From the American Humanist Association: Good without a God

https://americanhumanist.org/what-is-humanism/manifesto3/

Homo Abyssus: The Drama of the Question of Being by Ferdinand Ulrich. Translated by D.C. Schindler

LEXICON

Please note: The meaning of fundamental philosophical terms can never be adequately given in a simple definition, in abstraction from all context. The following exposition of terms is meant principally as a heuristic device, both to indicate the original German terms behind the English translations, and more generally to offer the reader initial help with the text, in which the terms and phrases will take on a richer sense and receive the proper qualifications. 

A = A

absolute system (das absolute System)

analogia proportionalitatis and analogia attributionis 

anthropological reduction (die anthropologische Reduktion)

ad-vent (die Zu-kunft)

anti-space and anti-time (Wider-raum und Wider-zeit)

the “beginning” (der “Anfang”)

being present (ontologische Gegen-wart)

bonicity (die Bontät)

cleared/spaced (geräumt)

clinging-to-itself (an-sich-halten)

contradiction (der Widerspruch)

convertibility of being and “nothing” (die selbige Verwendung von Sein un “Nichts”)

crisis of being (die Krisis des Seins)

depotentiation (die Depotenzierung)

distress (of the contradiction) (die Not)

ens

entitative

Er-eignis

esse

essential past (das Ge-wesen)

essentiell (essentiell)

exinanitio (or kenosis) (die Exinanitio)

extro-version/intro-version (exitus/reditus) (Aus-kehr/Ein-kehr)

facticity (die Faktizität)

foregrasp (out into being) (der Vorgriff)

freedom open all the way to the ground (Freiheit-zum-Grunde)

“fullness of time” (die “Fülle der Zeit)

generate/temporalize (zeitigen)

Geschick (or the “self-sending” of being)

gift/task of being (die Auf-Gabe)

guiding pattern (die “Richte”)

hypostasization (die Hypostasierung)

ideal vacillation (ideale Schwebe)

ideality (Idealität)

indifferentiating (die Indifferenzierung)

intellectus agens and intellectus possibilis

intellectus capax entis (die “seinsvernehmende” Vernunft)

in via (unterwegs)

listening obedience (die Hörigkeit)

the “little way” (der “kleine Weg”)

judgment of existence/primal division of being (Seinsurteil, Ur-Teil des Seins)

logicized spirit (der logisierte Geist)

luminous night (Licht-Nacht)

metaphysics as reenactment (die “Metaphysik in der Wiederholung”)

motus

movement into subsistence (Subsistenzbewegung)

movement into finitization (Verendlichungsbewegung)

necessary sense of being (der notwendige Seins-sinn)

need-relieving/neccesary (das “Not-wendige”)

ontological difference (die ontologische Differenz)

ontological moments (die Seinsmomente)

ontological spatiotemporality (ontologische Raumzeitlichkeit)

onto-theo-logy (die Onto-theo-logie)

participation per compositionem

participation per similitudinem

pneumatic reason (pneumatische Vernunft)

posited or positing (gesetzt or die Setzung)

positivity (die Postitivität)

possibilia

potency-for-concrete-existence (Daseinsmöglichkeit)

pseudo-subsistence (pseudo-Subsistenz)

quantitas dimensiva

ratio/intellecuts (Verstand/Vernunft)

reality (Realität)

reflection or reflexivity (die Reflexion)

res

“sameness” (“Selbigkeit”)

self-necessitation (sich-vernötigen)

simplex apprehensio

speculation (die Spekulation)

sublation (Aufhebung)

subsistence (Subsistenz)

substantiell

superessentiality (die Überwesenhaftigkeit)

temptation (die Versuchung)

theologoumenon

thing-of-the-past (das Ge-wesen)

totum potestativum

transnihilation (Durchnichtung)

uncaused character (Nichtverursachtsein)

vacillation of being (or ontological vacillation) (Seinsschwebe)

Homo Abyssus: The Drama of the Question of Being by Ferdinand Ulrich. Translated by D.C. Schindler

Ch. 7 - Ontological Spatiotemporality

1. Ontological Spatiotemporality and the Movement into Subsistence - 00:00:00

2. A Consideration of Physical Temporality: Some of the Aberrations That Occur in the Unfolding of Time and Ontological Spatiotemporality - 00:15:12

3. Ontological Spatiotemporality and the Concrete Substance - 00:24:19

4. Ontological Spatiotemporality and the Reception of Being - 00:30:48

5. Ontological Spatiotemporality and the "Fullness of Time" - 00:38:04

by Francesco Bellucci

Published in The Review of Metaphysics (March 2025): 467-490

The Thesis:

A complete sign is a proposition. (major premise)

The definition of "sign" is actually a definition of "complete sign." (minor premise)

Hence, the definition of "sign" is actually a definition of the proposition.

I. - 00:00:00

II. - 00:10:40

III. - 00:35:46

IV. - 00:45:27

V. - 00:58:34

by Sean Foley and Jonathan Buttaci

Published in The Review of Metaphysics (March 2025): 403-443

Criterion 1. The receptive intellect must play a constitutive role in the human activity of contemplation.

Criterion 2. If the agent intellect is a human intellectual principle, it must play a role in the human activity of contemplation that reflects its divine character.

I - The Divinity of the Agent Intellect

II - Criteria for Interpretive Adequacy 00:08:00

III - A Justification for Applying Criterion 2 Ex Hypothesi 00:21:11

IV - Assimilationist Proposals 00:24:02

V - Dispositionalist Proposals 00:39:45

VI - Initiationist Proposals 00:46:26

VII - Abstractionist Proposals 00:50:12

VIII - Preliminary Conclusions 01:12:05

by Apolonio and Siobhan Latar

Communio 51 (Winter 2024). © 2024 by Communio: International Catholic Review

" [I]t is precisely in his courageous, fruitful will not to grasp, his refusal to claim for his own what is not given, that the deepest truth, beauty, and goodness of man's nature is displayed most radiantly."

1. Introduction

2. Giussani on Virginity 00:04:28

3. Tolkien and the Virginity of Subcreation 00:28:06

4. Conclusion 00:56:56

Excerpt from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

pgs. 692-698

1996

Can We Create Ourselves?

“Humanist and Christian Theologies of the Body”

By Benedict M. Ashley, O.P.

1985

Part IV Chs. 12-14: A Process Theology of the Body

Chapter 12: The Spiritual Body

i: Glorious Wounds

1) The Dead Body of Christ

2) Why Did He Die?

3) Merit

ii: The Immortal Body (00:51:34)

1) Life After Death?

2) The Body Transformed

3) Guesswork

4) The Intermediate State

5) The Self-Condemned

Chapter 13: The Glorified Body (03:23:56)

i: The God Revealed in Jesus

1) Father, Son, and Spirit

2) Does the Christian God Exist?

ii: Persons Without Bodies (04:17:50)

1) Do Angels Exist?

2) Encountering the Angels

iii: The Eucharistic, Transformed World (05:07:39)

1) Eucharistic Transformation

2) The Trinity Centered Universe

3) The Transformed World

Chapter 14: The Godliness of Matter (06:31:32)

i: How Matter Mirrors God

ii: The Human Body: God’s Image (06:42:03)

iii: The Body is God’s Glory (06:45:05)

Can We Create Ourselves?

“Humanist and Christian Theologies of the Body”

By Benedict M. Ashley, O.P.

1985

Part IV Chs. 10-11: A Process Theology of the Body

Chapter 10: Ethics of Co-Creative Stewardship

i: Ecology

ii: Food (00:30:31)

1) The Stewardship of Food and Drink

2)The Christian Ideal of Poverty

iii: Security (00:52:28)

1) Stewardship and Aggression

2) The Christian Ideal of Martyrdom and Non-Violence

iv: Sexuality and Sociality (01:10:19)

1) Evolutionary and Other Meanings of Sexuality

2) The Future of Sex

3) A Creative Ethics of Sexuality

v: Information, Society, Creativity (02:12:08)

1) Communication

2) Government

vi: Ethics and History (02:44:21)

Chapter 11: God’s Fullness in Bodily Form (Col. 2:9) (03:19:10)

i: The Son of God

1) Christology from Below, from Above, from Without, from Within

2) The Annunciation of the Virginal Conception

3) Baptism, Temptation, Transfiguration, Sacrifice

4) The Historical Authenticity of these Experiences

ii: The Body of Christ (04:48:41)

1) True Man

2) The Christian Church as the Body of Christ

3) Ministry

iii: The Mother of God (06:37:02)

1) The Mother of Jesus

2) True God

Can We Create Ourselves?

“Humanist and Christian Theologies of the Body”

By Benedict M. Ashley, O.P.

1985

Part III: A Radical Process Interpretation of Science

Chapter 7: Primary Units in Process

i: The Meaning of the Evolutionary Process

1) The Variety of Evolutionary Processes

2) Evolution and Causality

ii: False Clues (00:26:12)

1) Reductionism

2) Process Philosophies

3) Clearing Away the Nonsense

iii: Primary Unites (01:00:28)

1) Empirical Being

2) The Natural Unit

3) Units in Process

4) Kinds of Process

Chapter 8: Process and Creativity (02:22:10)

i: Natural Processes

1) Categories and Causes

2) Too Many Categories?

ii: Transcendent Process: Body and Mind (02:59:26)

1) Interiority and Transcendence

2) Human Creativity

3) The Mind-Body Problem

4) Bodily Beauty

5) A Radical Process Philosophy

Chapter 9: Historicity and the Human Body (04:39:54)

i: Two Conceptions of Human Historicity

1) Humanism and Historicity

2) Christianity and Historicity

ii: Cultural Relativism (05:19:38)

1) Nature, Nurture and History as a Science

2) Morality and Cultural Relativism

iii: The Bible, Human Historicity and Ethics (06:23:20)

1) Adam and Biblical Anthropology

2) Natural Law and Christology

Can We Create Ourselves?

“Humanist and Christian Theologies of the Body”

By Benedict M. Ashley, O.P.

1985

Part II: Christian Theologies of the Body

Chapter 4: The Platonic Christian Theology

i: Biblical Themes

1) The Body is a Tomb

2) Bible and Body

3) Liberation and Resurrection Theme

4) Creation or Image Theme

5) Sin-Death-Cross Theme

6) Wisdom Theme

7) Stewardship Theme

8) Fertility Theme

9) Suffering Servant Theme

00:32:10 ii: Eastern Platonic Christian Theology

1) From the Jewish to Greek World-View

2) Anthropology of Origen and the Cappadocians

3) Anthropology of the Pseudo-Dionysius and St. Maximus

01:20:08 iii: Western Platonic Christian Theology

1) The Anthropology of St. Augustine

2) Medieval Theology Before the Rise of the Universities

02:00:27 Chapter 5: The Aristotelian Christian Theology

i: The Aristotelian Alternative

1) Aristotle in the Eastern Church

2) Aristotle in the Latin Universities

3) The Survival of Platonic Dualism

02:49:56 ii: Nominalism and the Shift from Nature to Law

1) Nominalism and Voluntarism

2) From Nature to Law

03:05:47 iii: Renaissance and the Platonic Idealization of the Body

1) The Ideal Body

2) The Mathematization of Natural Science

03:35:34 iv: The Body and the Sacraments

1) The Reformation Subordination of Sacrament to Word

2) The Counter-Reformation Reduction of Sacrament to Law

3) The Desacralized Body

04:32:03 Chapter 6: Christian Theology Confronted by Humanism

i: The Cartesian Transition

1) The Phenomenal Body

2) The Cartesian Christian Theology

05:02:38 ii: Christian Reaction to the Rise of Humanism

1) The Rise of Empiricism

2) The Experiment with Idealism

05:36:36 iii: Compromises

1) Protestant Approachement

2) Catholic Approachement

05:57:59 iv: The Dialogue with Scientistic or Positivistic Humanism

1) The Thomistic Revival

2) Recent Renewals

3) The Lessons of History

Can We Create Ourselves?

“Humanist and Christian Theologies of the Body”

By Benedict M. Ashley, O.P.

1985

Part I: Science, the Body and the Humanist Theology

Chapter 1: Can We Create Ourselves?

i: We Are Bodies

ii: Can We Create Ourselves? - 6:05

iii: The Body and Ethics - 14:19

iv: A Hermeneutical Method - 17:19

1) The Interpretative Dilemma

2) An Expanding Horizon

Chapter 2: What Does Science Say We Are? - 38:22

i: We are Thinking Bodies

1) The Scientific Vision

2) We are Communicators

3) We are Self-Aware

ii: Our Bodies Serve Our Brains - 47:59

1) We are Brains

2) We are Homeostatic Systems

3) We are Genetic Codes

iii: We are Matter-Energy - 1:17:49

1) We are Matter

2) We are Energy

iv: We Have Evolved and Will Perish in the Cosmic Epoch - 1:39:02

1) We Have a Cosmic History

2) We are Upstream Swimmers

v: A Scientific Definition of the Human Person - 1:57:45

Chapter 3: Humanist Theologies of the Body (1700-2000) - 2:01:03

i: The World-View of Humanism

1) The Humanist Interpretation of Science

2) Contemporary Humanism and the Human Body

3) What Separated Humanism from Christianity?

ii: The Empiricist Development of the Humanist World-View - 2:36:50

1) The Newtonian World-View and Deism

2) Darwin and the Evolutionary View of Nature

3) Einstein and the Relativistic World-View

iii: The Idealist Critique of the Empiricist Interpretation of Humanism - 3:01:29

1) The Kantian Epistemological Revolution

2) Idealism and Historicity

3) Humanism, Phenomenology, and Hermeneutic Philosophy

4) The Human Body in Art and Literature

iv: Resolution of the Inner Contradictions of Humanism - 3:55:33

1) The Marxist Critique

2) Process Philosophy as a Revision of Humanism

3) The Strength of Humanism

v: Conclusion of Part I - 4:16:51

The Heart: An Analysis of Human and Divine Affectivity

by Dietrich von Hildebrand

A Doctoral Dissertation.

https://archive.org/details/heartanalysisofh0000vonh

Part 3: The Human Heart Transformed

Ch. 1 - The Heart of the True Christian

Ch. 2 - Amare in Deo - 20:40

Appendix: Introduction to the 1965/77 Edition of The Heart Dietrich von Hildebrand - 47:00

The Heart: An Analysis of Human and Divine Affectivity

by Dietrich von Hildebrand

A Doctoral Dissertation.

https://archive.org/details/heartanalysisofh0000vonh

Part 2: The Heart of Jesus

Ch. 1 - The Affectivity of the God-Man

Ch. 2 - The Mystery of the Sacred Heart - 1:11:26

Ch. 8 - The Heart as the Real Self - 3:31:54

The Heart: An Analysis of Human and Divine Affectivity

by Dietrich von Hildebrand

A Doctoral Dissertation.

https://archive.org/details/heartanalysisofh0000vonh

Part 1: The Human Heart

Ch. 1 - The Role of the Heart

Ch. 2 - Non-Spiritual and Spiritual Affectivity - 58:27

Ch. 3 - Tender Affectivity - 2:06:45

Ch. 4 - Hypertrophy of the Heart - 2:35:03

Ch. 5 - Affective Atrophy - 2:55:56

Ch. 6 - Heartlessness - 3:08:07

Ch. 7 - The Tyrannical Heart - 3:22:07

Ch. 8 - The Heart as the Real Self - 3:31:54

by Paolo Prosperi

Communio 45 (Summer 2018). © 2018 by Communio: International Catholic Review

https://www.communio-icr.com/files/45.2_Prosperi_WEB.pdf

"Such an impossible unity of passion and freedom is really the beginning of heaven on earth."

I - 00:02:28

II - 00:07:09

III - 00:19:18

IV - 00:25:33

V - 00:38:14

VI - 00:51:28

VII - 01:12:04

VIII - 01:32:18

by Don Adams

Published in The Review of Metaphysics (December 2024): 231-256

II - 2:30

III - 10:49

IV - 18:07

V - 32:05

VI - 37:57

VII - 51:54

From

https://www.kolbefoundation.org/gbookswebsite/studentlibrary/greatestbooks/aaabooks/stein/faceofgod.html

by Victor Salas

Published in The Review of Metaphysics 78 (September 2024): 31-54

A poem.

In appreciation of Maxim Gorky at the International Convention of Atheists, 1929

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/42166/staying-power