
Blsd. John Duns Scotus (Dr. Tom Ward) | Ep. 409
Pints With Aquinas
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The Aristotelian Tradition of Virtue Ethics
Skoda: I'm really drawn to the broader, Aristotelian tradition of the, what's broadly called as a virtue ethics. He argues that properly loving someone is not merely a matter of like achieving you, Daimania, for myself but really is a kind of getting over myself and attending to the good of the other. And so by cultivating what he calls the affectio, you stitsi, this affection for justice in the sense of just like the right ordering of things.
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