Audio Category: Humanities

Dr. William Marra presents a friendly phenomenologically-based view of Descartes, whose life and work he describes. Descartes’ influence, in fighting a magical view of nature, in turning inward to reach...

Dr. William Marra discusses Divine Providence in the life of St. Augustine, including the roles of Monica and Ambrose. Plato talks of life involving divine surprises. Christianity speaks of Providence...

Dr. William Marra discusses Spinoza and the Nature of God. A number of Christian believers like Descartes were working in the seventeenth century to desacralize nature in order to free...

Dr. William Marra philosophizes on ethics. In this series Dr. William Marra, the eminent disciple of Dietrich von Hildebrand, explains everything philosophical from Phenomenology to Thomism. A great introduction to...

Plato’s ideas were mostly known before the Renaissance through Neo-Platonist and the Church Fathers. One of the dialogues that the early Medievals had even a part of was the Timaeus....

Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand presents St. Augustine and man’s true relationship to the created world. St. Augustine adds to and transforms Plato’s understanding of God, nature, and man through his...

Dr. William Marra discusses the life and work of the philosopher, Leibnitz, the first economist. An extremely sympathetic philosopher of the period is Leibnitz. Leibnitz was eager to underline the...

Dr. Paul Vitz looks at two theories of moral education: values clarification and Kohlberg’s stages of moral development.

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Dr. John Rao begins with a discussion of the ancient rhetorical dislike of Plato and his insistence that a knowledge of truth had to precede action. The entry of the...

Dr. William Marra explains how we know objective truths. He explains that when one comes up with value judgments, one finds contradictions. When the world discovers that there are contradictions...