Happiness and the Limits of Psychology | Prof. Christopher Kaczor

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🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This lecture was given on April 20th, 2024, at St. Albert's Priory.

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About the Speaker:

Dr. Christopher Kaczor (rhymes with razor) graduated from the Honors Program of Boston College and earned a Ph.D. four years later from the University of Notre Dame. A Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Kaczor is a former Federal Chancellor Fellow at the University of Cologne and William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program at Princeton University and Honorary Professor in Bishop Barron's Word on Fire Institute. His seventeen books include The Gospel of Happiness, The Seven Big Myths about Marriage, A Defense of Dignity, The Seven Big Myths about the Catholic Church, The Ethics of Abortion, O Rare Ralph McInerny: Stories and Reflections on a Legendary Notre Dame Professor, Thomas Aquinas on the Cardinal Virtues; Life Issues-Medical Choices; Thomas Aquinas on Faith, Hope, and Love; The Edge of Life, and Proportionalism and the Natural Law Tradition. Dr. Kaczor’s views have been in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, National Review, NPR, BBC, EWTN, ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, MSNBC, TEDx, and The Today Show.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tomistic Institute podcast.
0:06.8	Our mission is to promote the Catholic intellectual tradition in the university, the church, and the wider public square.
0:13.1	The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Temistic Institute chapters around the world.
0:19.1	To learn more and to attend these events, visit us at
0:22.5	to mystic institute.org. Today, my talk is going to be drawn from a book that I wrote called
0:28.6	The Gospel of Happiness. And so I'm going to be kind of summarizing some of the chief
0:33.0	insights that are in that book. So if you're interested in the topic, you can check that out.
0:38.1	A free version of it actually is available through Word on Fire. So if you Google My Name and
0:43.3	Happiness and Word on Fire, it should pop up. And then you can just put in your information they'll
0:48.8	send you a digital copy of the book. So you can check it out there. I want to start off with a personal experience.
0:57.5	So this happened about 10 years ago to me. I interviewed and got a fantastic new job at the Catholic
1:05.7	University of America. I was hired as the director of the university honors program.
1:16.6	And the new job came with an enormous increase in salary.
1:18.6	I got about a 40% raise.
1:23.9	And I was able to leave my current university where I was pretty unhappy.
1:27.6	I felt like I was kind of on the outs, ideologically and theologically, having the wrong views, that is Catholic views. And so moving to
1:32.8	Catholic University of America was really a breath of fresh air. So I moved out there with
1:38.0	my wife and family, and I absolutely loved it. The university was filled with extremely bright, dedicated, faithful people. The parish I was
1:48.1	in was the best parish I'd ever been in. It had fantastic music, unbelievably good preaching,
1:52.9	and most of all, I loved the people that I met there. There were all kinds of people that
1:58.3	were just like me, people that were raising families and really trying to live out their faith.
2:02.4	And it just was fantastic.
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