Thomas Aquinas: A Medieval Psychologist? | Fr. Cajetan Cuddy, O.P.

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🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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This lecture was given on March 10, 2022 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Fr. Cajetan Cuddy, O.P., teaches systematic and moral theology at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception and the Dominican House of Studies (Washington, D.C.). Fr. Cuddy serves as the general editor of the “Thomist Tradition Series,” and he is co-author of Thomas and the Thomists: The Achievement of St. Thomas Aquinas and His Interpreters (Fortress Press, 2017). He has written for numerous publications on the philosophy and theology of St. Thomas Aquinas and the Thomist tradition.

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0:00.0	This talk is brought to you by the Thomistic Institute.
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0:11.4	Our topic is if you saw the flyer, very interesting, I'm going to start.
0:17.2	This is good.
0:17.7	This isn't just teasing.
0:18.6	This is not dear father teller's fault.
0:21.3	But the flyer that the Thomacic Institute staff put together asks this, or it has this as the title.
0:29.5	And it is this, Thomas Aquinas, colon, a medieval fyscologist.
0:38.3	And fiscologist for the audio is spelled.
0:41.3	It says Thomas Aquinas, a medieval, and then it has written P-H-Y-S-C-O-L-O-G-I-S-T.
0:49.3	How many of you noticed that?
0:51.3	Did you notice that in the flyer?
0:52.3	A few didn't, but a few did. Now,
0:55.5	this is not to tease the dear staff of the Toom Institute in Washington, the young men and
1:00.9	women who put together all these things and handled logistics. I just teach philosophy and theology.
1:05.0	I can't handle that stuff. So I'm not. I would be worse than they would. It would just be
1:09.0	words on the white screen like got milk kind of advertisements if I were doing it.
1:13.2	So I want to praise them.
1:14.6	However, I think that this spelling and this question, Thomas Aquinas, a medieval phyxologist,
1:23.6	and of course we meant to say psychologist, is a fitting metaphor because one might have a reaction to this talk to say that, of course, Thomas Aquinas is not really a psychologist.
1:39.3	Because today, we have certain resources, tools, instruments, methods, technology, practices,
1:47.3	modern thought that enable us to do psychology, which of course are inaccessible to Thomas Aquinas.
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