How to Be Happy with Prof. Christopher Kaczor | Off-Campus Conversations, Ep. 008

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Christianity, Society & Culture, Catholic Intellectual Tradition, Catholic, Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality, Thomism, Catholicism

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🗓️ 4 November 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

How can one be happy? What practical steps can we gather from psychology and theology? Join Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. of Aquinas 101, Godsplaining, and Pints with Aquinas for an off-campus conversation with Prof. Christopher Kaczor about his latest Thomistic Institute lecture, "How to Be Happy: Lessons from Psychology and Theology.” How to Be Happy with Prof. Christopher Kaczor (Off-Campus Conversations) You can listen to the original lecture here: https://soundcloud.com/thomisticinstitute/how-to-be-happy-lessons-from-psychology-and-theology-professor-christopher-kaczor For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org About the Speaker: Dr. Christopher Kaczor (rhymes with razor) is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University and a member of the James Madison Society of Princeton University. In 2015, he was appointed to the Pontifical Academy for Life of Vatican City, and he serves as a Consultor to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. He 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. He is an award winning author of twelve books including 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, Thomas Aquinas on the Cardinal Virtues; Life IssuesMedical 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	Hello, my name is Father Gregory Pine and delighted to join you for the next installment of off-campus conversations here at the Temistic Institute, as you may have by this point become accustomed to.
0:20.7	We're just following up with speakers who have given presentations for the Tomistic Institute, as you may have by this point become accustomed to.
0:24.8	We're just following up with speakers who have given presentations for the Tomistic Institute on various campuses throughout the United States and beyond in certain cases
0:29.5	or may have contributed to a conference or an intellectual retreat.
0:34.1	So that way we can ask those questions that may not have come up in the question and answer
0:38.1	session or at the very least to kind of deepen our grasp or our hold on the topic at hand,
0:43.7	the topic at stake. So today I'm very delighted to be joined by Dr. Christopher Kayser coming to us from
0:49.4	Loyola, Marymount University. Thanks so much for joining for the episode, Dr. Kayser.
0:54.2	Very happy to be here. I appreciate the invitation and I'm looking forward to chatting with you.
0:58.7	Okay. Cheers. And I with you. So many of the listeners to the Timistic Institute podcast
1:05.3	will have heard lectures that you've given previously. I was just recounting before pushing
1:09.8	record that I was present for one
1:11.0	that you gave at the University of South Carolina. And then you made a few excellent contributions
1:15.2	to the student leadership conference a couple years ago. But there have been far, far more since that
1:21.0	time. So the particular lecture that I listened to are the theme going to focus on is the connection
1:28.6	between happiness and positive psychology, or kind of like the philosophical, theological,
1:32.6	foundations of happiness and positive psychology, a lot of folks will have heard that lecture.
1:36.2	But, okay, for those who haven't necessarily heard that lecture or heard lectures that you've given,
1:40.4	can you just say a word of introduction, you know, who you are, where you're from, what you're
1:44.1	doing right now? Sure. I'm a professor of philosophy and chair of the
1:48.3	philosophy department at Loyola Marymount University. And I've been here for pretty long time since
1:54.3	1998. And my expertise is really on two subjects in a way, Thomas Aquinas and bioethics.
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