Deep Dives with Fr Sean: the Super Catholic Catechesis Podcast

Natural Law is great!God's eternal law, that is, His wise plan of order and beauty for the universe, was placed into created beings by ordering them through tendency and inclination towards their proper end. The eternal law is placed into the nature of the being itself. The human being can participate in this rationally, and this is what we call the natural law.

We dive into this (after a problem with uploading).This is a look at the structure of the human person, and while it's longer than I anticipated, I believe it is super important. I use the 4 causes of Aritotle to get into this:The efficient cause: A human sperm and a human egg got our bodies started, but it needed an eternal influence to cause our immortal souls to start. Ther

I love these kinds of teaching! Seeing how the Old Testament conceals the New Testament, which reveals the full purpose of the Old, and then to see how it is lifted up in our experience of the Resurrected Lord in the liturgy and in our life! This is pretty simple, but I believe profound in its simplicity.

We dive into the topic today, recognizing that with a proper understanding of causality in different ways helps to prepare the way for any argument for God's existence.Newman's argument flows from conscience? Where does law come from? Where does that interior command to do the good and avoid evil come from? To whom are we accountable with the experience of responsibility?

You might like this one--it was easy to include many examples!Remeber, the Principle of Sufficient Reason: Everything must be its own sufficent reason for its existence or it must find it in another. Or, everything must either have a cause or be its own cause.The types of causes:Material causeFormal CauseEfficient CauseFinal Cause

We definitely take a deep dive, but the goal is that I teach with simple principles and sufficient examples. Please God!This answers the great question of life: what is the basis of all existence? How are things related with each other? Where do I come from? What does it mean to exist?

Aristotle was a monster intellect with a raveningly hungry mind thirsty for wisdom. Some of his big contributions are to recognize that the material world is important, his thoughts on what happiness is, his focus on studying being, even political philosophy.

Plato is definitely a big dog. His most important ideas are the working up of the cardinal virtues, the proposal of spiritual realities (the realm of the forms), and the idea of participation.