The Three Transcendentals: Truth, Goodness, & Beauty with Aron van Os - Lucas Vos Podcast #25

Today we discuss the three transcendentals, how they differ from the virtues, and much more. Please enjoy.

Timestamps:

(0:00) Introduction
(03:50) Pseudo Dionysius and the intersection of the philosophical and the religious
(05:53) How Reason relates to Truth, Goodness, and Beauty
(13:07) The Transcendentals as the water in which we are swimming
(17:22) Is the Good the same as God?
(22:35) Multiplying and Unifying
(28:00) Exploring Beauty and the spirit of resentment
(39:15) The misappropriation of the Transcendentals and discussing Plato
(44:55) Modern Art, Libertarian philosophy, and absolutizing the relative
(56:54) The Death of God era as the opposite of Gnosticism
(1:00:22) "Dostyevski gets it" 
(1:01:50) How Vervaeke's Symphony of Sages relates to Jesus
(01:07:20) Outro 

Youtube link to this talk (including video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_cwHhFpklA 

Aron's talk with Karen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qr8v6HxoXM

Channel on which Aron's talk will appear soon: https://www.youtube.com/@UC4OiHF85nhIHQbpAVzTX4jw

Video/Audio references:

Bishop Robert Barron, Albert Cardinal Meyer Lecture, "Breaking Through the Buffered Self," pt. 1, March 10 - 2022 (video and audio):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-_iGRrDxT0&ab_channel=MundeleinSeminary

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0UDnl1kE85SEYWC1Ug4paE

Bishop Robert Barron, Albert Cardinal Meyer Lecture, "Breaking Through the Buffered Self," pt. 2, March 11 - 2022 (video and audio):

https://www.youtube.com/live/ULQsSYaqcAE?si=gS4Odp3LZAr3YPBp

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0yPLoRdKKG1q7obT8aMTgp

Written references:

Schindler, David Christopher. "Beauty and the Analogy of Truth: On the Order of the Transcendentals in Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Trilogy." American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 85.2 (2011): 297-321.

Schindler, David C. The Catholicity of Reason. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2013.

Brown, Lesley, ed. The Nicomachean Ethics. Oxford University Press, USA, 2009.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings. Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Luibheid, Colm, and Paul Rorem, eds. Pseudo-Dionysius: The Complete Works. Paulist Press, 1987.

Feser, Edward. "Truth as a Transcendental." Metaphysics Through Semantics: The Philosophical Recovery of the Medieval Mind: Essays in Honor of Gyula Klima. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. 185-203. Image link: https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2021/10/truth-as-transcendental.html

Peter Adamson, "HoP 228 - It's All Good - The Transcendentals," History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, King's College London — https://historyofphilosophy.net/transcendentals

Bloom, Allan, and Adam Kirsch. The Republic of Plato. Vol. 2. New York: Basic Books, 1968.