Off-Campus Conversations, Ep. 004: Prof. J. Budziszewski - Aquinas on Happiness
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🗓️ 9 September 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
What does St. Thomas Aquinas say about happiness and ultimate purpose? How (and how not) can we be happy? Join Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. of Aquinas 101, Godsplaining, and Pints with Aquinas for an off-campus conversation with Prof. J. Budziszewski about Aquinas' thoughts on happiness. Aquinas on Happiness w/ Fr. Gregory Pine and Prof. J. Budziszewski (Off-Campus Conversations) You can listen to one of Prof. Budziszewski's lectures on happiness here: https://soundcloud.com/thomisticinstitute/how-and-how-not-to-be-happy For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org About the speaker: J. Budziszewski (Ph.D. Yale, 1981) is a professor of government and philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. His main area of research is the natural moral law, and he is most well known for his work on moral self-deception, “the revenge of conscience,” what happens when we tell ourselves that we don't know what we really do know. However, he has written about all sorts of things such as moral character, family and sexuality, religion and public life, toleration and liberty, and the unraveling of our common culture. The most recent of his thirteen books are Commentary on Thomas Aquinas's Treatise on Law and Commentary on Thomas Aquinas’s Virtue Ethics, both from Cambridge University Press, as well as On the Meaning of Sex, from Intercollegiate Studies Institute. His book for students, How to Stay Christian in College has sold several hundred thousand copies. He also maintains a personal website and blog, The Underground Thomist. Married for more than 45 years, Dr. Budziszewski has several children and a clutch of grandchildren.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Father Gregory Pine, joining you for this most recent episode of the Timistic Institute podcast. |
| 0:16.0 | As we have mentioned on a few previous episodes, we're trying a new format so that way we can |
| 0:21.5 | follow up with Timistic Institute speakers and kind of suss out some of the details from |
| 0:26.5 | lectures that they have given either on campus or at an intellectual retreat or at one of |
| 0:31.6 | the conferences hosted by the Timistic Institute. So for this episode, I'm very delighted to be |
| 0:36.9 | joined by Professor Jay Bujashefsky, |
| 0:39.3 | who's coming to us from the University of Texas at Austin. So thanks so much for joining us, |
| 0:44.3 | Professor. |
| 0:45.3 | It's my pleasure. |
| 0:47.3 | Now, many of our listeners will be familiar with you from the many lectures that you've given for the Timistic Institute on a |
| 0:54.7 | variety of subjects, ranging from happiness to law and other things besides. |
| 0:59.2 | I personally heard you speak for the first time at the Harvard Conference on the Common |
| 1:03.1 | Good in the fall of 2018. |
| 1:04.9 | And it was great because a lot of the speakers were proposing things and they were doing |
| 1:10.4 | it in a way that was, what |
| 1:12.2 | would one say? |
| 1:13.2 | Not necessarily careful, but they were nuancing their claims in a particular way. |
| 1:16.8 | And I wasn't always following everything, but I did when I went back and listened. |
| 1:20.0 | But I remember that you came out guns blazing and I was like, I admire this man. |
| 1:24.1 | I also admire his Texas spirit. |
| 1:25.9 | So I was very much impressed by that from the get-go. |
| 1:28.5 | But for those of our listeners who aren't as familiar with their work, would you just say a word |
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