Anyway, so, yes, it's called a basic overview of toomistic metaphysics.

And like I said, this isn't going to be kind of a critique or anything.

I'm not leveling any critique.

I think there's plenty of content that we've got on the Discord for that kind of thing.

This is really just going to be an exposition of the position.

So I'm mainly basing this off of Ed Faser,

and Ed Faser is pretty much a premier Tomas nowadays.

So I've got some recommended content here.

So his book's classic metaphysics and his other book,

Five Proofs for the Existence of God,

it's kind of like a spin on,

it's not actually Aquinas is five ways, which we will go through in this talk briefly,

but it's kind of his own arguments, and he's kind of modified some classical arguments,

including a couple of Aquinas. So it's kind of more, unquote neotomistic if you want to call it that.

Then there's one of the many by Father Norris Clark. This is really good. I know classical

theist uses this. And then there's this YouTube channel called the Tomistic Institute,

which gives some really nice kind of basic explanations of things. So I'll try my best to explain things, and I'll take questions at the end and I'll answer them if I can.

So without further ado, cool. So first of all, we need to talk about just, well, what is metaphysics first of all?

So a lot of people kind of loosely throw the term metaphysics around,

but if we're going to go with the Aristotelian tradition, metaphysics is going to be more broadly

defined as the study of being, qua, being. Now the term quare there, if you guys aren't familiar,

it's just a connector, which means

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