True Courage: On Facing Death with Fortitude | Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P.

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🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Fr. Gregory Pine discusses the virtue of courage, exploring its complexities, its relationship to the passions, and its importance in living a complete and virtuous life.

This lecture was given on October 24th, 2024, at Georgetown University.

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About the Speaker:

Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. is an adjunct professor of dogmatic theology at the Dominican House of Studies and an Assistant Director of the Thomistic Institute. He is the author of a few books including Prudence: Choose Confidently, Live Boldly. His writing also appears in Ascension’s Catholic Classics, Magnificat, and Aleteia. He is a regular contributor to the podcasts Pints with Aquinas, Catholic Classics, The Thomistic Institute, and Godsplaining.

Keywords: Courage, Daring, Emotions, Fear, Fortitude, Passions, St. Thomas Aquinas, Sensitive Appetite, Virtue

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1:01.1	So the theme for tonight is courage.
1:04.8	And I suppose we can begin by complicating the question.
1:09.0	This is why I answer a simple question when you can answer a complex question.
1:12.6	And I suppose the question is, is courage even coherent, like what we esteem, what we value in the virtue of courage?
1:19.6	Is it a real thing? Is it a real human excellence?
1:22.6	Or is it just like beating the breast and banging the drum and then getting yourself killed. Because it's
1:28.5	not entirely clear from the antique tradition that it actually does hold together. So you can think
1:34.4	about your reading of Homer, for instance. And you can think about Achilles. So we sing of his rage.
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