The Order of Charity and the Family | Prof. Erik Dempsey

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🗓️ 20 November 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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This lecture was given on October 24, 2020 as part of "The Bonds of Love" Intellectual Retreat at the University of Texas, Austin.

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About the Speaker:

Erik Dempsey (PhD, Boston College) is the Assistant Director of UT's Thomas Jefferson for the Study of Core Texts and Ideas. He completed his doctorate at Boston College in June 2007. He is interested in understanding human virtue, and the proper place of politics in a well-lived human life, the different ways in which human virtue is understood in different political situations, and the ways in which human virtue may transcend any political situation. His dissertation looks at Aristotle's treatment of prudence in the Nicomachean Ethics, and Aristotle's suggestion that virtue should be understood as an end in itself. He is currently at work turning his dissertation into a book by adding chapters which consider Thomas Aquinas' interpretation of Aristotle in terms of natural law, and Marsilius of Padua's critique of Thomas.

He grew up in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY and graduated from Hastings High School. As an undergraduate, he attended St. John's College in Annapolis, MD where he began to study the Great Books seriously. From June 2000 until August 2001, he worked for DynCorp in Chantilly, VA, doing mathematical modeling and providing other support for the GETS program. From September 2007 - May 2008, he taught in the Herbst Program for the Humanities at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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0:00.0	So I'm here this morning, I guess, to talk about Thomas on the Family.
0:06.5	My talk this morning is going to have four basic parts.
0:10.3	I don't have a handout for you, but just to give you a general geography of what I'm going to be doing.
0:16.0	I'm going to start with a somewhat long introduction.
0:19.7	I'm then going to talk a bit about charity and love of
0:23.6	neighbor generally. I'm then going to speak more briefly about nature, and then I'm going to finish
0:30.4	with some specific remarks on family obligations. If you want to know, I'll keep mentioning this as I go, but the two
0:39.3	portions of the Summa I have in mind especially to rely upon are number one,
0:45.3	the treatment of the precepts of charity. That's the 44th question of the
0:50.3	Secunda, Secundi, and then the question on the order of charity, which was the
0:55.2	original title of the conference and what I had planned to. Actually, in my talk somewhere,
1:00.4	it says that I changed this, I guess, just now, but I noticed that I still thought the title
1:05.7	was on the order of charity when I wrote this, so I thought I was supposed to especially
1:09.6	talk about that.
1:17.2	So my job today is to give you two talks, right? First talk is on family in the order of charity and then later on friendship. You could, I think if you like, say that those talks fit basically
1:24.7	under one heading, what it means in the order of charity to love our neighbor.
1:31.6	Professor Osborne this morning mentioned that his talks aren't going to be especially about love of individual human beings, right?
1:40.4	My talks both will somehow be about love of individual human beings.
1:46.5	First, our family, and then our friends.
1:50.5	I'm going to begin this talk by saying a bit about charity in general, right?
1:56.6	And then over the course of these two talks, I'm going to try to say a little just about what it means to love other human beings, right?
2:04.1	And what kinds of obligations are entailed in that.
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