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A New Parochia: Augustine's Confessions VI-VII | Professor Russell Hittinger

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🗓️ 8 August 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This lecture was given on June 14, 2023, at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., as part of the 2023 Civitas Dei Summer Fellowship: "Friendship, Happiness, and the Search for God: Aristotle, Augustine, & Aquinas." For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events Speaker Bio: Russell Hittinger is a leading scholar of Catholic political and social thought. From 1996-2019, Dr. Hittinger was the incumbent of the William K. Warren Chair of Catholic Studies at the University of Tulsa, where he was also a Research Professor in the School of Law. He has taught at the University of Chicago, Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, Fordham University, Princeton University, New York University, Providence College, and Charles University in Prague. In January 2020, Dr. Hittinger gave the Aquinas Lecture at Blackfriars, Oxford. Since 2001, he has been a member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, to which he was elected a full member (ordinarius) in 2004 and appointed to the consilium or governing board from 2006-2018. On 8 September 2009, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Dr. Hittinger as an ordinarius in the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, in which he finished his ten-year term in 2019. He is currently a Fellow at the Institute for Human Ecology at The Catholic University of America, where he also serves as the inaugural co-Director of the Program in Catholic Political Thought.

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What I'm going to head into today follows perfectly from Professor Gorman's last two lectures

1:18.9

because we are really getting into an issue of friendship.

1:22.4

And I'm going to try to put it together as best we can, but we have to get over book five, which is the kiosm.

1:31.2

The last time we talked, we were hanging around in the vicinity of books three and four.

1:35.3

I have to go back to four briefly.

1:37.7

We're going to get over five, and beginning of five, my description, not Augusta,

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my description for the purpose of the lecture, is new parochium, a new family.

1:49.2

He goes from one set of friends, family, so to speak, to a new family in Milan.

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And that's four-primed. And it's four-primed.

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