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Episode 27 – What Are Virtues and Why Do We Need Them? | Fr. Michael Sherwin, O.P.

Aquinas 101 - Course 2: Introduction to Thomistic Philosophy

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Jody, Why Are You Making the Lemonade?

Jody makes the lemonade for his grandfather because it's a basic good. If we're going to take seriously the way of analyzing how we speak and how we act that is in the Aristotelian tradition, Jody's insight is not an isolated insight. And now I want to jump to the experience of a long time professor of ethics at Wellesleyon, Philip Haley. He had done a study of cruelty and evil but decided he wanted to do something about people who do good things.

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