The Cardinal Virtues | Prof. Patrick Callahan
The Thomistic Institute
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🗓️ 9 July 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This lecture was given on November 2nd, 2023, at Purdue.
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About the Speaker:
Patrick Callahan is director of the Newman Institute for Catholic Thought & Culture as well as Assistant Professor of English and Humanities at St. Gregory the Great Seminary. There he directs and teaches in a Great Books Catholic program for students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and other regional colleges. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Dallas and his graduate work at Fordham University in Classics. He lives in Lincoln, NE with his wife and 5 children.
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| 0:25.2 | I know, I got you guys for 45, 50 minutes here, but just keep in mind, this is possibly a program |
| 0:32.3 | that started out as an 8 hour, and it grew to a 16 hour. |
| 0:36.3 | Currently, it's a 45 hours of instruction three credit class. |
| 0:41.3 | So I mean, if it feels long, it's really short. |
| 0:44.3 | It's really short. |
| 0:45.3 | So stick with you. |
| 0:47.3 | And just to make sure that I have the goodwill of all of you, right? |
| 0:51.3 | I'm not asking much, right? |
| 0:52.3 | Just a little bit of time. And I need you to memorize all of this. |
| 0:58.0 | Okay? It's really simple. If you just understand this, this is Thomas Aquinas' conception of the human soul |
| 1:06.0 | and the relationship to all the virtues. And, you know, I just need you to know this, okay? |
| 1:12.6 | This can make the talk so much easier. |
| 1:14.6 | When it comes to virtues, we can kind of think of them sometimes like this |
| 1:17.6 | in a very philosophical, dry way. |
| 1:20.6 | And again, philosophy actually is not a very dry thing when you get to know it. |
| 1:24.6 | I mean, the very rude, the word means a love of wisdom, that pursuit of that love. |
| 1:29.3 | And instead of starting with just this, I wanted to give you a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins. |
| 1:36.3 | I know as a domestic institute, we should be sticking with Dominicans. |
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