Affliction, Sorrow, and Human Flourishing | Prof. Thomas Hibbs

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🗓️ 30 May 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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This talk was given on April 12th, 2023 at the University of South Carolina. For more information please visit thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Thomas Hibbs is currently J. Newton Rayzor Sr. Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University, where he is also Dean Emeritus, having served for 16 years as Dean of the Honors College and as Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Culture. Hibbs received a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame and has served as tutor at Thomas Aquinas College, Full Professor and Department Chair of Philosophy at Boston College, and President of the University of Dallas. Hibbs works in the areas of medieval philosophy, especially Thomas Aquinas, contemporary virtue ethics, and aesthetics. He has published more than thirty scholarly articles and seven books, as well as 100 reviews and discussion articles on film, theater, art, and higher education in a variety of venues.

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0:28.6	I want to talk about sorrow and flourishing.
0:38.2	A lot of data on rise in loneliness,
0:41.8	especially amongst the young and the elderly,
0:44.8	even before COVID, right?
0:46.4	COVID exacerbated a lot of these things.
0:50.2	I think it was three or four years ago
0:51.9	that Great Britain declared loneliness
0:53.8	public health issue.
0:56.4	We also see connected to loneliness and to sorrow a lack of belonging, a lack of a sense or experience of belonging.
1:09.1	I think in surveys I've seen about friendship in the 1980s going up through the next 20, 30 years,
1:18.5	people would report having 3.5 good friends.
1:24.4	I don't know what the 0.5 friend does for you, but it's better than just three,
1:28.0	I guess. And currently we're under three, like 2.8 or something. So you've got a significant
1:35.1	reduction or under, yeah, under 2, 1.8, roughly a 50% reduction in the number of people
1:43.7	who identify as having good friends.
1:47.7	And sometimes that goes down further if they add certain criteria to defining a good friend.
1:56.0	So sometimes people are asked with how many people in the last month have you had a significant conversation
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