Is It Possible to Have Productive Conversations About Abortion? w/ Prof. Angela Knobel
The Thomistic Institute
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🗓️ 26 January 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Join Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. of Aquinas 101, Godsplaining, and Pints with Aquinas for an off-campus conversation with Dr. Angela Knobel about her latest Thomistic Institute, "The Philosophy of the Abortion Debate." The Philosophy of the Abortion Debate w/ Dr. Angela Knobel and Fr. Gregory Pine (Off-Campus Conversations) You can listen to the original lecture here: https://soundcloud.com/thomisticinstitute/the-philosophy-of-the-abortion-debate-prof-angela-knobel 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 is forthcoming from the University of Notre Dame Press.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my name is Father Gregory Pine, and I am delighted to join you for this most recent, |
| 0:15.1 | this next installment of off-campus conversations. |
| 0:18.2 | And today, I am joined by Professor Angela Noble. So Professor Noble, |
| 0:22.8 | thanks so much for joining us. Thank you. Thanks for having me. Yeah. Excellent. So |
| 0:27.8 | many of the folks who listen to the Tamistic Institute podcast will know you from contributions |
| 0:33.4 | that you've made in the past or lectures that have been on the podcast regarding the abortion debate, |
| 0:39.3 | specifically like the feminist argument, the burden argument, and then things about the virtues, |
| 0:44.0 | which is where it seems you specialize. But for those who don't know you, would you just say a word |
| 0:48.7 | about who you are, where you're from, what you do, any pertinent details? |
| 0:53.1 | Sure. My name is Angela Knoble. |
| 0:55.6 | I teach at the University of Dallas. |
| 0:58.4 | I've been teaching at the University of Dallas since January of 2021. |
| 1:02.7 | Before that, I was at the Catholic University of America for 16 years. |
| 1:09.4 | I mostly work on Thomas Aquinas and his theory of virtue and specifically his view that |
| 1:16.1 | some virtues are given us by God as a kind of side interest generated really by teaching in the |
| 1:23.3 | classroom. I also kind of dabble in the abortion debate and annexed issues, which are the |
| 1:32.1 | topic of today's conversation. Okay. So first off, sorry for stealing or depriving you of your |
| 1:39.7 | hard K. I think I've been calling you. It's okay. I married into the hard K. Yeah, my bad. I didn't see that |
| 1:45.9 | coming. Yeah. That's on me. Poor research. It's a Swiss thing. Is it really? Yeah. |
| 1:52.4 | Fascinating. Okay. All right. I believe it. Being in Switzerland, I should have greater sympathy to the hard K. |
| 1:58.2 | But alas. Here I am. Unchanged. Okay, so maybe transitioning then |
| 2:03.9 | directly into the topic at hand, which is the abortion debate, I think kind of taking the |
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