The Moral Life | Prof. Michael Krom

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🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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This lecture was given on October 26th, 2024, at University of South Carolina.

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About the Speaker:

Prof. Michael Krom started reading Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae shortly after his conversion at the end of college. Upon learning about Flannery O’Connor’s “hillbilly Thomist” habit of reading Aquinas every night, he started studying two articles a day and completed the Summa while in graduate school at Emory University. As a professor at Saint Vincent College, he saw the urgent need for collegians and seminarians to receive a solid foundation in Aquinas’s philosophical theology. In 2020, he published Justice and Charity: An Introduction to Aquinas’s Moral, Economic, and Political Thought (Baker Academic Press), and teaches a Thomistic philosophy course each fall. In addition to continuing work on the moral, economic, and political topics covered in the book, his current research is on the influence of monastic spirituality on Aquinas; he is working on a monograph tentatively entitled Aquinas Among the Benedictines.

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1:01.1	Okay, so I hope you have the handout, and just to briefly walk through the structure here,
1:06.7	I'm going to start with an introduction on how Aquinas approaches the moral life.
1:11.6	Then I'm going to look at moral relativism and where is their agreement, where is their disagreement.
1:17.6	Then I'm going to look at three different ways in which someone we know might have genuine goods that they're pursuing
1:25.6	that we admire and that allows us to be friends with them,
1:29.3	the in this order, the good, the beautiful, and the true, show how each of those require when
1:35.7	lived faithfully to wrestle with the question of ultimate meaning of God, and then some
1:42.0	exhortations and some principles for the moral life in college. So I think
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