Obiectio
Matter is treated as ultimate explanation rather than as one mode of created being.
Apologetic Dashboard
Materialism is examined through being, mind, truth, freedom and finality.
Apologetic Dashboard
Matter is treated as ultimate explanation rather than as one mode of created being.
MindConsciousness and truthReason and truth are reduced to chemical events.
Moral actionFreedom and responsibilityReal responsibility becomes difficult if all acts are merely determined mechanisms.
FinalityPurpose and natureNatural order and finality are denied or reduced to accident.
Ontology
Matter is treated as ultimate explanation rather than as one mode of created being.
Matter is real and good, but materialism cannot account for being as such, truth, mind, free moral responsibility and finality.
Scripture, Tradition, Fathers, Magisterium, canon law and historical evidence are kept together so every objection can be answered point by point.
Mind
Reason and truth are reduced to chemical events.
Matter is real and good, but materialism cannot account for being as such, truth, mind, free moral responsibility and finality.
Scripture, Tradition, Fathers, Magisterium, canon law and historical evidence are kept together so every objection can be answered point by point.
Moral action
Real responsibility becomes difficult if all acts are merely determined mechanisms.
Matter is real and good, but materialism cannot account for being as such, truth, mind, free moral responsibility and finality.
Scripture, Tradition, Fathers, Magisterium, canon law and historical evidence are kept together so every objection can be answered point by point.
Finality
Natural order and finality are denied or reduced to accident.
Matter is real and good, but materialism cannot account for being as such, truth, mind, free moral responsibility and finality.
Scripture, Tradition, Fathers, Magisterium, canon law and historical evidence are kept together so every objection can be answered point by point.