Dr. J. Budziszewski

Actually, I kind of enjoyed it.

I can't say that I enjoyed the walking per se, but I think about those things and I think, boy, I'm going to have a story to tell here.

Yeah.

No, no, I am.

You're the second person who's told me that.

A student of mine who was doing very poorly in the course, so she might have been trying to butter me up, she dropped it later, said, you're the happiest professor I've ever had.

My question was, will you like that as an A-list?

Oh, no.

No.

As a matter of fact, I'm not really like that dispositionally.

Dispositionally, I'm sort of melancholic.

Me too.

I tend to brood on things, but faith changed everything.

It doesn't have to depend on my personality or whether I'm melancholic or what's happening in the world or the fact that some things are going down the tubes.

It's different.

We can do anything you want.

You know, I think sometimes some of my students might have had some anticipation of something going on before I did.

When I would, even as a nihilist, I would teach Thomas Aquinas, for example.

I mean, he was one of the greats that I was teaching about foundations of legal and political philosophy and all that kind of thing and ethics.

So I would teach Aristotle and then Unit 2 would be Thomas Aquinas and I'd go on to do some other stuff.