Prudence and the Moral Virtues | Prof. Fred Freddoso

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🗓️ 13 July 2019

⏱️ 71 minutes

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This was the seventh lecture of our 2019 Summer Philosophy Workshop, "Aquinas on Human Action and Virtue." The annual four day conference was cosponsored by the Catholic and Dominican Institute and the Center for Ethics and Culture. The Conference ran from June 19th-23rd at Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, NY. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: www.thomisticinstitute.org/events

Speakers included:

Fr. James Brent (Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception), Fr. Steve Brock (Pontifical University of the Holy Cross), Edward Feser (Pasadena City College), Candace Vogler (University of Chicago) and Fr. Michael Sherwin (University of Fribourg)

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0:00.0	I'm going to give this paper on little paper on prudence and the moral virtues.
0:10.0	And I don't do enough even in this little paper to set the bigger context, which is,
0:16.0	look, all of this takes place within a big life, and part of what we're after is to bring unity to that life
0:25.6	not just goodness but oneness as well and so it's it's complex and messy but every decision you make
0:34.6	is always made within the context of lots of other decisions that are going on in your life.
0:40.2	And commitments you make are made in the context of lots of other commitments you have in your life.
0:46.3	And part of the living a successful life, whether it's a Gentile life or a Christian life,
0:52.8	is kind of trying to bring all these things together in some order
0:57.7	and to kind of make your life a fruitful, successful life,
1:06.4	by whatever standards you happen to be employed.
1:08.6	Well, I shouldn't put it that way.
1:13.9	Mass murder, no okay a good life you know in some obvious sense of good and and so what I'm
1:23.7	what I'm a little bit worried about is that sometimes because we start focusing on these more technical issues,
1:32.3	which are, again, I'd be the last one in the world to claim that these are not important.
1:40.3	It's just that it's so easy to lose sight of the bigger context. And sometimes
1:45.2	the discussion of the technical issues loses sight in such a way that it becomes completely
1:52.2	divorced from real life and just kind of takes on a life of its own. And then the way in which
1:58.6	the problems get set up becomes artificial and in the end
2:02.9	not useful for anything or anyone that is not I I did not hear anything at this
2:09.3	conference that made me want to say that person needs a correction right away
2:14.0	because he's going to you know no it's. It's just that this is, since I don't do moral philosophy for a living,
2:24.9	it's just something I want to say as a kind of outsider as a little bit of a warning, okay?
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