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to mystic institute.org. So my hope for this evening, you saw that the title is Principles for a Happy Life, is to kind of, come on in, you're fine.

Oh, or maybe that's just, you're going. Oh, that's fine. You've got to be a violent.

So is to furnish you with like a vocabulary and a grammar to think through the various not just concepts but

realities which will treat over the course of the weekend as so conversations you know pertaining

to the subject or conversations which focus on the subject will use a lot of words to describe

something like flourishing or positive emotion or adjustment

towards life and your current situation. And I don't know how helpful it is to be like very,

very scientific about our use of language. But what I'm going to try to do is present the way

that Aristotle

and St. Thomas Aquinas use words because in part that's the only tradition I know. And in part

because I think it tracks pretty darn well with reality and with a lot of our intuitions.

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