The Search for Happiness: Wisdom from Aquinas and the Classical Tradition | Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.

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🗓️ 30 December 2022

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This talk was given on November 4, 2022, at the University of Washington. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P., is the Director of the Thomistic Institute and Assistant Professor in Dogmatic Theology at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, a Ph.L. from the School of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America, and a doctorate in Sacred Theology from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He entered the Order of Preachers in 2001, after having practiced constitutional law for several years as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice. He has also taught at The Catholic University of America Law School and at Providence College. He is the author of The Trinitarian Christology of St. Thomas Aquinas (Oxford University Press, 2016).

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Father Dominic Leg, director of the Thomistic Institute. Thanks for tuning in to today's
0:06.1	lecture. Every talk on this podcast was originally delivered at an in-person event for college students,
0:12.2	perhaps at one of our campus chapters or at a Thomistic Institute retreat or conference. Students today are
0:18.3	hungry for the truth, and you know how important it is for them to find it.
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0:29.6	So I'm wondering, would you do the same for someone else this December?
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0:40.0	college students and to many others in 2023 if you give before December 31st. And you can make a
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0:59.4	Thank you for your generosity, and may God bless you this Advent and Christmas season.
1:10.4	So we can start with a question.
1:12.6	What is happiness?
1:14.6	What is the best and happiest life that a human being could live?
1:18.6	What kind of life should I be aiming to live?
1:23.6	I think those are some of the most important questions that a person can ask, and they're classic philosophical questions.
1:32.4	But they're not only for philosophers.
1:35.6	No one really, I think, should be exempt from asking these kinds of questions because they touch every person's life.
1:43.2	And in a sense, the answer that you give will shed light on the whole of your life.
1:49.6	Or at least that's part of the idea, is that by thinking about this kind of question,
1:55.6	you can begin to grapple with what is the purpose or the meaning or the direction of your life.
2:03.2	So classically, a university education was supposed to give you some traction on that kind
2:10.2	of question.
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