{"id":229612,"date":"2024-08-06T17:07:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T17:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/06\/148-being-is-better-than-not-being-christopher-mirus\/"},"modified":"2024-08-06T17:07:45","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T17:07:45","slug":"148-being-is-better-than-not-being-christopher-mirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/06\/148-being-is-better-than-not-being-christopher-mirus\/","title":{"rendered":"148\u2014Being Is Better Than Not Being\u2014Christopher Mirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"date\">Nov 18, 2022<\/p>\n<p>Christopher V. Mirus, your host\u2019s older brother, is a philosophy<br \/>\nprofessor at the University of Dallas, and author of the new book<br \/>\n<em>Being Is Better Than Not Being: The Metaphysics of Goodness and<br \/>\nBeauty in Aristotle<\/em>. In this episode he discusses being a<br \/>\nphilosopher in the Aristotelian tradition, compares Aristotle\u2019s<br \/>\nintellectual and pedagogical approach with Plato\u2019s, and touches on<br \/>\nsome themes from his book.<\/p>\n<p>How does Aristotle identify goodness with the ability to be<br \/>\ncontemplated \u2013 even in the sphere of ethics? What is the relation<br \/>\nbetween friendship and contemplation? How can we call \u201cbeautiful\u201d<br \/>\nthings as different as a morally virtuous human action, the parts<br \/>\nof animals, the orbits of the heavenly spheres, and God Himself?<br \/>\nWhat does Aristotle mean when he says that being is better than not<br \/>\nbeing?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>There is a 30% discount on <em>Being Is<br \/>\nBetter than Nonbeing: The Metaphysics of Goodness and Beauty in<br \/>\nAristotle<\/em> <em>until December 24th, 2022, as part of the<br \/>\nAmerican Catholic Philosophical Association\u2019s annual conference. To<br \/>\nget the discount, order from the CUA Press website using<br \/>\nd<\/em>iscount code \u201cACPA22\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cuapress.org\/9780813235462\/being-is-better-than-not-being\/\"><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.cuapress.org\/9780813235462\/being-is-better-than-not-being\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This podcast is a production of CatholicCulture.org. If you like<br \/>\nthe show, please consider supporting us! <a href=\"http:\/\/catholicculture.org\/donate\/audio\">http:\/\/catholicculture.org\/donate\/audio<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n      var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n      if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n      js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n      js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.8&appId=834757889913083\";\n      fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n    }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicculturepodcast.libsyn.com\/148being-is-better-than-not-beingchristopher-mirus\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nov 18, 2022 Christopher V. Mirus, your host\u2019s older brother, is a philosophy professor at the University of Dallas, and author of the new book<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}