Ryan M Carlin
Proven leader in nonprofit fundraising, adept in donor relationship development, capital campaign management, and the acquisition of principal, major, and planned gifts. Possesses a proven track record of surpassing fundraising quotas for 18 straight years. Promoted five times during 16 year career with the Legionaries of Christ, beginning as a Donor Relations and Gift Processing Officer and retiring as Regional Director of Development. Skilled in team leadership and leveraging data for donor prospecting, consistently delivering impactful results.
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Aristotle concludes that man’s happiness must lie in that which is particular to him as a human being, his intellect. Thus, he further studies man’s rational capacities and discovers that these give man three capacities particular to him: contemplation, practical wisdom, and moral virtue. He thus posits that man’s most perfect happiness consists in the achievement of all three of these capacities.
It is therefore my thesis in this work that there is in fact a strong and intrinsic relationship between man’s life of contemplation and his life of moral virtue – despite the various contemporary thinkers who have challenged this vision – which is to be found in the virtue of prudence. What is more, I wish to go a step further and propose that there is in fact an intrinsic relationship between contemplation and each of the intellectual virtues, between the intellectual virtues and prudence, and between prudence and the moral virtue. This allows me to confidently state that perfect happiness in fact can only be found in contemplation, properly understood as the capstone of a life in which we practice with excellence all of the intellectual and moral virtues.
Aristotle concludes that man’s happiness must lie in that which is particular to him as a human being, his intellect. Thus, he further studies man’s rational capacities and discovers that these give man three capacities particular to him: contemplation, practical wisdom, and moral virtue. He thus posits that man’s most perfect happiness consists in the achievement of all three of these capacities.
It is therefore my thesis in this work that there is in fact a strong and intrinsic relationship between man’s life of contemplation and his life of moral virtue – despite the various contemporary thinkers who have challenged this vision – which is to be found in the virtue of prudence. What is more, I wish to go a step further and propose that there is in fact an intrinsic relationship between contemplation and each of the intellectual virtues, between the intellectual virtues and prudence, and between prudence and the moral virtue. This allows me to confidently state that perfect happiness in fact can only be found in contemplation, properly understood as the capstone of a life in which we practice with excellence all of the intellectual and moral virtues.