Vice and Sin, Part II | Professor Steven Jensen

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🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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This lecture was given on June 2, 2023, at the 12th Annual Aquinas Philosophy Workshop at Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, NY For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Steven Jensen received his PhD from the University of Notre Dame in 1993. Jensen’s areas of research include ethics, medieval philosophy, Thomas Aquinas, action theory, biomedical ethics, natural law, and human dignity. He can speak on philosophy, biomedical ethics, faith and reason, logic and Thomistic ethics. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in Houston.

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0:49.1	slash keep the cameras rolling. Hi, everyone. It's a big honor to get to introduce Stephen Jensen, who is a professor of philosophy
1:01.2	at the University of St. Thomas in Houston. He has written amazing things on an amazing
1:09.3	range of topics. He's well known for his work on Aquinas.
1:13.3	He's well known for his work in biomedical ethics and in ethics more generally. We are all very
1:20.1	grateful to him for his fearless willingness to think in a lot of complicated ways about sin.
1:28.7	And he's going to talk to us this afternoon about vice and sin.
1:33.9	Welcome.
1:39.0	Thank you, Candice, and thank you, Father, for inviting me.
1:46.4	Candice mentioned at the beginning of her talk that it was sometimes being difficult,
1:51.9	being an expert on vice, and it can be difficult being an expert on sin as well.
1:58.7	Hopefully, I'm not an expert on sinning, but I fear that perhaps I am at any
2:03.5	right. All right, so what I want to look at today is the fundamental evil of sin. Can
2:08.3	everybody hear me okay, by the way? All right. So I want to look at the fundamental evil
2:12.6	of sin, and I've got a lot of background with what Father James did in laying out the difference
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