Paul Hunker, Chief Counsel, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Dallas, explains how his Catholic faith helps him in his work with immigrants ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqDGlrVuA-w
William Saunders, Human Rights lawyer from Washington D.C., reminds us of the history and importance of human rights
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPuZ2LTfPJg
In collaboration with the Duke Catholic Center.
Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P., Rector Magnificus of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas (Angelicum)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdIRxGiJC1I
Christopher Wolfe, professor of constitutional law, explains what are the power and limits of the judicial review according to the U.S. Constitution
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka-lfmdQaaI
In this short video I explain the profound connection that exists between the Thomist definition of "person" and the concept of freedom
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFHmhp9C6_0
COURSE: FOUNDATION OF THE CATHOLIC FAITH
http://fulviodiblasifoundationscatholicfaith.blogspot.com/
The point of these classes is to focus on some of the main conceptual “tools” that make possible the understanding of Christian Faith. Special attention is given to the way in which Christian philosophy has been “serving” theology (ancilla theologiae) over the last 2000 years, since the Fathers of the Church started to harmonize the message of Jesus Christ with the things we knew already about ourselves and the world. Reason and faith cannot contradict one another. In fact, they help one another, and shed light on the same world. This is the foundation of all Christian intellectual tradition. Without the achievements of Christian philosophy it is impossible even to read the Catechism of the Church, or to properly understand what the Mysteries of the Church are. These classes want to give a taste of this by going together on some key points and chapters of the Catechism.
FIRST CLASS
This class focuses on the philosophical vision of the world and of human nature that constitutes the logical premise of Christian Revelation. God can reveal Himself only to beings who are able to welcome His message. These beings need a certain notion and desire of God already available to them at the “natural” level: that is, at the level that comes before the “supernatural” truths to be accepted by faith.
Before the “supernatural revelation” of God, the world itself reveals to the human being the existence of God as the Creator and the ultimate end of everything (“natural revelation”).
The Catechism of the Catholic Church opens with a chapter entitled “Man’s Capacity for God.” This chapter explains that we are made to enter in communion with God. This is the main source of our dignity. “Our heart is restless until it rests in” God (St. Augustine) and our mind can reach God “with certainty from the created world” (Vatican Council I). Without this “capacity for God,” He could not “come to meet us” (second chapter of the Catechism) and we could not believe in Him (third chapter of the Catechism).
This class provides an explanation of the beginning of the Catechism and of the conceptual features of its first chapter, which is mostly about Christian anthropology and philosophy of God
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG5a1cuY68c
La legge di cui parlo qui è stata firmata dal Governatore Gavin Newsom il 30 settembre 2022, ed è quindi ormai opertiva. Il governatore aveva il potere di porre il veto ma non l'ha usato. Speriamo a questo punto che si ricorra alla Corte Suprema americana.
In questo video voglio commentare una legge appena approvata in California che concretizza non solo gli ideali assolutisti Roussoiani ma anche l'ideale di stato orwelliano incriminando tutti i medici e sanitari che osino dissentire dalle agenzie del farmaco.
Questa è la pagina tecnica della legge approvata:
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2098
Questa è l'invito dell'Association of American Physicians and Surgeons che invita tutti a reagire chidedendo al Governatore di porre il veto alla legge:
https://aapsonline.org/california-alert-ask-legislators-to-oppose-ab-2098-protect-physician-free-speech/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_vFZjDUN7g
Questa è l'undicesima clip della presentazione del mio romanzo con Iachetti ripresa da mio fratello Riccardo in cui riprendo il rapporto tra mistica e magia che per Tolkien rappresenta un ingrediente essenziale del genere fantasy (di cui lui stesso ha coniato il termine per indicarne il proprium rispetto alla fiaba).
Il romanzo è Aquila nera e i sette sapienti di Erenil
https://www.amazon.it/Aquila-nera-sette-sapienti-Erenil/dp/8890147148/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_it_IT=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=2V3AREXFMKZ88&keywords=fulvio+di+blasi+aquila+nera+e&qid=1644999840&sprefix=fulvio+di+blasi+aquila+nera+e%2Caps%2C146&sr=8-1
Edizione inglese: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Eagle-Adventures-ebook/dp/B00AKI8ZTA/ref=sr_1_7?crid=21RI1ZXMQ0JVS&keywords=fulvio+di+blasi&qid=1645862453&sprefix=fulvio+di+blasi%2Caps%2C265&sr=8-7
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHpU5uWYuO0
Introduction to Philosophy
Course: The Invention of Philosophical Rationality
First class dedicated to the concept of wonder.
This topic is about how philosophy originates from wonder and reason as constant attitudes of the human spirit.
Course description:
At its inception, philosophy is both Physics and a philosophy of nature. Philosophy begins by applying reason and logic to our observation of physical reality. The key phenomenon that philosophy tries to explain is physical change and, in so doing, it develops the very structure of its rational process. A good overview of the logical path followed by the earliest philosophers in ancient Greece is the best way to approach philosophy and shape the minds of those who want to be able to philosophize.
This course examines the thinking of the early Greek philosophers from the point of view, not of their specific answers or conclusions, but of their logic. Particular attention is given to the dispute between Parmenides and Heraclitus, and to the apparent contradiction between "being" and "becoming", which in many ways has always marked the entire history of philosophy.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbwVr4vNkE4