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131 - Virtue Is Not Enough - J. Budziszewski

The Catholic Culture Podcast

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The Aristotelian Method of Happiness

Aristotle is the same thing as Thomas Aquinas, although people don't always notice it because of his particular style and the genre of this scholastic dissertation. The classical writers did not have contempt for the common sense of the plain person as many people do today. And so they always began with common sense with the with commonly accepted opinions or the opinions of people who are commonly accounted to be wise. They then tried to well, as one philosopher once put it, to assemble reminders,. To use one part of common opinion to interrogate another common opinion in a thoughtful conversation.

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