Who Do You Want to Become?
All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri
Ascension
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2018
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Our choices matter. They lead us either to becoming the kind of person we most deeply desire to be or to falling short of the greatness to which God calls us. In this episode, Edward Sri helps us engage the culture of moral relativism with a Catholic moral worldview.
Episode Notes
- Rationalizing Anything: Should he go to her room?
- The Top Moral Issues We Face
- "Ethikos": All About Character
- Modern View of Morality = Rules of Conduct
- Classical View of Morality = Who do I want to become?
- Virtue and Friendship
- Made for Greatness
References:
Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
Edward Sri, Who Am I to Judge?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic Catholic where real faith meets real life. |
| 0:19.1 | Imagine this situation. There's a businessman who's been married 17 years. He's got two kids and he's going on a business trip and finds himself on the plane sitting next to a very attractive woman. |
| 0:31.0 | And they hit it off in conversation, talk the whole flight and they go to |
| 0:34.4 | baggage claim together and there they discovered they happen to be staying at the |
| 0:37.9 | same hotel and so they decide to take the hotel shuttle bus together over to that hotel. They're waiting in the |
| 0:43.8 | lobby to check in and the woman notices that there's a bar there and invites him |
| 0:47.9 | to have a drink. And he says sure and so they share a drink together, they |
| 0:51.6 | continue fine conversation, and then the woman invites |
| 0:56.2 | this man to her room. |
| 0:58.7 | She invites him to her room. |
| 1:00.5 | What should this man do? What should this man do? Now, all Christians would immediately say, |
| 1:06.1 | oh, he should say no, he should not not go to the room. He shouldn't have even had drinks with this woman. |
| 1:12.4 | This is a near occasion for |
| 1:14.1 | sin. He's going to be tempted. He should not go to this room. Well, some people from our secular |
| 1:22.1 | culture may have a different perspective. |
| 1:24.0 | They may say, what's the big deal here? |
| 1:25.8 | What are you worried about? |
| 1:27.1 | Well, I'm worried that they'll end up sleeping with her |
| 1:29.7 | and being unfaithful to his wife. |
| 1:31.3 | And then again, a non-Christian may come back and say well that |
| 1:34.4 | might be your view of marriage. I mean I understand you're a Christian you have a certain view of |
| 1:38.3 | marriage but this man's not a Christian and so maybe his view of marriage is more open than yours. |
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