Episode 18: The Transcendentals

La Bonne Vie

Kyle and Deacon Conque get transcendental this week! We talk a lot in classical education about nourishing souls on truth, goodness, and beauty. But what does this actually mean? What are the transcendentals? Why do we forget the transcendental of unity so often? How do we order our homes by the transcendentals? Join us as we ponder these questions and more.

Show Notes and Outline of Topics

Quote from Pope St. John Paul the Great, Fides et Ratio

"Wherever men and women discover a call to the absolute and transcendent, the metaphysical dimension of reality opens up before them: in truth, in beauty, in moral values, in other persons, in being itself, in God."

1. The Transcendentals in Classical Tradition and Catholic Faith

𐄁 truth, goodness, and beauty...but don't forget about unity

𐄁 the transcendentals nourish the soul: cultivating desire

𐄁 defining transcendentals: aspects of being coextensive with being

2. Understanding Our Path to God

𐄁 metaphysical conversion

𐄁 seeking an education that is timeless

𐄁 grammar, logic, rhetoric, and wisdom in connection to unity, truth, goodness, and beauty

𐄁 handing on the faith effectively

𐄁 orienting our homes to the transcendentals

3. The Transcendentals Cultivate and Nourish

𐄁 each transcendental and how it relates us to being

𐄁 ordering homes by the transcendentals

𐄁 disintegration, grace, and hope

𐄁 invitation to glory through the transcendentals

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