The Service Of The Emotions In The Moral Life | Professor Scott Cleveland

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🗓️ 3 July 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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This lecture was given on March 7th, 2023, at Cornell University For more information on upcoming TI events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events Speaker Bio: Prof. W. Scott Cleveland is Director of Catholic Studies and Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Mary (Bismarck, ND). His research interests are in ethics, moral psychology, and philosophy of religion. He is especially interested in the study of the virtues and emotions, the relation between the two, and the role of each in the moral and intellectual life. His work has appeared in journals such as American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Res Philosophica, Religious Studies, Oxford Bibliographies Online, and the Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association.

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1:13.1	Well, it's a delight to be with you all this evening.
1:16.7	Thank you very much, Zach, and the members of the Tomistic Institute chapter for inviting me to continue your focus on the philosophical psychology of the human person.
1:23.5	It's a particular pleasure to be with you today, as it was 749 years ago today that St. Thomas Aquinas died and his soul entered the glory of heaven.
1:34.4	I will present to you a to mystic account of the passions, which are a kind of emotion and ways that they can serve the moral life.
1:53.0	Passions include love, hatred, joy, sorrow, hope, despair, and anger. I'll provide accounts of each of these, as well as some other passions, and we'll focus
1:58.0	in more detail on a few. I'm using the term passions instead of
2:03.6	emotions following Thomas Aquinas, and because I wish to avoid claiming the two are strictly identical,
2:09.8	I also didn't want the advertised title to include passions, less folks get the wrong idea
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