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183: Why Every Catholic NEEDS Aristotle and Aquinas [Podcast]

Dr Taylor Marshall Podcast

Dr. Taylor Marshall

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.74K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2018

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Why has the Catholic Church degraded in the last 50-100 years. It’s a malevolent rejection (and suppression) of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas and Catholic “virtue ethics.” We usually focus on liturgy and theology,

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0:00.0

What is?

0:02.0

in the Catholic Church in the past 50 to 100 years that has led to decline?

0:07.5

In fact, we could say it's been missing in the West, even missing in humanity,

0:12.3

and the answer to that question is virtue. Virtue are the

0:17.7

habits, the patterns in your life and the life of everyone around us that makes us not only good and great but happy.

0:27.0

I'm here of Tim Gordon. He studied this in his dissertation work. I study this at my dissertation work, and we are passionate about the virtues in

0:35.9

Aristotle and in Thomas Aquinas.

0:39.2

And we're passionate about it because it changes our life and it will change your life too because you'll understand this is why I'm

0:44.4

acting this way and this is how I change and become great. Tim, welcome.

0:50.0

Thank you. We're going to talk about Aristotle. I'm going to, you're going to handle Aristotle today. I'm going to handle

0:54.3

today. I'm going to handle Thomas Aquinas and we're going to talk about this

0:57.8

important forgotten method of thinking and acting, and that is virtue.

1:07.0

Crucial, crucial to the life of everyone.

1:09.6

Note what you said, Dr. Marshall.

1:11.9

I'll be covering the great of all time the goat the

1:16.4

great pre-Christian scholar greatest of all time you're covering the goat greatest of all time post Christian scholar and the reason they're so close together

1:29.1

One is there's an there's an influence the former has on the ladder but two they're like the two

1:34.7

smartest guys ever says I and they understand how crucial the big you know heady concepts like metaphysics and Thomas makes metaphysics

1:48.2

about satirical all this heady stuff they understand how important that is. They also understand what they consider to be the bottom end of the spectrum.

1:57.0

Day to day life, how virtue is the center to people's happiness.

2:03.0

It's also why a pre-Christian who doesn't have

2:06.6

the grace of our Lord, the graces of the sacrament,

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