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I want to in this last talk give you kind of an overview of how human happiness flows out of human nature.

And you have to understand a little bit about human nature, the different powers of a human being,

in order to understand why happiness is what Aristotle says it is.

And then I'll at the end say something about how that flows into Christian faith and how Christ,

how the coming of Christ elevates our nature so that we can attain to what is the true happiness for a human being.

Because of course Aristotle being a pagan only saw a glimpse.

You might say, I mean Aristotle was obviously one of the greatest geniuses ever to live, but he couldn't see, without revelation, he couldn't see through to what perfect

happiness really is for us.

So, I don't know how much of this will be reviewed for you guys, but I think it's really

cool.

And you might ask whether it's true.

I think the way to decide whether Aristotle's understanding of the human person,

Aquinas' understanding the human person is true,

is to console your experience and ask, does this match your experience?

So, what I want to do is I want to start with what we call the sensitive soul.

So this is the powers of the soul that we share with all other animals.

Okay, so all animals have powers that are divided the generic object of the powers of our powers are two.

Truth and of our powers are two. Truth

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