Is Masculinity Toxic? A Thomistic Perspective on Marriage | Prof. John Cuddleback

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🗓️ 8 February 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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John A. Cuddeback is professor of Philosophy at Christendom College, where he has taught for twenty-five years. He lectures widely on topics including virtue, fatherhood, friendship, and household, and his professional writings appear in various academic journals and books.

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1:08.0	So I'm going to go ahead and jump on in here.
1:11.6	I'm not an expert, nor especially well read, in the area of toxic masculinity.
1:19.6	Been trying to get a little bit more of a sense of that.
1:22.6	I hear it spoken of quite a bit, and I'm sure it means something a little different in common parlance than it does in the academic realm.
1:30.3	But I think, regardless of anything else, that controversy surrounding this notion can give us the opportunity to address some of the most pressing issues of our day.
1:45.0	And so that particularly is my interest to be able to look at it more from a philosophical standpoint.
1:53.0	Again, not so much here from a historical viewpoint or sociological viewpoint,
1:58.0	though some observations from that side certainly can be in order.
2:03.1	First thing I'd like to do is try to sort a few things out. Philosophers try to do that,
2:09.9	try to distinguish, try to clarify the field, first of all, of what we're thinking about.
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