Let's Go Walk and Listen!

by Sean Foley and Jonathan Buttaci

Published in The Review of Metaphysics (March 2025): 403-443

Criterion 1. The receptive intellect must play a constitutive role in the human activity of contemplation.

Criterion 2. If the agent intellect is a human intellectual principle, it must play a role in the human activity of contemplation that reflects its divine character.

I - The Divinity of the Agent Intellect

II - Criteria for Interpretive Adequacy 00:08:00

III - A Justification for Applying Criterion 2 Ex Hypothesi 00:21:11

IV - Assimilationist Proposals 00:24:02

V - Dispositionalist Proposals 00:39:45

VI - Initiationist Proposals 00:46:26

VII - Abstractionist Proposals 00:50:12

VIII - Preliminary Conclusions 01:12:05

by Apolonio and Siobhan Latar

Communio 51 (Winter 2024). © 2024 by Communio: International Catholic Review

" [I]t is precisely in his courageous, fruitful will not to grasp, his refusal to claim for his own what is not given, that the deepest truth, beauty, and goodness of man's nature is displayed most radiantly."

1. Introduction

2. Giussani on Virginity 00:04:28

3. Tolkien and the Virginity of Subcreation 00:28:06

4. Conclusion 00:56:56

Excerpt from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

pgs. 692-698

1996

Can We Create Ourselves?

“Humanist and Christian Theologies of the Body”

By Benedict M. Ashley, O.P.

1985

Part IV Chs. 12-14: A Process Theology of the Body

Chapter 12: The Spiritual Body

i: Glorious Wounds

1) The Dead Body of Christ

2) Why Did He Die?

3) Merit

ii: The Immortal Body (00:51:34)

1) Life After Death?

2) The Body Transformed

3) Guesswork

4) The Intermediate State

5) The Self-Condemned

Chapter 13: The Glorified Body (03:23:56)

i: The God Revealed in Jesus

1) Father, Son, and Spirit

2) Does the Christian God Exist?

ii: Persons Without Bodies (04:17:50)

1) Do Angels Exist?

2) Encountering the Angels

iii: The Eucharistic, Transformed World (05:07:39)

1) Eucharistic Transformation

2) The Trinity Centered Universe

3) The Transformed World

Chapter 14: The Godliness of Matter (06:31:32)

i: How Matter Mirrors God

ii: The Human Body: God’s Image (06:42:03)

iii: The Body is God’s Glory (06:45:05)

Can We Create Ourselves?

“Humanist and Christian Theologies of the Body”

By Benedict M. Ashley, O.P.

1985

Part IV Chs. 10-11: A Process Theology of the Body

Chapter 10: Ethics of Co-Creative Stewardship

i: Ecology

ii: Food (00:30:31)

1) The Stewardship of Food and Drink

2)The Christian Ideal of Poverty

iii: Security (00:52:28)

1) Stewardship and Aggression

2) The Christian Ideal of Martyrdom and Non-Violence

iv: Sexuality and Sociality (01:10:19)

1) Evolutionary and Other Meanings of Sexuality

2) The Future of Sex

3) A Creative Ethics of Sexuality

v: Information, Society, Creativity (02:12:08)

1) Communication

2) Government

vi: Ethics and History (02:44:21)

Chapter 11: God’s Fullness in Bodily Form (Col. 2:9) (03:19:10)

i: The Son of God

1) Christology from Below, from Above, from Without, from Within

2) The Annunciation of the Virginal Conception

3) Baptism, Temptation, Transfiguration, Sacrifice

4) The Historical Authenticity of these Experiences

ii: The Body of Christ (04:48:41)

1) True Man

2) The Christian Church as the Body of Christ

3) Ministry

iii: The Mother of God (06:37:02)

1) The Mother of Jesus

2) True God

Can We Create Ourselves?

“Humanist and Christian Theologies of the Body”

By Benedict M. Ashley, O.P.

1985

Part III: A Radical Process Interpretation of Science

Chapter 7: Primary Units in Process

i: The Meaning of the Evolutionary Process

1) The Variety of Evolutionary Processes

2) Evolution and Causality

ii: False Clues (00:26:12)

1) Reductionism

2) Process Philosophies

3) Clearing Away the Nonsense

iii: Primary Unites (01:00:28)

1) Empirical Being

2) The Natural Unit

3) Units in Process

4) Kinds of Process

Chapter 8: Process and Creativity (02:22:10)

i: Natural Processes

1) Categories and Causes

2) Too Many Categories?

ii: Transcendent Process: Body and Mind (02:59:26)

1) Interiority and Transcendence

2) Human Creativity

3) The Mind-Body Problem

4) Bodily Beauty

5) A Radical Process Philosophy

Chapter 9: Historicity and the Human Body (04:39:54)

i: Two Conceptions of Human Historicity

1) Humanism and Historicity

2) Christianity and Historicity

ii: Cultural Relativism (05:19:38)

1) Nature, Nurture and History as a Science

2) Morality and Cultural Relativism

iii: The Bible, Human Historicity and Ethics (06:23:20)

1) Adam and Biblical Anthropology

2) Natural Law and Christology

Can We Create Ourselves?

“Humanist and Christian Theologies of the Body”

By Benedict M. Ashley, O.P.

1985

Part II: Christian Theologies of the Body

Chapter 4: The Platonic Christian Theology

i: Biblical Themes

1) The Body is a Tomb

2) Bible and Body

3) Liberation and Resurrection Theme

4) Creation or Image Theme

5) Sin-Death-Cross Theme

6) Wisdom Theme

7) Stewardship Theme

8) Fertility Theme

9) Suffering Servant Theme

00:32:10 ii: Eastern Platonic Christian Theology

1) From the Jewish to Greek World-View

2) Anthropology of Origen and the Cappadocians

3) Anthropology of the Pseudo-Dionysius and St. Maximus

01:20:08 iii: Western Platonic Christian Theology

1) The Anthropology of St. Augustine

2) Medieval Theology Before the Rise of the Universities

02:00:27 Chapter 5: The Aristotelian Christian Theology

i: The Aristotelian Alternative

1) Aristotle in the Eastern Church

2) Aristotle in the Latin Universities

3) The Survival of Platonic Dualism

02:49:56 ii: Nominalism and the Shift from Nature to Law

1) Nominalism and Voluntarism

2) From Nature to Law

03:05:47 iii: Renaissance and the Platonic Idealization of the Body

1) The Ideal Body

2) The Mathematization of Natural Science

03:35:34 iv: The Body and the Sacraments

1) The Reformation Subordination of Sacrament to Word

2) The Counter-Reformation Reduction of Sacrament to Law

3) The Desacralized Body

04:32:03 Chapter 6: Christian Theology Confronted by Humanism

i: The Cartesian Transition

1) The Phenomenal Body

2) The Cartesian Christian Theology

05:02:38 ii: Christian Reaction to the Rise of Humanism

1) The Rise of Empiricism

2) The Experiment with Idealism

05:36:36 iii: Compromises

1) Protestant Approachement

2) Catholic Approachement

05:57:59 iv: The Dialogue with Scientistic or Positivistic Humanism

1) The Thomistic Revival

2) Recent Renewals

3) The Lessons of History

Can We Create Ourselves?

“Humanist and Christian Theologies of the Body”

By Benedict M. Ashley, O.P.

1985

Part I: Science, the Body and the Humanist Theology

Chapter 1: Can We Create Ourselves?

i: We Are Bodies

ii: Can We Create Ourselves? - 6:05

iii: The Body and Ethics - 14:19

iv: A Hermeneutical Method - 17:19

1) The Interpretative Dilemma

2) An Expanding Horizon

Chapter 2: What Does Science Say We Are? - 38:22

i: We are Thinking Bodies

1) The Scientific Vision

2) We are Communicators

3) We are Self-Aware

ii: Our Bodies Serve Our Brains - 47:59

1) We are Brains

2) We are Homeostatic Systems

3) We are Genetic Codes

iii: We are Matter-Energy - 1:17:49

1) We are Matter

2) We are Energy

iv: We Have Evolved and Will Perish in the Cosmic Epoch - 1:39:02

1) We Have a Cosmic History

2) We are Upstream Swimmers

v: A Scientific Definition of the Human Person - 1:57:45

Chapter 3: Humanist Theologies of the Body (1700-2000) - 2:01:03

i: The World-View of Humanism

1) The Humanist Interpretation of Science

2) Contemporary Humanism and the Human Body

3) What Separated Humanism from Christianity?

ii: The Empiricist Development of the Humanist World-View - 2:36:50

1) The Newtonian World-View and Deism

2) Darwin and the Evolutionary View of Nature

3) Einstein and the Relativistic World-View

iii: The Idealist Critique of the Empiricist Interpretation of Humanism - 3:01:29

1) The Kantian Epistemological Revolution

2) Idealism and Historicity

3) Humanism, Phenomenology, and Hermeneutic Philosophy

4) The Human Body in Art and Literature

iv: Resolution of the Inner Contradictions of Humanism - 3:55:33

1) The Marxist Critique

2) Process Philosophy as a Revision of Humanism

3) The Strength of Humanism

v: Conclusion of Part I - 4:16:51

The Heart: An Analysis of Human and Divine Affectivity

by Dietrich von Hildebrand

A Doctoral Dissertation.

https://archive.org/details/heartanalysisofh0000vonh

Part 3: The Human Heart Transformed

Ch. 1 - The Heart of the True Christian

Ch. 2 - Amare in Deo - 20:40

Appendix: Introduction to the 1965/77 Edition of The Heart Dietrich von Hildebrand - 47:00

The Heart: An Analysis of Human and Divine Affectivity

by Dietrich von Hildebrand

A Doctoral Dissertation.

https://archive.org/details/heartanalysisofh0000vonh

Part 2: The Heart of Jesus

Ch. 1 - The Affectivity of the God-Man

Ch. 2 - The Mystery of the Sacred Heart - 1:11:26

Ch. 8 - The Heart as the Real Self - 3:31:54

The Heart: An Analysis of Human and Divine Affectivity

by Dietrich von Hildebrand

A Doctoral Dissertation.

https://archive.org/details/heartanalysisofh0000vonh

Part 1: The Human Heart

Ch. 1 - The Role of the Heart

Ch. 2 - Non-Spiritual and Spiritual Affectivity - 58:27

Ch. 3 - Tender Affectivity - 2:06:45

Ch. 4 - Hypertrophy of the Heart - 2:35:03

Ch. 5 - Affective Atrophy - 2:55:56

Ch. 6 - Heartlessness - 3:08:07

Ch. 7 - The Tyrannical Heart - 3:22:07

Ch. 8 - The Heart as the Real Self - 3:31:54

by Paolo Prosperi

Communio 45 (Summer 2018). © 2018 by Communio: International Catholic Review

https://www.communio-icr.com/files/45.2_Prosperi_WEB.pdf

"Such an impossible unity of passion and freedom is really the beginning of heaven on earth."

I - 00:02:28

II - 00:07:09

III - 00:19:18

IV - 00:25:33

V - 00:38:14

VI - 00:51:28

VII - 01:12:04

VIII - 01:32:18

by Don Adams

Published in The Review of Metaphysics (December 2024): 231-256

II - 2:30

III - 10:49

IV - 18:07

V - 32:05

VI - 37:57

VII - 51:54

From

https://www.kolbefoundation.org/gbookswebsite/studentlibrary/greatestbooks/aaabooks/stein/faceofgod.html

by Victor Salas

Published in The Review of Metaphysics 78 (September 2024): 31-54

A poem.

In appreciation of Maxim Gorky at the International Convention of Atheists, 1929

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/42166/staying-power

Is It Possible To Live This Way? An Unusual Approach to Christian Existence by Luigi Giussani

Vol. 3 Charity - Part III - Virginity

III. Virginity

1. Called for a Task - 00:23

a) The Choice of Specific People - 00:23

b) To Witness to Him - 2:52

c) Living with Him - 3:56

d) For the Destiny of Men - 4:30

2. Through Sacrifice, The Hundredfold - 6:20

- Sacrificing the Immediate Reaction - 6:20

- A Foretaste of Eternal Tenderness - 10:26

- Virginity: Assembly - 13:40

By Way of Introduction

This is an unusual book. It is a kind of "novel," as those who first read the proofs noted. In this work the discovery of life as "vocation" comes about not through deduction but through the evidence of an experience lived according to reason, within the same breath as Mystery.

It deals with the path that Father Luigi Giussani took throughout a year in dialogue with about one hundred young people who had decided to commit their lives to Christ through total dedication to the Mystery and to His destiny in history. The Church calls this life "virginity."

Is It Possible To Live This Way? An Unusual Approach to Christian Existence by Luigi Giussani

Vol. 3 Charity - Part II - Sacrifice

II. Sacrifice

1. The Value of Sacrifice - 4:34

- Watershed - 5:23

a) Sacrifice Seems Contrary to Nature - 6:36

b) When It Became Interesting - 7:50

c) When It Becomes a Value for the Life of Man - 17:34

- Because of Original Sin - 21:27

2. What Sacrifice Consists Of - 23:29

3. The Truest Sacrifice is Recognizing a Presence - 30:24

- Sadness and Asking - 32:37

4. The Sacrifice of Faith and the Charism - 35:55

- Sacrifice: Assembly - 45:33

By Way of Introduction

This is an unusual book. It is a kind of "novel," as those who first read the proofs noted. In this work the discovery of life as "vocation" comes about not through deduction but through the evidence of an experience lived according to reason, within the same breath as Mystery.

It deals with the path that Father Luigi Giussani took throughout a year in dialogue with about one hundred young people who had decided to commit their lives to Christ through total dedication to the Mystery and to His destiny in history. The Church calls this life "virginity."

Is It Possible To Live This Way? An Unusual Approach to Christian Existence by Luigi Giussani

Vol. 3 Charity - Part I - Charity

I. Charity

1. The Intimacy of a Presence that Faith Recognizes - 1:55

- Without "Reasons" - 6:01

- The Reason for Charity - 9:25

2. Charity: The Gift of the Self, Moved - 10:17

a) A Pure Gift of Self - 12:19

b) Moved - 19:23

- Being Moved Out of a Judgement - 33:37

3. "Perfect, Like Your Heavenly Father" - 36:37

4. Morality is to Imitate God in Charity - 48:58

- Coming from God, the Law of the I is Love - 50:31

- Gift of Self to the End - 56:56

- Moving Oneself for Another - 58:15

- To Bring Into Being, To Save - 60:16

- Charity: Assembly - 1:10:12

By Way of Introduction

This is an unusual book. It is a kind of "novel," as those who first read the proofs noted. In this work the discovery of life as "vocation" comes about not through deduction but through the evidence of an experience lived according to reason, within the same breath as Mystery.

It deals with the path that Father Luigi Giussani took throughout a year in dialogue with about one hundred young people who had decided to commit their lives to Christ through total dedication to the Mystery and to His destiny in history. The Church calls this life "virginity."

Is It Possible To Live This Way? An Unusual Approach to Christian Existence by Luigi Giussani

Vol. 2 Hope - Part III - Trust

II. Trust

- The Path from Faith to Trust - 00:12

- Faith - 00:23

- Freedom - 6:01

- Obedience - 7:34

- Hope - 9:34

- Poverty - 11:01

1. Trust Is To Entrust Yourself To Someone - 14:12

2. The Corollaries Of Trust - 20:56

a) Abandonment - 21:00

b) I Can Do All Things In The One Who Is My Strength - 25:17

3. The Greatest Banquet In the History Of The House - 30:40

- Mission and Gladness - 32:26

- Generator of a People - 34:25

4. Awareness Of Time - 39:32

a) Time Does Not Belong To Us - 41:36

b) The Mystery Is Good - 49:55

c) Sorrow, Love for a Present - 53:23

- Trust: Assembly - 1:01:36

By Way of Introduction

This is an unusual book. It is a kind of "novel," as those who first read the proofs noted. In this work the discovery of life as "vocation" comes about not through deduction but through the evidence of an experience lived according to reason, within the same breath as Mystery.

It deals with the path that Father Luigi Giussani took throughout a year in dialogue with about one hundred young people who had decided to commit their lives to Christ through total dedication to the Mystery and to His destiny in history. The Church calls this life "virginity."

Is It Possible To Live This Way? An Unusual Approach to Christian Existence by Luigi Giussani

Vol. 2 Hope - Part II - Poverty

II. Poverty

- From Hope, Poverty - 00:14

1. Do Not Hope For Future Happiness Based On A Particular Present Possession - 2:53

- From the Certainty that "God Fulfills," The Freedom of Things - 7:47

- Gladness - 10:20

- Free Because You Lack Nothing - 20:00

2. Poverty, Law Of The Dynamic Of Knowledge - 27:01

By Way of Introduction

This is an unusual book. It is a kind of "novel," as those who first read the proofs noted. In this work the discovery of life as "vocation" comes about not through deduction but through the evidence of an experience lived according to reason, within the same breath as Mystery.

It deals with the path that Father Luigi Giussani took throughout a year in dialogue with about one hundred young people who had decided to commit their lives to Christ through total dedication to the Mystery and to His destiny in history. The Church calls this life "virginity."

Is It Possible To Live This Way? An Unusual Approach to Christian Existence by Luigi Giussani

Vol. 2 Hope - Part I - Hope

I. Hope

1. Certainty Regarding the Future - 10:34

- A Possession That Is Already Given - 23:24

- Certainty of Fulfillment - 25:29

2. The Dynamic of Hope - 28:48

- Desire - 29:37

- The Certainty of Fulfillment - 35:06

- The Dream and the Ideal - 36:41

- A Question that Imbues Everything - 41:22

3. Towards the Possession of an Arduous Good - 43:57

- Certainty and Desire - 47:29

- The Desire for an Arduous Good - 48:48

- The Inevitable Uncertainty - 49:28

a) A Difficult Path - 55:50

b) The Strength of Jesus - 56:55

c) Faithfulness to Belonging - 1:04:09

d) Forgiveness - 1:06:33

- The Opposite of Patience - 1:08:23

- Witness - 1:10:16

- Assembly - 1:12:00

By Way of Introduction

This is an unusual book. It is a kind of "novel," as those who first read the proofs noted. In this work the discovery of life as "vocation" comes about not through deduction but through the evidence of an experience lived according to reason, within the same breath as Mystery.

It deals with the path that Father Luigi Giussani took throughout a year in dialogue with about one hundred young people who had decided to commit their lives to Christ through total dedication to the Mystery and to His destiny in history. The Church calls this life "virginity."

Is It Possible To Live This Way? An Unusual Approach to Christian Existence by Luigi Giussani

Vol. 1 Faith - Part III - Obedience

III. Obedience

1. The Reasonable Consequence of Faith - 0:51

- Obedience is Born as a Reasonable Attitude - 4:01

- The Content of the Word "Follow" - 21:36

- Because of this God Glorified Him - 27:07

- The Reasonableness of Following - 29:13

2. True Obedience is a Friendship - 32:06

- Following Someone Who is in Front of You - 32:11

- Following: To Understand and Imitate - 35:39

- Obedience, Gesture of the I - 38:32

- True Following is Friendship - 41:34

- Synthesis - 46:17

- Assembly - 49:35

- Conclusion: From Faith to Obedience - 1:16:44

- Faith - 1:16:48

- Freedom - 1:20:00

- Obedience - 1:21:58

By Way of Introduction

This is an unusual book. It is a kind of "novel," as those who first read the proofs noted. In this work the discovery of life as "vocation" comes about not through deduction but through the evidence of an experience lived according to reason, within the same breath as Mystery.

It deals with the path that Father Luigi Giussani took throughout a year in dialogue with about one hundred young people who had decided to commit their lives to Christ through total dedication to the Mystery and to His destiny in history. The Church calls this life "virginity."

Is It Possible To Live This Way? An Unusual Approach to Christian Existence by Luigi Giussani

Vol. 1 Faith - Part II - Freedom

II. Freedom

- The Five Passages of Faith

1. What is Freedom? - 6:38

- The Experience of Satisfaction - 9:12

- The Trajectory of Freedom - 14:53

2. How Freedom Moves - 19:50

a) Through Creatures - 19:57

b) Imperfect Freedom - 23:28

3. The Conditions of Freedom - 31:12

a) The Awareness of Destiny - 31:27

b) Self-Control - 32:18

- The Companionship - 32:55

- A Summary - 39:59

- Invitation to Prayer - 45:07

- Assembly - 46:02

- An Announcement - 2:00:13

By Way of Introduction

This is an unusual book. It is a kind of "novel," as those who first read the proofs noted. In this work the discovery of life as "vocation" comes about not through deduction but through the evidence of an experience lived according to reason, within the same breath as Mystery.

It deals with the path that Father Luigi Giussani took throughout a year in dialogue with about one hundred young people who had decided to commit their lives to Christ through total dedication to the Mystery and to His destiny in history. The Church calls this life "virginity."

Is It Possible To Live This Way? An Unusual Approach to Christian Existence by Luigi Giussani

Vol. 1 Faith - Part I - Faith

I. Faith

1. A Way of Knowing that Implicates Reason

- Direct and Indirect Knowledge - 1:20

- Knowledge Through Faith - 8:02

- Fundamental Method for Culture and History - 13:04

- A Decisive Premise - 14:54

- An Invitation to Prayer - 25:11

- Gathering Our Thoughts - 28:04

2. The Dynamic of Faith - 36:42

- The Credibility of the Witness - 40:38

a) An Encounter - 46:57

b) An Exceptional Presence - 54:08

c) Wonder - 1:01:43

d) Who is this Man? - 1:09:29

e) Responsibility Before the Fact - 1:14:42

- Assembly - 1:19:42

By Way of Introduction

This is an unusual book. It is a kind of "novel," as those who first read the proofs noted. In this work the discovery of life as "vocation" comes about not through deduction but through the evidence of an experience lived according to reason, within the same breath as Mystery.

It deals with the path that Father Luigi Giussani took throughout a year in dialogue with about one hundred young people who had decided to commit their lives to Christ through total dedication to the Mystery and to His destiny in history. The Church calls this life "virginity."

The Trial of Desire by Francesco Botturi

from the magazine TRACES April 2024

- Pain and Technology

- Affliction and Compassion - 5:42

- Suffering and Desire - 7:08

- Passio Christi Passio Hominis - 11:27

Between Past and Future: Six Exercises in Political Thought

by Hannah Arendt

Ch. 4 - What is Freedom

Part I

Part II - 23:52

Part III - 40:04

Part IV - 1:02:17

Existence and Freedom: Toward an Ontology of Human Finitude

by Calvin O. Schrag

ISBN: 0-8101-0224-3

Part VII - Decision and Integrity

1. Freedom and Choice

2. The Unauthentic Mode - 16:13

3. Resolve and Authenticity - 49:50

4. Authenticity and Community - 1:30:00

Existence and Freedom: Toward an Ontology of Human Finitude

by Calvin O. Schrag

ISBN: 0-8101-0224-3

Part VI - Conscience and Guilt

1. Conscience and Concern

2. The Ontological Foundations of Conscience - 16:40

3. Freedom, Guilt, and Sin - 32:27

4. Unauthentic and Authentic Guilt - 58:33

Existence and Freedom: Toward an Ontology of Human Finitude

by Calvin O. Schrag

ISBN: 0-8101-0224-3

Part V - Time and History

1. Time and Human Concern

2. The Ecstatic Character of Time - 24:07

3. Contemporaneity, Repetition, and Moment - 45:28

4. The History of Existence - 1:19:58

Existence and Freedom: Toward an Ontology of Human Finitude

by Calvin O. Schrag

ISBN: 0-8101-0224-3

Part IV - Death and Transitoriness

1. Existence and Mortality

2. The External View of Death - 18:05

3. Death and Subjectivity - 35:46

4. Towards an Ontology of Death - 55:30

Existence and Freedom: Toward an Ontology of Human Finitude

by Calvin O. Schrag

ISBN: 0-8101-0224-3

Part III - Anxiety and Finitude

1. Anxiety and Fear

2. Anxiety, Non-Being, and Freedom

3. Boredom and Melancholy

4. Phenomenology of Despair

Existence and Freedom: Toward an Ontology of Human Finitude

by Calvin O. Schrag

ISBN: 0-8101-0224-3

Part II - The Existentialist Concept of World

1. Man as Being-in-the-World

2. Structural Analysis of the Environmental World

3. Structural Analysis of the Communal World

4. Structural Analysis of Self-Relatedness

Existence and Freedom: Toward an Ontology of Human Finitude

by Calvin O. Schrag

ISBN: 0-8101-0224-3

Foreward - John Wild

Introduction

Part I - Methodological Foundations

1. The Existential Thinker

2. Phenomenology and Existentialism

3. The Hermeneutic of Existence

4. Existential Intentionality

By Luigi Giussani.

15 - The Hypothesis of Revelation: Conditions For Its Acceptability

The Last Chapter.

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By Luigi Giussani.

14 - Reason's Energy Seeks to Penetrate the Unknown

- Reason's Driving Force

- A Vertiginous Position

- Reason's Impatience

- A Distorting Point of View

- Idols

- A Consequence

- Dynamics of the Identification of the Idol

- Conclusion

By Luigi Giussani.

13 - An Education in Freedom

- Education in Freedom as Responsibility

- An Education in Learning How to Ask

- The Experience of Risk

By Luigi Giussani.

12 - The Adventure of Interpretation

- The Factor of Freedom Before the Ultimate Enigma

- The World as Parable

By Luigi Giussani.

11 - The Experience of the Sign

- Provocation

- The Sign

- Irrational Denial

- Life as Need

- YOU, The Supreme Sign

- The Discovery of Reason

- Openings

By Luigi Giussani.

10 - How the Ultimate Questions Arise: The Way of the Religious Sense

- Awe of the "Presence"

- The Cosmos

- "Providential" Reality

- The Dependent "I"

- The Law of the Heart

- Conclusion

By Patrick Corry

Published in The Review of Metaphysics 77 (March 2024): 407-44

The Greek from the beginning and some of the other Greek terms:

Κινεί δέ ώδε τό ορεκτόν και το νοητόν κινεί ού κινούμενα. Τούτων τά πρώτα τά αυτά.

Phronēsis

Ta pros ton orthicon skopon

Archai

Technē

Eupraxia

Archē

Telos

Aisthēsis

Logos

Nous

By Luigi Giussani.

9 - Preconception, Ideology, Rationality, and the Religious Sense

- Preconceptions: Clarifications

- Ideology

- Reason

- The Religious Sense and Rationality

By Luigi Giussani.

8 - Consequences of the Unreasonable Positions Before the Ultimate Question

- The Break with the Past

- Incommunicativeness and Solitude

- Loss of Freedom

From "Catholic Bible Dictionary" - Scott Hahn - General Editor

I. Principles of Biblical Criticism

A. Theological Basis

B. Methodological Limits

II. Methods of Biblical Criticism

A. Diachronic Methods

B. Synchronic Methods

III. The Church and Biblical Criticism

A. Early Response

B. Later Response

IV. The Critique of Criticism

By Luigi Giussani

Ch. 7 - Unreasonable Positions Before the Ultimate Question: Reduction of the Question

- The Aesthetic or Sentimental Evasion

- The Desperate Negation

a) The Impossible Aspiration ("The Impotent Hope")

b) Reality as Illusion

c) Nothingness as Essence

- Alienation

Homo Abyssus: The Drama of the Question of Being by Ferdinand Ulrich. Translated by D.C. Schindler

Note - Exinanitio means Kenosis

Ch. 5 - The Unfolding of Being in the Three Ontological Moments of Reality, Ideality, and Bonicity

1. Ideating Reason and the Ideality of Being in the Dimension of the Movement of Finalization

A. The Ambiguity of the "Nothing" as Reason's Basic Measure

B. The Absolute Step to Reality and Ideality through the Neutralizing of the Necessary Sense of Being

C. Toward the Indifferentiation of the Necessary Sense of Being

D. The Unfolding of Being in Light of Supernatural Revelation

2. The Resolution of the Crisis of Being "beyond" the Dimension of Participation

A. Being as "the First Created Things" and the Positive Reality

B. Participation and Causality as Rooted in the Necessary Sense of Being

C. Participation and the Uncaused Character of Being as Being

D. The Exemplar Causality of Being

3. Being in the Unfolding of Ideality and Reality

A. The Procession and Positing of the Principles in the Dimension of Ideality and Reality: Toward the Hidden Unfolding of Modern Metaphysics

i. Essence "Juxtaposed" to Being

ii. The Isolation of the Essence as Being's "Ideal Vacillation"

B. The Reality of Being and the Participation in Being through "Similarity" and "Composition"

C. Reality and the Ideality Mediated by Finite Reason

4. Reality, Ideality, and Bonicity

By Walker Percy. From "The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, And What One Has To Do With The Other." 

ISBN 0-312-25401-6