Welcome to Pines with Aquinas. My name is Matt Fred.

If you could sit down over a pint of beer with Thomas Aquinas and ask him any one question,

what would it be? Today we're going to ask Thomas, why should I be moral?

Okay, well, also we're going to be talking about morality in general, how free will plays into us

becoming virtuous, whether or not we'll have free will in heaven, and we're joined today

around the bar table by Father Dominic Legh, who is a Dominican, and it's kind of cool halfway

through this discussion. He totally schools me and kind of accuses me of having a Jesuit take on

something I ought to have a Dominican take on. You'll see what I mean. Enjoy the show.

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All right guys, welcome back to Pines with Aquinas. This is a really fabulous, fabulous, fabulous

discussion that I had with Father Dominic Legh. You are going to absolutely love it. I absolutely

loved it and told Father Dominic at the end of our discussion that I would be going back and

listening to this again and again because it was really like me just sitting at his feet and

being like, teach me, teach me more, correct me, you're awesome. So not a weird way, maybe a little

weird. But anyway, you're going to love the show. We get into everything, right? Like why would,

we talk about morality, like choosing the good, what makes a moral act good, what Aquinas has to

say about that. We talk about why on earth Satan and the demons would choose against God, right?

When they knew exactly what they were doing and they didn't have the sort of passions we have,

we took about free will and how that plays into morality and a bunch else besides as I said,

hey, before we get into today's show, I want to thank a few people because there are a bunch of

awesome people who make this show really great and not just this show but the things that surround

this show. And I think it's high time that I thank them. So let me just go through the list in no

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