Philosophy, Philosophy, Philosophy (Dr. Alex Plato) | Ep. 371

Matt chats with Dr. Alex Plato (professor of philosophy at Franciscan University of Steubenville) about philosophy, and philosophy, and philosophy.

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00:00 Bonaventure is the patron saint of?
2:49 St. Bonaventure’s contributions to theology
4:26 Thomistic divine simplicity
5:31 Thomistic transubstantiation
9:26 Rationalism
12:11 Franciscan and Thomistic tradition
22:56 Lying
28:51 What is a Thomist? What is a Franciscan?
30:21 Why is Occam problematic but Scotus is not?
33:02 What is a Nominalist?
36:18 Occam’s razor
40:03 What is the purpose of the incarnation?
50:50 Trinity
1:08:15 Bondage of the will
1:20:21 Doubts about Christianity?
1:38:46 What is language?
1:41:14 Why not just be agnostic?
1:45:57 Hill to die on
1:56:24 Immortality of the soul
2:00:22 Scotus on natural theology (Start of Q&A)
2:03:21 How nature and nurture influence how one reasons
2:06:20 How to talk about God
2:07:41 Palamism
2:10:02 How to discuss philosophy into college Christian groups
2:14:38 Omnibenevolence using philosophy
2:16:04 Jokes
2:17:56 Why do we need the Church to be infallible?
2:20:45 Why is making bread a properly human act?
2:22:49 Parenting
2:27:40 Soul in death
2:28:47 Kinds of evil
2:32:56 Why should you consider Franciscan university?
2:35:09 How do you keep humility?
2:36:12 Culture
2:40:56 Divine command theory
2:45:37 Euthyphro dilemma
2:49:53 Harry Potter
3:02:24 The triple way