Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and the Project of Literature | Sr. Jane Dominic Laurel, O.P.

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"Logos, ethos, and pathos [that is, the philosophy that instructs, the spirit/character that delights and entertains, and the appeal that moves and inspires] are all employed to one end in great literature. And what is it? To shape the moral imagination. Why? Because when you live according to a properly formed moral imagination, you become more human.
St. Thomas says that before you act, you have to be able to conceive of the action in your imagination. So, before we can become moral, just, honorable, good, heroic, we have to have those things presented to our imagination [through] characters who act with [these virtues]." -Sr. Jane Dominic Laurel, O.P.
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This lecture was given on November 5, 2021 at Auburn University.
About the speaker:
Sr. Jane Dominic Laurel is a member of the St. Cecilia Congregation of Dominican Sisters of Nashville, Tennessee. She received her Doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, Italy. She has been active in her religious community's teaching apostolate for over fifteen years and has assisted with the theological formation of the newest members of her religious congregation. In addition to contributing articles to a number of journals and magazines, including the Vatican newspaper (L'Osservatore Romano), The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, The Linacre Quarterly, and the Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings, Sister has served as editor-in-chief of her Congregation's book, Praying as a Family (also available in Spanish, Chinese, and Arabic versions). With EWTN, she directed a television series of the same title. She has also served as the creator and founding Director of the University of Dallas Studies in Catholic Faith & Culture Program.
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Thank you, Sister Jane. Pax Christi.

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Great work

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Great stuff. Thankyou

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This lecture is profound. I will refer this to young adults between the ages of 21 to early 30s. I am in my late 70s. I am familiar with the hippy sexual revolution. During these past few generations loving sacrifice has become murky.Hippys , materialism, nihilistic thought have weakened woman kind. Lies try to make us doubt /believe our design as God made us.