Goodness Without God? Aquinas and the Problem of Pagan Virtue | Professor Angela Knobel

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🗓️ 20 November 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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This lecture was given on September 7, 2023, at Texas A&M For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Angela Knobel is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dallas. She received her doctorate in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame in 2004. From 2004 to 2020, she taught philosophy at her alma mater, the Catholic University of America. Her work focuses primarily on Aquinas’ theory of infused virtue, virtue ethics and applied ethics. Her book Aquinas and the Infused Moral Virtues was published by the University of Notre Dame Press in 2021.

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0:57.0	Okay, so thanks for having me out. My students this morning told me that I should make a whooping noise or something.
1:06.0	But I told them I went to Notre Dame, so sorry about that.
1:14.3	So you guys invited me here to talk about the question of whether there's goodness without God.
1:21.8	And specifically, Aquinas and the problem of so-called pagan virtue.
1:26.9	Pagan is kind of a term of art that people have used to
1:31.8	describe this controversy. It's not really a well-defined term, right? But for our purposes,
1:40.3	what we're really talking about is the question of the kind of goodness that a non-Christian
1:47.4	non-believer, someone outside Christian belief can have. And there have been different views
1:55.0	about this in the history of Christianity, right? So St. Augustine is famous, right, for saying that the apparent
2:04.9	virtues of the pagans are no more than splendid vices, right? By which is meant that
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