Who Gets to Judge?: Answering Objections to Truth in Morality | Professor Joshua Hochschild

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🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Prof. Joshua Hochschild (Mount St. Mary’s University) is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He also served six years as the inaugural Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. His primary research is in medieval logic, metaphysics, and ethics, with broad interest in liberal education and the continuing relevance of the Catholic intellectual tradition. He is the author of The Semantics of Analogy: Rereading Cajetan’s De Nominum Analogia (2010), translator of Claude Panaccio’s Mental Language: From Plato to William of Ockham (2017), and co-author of A Mind at Peace: Reclaiming an Ordered Soul in the Age of Distraction (2017). His writing has appeared in First Things, Commonweal, Modern Age and the Wall Street Journal. For 2020-21 he served as President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Timistic Institute podcast.
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0:28.6	I want to sort of take the pulse of the audience to begin.
0:34.4	Because we've had some good discussion already,
0:36.2	but one of the things that I love about speaking
0:38.8	at Timistic Institute events is the variety of backgrounds that bring people and draw them to
0:44.4	Aquinas.
0:45.9	And it's not always the philosophy grad students and know it all who might have intimidated
0:51.6	some others in the room.
0:53.0	So I'm curious how many people here have not read Aristotle's Nicomachian ethics?
0:58.8	Okay, this is good.
1:00.7	All right.
1:01.9	So for those of you who have, like most of the audience has not,
1:05.4	how many of you have studied any texts from St. Thomas on the idea of natural law? Have, only a very, very few.
1:17.6	Okay. How many have read Pope John Paul II's Veritaph's splendor in people in cyclical?
1:27.1	One person has read Ver taught a spond.
1:29.3	A couple more.
1:30.3	The guys in white don't have to raise that.
1:33.3	How many of you hadn't even heard of varietta splendor by Pope John Paul the second?
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