In this episode, Brandon and Ted Stiritz talk about the identity of a father, delighting in your children, humility, strengthing of the will, how to live the Good Life, and moving from the Particular to the Principle.

Timestamps/Topics for Episode 101:

0:00 Class announcements & organic feed

10:05 The identity of being a father & delighting in your children

24:50 Ted's first experience at Clear Creek Abby

30:40 Farming and humility

36:31 Strengthening of the will through farming and family

43:08 Two things we need to lead a good life: To act in virtue and a sufficiency of bodily goods

46:33 The futility of powerful emotion in achieving a rational end

52:40 External realities of farming and God

1:06:40 Moving from the Particular to the Principle

1:22:58 Housebuilding example of moving from the Particular to the Principle

1:31:19 The analogy of working with the passive potency of organic things

1:37:29 Giving your attention at the Mass

Links for Episode 101:

• The Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas (quote is from the first part of the second part, Question 31, Article 1; or I-II.Q31.A1. https://a.co/d/iitLLVS.
• Paradiso by Dante https://a.co/d/jcCgC8E.
• The Four Causes - Aristotle: The Physics, Books I-IV https://a.co/d/hROOwja and Metaphysics https://a.co/d/1TNIjr9.
• The Importance Of The Rural Life: According To The Philosophy Of St. Thomas Aquinas A Study In Economic Philosophy by George H. Speltz https://a.co/d/89QwdNX
• The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis https://a.co/d/1LMsKqD
• Father Gerard Manley Hopkins https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gerard-Manley-Hopkins

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