Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchIs Free Will an Illusion? – Prof. Joshua Hochschild
This lecture was given on October 10th, 2025, at St. Joseph’s Church in Greenwich Village.
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3 months, 3 weeks ago
Happiness and Virtue: Can it be Good for You to Be Bad? – Prof. Thomas Osborne
Season 12
Prof. Thomas Osborne argues that, on an Aristotelian–Thomistic account of human nature, it is never truly good for you to be bad, because vice damage…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Virtue and the Meaningful Life – Dr. David McPherson
Season 12
Dr. David McPherson argues that human beings are “meaning-seeking animals” and that an adequate neo-Aristotelian ethics must see the virtues as const…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
St. Thomas Aquinas: His Life, Wisdom, and Relevance Today – Fr. Irenaeus Dunlevy, O.P.
Season 12
Fr. Irenaeus Dunlevy presents Aquinas as a medieval theologian whose love of Scripture, clear metaphysics of happiness, integrated view of body and s…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Why We Need the Saints – Prof. Adam Eitel
Season 12
Prof. Adam Eitel argues that God’s divine pedagogy makes the examples of the saints indispensable for our salvation, since their concrete, imperfect …
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Does Marketing Make Us Less Human? – Dr. John-Paul Heil
Season 12
Dr. John-Paul Heil critiques modern marketing’s implicit anthropology, explaining that marketing driven by manipulation, simulation, and quantity und…
4 months ago
A Breastplate of Stillness and a Book of Thanksgiving: The Fruits of Patience in the Face of Boredom – Prof. Carl Vennerstrom
Season 12
Prof. Carl Vennerstrom explores how perseverance, prayer, ordered work, and thanksgiving transform boredom and the temptation to acedia into opportun…
4 months ago
Theology of the Body – Prof. Paige Hochschild
Season 12
Prof. Paige Hochschild analyzes John Paul II’s Theology of the Body, contrasting the Catholic vision of bodily integration, purity, and vocation with…
4 months ago
Identity vs. Nature: Aquinas on Who Creates Me – Prof. Jacob Wood
Season 12
Prof. Jacob Wood contrasts Aquinas’s account of nature, cause, and purpose with modern identity theory, showing that human nature—created and ordered…
4 months ago
The Way of Beauty: The Church and the Arts – Fr. Innocent Smith, O.P.
Season 12
Fr. Innocent Smith explores how beauty in art, architecture, and liturgy forms the soul, elevates worship, and points to God, showing that the Church…
4 months, 1 week ago