The Good Life: Tips from Aquinas | Father Alan O'Sullivan, O.P.

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🗓️ 5 January 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Fr. Alan O’Sullivan, O.P. (Trinity College) is currently the chaplain of Trinity College, Dublin. He is a member of the Irish province of the Order of Preachers who studied at Blackfriars, Oxford.

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0:28.5	So I probably should preface this talk this morning,
0:36.3	realizing that I'm speaking to university students about the good life,
0:45.7	and realizing that you know a lot more about this, I do.
0:50.2	And, you know, people probably say that to you a lot, you know, the good life or the great life.
0:54.0	You're happy and you see.
0:55.0	You're like that.
0:56.8	Okay.
0:57.2	And people have, have perceptions of the good life.
1:01.1	Okay.
1:01.4	Everyone around you has perception of it.
1:03.2	Okay.
1:03.5	The dream bow.
1:04.6	Sorry about the perfect car, the perfect girlfriends.
1:07.6	And, and there are often misperceptions, we think so so one I'm going to try to do today is
1:18.0	what what what does the good life mean in the Western tradition okay within Western civilization.
1:29.2	Is there a way of living that translates into every profession, every stage of life, every
1:39.3	age, every sex of man?
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