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10th Conference in Economics and Catholic Social Thought: Polarization, Social Cohesion, and the Economy

This conference will bring together leading thinkers in economics, theology, and ethics to explore how principles derived from Catholic social teaching, such as solidarity, human dignity, and “the preferential option for the poor”, might operate within local and national economies to contribute towards a greater common good. Session I: 5 years after Fratelli Tutti · David Cloutier (University of Notre Dame) · Ursula Nothelle-Wildfeuer (University of Freiburg) · Moderator: Fr. Martin Schlag (University of St Thomas) Session II: The impact of the economy on social cohesion · Nils Goldschmidt (University of Siegen and Weltethos Institute, Tübingen) · Luigi Zingales (University...

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Polarization, Social Cohesion, and the Economy

International House at the University of Chicago 1414 E 59th St. Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park

With polarization on the rise around the globe, scholars have pointed to a broader fragmentation of social cohesion. Economics, sociology, theology and philosophy offer different entry points for exploring these problems. How might we better understand this global moment? This marks the 5th anniversary of Pope Francis’s social encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, which sought not only to diagnose these problems, but to also offer moral responses for all people of good will. How might principles derived from Catholic social teaching, such as solidarity, human dignity, and "the preferential option for the poor” operate within local and national economies to contribute towards a greater common good?

A Philosophy of Work, Leisure, and Catholic Culture – A Catholic Vision of Culture in the 21st Century | West Suburban Catholic Culture Series

Butterfield Country Club 2800 Midwest Rd, Oak Brook

In his well-known and influential essay, Leisure: The Basis of Culture, Josef Pieper claims that we in modern western society have come to inhabit a “world of total work,” and that an essential precondition for escape is recapturing a more ancient notion of “leisure” (in Greek: scholê, in Latin: otium). While much has been said in support of this claim, especially in Catholic intellectual circles, the focus has typically centered on the nature of leisure, which much of this dialogue takes as the starting point. In this lecture, Prof. Blaschko, who studies the philosophy of work at Notre Dame, will proceed in a different direction, asking “What kind of culture, and what kind of work culture, would we create if we wanted to incorporate genuine leisure into our lives?”