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Faith and Tim Pawl, two catholic educators with PhDs in Philosophy, provide a once-weekly concoction of thoughts on Catholicism, philosophy, virtue, 90s nostalgia, or any other random thing that tickles our fancy.
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Mental Calisthenics (opens the original)
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In this post I describe a variety of assignment I started using last year in all my classes. I found it quite fruitful for deepening class discussion and habituating argumentative analysis in my students. I’m currently using it in our core classes (capped at 30 students, 100-level philosophy courses), and I’ve previously used it in higher-level non-major classes, major classes, and our capstone senior course. In short, I’ve used it at every level and found that it works well. My normal teaching
Seven Deadly Sins Roundup (opens the original)
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This is my eleventh post on the Seven Deadly Sins. We’ve made it! I thought it would be good to collect together links and summary information about each of the Capital Vices, leaving the deeper dives to the individual posts. Here you’ll find definitions and the story of Bob, some of it copy-and-pasted together from the previous posts, in order to create a single guide to the Thomistic Theory of the Deadly Sins.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetc
Why Isn't Hatred A Deadly Sin? (opens the original)
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Earlier in this series, I asked why it is that Hatred doesn’t get to count as a deadly sin. After all, Hatred seems way worse than Lust. When you lust, your desire is fleeting pleasure. And pleasure is a good thing, even if you are desiring it at the wrong time, or with the wrong person, or in some other problematic way. But Hatred … Hatred desires an evil precisely because it is evil. When you lust, you needn’t want what’s bad for the other person because it is bad. Heck, you both might see the
Pride (opens the original)
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We’ve come to the final Deadly Sin. Having discussed Lust, Gluttony, Avarice, Sloth, Wrath, and Envy, as well as</s
Aquinas Help Request (opens the original)
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Faith and I are writing a book proposal for a popular-level book on St. Thomas Aquinas’s view of the good life. We were approached by an editor to do so in part on the strength of our writing on this Substack! I think it is super cool to see Substack writing by academics have wider implications. More on the proposal in the medium future.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QZRr!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-p
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