Saint Thomas And The Acquired Virtues | Prof. Candace Vogler

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🗓️ 11 March 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Candace Vogler is the David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor of Philosophy and Professor in the College at the University of Chicago, and Principal Investigator on "Virtue, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life," a project funded by the John Templeton Foundation. She has authored two books, John Stuart Mill's Deliberative Landscape: An Essay in Moral Psychology (Routledge, 2001) and Reasonably Vicious (Harvard University Press, 2002), and essays in ethics, social and political philosophy, philosophy and literature, cinema, psychoanalysis, gender studies, sexuality studies, and other areas. Her research interests are in practical philosophy (particularly the strand of work in moral philosophy indebted to Elizabeth Anscombe), practical reason, Kant's ethics, Marx, and neo-Aristotelian naturalism.

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0:59.0	Thank you, all of you, for coming out to hear me talk about Aquinas on Acquired Virtues.
1:08.0	It's such a delight to be here. One of the things, if you're in my shoes and
1:16.0	doing the kinds of things that I do, is that you wind up getting invitations to talk at
1:20.3	Mystic Institutes. This is the best organized and most congenial TI.I. I've ever visited.
1:28.3	And I've been to eight of them.
1:32.3	So let's go.
1:40.3	So it's a special treat to be here.
1:45.0	Okay.
1:47.0	Thomas Aquinas took much of the direction of his work on virtue
1:54.0	from his understanding of Aristotle.
1:57.0	But Aquinas had some challenges or advantages that Aristotle did not.
2:02.6	Aquinas had Augustine as an important predecessor,
2:06.6	and in Augustine we confront an extraordinary thinker
2:11.6	who was already intellectually and psychologically mature
2:16.6	before a conversion experience altered his understanding
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