. Budziszewski is interviewed on the CrossExamined (Protestant) radio show on the topic of the moral law. This includes a discussion of his newest book The Line Through The Heart, as well as discussion of the moral argument for the existence of God and more.

Full MP3 Audio here. (48 minutes)

Some of J. Budziszewski's books:
The Line Through the Heart: Natural Law as Fact, Theory, and Sign of Contradiction 
• Written on the Heart: The Case for Natural Law 
Ask Me Anything: Provocative Answers for College Students 
• Ask Me Anything 2: More Provocative Answers for College Students

Enjoy.

HT: Apologetics315

Thursday, August 5, 2010

The Seven Deadly Sins

Fr. Paul Scalia, son of Justice Antonin Scalia, has given a series of talks on the Seven Deadly Sins. They're good. Really good. The hook? There aren't seven, they're not deadly and they're not sins. Don't believe me? Give him a listen.

Oh...but first, he'd like for you to listen to his Natural Law talk as an intro.

Time for the good stuff:

Natural Law - the Intro:

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Talk 3:

Talk 4:

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Robert George, Natural Law, God, and Human Rights

Natural Law, God, and Human Rights
Robert P. George, Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University
Princeton University
6/11/2008

Mp3, flash video also available at the link.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

St. Thomas Aquinas in Today’s world with Dr. Theresa Farnan

From EWTN:


1. Program Name: Why do we need revelation?

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Description: Dr. Farnan talks about Reason God’s revelation of his divine nature and His loving plan for.



2. Program Name: Can we really prove God’s Existence?

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Description: Five proofs that belief in God is not irrational and/or is not merely a matter of opinion.



3. Program Name: What can we know about God?

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Description: St. Thomas’s teachings on God’s Divine attributes.



4. Program Name: What is Truth?

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Description: St. Thomas’s teaching on the fact that God is Truth and all truth comes from God.



5. Program Name: What is True Happiness?

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Description: Why nothing here on earth will make us truly happy.



6. Program Name: What is Virtue?

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Description: What are the intellectual, cardinal, and theological virtues?



7. Program Name: We are Body and Soul

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Description: The extremes of Materialism and Spiritualism



8. Program Name: Our Conscience and Will

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Description: Our conscience directs us towards the truth about the good we should do.



9. Program Name: What is freedom?

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Description: What it means to have a free will. How we know that we have a free will. Freedom and its relation to the truth Common errors about the nature of freedom.



10. Program Name: What is the Natural Law?

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Description: The Natural Law is the answer to positivism and pragmatism.



11. Program Name: Can we Really Know Right from Wrong?

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Description: Our Intellect and Will work together to make moral choices.



12. Program Name: The Thomistic Response to the Culture of Death

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Description: The philosophical origins of the culture of death, which lead to abortion, euthanasia and violence.



13. Program Name: St. Thomas and the Philosophy of John Paul II

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Description: The importance of philosophical realism and personalism.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Grab Bag

Here are some miscellaneous talks from the audio grab-bag. I have no idea the orthodoxy level of these talks, but they're all given from a generally conservative point of view. Take that for what it's worth...

Hadley Arkes on how the defense in the courts of the "right to privacy" has transformed thinking about law and rights in American society

Terence Nichols on how and why religion has become so privatized in America

Jewish bioethicist (and former head of the President's Council on Bioethics) Leon Kass, on how new technologies have changed the assumptions many people have about their children

Russell Hittinger on the reasoning behind the upholding of a right to physician-assisted suicide in Compassion in Dying v. Washington

Bradley J. Birzer on how Tolkien understood the idea of myth

Nigel Cameron on the obstacles and opportunities facing Christians concerned about bioethics

Ralph C. Wood on how Tolkien viewed the use and meaning of human language

James A. Herrick on Mormonism, gnosticism, and the significance of Luke Skywalker

Thomas de Zengotita, on postmodern individualism and "reality" TV

Calvin Stapert, on the sense of resolution, completion, and the sense of the goodness of creation in Mozart's music.

James A. Herrick, on evolution as a religion.

Patrick Deneen, on how Wendell Berry’s thought demonstrates his identity as a “Kentucky Aristotelian.”

Matthew Dickerson, on the glory of trees and the shepherdhood of ents.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Natural Law

Found here:


Theology on Tap: Sydney

"In the Grip of Vice: Tearing the Soul from Virtue" with Professor Hayden Ramsay, 2nd June 2008...... leading to "natural law" (ie. things you can't not know -- is that a double negative? I'm sure it is.)

Friday, October 17, 2008

ISI Lecture on Natural Law

From the ISI:

Natural Law, God, and Human RightsNEW
Robert P. George, Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University
Princeton University
6/11/2008

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Saturday, August 23, 2008

It's not Joan Chittister, but...

From the USCCB (via reader Wayne) come the Social Justice teachings of the Church:
Father Larry Rice is the Director of the St. Thomas More Newman Center, the center for Catholic Campus Ministry at Ohio State University in Columbus, OH. His work at the OSU Newman Center includes responsibility for the overall mission and vision of the Center’s staff of 16 and the campus’ Catholic community, and maintaining a professional focus on ecumenical and interfaith dialogue. Since 2000, Fr. Rice has been a weekly contributor to Catholic Radio Weekly (www.catholicradioweekly.com), the flagship radio program of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Fr. Rice earned a Masters of Divinity from the Catholic University of America (1989), and a B.A. in General Arts and Sciences from the Pennsylvania State University (1983). He entered the Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle (the Paulist Fathers) in 1983, and was ordained a priest in 1989.
  1. Option for the Poor
  2. Peace and Disarmament
  3. Political Participation
  4. Role of Government
  5. Social Justice
  6. Stewardship of Creation
  7. Common Good
  8. Dignity of the Human Person
  9. Economic Justice
  10. Global Solidarity
  11. Individual's Rights

Monday, June 30, 2008

Calling All Dads

There's a blog out there you're all probably at least passingly familiar with - Catholic Dads - which exists to help Catholic dads serve each other, fighting shoulder to shoulder in the battle to protect our families. If you're a Catholic dad (or mom or son or daughter), do give their site a browse.

In any case, they made a post right up my alley. Here it is in its entirety:

Spiritual Fatherhood: The Solution to the Modern Crisis

Just a quick post to point everyone to this this most invigorating Sermon about Spiritual Fatherhood.

This is a MUST listen for ALL Dads and young men called to the vocation of Married life.


Did you Download and listen to it yet?

NO!?!?

GET TO IT!