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What is Happiness? | Father Dominic Legge, O.P.

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The Stoic View of Pleasure

The Stoics held a view that all pleasures are evil. Aquinas says delight or de la tazio is a proper accident of happiness. We also might encounter the Calvinist view, especially prevalent in the US given our heritage. So we do actually live in a culture that continues to be shaped by that dynamic.

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