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🗓️ 4 August 2023
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This lecture was given on June 13, 2023, at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., as part of the 2023 Civitas Dei Summer Fellowship: "Friendship, Happiness, and the Search for God: Aristotle, Augustine, & Aquinas." For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events Michael Gorman is professor of philosophy at The Catholic University of America. He has doctorates in philosophy and theology. He has authored over thirty academic papers and a book entitled Aquinas on the Metaphysics of the Hypostatic Union (Cambridge University Press, 2017). His main interests are metaphysics, human nature, and ethics.
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1:11.5 | Aristotle goes into a lot of details about friendship, |
1:17.5 | and it's not entirely easy to pull them together into a completely unified picture. |
1:28.2 | So what I've done is to group, |
1:32.5 | I've just picked two main headings, |
1:34.7 | and these two headings together capture many of the things |
1:39.0 | that Aristotle has to say. |
1:41.7 | And that I think will be good enough. |
1:48.4 | So one of them is equality and inequality. |
1:57.6 | That's to say, in friendship. And then the other is the activity of friendship. What friends do? |
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