Friendships and Social Life - Thomistic Insights | Prof. Thomas Hibbs & Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P.

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🗓️ 29 November 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Professor Thomas Hibbs and Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau discuss the importance of friendship and social life from a Thomistic perspective, highlighting the decline in friendships in modern society and the philosophical insights of Aristotle and Aquinas on the nature of human relationships.

This lecture was given on June 29th, 2024, at The Dominican House of Studies.

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About the Speakers:

Thomas Hibbs is currently J. Newton Rayzor Sr. Professor of Philosophy at Baylor where he is also Dean Emeritus, having served for 16 years as the inaugural Dean of the Honors College. At Baylor he was also the inaugural director of Baylor in Washington, D.C. where he currently runs a summer program on Religion and Social Life. He has served as department chair at Boston College and as president of the University of Dallas.

A native of Louisiana, Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P., entered the Dominican Province of St. Joseph in 2005. After several years of pastoral work in New York City, Fr. Guilbeau began doctoral studies in moral theology at the University of Fribourg, where he completed a dissertation on St. Thomas Aquinas’s doctrine of the common good. Currently, Fr. Guilbeau serves as the University Chaplain and Vice President for Ministry and Mission at The Catholic University of America.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Thomistic Institute podcast.
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0:25.1	I give a lecture at Boston University when I was at Boston College
0:29.2	on the basis of this book I'd written called Shows About Nothing.
0:33.5	And there's a nihilist group that put up protest posters next to my, the posters promoting my lecture,
0:41.0	but in good nihilist form, they didn't show up for the lecture.
0:46.0	Okay, I want to try. I'm on the clock here, so 15 minutes. I want to try to talk about three
0:51.9	things and then take some questions.
0:55.6	I'm really honored to be part of this.
0:57.0	I love everything the Domestic Institute does.
0:59.1	If we could bottle this and scale it, which you all are doing, apparently, it's pretty clear that you're scaling it.
1:06.8	This could be a cure for what ails us socially.
1:10.7	The data is not heartening on friendship in our culture.
1:17.2	Surveys from, say, the 1970s and 80s up to today, people had 3.4, 3.5.
1:24.4	I'm not sure what the 0.4 or 0.5 friendship does for you, but maybe somebody you can help
1:29.1	to get you to when you need to move or something. So 3.5 friends down to like 1.7. So cut in half.
1:37.8	Civic friendship is an even worse shape, not surprisingly. Surveys, I remember John Hite,
1:43.8	who works on these, has a really
1:45.1	good book just out called The Anxious Generation. That's you. You're the anxious generation.
1:50.6	Hopefully you're not, but your generation is. He posted something during the Kavanaugh hearings,
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