The Meaning of Suffering & Human Flourishing w/ Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. & Prof. Eleonore Stump

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🗓️ 4 July 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Join Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. of Aquinas 101, Godsplaining, and Pints with Aquinas for an off-campus conversation with Prof. Eleonore Stump about the meaning of suffering, the link between suffering and human flourishing, and the role of stories in understanding the arcs of our lives.

You can watch this interview on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/TomdTsBmvDY.

About the speaker: Eleonore Stump is the Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University. She is also Honorary Professor at Wuhan University, the Logos Institute and School of Divinity at St. Andrews, and York University; and she is a Professorial Fellow at Australian Catholic University. She has published extensively in philosophy of religion, contemporary metaphysics, and medieval philosophy. Her books include Aquinas (2003), Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering (2010), Atonement (2018), and The Image of God. The Problem of Evil and the Problem of Mourning (2022). She has given the Gifford Lectures (Aberdeen, 2003), the Wilde lectures (Oxford, 2006), the Stewart lectures (Princeton, 2009), and the Stanton lectures (Cambridge, 2018). In 2021, she was given the award of Johanna Quandt Young Academy Distinguished Senior Scientist by the Goethe University (Frankfurt, Germany). She is past president of the Society of Christian Philosophers, Philosophers in Jesuit Education, the American Catholic Philosophical Association, and the American Philosophical Association, Central Division; and she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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0:00.0	This is Father Gregory Pine, and welcome back to the Thomistic Institute podcast for our off-campus
0:15.5	conversations.
0:17.0	So at every opportunity, we try to follow up with Tamistic Institute speakers so as to chase down some of the insights, perhaps presented at a lecture on campus or at an intellectual retreat.
0:30.6	And for this episode, I am delighted to be joined by Professor Eleanor Stump.
0:35.0	Thanks so much for joining.
0:36.6	I'm so pleased to be with you.
0:38.7	I look forward to our conversation together.
0:41.4	As do I very much.
0:43.6	As some people listening will know,
0:46.4	I've been talking well about you or talking good about you
0:48.6	behind your back for like 15 to 20 years
0:51.3	because in the academic year 2006-, 2007, I attended a lecture that
0:56.2	you gave at Franciscan University of Steubenville, which I think was a draft chapter for something
1:02.2	that was eventually included in wandering in darkness, Aquinas on the nature of love, and specifically
1:06.5	on this twofold desire for the good of the beloved and union with the beloved.
1:10.8	But I was sitting there wearing my boat shoes and my short pants and my, you know, t-shirt
1:16.1	thinking, holy smokes, what's going on right now?
1:18.9	This is making sense of my experience in a way that few things have up until the present moment.
1:24.5	So by way of introduction, I suppose this is more by way of testimony than
1:29.2	introduction. Nevertheless, by way of introduction, a big thank you for that lecture and for your
1:34.0	work, which has been profound and has had a huge, huge impact, not just like on, you know,
1:40.9	Thomist ghetto dwellers, but in the philosophical community more broadly.
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