After Stoicism - A Conversation on Boethius with Dr. Thomas Ward

The Catholic Man Show

Leisure, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

We sit down with Dr. Thomas Ward to discuss Boethius, Stoicism, Lady Philosophy, and Plato.

In this episode, we discuss:

The debt Boethius had to stoicism
Athena vs. Lady Philosophy vs Beatrice
Are evil people truly happy?
Do the pleasures of this life hinder you from pursuing higher things?

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Catholic Man Show. We're on the Lord's team the winning side so raise your glass Adam
0:24.8	Menehan's here sitting with David Niles and we have dr. Tom Ward with us from
0:29.4	Baylor Tom I we first met all right we first became aware of you with your
0:36.0	with your first book ordered love ordered love, ordered by love,
0:40.3	ordered by love, by Father Bonaventure told us about you. In fact, we were talking about
0:45.9	Scotus on one of these episodes, and beforehand, I had already purchased your book to prepare
0:52.0	for that topic, because as you know, you must prepare when you talk with Father Bonaventure or you will just be left into the dust.
0:59.0	I'm going to get left in the dust either way.
1:01.1	But I'm just trying to hang on as quickly as possible.
1:05.1	And so you had just released this book, Ordered by Love, and I had bought it.
1:09.9	And I had texted Father Bonaventure. I was like, hey, have you heard of this book ordered by love and i had bought it and i had texted text father bonovinger's
1:12.1	like hey have you heard of this book because i knew he was a fan of scotus and i was like have you
1:17.2	heard of this book he's like yeah i endorse you know i i endorse it i was like oh i don't know if
1:22.7	you saw the cover that's my name on it. Clearly you didn't get very clear.
1:29.6	Well, I hadn't received it yet.
1:30.8	I hadn't got it yet.
1:34.5	So anyway, that is a really good story.
1:35.6	Yeah, it was really funny.
1:37.4	But it's great to have you on The Catholic Man Show.
1:38.9	I've been excited to have you on. It's been a little bit of work in progress because I think he reached out back in December or November last year and was like, hey, I'm going to come into Tulsa.
1:48.1	Maybe even longer ago.
1:49.4	Yeah.
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