Is Virtue Enough? The Contortions of Ethics Without God | Prof. Joshua Hochschild

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🗓️ 28 September 2022

⏱️ 98 minutes

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This lecture was given on April 22, 2022 at the University of Georgia. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: About the speaker Joshua Hochschild is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Mount St. Mary’s University, where he also served six years as the inaugural Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. His primary research is in medieval logic, metaphysics, and ethics, with broad interest in liberal education and the continuing relevance of the Catholic intellectual tradition. He is the author of The Semantics of Analogy: Rereading Cajetan’s De Nominum Analogia (2010), translator of Claude Panaccio’s Mental Language: From Plato to William of Ockham (2017), and co-author of A Mind at Peace: Reclaiming an Ordered Soul in the Age of Distraction (2017). His writing has appeared in First Things, Commonweal, Modern Age and the Wall Street Journal. For 2020-21 he served as President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association.

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0:00.0	This talk is brought to you by the Tamistic Institute.
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0:11.3	I have a student's prayer from St. Thomas Aquinas that I like to start my classes with.
0:15.8	And you guys can all hear me, okay?
0:19.4	In the name of the Father and the son and the holy spirit
0:22.9	ineffable creator true font of light and wisdom and the primal origin raised high beyond all things
0:29.4	pour forth a ray of your brightness into the darkened places of our minds dispersed from our souls
0:34.1	that you fold darkness into which we were born, sin, and ignorance.
0:38.5	Grant to us keenness of mind, capacity to remember, skill and learning,
0:43.1	subtlety to interpret, and eloquence in speech.
0:46.4	May you guide the beginning of our work, direct its progress, and bring it to completion,
0:51.4	you who are true God and true man man who live in reign, world without
0:54.7	end, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. I'm still catching my breath. I've been traveling
1:03.5	all day and traveling in the kind of hurry up and wait, standing in lines or just sitting in an airplane
1:09.9	or in a car.
1:16.9	Before I get started with the formal talk, I have a written lecture that I'm going to read to you,
1:22.8	and I think that feels a little unfriendly sometimes, but I'm hoping that we have conversation afterwards.
1:26.9	And I would also like to get a sense of my audience.
1:30.5	I mean, Jack gave me a sense of what he would like to hear for a lecture.
1:45.0	How many people, I mean, I love meeting a group of students who come out because they're interested in something to do with the Catholic intellectual tradition, presumably, something to do maybe with Thomas Aquinas. How many of you have taken an undergraduate ethics class?
1:48.0	A few of you.
1:50.0	Did your ethics class have a unit on virtue?
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