Prof. Thomas Pink joins the editors to discuss Thomas Hobbess radical rejection of the scholastic understanding of law as a coercive teacher, and the anti-integralist motives behind that rejection. B

The editors discuss Pope Leo XIIIs encyclical Libertas praestantissimum, on the true nature of libertyboth natural and moraland on the errors of the liberals. Bibliography Pope Leo XIII, Libertas p

The encyclicals Deus caritas est and Spe salvi raise two opposite objections against Christianity: Christian love seems too altruistic, opposed to ones own happiness; while Christian hope seems too

We live in a society in which the few live in excess, while the many live in miserable and wretched conditions. We live in a society in which the poor are defenseless against the inhumanity of employers and the unbridled greed of competitors.

Continuing a series of reflections on important 20th century critiques of modernity and liberalism that has included episodes on Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue and Leo Strauss’s Natural Right and History,

Justice, according to St. Thomas, is the perpetual and constant will to render each one his right. Distributive justice, commutative justice, potential parts, quasi-integral parts, debt, cannibalism—in this episode, the editors cover it all.

The Josias Editors discuss punishment and the good of order in a teleological universe. Bibliography Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, II-II Q. 60; II-II Q 64, A 2; II-II Q. 108. Plato, Gorgias. Music: “Bin ich nun frei Wirklich frei,” Das Rheingold,

Does natural law demand a world government? Bibliography Pope Pius XI, Ubi Arcano, 1922. Henri Grenier, World Government is Required by Natural Law, The Josias, 2015. Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist., Secularized Fraternity or Solidarity and the Failure of th...

The editors are joined by special guest Daniel to discuss the Resurrection of Christ. Along the way they explore what it means for Christ to be New Adam, the necessity and fittingness of the Resurrection, and the meaning of the Resurrection both as the...

The editors return and deconstruct integralism by taking on the post-structuralism of Jacques Derrida, but in the end discover they were metaphysicians all along. Along the way, the discussion veers into Nietzsche,