What Makes a Person Good? | Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.

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🗓️ 20 December 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This lecture was given on September 23rd, 2024, at University of Edinburgh.

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About the Speaker:

Fr. Dominic Legge is the Director of the Thomistic Institute and Associate Professor in Systematic Theology at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. He is an Ordinary Member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, and 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, 2017).

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tomistic Institute podcast.
0:06.8	Our mission is to promote the Catholic intellectual tradition in the university, the church, and the wider public square.
0:13.1	The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Temistic Institute chapters around the world.
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0:25.8	Thank you very much.
0:27.0	It's a great honor to be here with you.
0:30.1	And to be invited to speak to such August company
0:33.9	and at this great university, the reputation of which
0:37.2	is well known also in the United States.
0:39.3	And thank you, Emma, for your introduction.
0:42.3	What makes a person good?
0:46.3	What makes a person happy?
0:49.3	Are those different things?
0:52.3	These questions are big and important questions,
0:56.0	questions that I hope every person will ask during the course of a lifetime.
1:01.0	Questions that I hope each of you has already asked,
1:05.0	or at least tonight we'll be asking yourself.
1:08.0	Certainly as a group, we can ask them together, but there are also existential questions
1:12.8	for each of us individually, questions that are perhaps among the most important that one can
1:19.3	ask. At the same time, these questions are so big that they might seem intractable, hard to get a grasp on them, hard to get to the bottom
1:31.7	of them.
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