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Is God a Being in St. Augustine? - Father Robert Dodaro

Augustine does not call God a Being. Augustine however refers to God as Idipsum, which we might translate Being-Itself. He writes about this concept in several texts. This one is from his Commentary on Psalm 121:

The Language of War: How Metaphors Shape What We Believe -- Discussion 

A ‘Reasonable’ Introduction to Bernard Lonergan. – CBC April 2026
 

Artificial intelligence, alternative facts, wars of choice.

How do we know what’s real, true — or even good — in an age where these principles are under threat every moment of every day?

Canadian Jesuit Bernard Lonergan (1904-1984) saw all of this coming. He devoted much of his life's work to understanding human consciousness.

Brief Bio of Father Robert Dodaro – Speaker at the Aurora Philosophy Institute, 18 April 2026

Quotes from Peter Ridpath 2020 (implicitly about ‘metaphysical realism’).

Language of War is a discussion that will be led by Victoria Fé, a scholar who specializes in philosophy of language. It is mainly based on Lakoff and Johnson’s theory that our abstract thinking is, by necessity, metaphorical. We will discuss everyday metaphors we live by, without realizing it, and how this mapping mechanism allows us to shape our higher order narratives into different conceptual frames - including the war narratives we get exposed to in mass media.

John Smithin

John Smithin interviewed by Viktoriya Korchikova-Malovichko for the ‘Kak Tee Kat Tuss’ YouTube Channel  - 09.01.2025

1/ Please, introduce yourself and your main projects;

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