The Thomistic Institute To be Good is to Do the Truth | Jennifer Frey
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Nov 22, 2018 
Philosopher Jennifer Frey discusses practical truth, desire, and virtue in aligning knowledge and action for virtuous living. Topics include the interplay between cognition and desire, different kinds of judgments, intentional action descriptions, and Aquinas's teachings on virtues and practical truth.
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Practical Truth Lineage
- Practical truth is a concept rooted in Aristotle's work and further developed by Aquinas and Anscombe.
- Anscombe revived interest in practical thinking and truth within analytic philosophy.
Living Well and Right Desire
- Practical truth isn't just thinking truly about living well, but actually living well, aligning with right desire.
- This involves understanding what constitutes right desire and its agreement with truth.
The Partygoers
- Frey uses the example of people drinking at a party to illustrate Aristotle’s fourfold division of character.
- These include the temperate, intemperate, continent, and incontinent persons.