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Teaching Ethics “The Little Way”, by Andrew Peach – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Teaching Ethics “The Little Way”, by Andrew Peach

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By Andrew Peach, Catholic Exchange, June 2, 2026

Andrew J. Peach, J.D., Ph.D., is a former philosophy professor and current attorney. He is the co-author of An Introduction to Catholic Ethics, a text used in Catholic high schools across the United States, and has published articles in numerous journals, including The Thomist, Philosophical Investigations, First Things, Journal of the History of Philosophy, International Philosophical Quarterly, Crisis Magazine, Touchstone Magazine, and OnePeterFive. He and his wife Kathryn have four children.

 

Andrew PeachMany Catholic ethics courses are badly organized. If the end of Catholic ethics is to make people virtuous, teachers would do well to put the “hot button” issues on the backburner and bring the daily, commonplace virtues to the fore.

A high school teacher and tenured associate professor, I taught ethics for over fifteen years, until the multiplication of my children and the consequent poverty pushed me into law. Now more seasoned, better read, and enjoying a second conversion, I would focus my ethics course on the “little virtues,” those regarding speech, wealth, food, sexual desire, and humility. …

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