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Joakim Joseph Jordan

French Catholic YouTuber and author who defends Thomist metaphysics against materialism and relativism.

YouTuberWriter France

20 videos analysed · 144 quotes checked word for word · updated 2026-11-01

In 30 secondsJordan presents himself as a Catholic and a Thomist: "I am not a materialist, I am a Christian. I believe in the soul, in angels." For him God is the first cause and the source of all being, and the visible world does not exhaust reality. He holds that reason and faith agree, that free will is real though wounded, that objective morality needs a transcendent foundation, and that life has a given meaning. He argues against scientism, relativism and Nietzsche's atheism, and wants to refute Spinoza. He also publishes books on ethics, metaphysics and freedom.
Key facts

Positions

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Does God exist?God
AtheismTheism
Stated explicitly
Position

A convinced theist: "I am Catholic", God is the first cause, the source of all being, and the visible world "does not exhaust reality".

Why

Defends : Evil is not a thing: privation and free will, The third way: the contingent and the necessary, Sufficient reason: why something rather than nothing?, The moral law points to a lawgiverCriticizes : The problem of evil, God, or Nature, Religion, an illusion born of wishes

Can we reach certain truths?Certainty
SkepticismCertainty attainable
Stated explicitly
Position

For him certain truths can be reached and even demonstrated: "Saying 'I know nothing' can become laziness. Saying 'I know this, I can demonstrate that'… takes much more work." His humility ("the truth exists, but I am not the truth") is about distinguishing what is demonstrated from what is believed, not about doubting.

Is the mind more than matter?Mind and body
MaterialismDualism
Stated explicitly
Position

Clearly not a materialist: "I am not a materialist, I am a Christian. I believe in the soul." The spiritual soul "cannot be produced by matter", is created directly by God, and no technology will ever reproduce thought. He follows Thomas Aquinas (the soul is the form of the body), but his answer to "is the mind more than matter?" is an unqualified yes.

Why
Are we truly free?Freedom
Determinism (no free will)Free will
Stated explicitly
Position

Free will is real: man is free and therefore responsible, though his freedom is wounded. Perfect freedom is the power to do the known good, not to want anything at all.

Why
What makes an action good?Basis of morality
Duty (deontology)Consequences (consequentialism)Character (virtue ethics)Other (divine law, relationships, value creation…)
Stated explicitly
Position

The good is defined by God and rooted in what God is: it is neither outside God nor invented by him.

Do good and evil exist objectively?Status of morality
Anti-realism (morality is human-made)Moral realism (objective moral truths)
Stated explicitly
Position

Moral realist: good and evil are real and objective, and for him an objective rule needs "a transcendent reference". Diversity of customs does not prove that morals are arbitrary.

Why

Criticizes : The Euthyphro dilemma, The genealogy of morality

Can reason judge everything, faith included?Faith and reason
Primacy of faith / the heartReason alone judges
Stated explicitly
Position

Faith and reason agree: reason "cannot be the enemy of faith if it is truly rational". But reason is one mode of knowledge, not the ultimate one, and he is not an absolute rationalist.

Why

Defends : Faith cannot contradict reason

Does life have a given meaning?Meaning of life
No given meaning (absurd, to be created)Objective meaning (nature, God, the Good)
Stated explicitly
Position

He believes life has a real meaning that we receive, and that man has a nature he did not choose.

Why
Are humans naturally good?Human nature
Fundamentally weak or corruptFundamentally good or perfectible
Stated explicitly
Position

"Man is created in the image of the divine itself. But his nature is wounded": neither pure nor radically bad.

No sourced position yet on: Source of knowledge.

On the big questions

Does God exist?Theism

Catholic theist: God is the first cause, from whom all being comes.

Why

Defends : Evil is not a thing: privation and free will, The third way: the contingent and the necessary, Sufficient reason: why something rather than nothing?, The moral law points to a lawgiverCriticizes : The problem of evil, God, or Nature, Religion, an illusion born of wishes

The question on the site: all the arguments
Does life have a meaning?A given meaning

Life has a given meaning, received, not invented.

Why
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Are we free?Free will

Defends real free will, wounded but genuine, against determinism and Calvinism.

Why
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What makes something right?God's will

For him the definition of good and evil comes from God, and objective morality needs a transcendent ground.

Why

Criticizes : The Euthyphro dilemma, The genealogy of morality

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Is the mind the brain?The mind is not matter

Not a materialist: the soul is not produced by matter and neuroscience will not explain the self.

Why
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Should we fear death?The soul survives

Certain of life after death, based on the resurrection.

Why
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Who am I, really?A soul

A person's identity rests on the soul, not on memory or information.

Why
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Should we believe without proof?Faith and reason agree

Faith and reason agree; reason is a real but not ultimate way of knowing.

Why

Defends : Faith cannot contradict reason

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Why is there something rather than nothing?There is a reason

There must be a reason for being: contingent things cannot be their own explanation.

Why
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Can science explain everything?True, but not everything

Science is valid in its order, but scientism is a metaphysics and science does not answer everything.

Why
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Does history have a direction?A divine plan

History follows a divine plan, though much escapes us.

Why
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In their words

I believe I know that life has a meaning, and that every human being has an extremely deep, inherent thirst for meaning, anchored within.
I am not a materialist, I am a Christian. I believe in the soul, in angels.
Perfect freedom is the power to sovereignly do the known good without being turned aside by ignorance, fear, passion or constraint.
There is suffering, therefore God is not. It was too easy and it was simply false.
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For a rule to be just, it needs an objective transcendent reference and a verticality.

How the ideas evolved

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  1. 2024Job: the meaning of trial

    In his analysis of the book of Job he rejects easy explanations of the suffering of the just and says the supreme end is God himself, not good and evil.

    In their words
    « je pense que le bien et le mal ne sont pas des finalités suprêmes que la finalité suprême c'est Dieu en lui-même »He thinks good and evil are not the supreme ends: the supreme end is God himself. watch
    « il faut mettre la même énergie qu'on a mis à tout comprendre à accepté de ne pas comprendre ce qu'on ne peut pas comprendre »Seek to understand everything, then accept with the same energy what cannot be understood. watch
    « taisez-vous il y a des moments où vaut mieux se taire comme elou et dire on sait pas Dieu sait mieux »Faced with innocent suffering, explanations are wrong; one should say 'God knows better'. watch
  2. 2025Resurrection and providence

    Analysing the Resurrection, he calls life after death a certainty and says everything lies within a vast divine plan.

    In their words
    « il faut juste croire et laisser tomber sa propre sagesse »Sometimes one must simply believe and set aside one's own wisdom: reason alone would not have foreseen the resurrection. watch
    « ce n'est pas une croyance. Ce n'est même pas une espérance, c'est une certitude. C'est qu'ils sont encore là quelque part »He affirms with certainty that the dead are still somewhere, grounded in the resurrection. watch
    « Et cela a été démontré par cet épisode de la résurrection »The resurrection of Christ is for him a demonstrated fact. watch
  3. 2025The Treatise on Ethics

    In October 2025 he self-publishes "Traité d'Éthique", a scholastic treatise using Scripture, the Church Fathers, Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas.

  4. 2026Metaphysics book and the consciousness video

    In January 2026 comes "Métaphysique", written in the geometric method. In March he states in a video on consciousness that he is not a materialist and that no AI will ever match human intelligence.

    In their words
    « je ne suis pas un matérialiste »He declares himself a non-materialist: personal identity rests on the soul, not on psychological functions. watch
    « Elle repose sur l'existence fondamentale de son âme qui fonde son existence tout court. »He holds that personal identity rests on the soul, created directly by God, even when memory fades. watch
    « Ce sera une simulation psychologique extrêmement convaincante mais ce ne sera pas votre âme. »He claims a digital copy of his memories would not be him: it would not reproduce his soul. watch
  5. 2026Series "Pour en finir avec…"

    From August 2026 he takes on Nietzsche, obscurantism, New Age, Freud's unconscious and atheism, arguing that Nietzsche is a great diagnostician of modernity but a poor doctor.

    In their words
    « Nous supportons beaucoup mieux une douleur qui a un sens qu'une douleur absurde »He endorses Nietzsche's observation that we bear pain better when it has meaning. watch
    « Si j'ai appelé ma partie Nietzsche n'a pas compris le christianisme, c'est vraiment pas parce que je me la joue »He maintains that Nietzsche did not understand Christianity. watch
    « mais faire comme si sa métaphysique fondamentale enseigner que la matière est mauvaise est absolument impossible si on connaît la doctrine chrétienne »He rejects Nietzsche's claim that Christianity is hostile to the body: creation, incarnation, resurrection. watch
  6. 2026Treatise on Freedom and refuting Spinoza

    In July he presents his work on freedom against Calvin and the existentialists. In October he says his ambition is to refute Spinoza and calls Leibniz the greatest Western metaphysician.

    In their words
    « La liberté parfaite, c'est le pouvoir d'accomplir souverainement le bien connu sans être détourné par l'ignorance, la peur, la passion ou la contrainte. »He defines perfect freedom as the power to accomplish the known good, not the power to will anything. watch
    « en tant que chrétien, je dis la création est voulue. Elle aurait pu ne pas être. »As a Christian he holds that creation is freely willed and contingent, against Spinoza. watch
    « Cette doctrine, elle est absurde selon moi encore une fois et surtout elle rend toute morale monstrueuse. »He calls the Calvinist doctrine, where God causes everything, absurd and morally monstrous. watch

The arguments 10

The site's arguments they defend or criticize, and why. Click a title to see the full argument.

Defends · 5
Evil is not a thing: privation and free willAugustin · Does God exist?

He uses it often: evil is a privation, not a principle, and moral evil comes from free people.

The third way: the contingent and the necessaryThomas d'Aquin · Does God exist?

An endless series of contingent beings does not solve the question of their ultimate reason.

Sufficient reason: why something rather than nothing?Leibniz · Does God exist?

He defends the principle of sufficient reason: nothing contingent is without a reason.

Faith cannot contradict reasonThomas d'Aquin · Should we believe without proof?

Catholic thought has preambles of faith reachable by reason, then motives of credibility.

The moral law points to a lawgiverC. S. Lewis · Does God exist?

Even the relativist protests when treated unjustly, a sign of a norm we do not create.

Criticizes · 5
The Euthyphro dilemmaPlaton · What makes something right?

He answers the dilemma: the good is neither outside God nor arbitrarily made by him, it is rooted in what God is.

The problem of evilHume · Does God exist?

"There is suffering, therefore God is not" is too easy and false in his view, though he grants evil is a serious objection.

The genealogy of moralityNietzsche · What makes something right?

He rejects the idea of a Christianity hostile to the body and a weak Christ; and a norm's origin does not decide its worth.

God, or NatureSpinoza · Does God exist?

A God constrained to create by his own necessity would no longer be God; creation is free and contingent.

Allies and opponents

Close, influences
Thomas AquinasClose

"I agree with him 100%" that reason is what is proper to man; he calls himself a Thomist.

Augustine of HippoClose

He approves Augustine on the woman caught in adultery and uses his account of evil as privation.

Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizClose

He calls Leibniz the greatest Western metaphysician and takes up his vocabulary.

Disagree
Friedrich NietzscheDisagrees

The most serious atheist for him, a great diagnostician of modernity but a poor doctor; Nietzsche did not understand Christianity.

VoltaireDisagrees

Says Voltaire can be right a hundred times against Christians without refuting Christianity, and that he did not understand Job or refute Leibniz.

Benedictus de SpinozaDisagrees

His life's ambition is to refute Spinoza, whom he admires, over the necessity of the world.

Jean CalvinDisagrees

Has no respect for Calvin's view of freedom, where God causes everything.

Immanuel KantDisagrees

Opposes Kantian autonomy and holds there is a natural order independent of our perception.

Sigmund FreudDisagrees

Holds that psychoanalytic therapy working does not make the theory true.

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