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$Intro. to Metaphysics - The Transcendental \"Unity\" or \"Oneness\"$	Intro. to Metaphysics - The Transcendental "Unity" or "Oneness" Posted by: stmichael71 Video duration: 532 seconds In this video, we begin to look at how things exist in the broadest possible sense. Ontological unity is that which makes any thing be identical with itself. Related: aquinas, aristotle, atheism, catholic, dawkins, god, heidegger, humanities, metaphysics, philosophy, religion

	Intro. To Metaphysics - Transcendence and Analogy Posted by: stmichael71 Video duration: 518 seconds A discussion of the transcendence of the meaning of "being," as well as a forward look into our next episode discussing the analogy of being. Related: aquinas, aristotle, atheism, catholic, dawkins, god, heidegger, humanities, metaphysics, philosophy, religion

$Intro. to Metaphysics - The Transcendentals \"Thing\" \"Something\" \"True\" and \"Good\"$

Intro. to Metaphysics - The Transcendentals "Thing" "Something" "True" and "Good"
Posted by: stmichael71

Video duration: 590 seconds

In this installment, I attempt to look at the other characteristics of being itself and the most general possibilities for beings. These are shown to be: undividedness from itself, as a particular sort of thing, as a being among other beings, as potentially intelligible, and as potentially desirable.

Related: aquinas, aristotle, atheism, catholic, dawkins, god, heidegger, humanities, metaphysics, philosophy, religion

Intro. to Metaphysics - Analogy of Being
Posted by: stmichael71

Video duration: 547 seconds

In this installment, I introduce the concept of the "analogy of being" and delineate how we speak of being in the science of metaphysics. This discussion forms the heart of any metaphysical science.

Related: aquinas, aristotle, atheism, catholic, dawkins, god, heidegger, humanities, metaphysics, philosophy, religion

Veritas - Existence of God and the Teapot
Posted by: stmichael71

Video duration: 544 seconds

One of a series on errors in arguments against God's existence. I merely intend to treat a couple common arguments and show why they fail. This video deals with the argument made that God cannot directly be experienced (I cannot SEE God, hence He must not exist) and with the "teapot" argument (God MIGHT exist, but His existence would be impossible to perceive (because He is intangible).

Related: atheism, atheist, catholic, christ, dawkins, god, jesus, logic, reason, sagan

	Our Personal Visit with the Holy Father Posted by: stmichael71 Video duration: 521 seconds Also called: Why I Haven't Been Uploading Videos for the Past Few Days. Related: benedict, catholic, christ, church, cua, dc, god, jesus, pope, prayer, usa, visit, washington, xvi

$Intro. To Metaphysics - What is \"Metaphysics?\"$

Intro. To Metaphysics - What is "Metaphysics?"
Posted by: stmichael71

Video duration: 578 seconds

The first part of a series I intend to record on building a consistent metaphysics - a study of being qua being. To figure what I'm talking about, you're going to have to watch the video.

Related: aquinas, aristotle, atheism, catholic, dawkins, god, heidegger, humanities, metaphysics, philosophy, religion

	Intro. To Metaphysics - Methodology and Principles Posted by: stmichael71 Video duration: 559 seconds I discuss the methodology and guiding principles that will form the basis for our investigation into being as being. Related: aquinas, aristotle, atheism, catholic, dawkins, god, heidegger, humanities, metaphysics, philosophy, religion

	Re: Abortion - An unwanted parasite Posted by: stmichael71 Video duration: 460 seconds What will be thought of us in a hundred years? Related: abortion, an, embryo, g0at, parasite, rights, roe, unwanted, vs, wade

	Veritas - Introduction to Veritas - Re: Beyond Good & Prada Posted by: stmichael71 Video duration: 554 seconds An introduction to my new video series as a video response to azrienoch's discussion. I've had some problems capturing video, so I apologize here for the quality. Related: allah, atheism, atheist, christ, faith, glasses, god, islam, jesus, jezuzfreek777, muslim, prada, reason

	Re: Re: Veritas - Introduction to Veritas - Re: Beyond Good Posted by: stmichael71 Video duration: 583 seconds A reply to "thatgaybloke" who criticizes my other video. I try, in short course, to explain everything from what faith is to why we can accept papal infallibility and transubstantiation. Related: atheism, faith, science, truth

$Re: Can an omniscient \"god\" exist? Part 2.$	Re: Can an omniscient "god" exist? Part 2. Posted by: stmichael71 Video duration: 467 seconds Video Cam Direct Upload Related: atheism, atheist, christianity, god, islam, judaism, lord, morality, omniscient, philosophy, theology, yahweh

$Veritas - The Possibility of Knowing God\$

Veritas - The Possibility of Knowing God's Existence
Posted by: stmichael71

Video duration: 427 seconds

Is it possible to know whether or not God exists? What grounds would we use? How can we demonstrate the existence of God - what is the "middle term" of our demonstration?

Related: atheism, atheist, catholic, christ, dawkins, humanities, jesus, logic, philosophy, reason, russell, sagan, science

	Re: Problem of Evil Posted by: stmichael71 Video duration: 550 seconds A short reply Related: atheism, atheist, christianity, evil, god, logic, of, problem

Veritas - Overcoming Contemporary Philosophical Discourse
Posted by: stmichael71

Video duration: 588 seconds

Overcoming contemporary philosophy, bringing it into contact with the roots both historically and pre-philosophically, involves a process I refer to as a philosophical "deconstruction" (not in the sense Derrida uses). I allude to the work by Alasdair MacIntyre who calls this a philosophical "genealogy of thought."

Related: argue, art, beautiful, clothes, fashion, naked, new, postmodern, pretty, taste

	Our Visit to Yonkers Posted by: stmichael71 Video duration: 275 seconds Another short video of the Pope in concert. Related: benedict, catholic, god, jesus, new, pope, rally, seminarians, xvi, yonkers, york, youth

	Re: Re: Petition against fsmdude Posted by: stmichael71 Video duration: 303 seconds Video Cam Direct Upload Related: atheism, atheist, blasphemy, challenge, communion, cracker, crackergate, desecration, eucharist, host, sacrilege, wafer

$Intro. To Metaphysics - General - Meaning of \"Being\"$

Intro. To Metaphysics - General - Meaning of "Being"
Posted by: stmichael71

Video duration: 580 seconds

We begin discussing the term "being" and "is" and try to derive fundamental special modes of being to help us understand being. Divisions discussed will be: substance, accidents, existence, and essence.

Related: aquinas, aristotle, atheism, catholic, dawkins, god, heidegger, humanities, metaphysics, philosophy, religion

	Metaethics -- What sort of thing is an ethic? Posted by: stmichael71 Video duration: 592 seconds What is metaethics? How do we found a science of morality? Related: ethics, objective, philosophy, subjective

	Re: Truth, Consequences, Morality, and God Posted by: stmichael71 Video duration: 592 seconds I argue this attack is unjustified and totally misrepresents my position. Related: atheism, catholic, ethics, god, metaphysics, morality, objective, philosophy, relative, subjective

	Status Update Posted by: stmichael71 Video duration: 153 seconds A quick update. Those addresses are: veritaslive.blogs pot.com and stickam.com/stmic hael71 I look forward to seeing you there! Veritas Live! takes place on Tuesdays at 9pm EST. Related: atheism, christian, christianity, church, god, metaphysics, philosophy, theism, theology, update

	Re: Disproving God Posted by: stmichael71 Video duration: 317 seconds Why your argument fails - I'll have a fuller discussion in a future video completing my series on the arguments against God's existence. Related: atheism, atheist, christianity, disproving, god, logic

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