Friendship and Happiness: Insights from Aristotle, Aquinas, and Contemporary Psychology

About the speaker:

Dr. Christopher Kaczor is President of the American Philosophical Association, Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount, and appointed Visiting Faculty Affiliate at Harvard University. 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 also a former Federal Chancellor Fellow at the University of Cologne, Honorary Professor in Bishop Barron's Word on Fire Institute, and William E. Simon Visiting Fellow at Princeton University. His nineteen books include, Vital Conflicts: Debating Dobbs, Gender Treatments, and Questions of Conscience; Is Belief Believable?; 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 Issues-Medical Choices, Thomas Aquinas on Faith, Hope, and Love; 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.