True Fatherhood as Archetype of Masculine Virtue | Prof. John Cuddeback

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🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Prof. John Cuddeback explores true fatherhood as the archetype of masculine virtue, examining its modes, challenges, and unique virtues through the lenses of Aristotelian philosophy, domestic prudence, and scriptural figures like Joseph.

This lecture was given on February 22nd, 2025, at Dominican House of Studies.

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About the Speaker:

John A. Cuddeback is professor of Philosophy at Christendom College, where he has taught for twenty-five years. He lectures widely on topics including virtue, fatherhood, friendship, and household, and his professional writings appear in various academic journals and books.

Keywords: Abortion, Aristotelianism, Authority and Virtue, Chastity, Culture, Domestic Prudence, Fatherhood, Feminism, Genesis, Virtue Ethics

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0:22.5	to mystic institute.org. So this, I have titled True Fatherhood as archetype of masculine virtue.
0:33.7	Had a great conversation with a couple of you at lunch, and I just want to make clear,
0:39.8	I'm hoping maybe, even especially tomorrow on the quote lividal, after we get a little more input
0:44.7	from sister and a father will have some more input of exactly.
0:50.2	Let me say archetype of masculine virtue.
0:53.1	I want to be clear that I just said to someone I was having lunch with, I've lectured a lot on virtue. And I've never once made a distinction between masculine and femininity in thinking about virtue. So it's not as though, I don't think it's at the epicenter
1:13.0	of our thinking about virtue.
1:14.3	I think it's a great topic for us to reflect upon.
1:17.7	Hopefully it's been an angle for us, first of all,
1:20.5	just to go kind of deep in, and either remind ourselves,
1:25.6	look again or see for the first time,
1:29.7	fundamentally what virtue is.
1:33.8	Anything that brings us back to that, I mean, what we have in common is much more than anything that's different.
1:38.1	I think it's very, very important to remember here, right?
1:41.0	What we have in common in these virtues is by far richer than any difference in how we
1:52.3	exercise them. So let's just remember that. So even when I say archetype of masculine virtue,
1:59.3	I mean, really what I mean there is I want to go to
2:03.3	fatherhood to think about how, and this is what I'm going to emphasize the, and just a couple of
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