Welcome

Welcome to the Rational Animal blog.  The purpose of Rational Animal is to provide myself with a place to write about psychology from an analytical Thomist (or Aristotelian) (or essentialist) viewpoint.  If anyone accidentally stumbles in here and starts discussing issues of philosophical anthropology, or Thomism, or psychotherapy, then so much the better.  As I am a beginner, this blog does not pretend to any authority; I will be reading and reporting my reading as accurately as possible. 

Other possible topics for conversation: ethics, counseling, marriage, child rearing, sexual mores, philosophy (particularly philosophy of mind, and ethics), academic and intellectual life, character education, virtue, etc.  Also movies, books, and food, of course.