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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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The Virtue Ethics of Aquinas

The question is whether basic goods are commensurable or not. Can I make a calculus of basic goods and sacrifice some over others? Or are they commensurable? And what does the pastor's wife say? We did not do it for goodness sake. We did it for the children. Don't use words like good with me. They are foolish words. If we're going to take seriously the virtue ethics, if we want to call it that, of Thomas Aquinas, we have to take seriously what Ms. Anskum argues for in her essay," he says.

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