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Podcast: Deep Dives with Fr Sean: the Super Catholic Catechesis Podcast
Episode: New Series! Introduction to the Virtues: What is the purpose of life?
Description: Send us Fan MailWe walk through the Nichomachean Ethics of Aristotle and look step by step at his thought process of noting that (1) each craft has an end, (2) there are minor crafts that serve greater crafts, (3) there is a craft, an art, a "know-how" above all things to which all other crafts are directed, (4) this is called happiness, or human flourishing, (5) to understand it better, we need to know what is unique about human beings, (6) human beings have parts of the soul that are shared by plants and animals, but the rational part highlights our unique...