The Catholic Culture Podcast: 131 – Virtue Is Not Enough

Apr 19, 2022

One of the best contemporary natural law philosophers, J.
Budszizewski, joins the show to discuss his new book, How (and
How Not) to Be Happy, spiritual warfare in the classroom, and
his journey from “macho nihilism” to faith.

Topics include:

• Why virtue alone won’t make you happy
• Why the Greeks said “Call no man happy until he is dead”
• A critique of the Stoic revival
• How belief in the afterlife allows us to be honest about
  suffering in this life
• Teaching secular students about natural law
• Breaking through people’s self-deception
• Budszizewski’s youthful embrace of nihilism and how God broke
  down his intellectual pride

Links

How (and How Not) To Be Happy
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/How-and-How-Not-to-Be-Happy/J-Budziszewski/9781684511075

Underground Thomist website http://www.undergroundthomist.org

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Other recommended books by J. Budszizewski:

What We Can’t Not Know: A Guide https://www.amazon.com/What-We-Cant-Not-Know/dp/1586174819

The Meaning of Sex https://www.amazon.com/Meaning-Sex-J-Budziszewski/dp/1610170997

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