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.
...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...
Already in the ancient world, a “Grand Coalition” of anti-Catholic forces had gathered together. This included not only the “word merchants”, interested in selling recipes for “success”, but also philosophers...
Dr. William Marra describes the “Errors In Behavioristic Psychology.” in this lecture. The word “psychology” means having to do with soul. Psychologist, B.F. Skinner emphasizes behavior and organism, not psychology...
Father Paul Crane, S.J., deals with the supernatural task of the Church and the new humanism which is in danger of supplanting it.
...David Allen White says God created man with the ability to continue creation, primarily through procreation, but also through the arts. Man is called to create what is beautiful because...