What Does Aquinas Say About Happiness? w/ Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. & Prof. J. Budziszewski

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What does St. Thomas Aquinas say about happiness and ultimate purpose? How (and how not) can we be happy? Join Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. of Aquinas 101, Godsplaining, and Pints with Aquinas for an off-campus conversation with Prof. J. Budziszewski about his latest Thomistic Institute lecture, "Happiness and Ultimate Purpose: Insight from Thomas Aquinas."

What Does Aquinas Say About Happiness? w/ Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. & Prof. J. Budziszewski (Off-Campus Conversations)

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00:00 Introduction
02:43 Evaluating our own happiness
05:22 Happiness, reason, and reflection
09:05 Plunging into happiness
13:41 Knowledge, love, and wisdom
17:52 Sharing and communing with others
21:50 Common sense and philosophy
28:11 Don't settle for incomplete happiness!
32:15 Is pleasure the meaning of happiness?
37:59 Suppressing the natural law
44:15 Conclusion

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