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“Shameless”: The Sense of a Pejorative, from St. Augustine until Now

Swift Hall, First Floor Common Room 1025 E 58th St,Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Co-sponsored by the Medieval Studies Workshop Readers interested in the history of Christian writing are often surprised and nonplussed by the uninhibited polemic they find; scholarship often treats such polemics as obviously pathological. This talk takes one common form of medieval denunciation “the habit of calling” certain opinions and practices “shameless,”as a sort of laboratory […]

“The Careful Rationality of Monotheism: Thomas Aquinas on Analogical Knowledge of God”

Swift Hall, First Floor Common Room 1025 E 58th St,Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Co-sponsored by the Medieval Studies Workshop How can philosophers speak about God in a reasonable fashion? Does speech about God exceed the capacities of human reason? In responding to these questions, Thomas Aquinas develops a path between the extremes of apophaticism (rejecting the applicability of human language to God) and rationalistic optimism. This lecture will […]

“Emotion and Virtue in Thomas Aquinas”

Swift Hall, First Floor Common Room 1025 E 58th St,Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Co-sponsored by the Templeton Foundation and The Philosophy Department Abstract: For Aquinas, ethics is nothing other than the study of human psychology insofar as it flourishes or fails to flourish. Consequently, his thought on emotion is crucial to his account of virtue. This lecture will discuss Aquinas's theory of the emotions and its implications for his virtue […]

“The Identity of Knower and Known in Aquinas”

Swift Hall, First Floor Common Room 1025 E 58th St,Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Lecture Abstract: The claim that knowledge involves an identity of knower and known has its historical roots among the Greeks. This lecture explores this claim as one finds it in the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas. Professor O’Callaghan will explore these issues in critical dialogue with two different papers, one by Wilfrid Sellars titled “Being […]

“From Natural Law to Human Rights in Jewish Thought”

Swift Hall, First Floor Common Room 1025 E 58th St,Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Co-sponsored by the Ethics Club and Jewish Studies and the Hebrew Bible Workshop TO LISTEN: right click on below links to download or open in new window “From Natural Law to Human Rights in Jewish Thought,” David Novak (part 1) “From Natural Law to Human Rights in Jewish Thought,” David Novak (part 2) “From Natural Law to Human […]

“The Dignity of Being a Substance”

Swift Hall, First Floor Common Room 1025 E 58th St,Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Co-sponsored by the Committee on Social Thought and the Program in Medieval Studies Thomas Aquinas characterized the person as “what is most perfect” and “most worthy” in all of nature. What grounds the dignity of the human being as a person? While in our day a metaphysical approach to the question is undervalued, this lecture attempts to show […]

Virtue, Action, and Reason: A Conference in Honor of Anselm Müller

Swift Hall, First Floor Common Room 1025 E 58th St,Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

The University of Chicago Philosophy Department will host a conference entitled, “Virtue, Action, and Reason” in honor of the Spring 2011 Lumen Christi visiting fellow, Anselm Müeller. The Lumen Christi Institute, along with a number of other institutes on campus, are delighted to act as conference co-sponsors. The publication of Elizabeth Anscombe Modern Moral Philosophy in […]

A Philosophical Reading of the Prodigal Son

Swift Hall, First Floor Common Room 1025 E 58th St,Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

While the parable of the prodigal son has traditionally been read as a story about a wayward son in need of repentance or the conflict of two siblings over their just treatment, Hart will suggest that the father is the central character of the narrative. The phenomenological tradition is employed to shift the theological perspective […]

“Eriugena: The Medieval Irish Genius Between Augustine and Aquinas”

Swift Hall, First Floor Common Room 1025 E 58th St,Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

The Carolingian thinker Johannes Scottus Eriugena (810-877CE) is the author of numerous philosophical and theological works. Most famous among them is the Periphyseon or On Natures (864-866CE), a metaphysical dialogue drawing on the Greek and Latin patristic and classical traditions. Having been falsely condemned because of pantheism in 1225, Eriugena was only seriously studied in the twentieth century, which saw a […]

“Knowledge, Metaphysics, and the Information Explosion”

Swift Hall, First Floor Common Room 1025 E 58th St,Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Benedict Ashley, OP (Aquinas Institute of Theology, Emeritus) Herman Sinaiko (University of Chicago, Emeritus) To some, in the information age, we seem to know more things, to communicate more effectively, and to better interrelate scientific disciplines. To others, however this  'information explosion’ has produced a miscommunication, a superficial acquaintance with trivial facts, and fragmentation of […]

Aquinas, Thomism, and 20th Century Liberalism

Swift Hall, First Floor Common Room 1025 E 58th St,Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

Paul E. Sigmund, Professor of Politics at Princeton University, delivers a lecture titled "Aquinas, Thomism, and 20th Century Liberalism” on November 17, 2010 at the University of Chicago.

From Curiosity to Studiousness: Catechizing the Appetite for Knowledge

Swift Hall, First Floor Common Room 1025 E 58th St,Chicago, IL 60637, Hyde Park, IL

It’s a good thing, almost everyone would say, to want to know things; that view is certainly bone-deep in our universities and colleges, as well as in the church. But there are different ways of coming to want to know things, different ways of training and forming the appetite for knowledge. It has been traditional […]