Love, Friendship, and Heavenly Happiness | Prof. Christopher Kaczor
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🗓️ 15 October 2020
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This lecture was livestreamed from the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 5th, 2020.
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About the speaker:
Jennifer A. Frey (University of South Carolina) received her BA from Indiana University in Bloomington Indiana in 2000, and her PhD at the University of Pittsburgh in 2012. In 2013 she was Collegiate Assistant Professor and Harper Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago prior to taking up her current appointment as Assistant Professor in the Philosophy department at the University of South Carolina. Jennifer's research interests lie at the intersection of virtue ethics and action theory. She has publications in The Journal of the History of Philosophy, The Journal of Analytic Philosophy, and in several edited volumes. She is the recipient of several grants, including a $2.1 million project awarded by the John Templeton Foundation, titled "Virtue, Happiness, and Meaning in Life." She is currently at work on three separate book projects.
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| 0:00.0 | Today I am talking to you about love and friendship and heavenly happiness. |
| 0:11.0 | And I want to start off to talk when I was in college. |
| 0:15.0 | So when I was in college, senior year, I remember the whole world seemed like a limitless ocean of possibilities. |
| 0:23.6 | You know, I was thinking about going to graduate school. I wasn't exactly sure what, you know, |
| 0:27.1 | what to go into. I was a college athlete. I ran track and cross country for Boston College. |
| 0:32.5 | And I had all these friends. And it just, life seemed just, you know, kind of amazing. And I'm sure it does |
| 0:37.4 | for you |
| 0:37.7 | too think about all the things you could do and all the possibilities in your life and things like |
| 0:41.4 | that and all that seemed to come to an end with one phone call in fact with one sentence consisting of |
| 0:53.1 | only two words I got a call for my girlfriend and she |
| 0:58.4 | said two words to me. She said, I'm pregnant. I was completely stunned. I thought, I don't even |
| 1:10.3 | know what I'm going to do. This is not what I plan. |
| 1:13.3 | This is, it wasn't what I envisioned. And I was thinking of graduate school and all this stuff. |
| 1:17.9 | So I did what I did. And I still do sometimes when I'm really upset. I put on my running shoes. |
| 1:23.9 | And I went out into the cold Boston night. And I ran pretty much as hard as I could for maybe eight or nine miles. And I went out into the cold Boston night and I ran pretty much as hard as I could for maybe eight or nine miles and I yelled at the sky and |
| 1:34.3 | It was not a good situation. Well, I calmed down a little bit and |
| 1:39.3 | You know moved into the second stage that I was in and that that was pouting, being upset about the whole thing |
| 1:47.5 | and how could this happen and I can't believe it and this and that and this and that. And I'd like to |
| 1:52.0 | tell you that, you know, as a pregnancy developed and, you know, that I was like, you know, coming out |
| 1:59.1 | of it and moving in the right direction. And I was to a degree. |
| 2:01.6 | But even when my wife was in labor, I was like, oh, God, I can't believe, you know, you know, snap out of this. |
| 2:07.6 | Now, men, when your wife's in labor, do not tell her to snap out of it. |
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