Is love really all you need to make something ethical?

In a culture that treats good intentions as the highest moral standard, this episode asks a harder and more important question: Can love be ethical without truth?

In this episode of Bioethics Babe, I’m joined by Fr. James Dominic Brent, OP, a Dominican priest and philosopher in the Thomistic tradition, to examine why sincerity alone isn’t enough in moral decision-making, especially in medicine, relationships, and family life.

Drawing on Catholic moral theology and the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, Fr. Brent explains:

• Why good intentions are necessary but never sufficient for moral action
• How love is properly understood as willing the true good of the other
• Why actions shape not only outcomes, but who we become as persons
• The mo ...