An introductory series of 12 talks on philosophers from Plato and Aristotle to Descartes and Sartre, given by Father Francis Selman, lecturer in philosophy. Visit Totus2us.com for much more. Blessed John Paul II's motto was to Mary: Totus Tuus - All Yours. Our Lady is also everything to us - Totus 2us.
Fr Francis on Hegel: "Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, the last of the German idealists, was born in 1770 and died in Berlin, where he had been professo...
Fr Francis on Immanuel Kant: "Thus Kant came to think that not all our ideas are derived from experience, as the Empiricists had held. Indeed, he thou...
Fr Francis on the British Empiricists: "While rationalism, the doctrine that knowledge is derived from the ideas of the mind, flourished on the Europe...
Fr Francis on René Descartes: "In conclusion, we can ask whether Descartes' thought 'I think therefore I am' proved as much as he thought. Descartes' ...
Fr Francis: "Aquinas said 'Human beings exist on the border, in confinio, between the material and immaterial.' Thus we are a kind of microcosm of the...
Fr Francis: "Memory was like a great treasure house in Augustine's view. One of the things we find in memory is ourselves - this is to be conscious of...
Fr Francis: "A notable feature of Aristotle's natural science, which distinguishes him sharply from many of our contemporaries, is that he thought tha...
Fr Francis: "The dawn of philosophy, as we know it in the West, occurred in ancient Greece around the year 600 BC with Thales, one of the 7 Wise Men o...