{"podcast":{"title":"The Moral Imagination","slug":"the-moral-imagination-1176352","podcast_index_feed_id":1176352,"rss_url":"https://moralimagination.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://www.themoralimagination.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/2345140/f237656e46c06d769905a4459a214bd1.jpg","author":"Michael Matheson Miller","episode_count":63,"summary":"Michael Matheson Milller","last_synced_at":"2026-07-02T22:17:51.928287+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-moral-imagination-1176352"},"episode":{"title":"Ep.54 Cajetan Cuddy O.P on The Psychology of St. Thomas Aquinas","slug":"ep-54-cajetan-cuddy-o-p-on-the-psychology-of-st-thomas-aquinas","published_at":"2023-08-10T10:15:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-moral-imagination-1176352/ep-54-cajetan-cuddy-o-p-on-the-psychology-of-st-thomas-aquinas","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-moral-imagination-1176352","url":"https://www.themoralimagination.com/p/ep54-the-psychology-of-st-thomas-e51","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/142169481/377fcdd684ec24c0bea180e9829e606e.mp3","summary":"In this episode I speak with Fr. Cajetan Cuddy O.P. about Thomistic Psychology: A Philosophic Analysis of the Nature of Man, by Fr. Robert Edward Brennan, O.P., edited and with an introduction by Fr. Cuddy. Aristotle wrote that “to attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.” We often read psychology because we want to understand ourselves and our behavior- and the behavior of others. While we don’t normally think of St. Thomas Aquinas as a psychologist, as a serious philosopher, theologian, and student of the human person, St. Thomas gives us deep insight into human psychology — the study of the psyche or soul — our intellect, memory, will, emotions, and our embodied, embedded existence. Fr. Brennan’s book on Thomistic Psychology provides a good accessible introduction to Aquinas’ reflections on psychology. As. Fr. Cuddy notes, some of the science in Thomistic Psychology is a bit out of date, but the key principles and ideas are still applicable and provide an important contribution, especially in a time when so many struggle with anxiety, depression, sadness and other mental health challenges. These have many causes to be sure, but the impact of modern theories of materialism, spiritualism and other reductionist visions of the person makes people even more confused about who they are and how to live well. One of the ideas central to the work of St. Thomas and Fr. Brennan is the idea of truth — conforming the mind to reality — and how taking truth seriously combined with a solid, non-reductionist philosophy of the person can have practical, positive impact on our mental and psychological health. Thomistic Psychology presents an integrated vision of the person that helps us the better to understand ourselves and others,…","meta_description":"In this episode I speak with Fr. Cajetan Cuddy O.P. about Thomistic Psychology: A Philosophic Analysis of the Nature of Man, by Fr. Robert Edward Brennan,…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5046,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-moral-imagination-1176352/episodes/ep-54-cajetan-cuddy-o-p-on-the-psychology-of-st-thomas-aquinas/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-moral-imagination-1176352/ep-54-cajetan-cuddy-o-p-on-the-psychology-of-st-thomas-aquinas.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}