The Return to Virtue Podcast

In this episode of The Return to Virtue Podcast, A.J. Barker and I sum up the whole of season 1:

* what is virtue?

* why do we need it?

* how do we get it?

* the natural vs. the theological virtues

* how the virtues rank in importance and why

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In this episode of The Return to Virtue Podcast, A.J. Barker and I discuss exercise and physical culture.

* How can exercise benefit us spiritually?

* What are some of the pitfalls?

* Why Christians need to reclaim physical culture

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In this episode of The Return to Virtue Podcast, A.J. Barker and I discuss the virtue of hope.

* what hope is and why it can sometimes hurt

* why we need God to help us hope

* how hope relates to fear of God

* how hope helps men to hard things

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In this episode of The Return to Virtue Podcast, A.J. Barker and I discuss the virtue of faith:

* why faith involves the intellect

* how faith makes us smarter

* why faith makes us more courageous

* how faith benefits the family and society

* how to grow in faith

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In this episode of The Return to Virtue Podcast, A.J. Barker and I discuss the virtue of charity:

* Why charity is a love of “friendship”, as Aquinas refers to it

* How love is a uniting principle

* How charity helps the will of Christ live in us

* How charity is the mean between the excess of covetousness and the defect of apathy.

* How mortals sin are sins contrary to charity

* How the goodness of love is determined by the object loved

* How prayers trains love

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In episode #7 of The Return to Virtue Podcast, A.J. Barker and I discuss the virtue of prudence:

* How prudence helps us choose the right MEANS to a given END

* Why it ranks first among the cardinal virtues

* Why young men struggle with prudence

* How to develop it in your marriage and at work

* How to get better at prioritising on the fly, whatever the situation

* The most masculine ways to acquire and use knowledge

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In episode #6 of The Return to Virtue Podcast, A.J. Barker and I discuss the virtue of justice:

* Why is justice ‘general human rightness’ (Plato)?

* How is it ‘not part of virtue but virtue entire’ (Aristotle)?

* The difference between justice and all the other cardinal virtues

* What justice means for our thoughts, words and actions

* How justice relates to masculinity and integrity

* How we should prioritise the different people in our lives

* Special considerations of justice for dating and marriage

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In this episode of The Return to Virtue Podcast, A.J. Barker and I discuss the virtue of fortitude.

* How fortitude helps us overcome fear and stand firm

* How it stops a man ‘loving his life in such a way that he loses it’ (Josef Pieper)

* How it involves both endurance and aggression

* Why bravery depends on justice

* How best to develop fortitude practically

* How to spot fake fortitude

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In this episode #4 of The Return to Virtue Podcast, A.J. Barker and I discuss the virtue of temperance:

* How it controls our desires for food, drink and sex

* How this relates to the current obesity and porn crisis

* Why you can be a skinny glutton

* Why intemperance darkens the intellect

* How man differs from all other animals in eating and procreation

* Why fasting is masculine

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In episode 3 of the Return to Virtue Podcast, A.J. Barker and I discuss humility.

* How it moderates the pleasure of pride (ego) as a sub-virtue of temperance

* How it relates to the ability to suffer social pain

* What it means to suffer well

* How suffering can be good for us

* The 3 acts of humility

* St. Gregory’s 4 species of pride

* St. Anselm’s 7 levels of humility

* Our Lord and Our Lady as models of humility

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