Aquinas on the Moral Development of Friendship | Prof. Craig Titus

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The full title of this lecture is "Aquinas on the Moral Development of Friendship: Love as a Contribution to Mental Health Practice." It was given at a conference on "Love, Friendship, and Happiness," co-sponsored with the Scala Foundation and the Aquinas Institute at Princeton Theological Seminary on February 15, 2020. This conference featured Prof. Erika Kidd (University of St. Thomas), Prof. Craig Titus (Divine Mercy University), Prof. Anna Moreland (Villanova University), and Dr. RJ Snell (The Witherspoon Institute).

Speaker Bio: Dr. Craig Steven Titus, S.T.D., Ph.D teaches the integration courses pertaining to the nature of the human person; practical reason and moral character; and marriage and family life at Divine Mercy University. In addition to these areas, his research interests include virtue theory, emotional and moral development, psychology of virtue, and the integration of psychological sciences, philosophy, and theology.

His book, Resilience and the Virtue of Fortitude: Aquinas in Dialogue with the Psychosocial Sciences (CUA Press, 2006), sets up a dialogue between virtue theory and the psychological research on resilience and overcoming difficulty. He has published numerous articles. He is co-editor of The Pinckaers Reader: Renewing Thomistic Moral Theology (CUA Press, 2005) and editor of nine other books.
Dr. Titus previously worked as Researcher and Instructor at the University of Fribourg, where he served as Vice-Director of the St. Thomas Aquinas Institute for Theology and Culture and Vice-Director of the Servais Pinckaers Archives.

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