The True, the Good and the Beautiful: A Lesson in Human Flourishing
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Today Fr. Mike unpacks the three Transcendentals; Truth, Goodness, and Beauty, and why and how our hearts can be misled by emotion and feelings at times which distorts these fundamental realities.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Thinking caps, heart caps, here we go. |
| 0:04.3 | Oh, sorry, I should slow down. |
| 0:05.5 | Wo-wo-wo-wo-wo. |
| 0:06.8 | So if you have listened to me talk, |
| 0:09.4 | once you've probably heard me talk about CS Lewis, |
| 0:11.5 | if you twice you know that I love CS Lewis three times, |
| 0:14.3 | I probably have talked too much about CS Lewis. |
| 0:16.7 | I said, almost I'd say CS Lewis, oh my gosh. |
| 0:19.4 | So one of the things that I love about CS Lewis |
| 0:21.7 | is his ability to cut through complicated topics |
| 0:26.1 | or take complicated realities |
| 0:28.5 | and distill them and make them super accessible. |
| 0:30.6 | One of the things I remember CS Lewis talking about, |
| 0:32.4 | I might even have made another video about this, |
| 0:34.5 | is he talked about his own experience |
| 0:36.7 | when it came to the virtue of faith |
| 0:38.1 | before he was a believer in Christ, |
| 0:39.7 | before he even believed in God. |
| 0:41.0 | He said, Christians would talk about |
| 0:43.2 | how faith is a virtue, and he thought he said, |
| 0:45.5 | how could faith be a virtue? |
| 0:46.9 | Because if you believe that something is true, |
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