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Loneliness and Friendship: Aquinas' Cure for What Ails the Soul | Prof. Thomas Hibbs

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The Virtuous Life for Aristotle and Aquinas

The virtuous life for Aristotle and for Aquinas is very much a matter of getting your habits right. As you start to get your habits right, doing what's right becomes more enjoyable so that there's actually delight in being good rather than paying and being good. Even having to deeply, rightly chastise yourself for doing things wrong is not virtue. So getting to virtue in the Catholic tradition actually makes the virtuous life enjoyable.

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