What is Logos? (Xavier Zubiri's Sentient Intelligence Episode 5)
"At this moment I’d like to reinforce a key theme in Zubiri’s philosophy that this series has led up to. Reality, intellection, and logos are dynamic. They are dynamic because their operations are sha...
29 Sep 202317min
What is Reality? (Xavier Zubiri's Sentient Intelligence Episode 4)
"Reality is not something we reach for or grasp for. It is something we are born into. From our earliest pre-intellective moments, our sense organs are being shaped, molded, into how they will later i...
8 Sep 202317min
Xavier Zubiri's Radical Realism (Xavier Zubiri's Sentient Intelligence Episode 3)
"Again, primordial apprehension is the most basic apprehension humans experience. It is just raw stimulation. We experience this as babies before we can even form concepts about the world. And this is...
1 Sep 20238min
Problems with Modern Metaphysics (Xavier Zubiri's Sentient Intelligence Episode 2)
"For the Ancients and Scholastics, the senses are inferior to the intellect, which is located in the soul. For the Rationalists, the senses are also inferior to the intellect, which is, this time, loc...
25 Aug 202310min
Problems with Ancient Metaphysics (Xavier Zubiri's Sentient Intelligence Episode 1)
"Why should being belong to things themselves, rather than the process of knowing things? Why should we equate being, truth, and reality? How can we assume that knowledge belongs to the soul rather th...
18 Aug 202310min
The Importance of Vatican II's Continuity (Discontinuity or Reform Episode 8)
"The Second Vatican Council’s integrity relies on its continuity, but so long as there is skepticism of the council’s continuity, whether that comes from progressives or traditionalists, its realizati...
5 Aug 202316min
Vatican II vs. Florence (Discontinuity or Reform Episode 7)
"Each conciliar document has a fundamentally different intention, the former focusing on Christian unity with the East, not formally commenting on the subject of other religions, and the latter system...
28 Jul 202315min
Lumen Gentium’s Theology of Other Religions (Discontinuity or Reform Episode 6)
“Lumen Gentium 16 holds considerable magisterial weight in its theology of other religions. It was carefully crafted by a commission of bishops and theologians, approved by a consensus of bishops from...
16 Jul 202318min
