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By Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash. An open book (on Ethics) sitting on top of a wooden table
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.
Many 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.