https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xwP3iKFS1k The end of glory: Why contemporary war has few big battles, much devastation and very little justice - Frank Ledwidge Warfare changes over time, and the philosophers of just war struggle to keep up. Frank Ledwidge, author and military historian, and Edward Hadas, Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, will help restore the balance with...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLLb6hfTUb4 The philosophical case against war: What war looks like after modern war has stripped away the illusions - Edward Hadas Warfare changes over time, and the philosophers of just war struggle to keep up. Frank Ledwidge, author and military historian, and Edward Hadas, Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, will help restore the balance with...
The Institute, in collaboration with Georgetown University, is holding a series of talks on ‘Christian Shakespeare: Question Mark’ as part of The Future of the Humanities Project and The Humanities Initiative. Putting Religion to the Question: Political Theology in Shakespeare’s Second Tetralogy and Venetian Plays - John Drakakis The four plays in the Second Tetralogy, and particularly Henry V, raise...
The Christian Literary Imagination Series Over the course of the 2020-2021 academic year, the Future of the Humanities Project is sponsoring a series of webinars on the Christian literary imagination in collaboration with Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford. The 'Christian Literary Imagination Series' will explore the role and function of the arts and humanities in...
A Transatlantic Dialogue October 2020 is an intensely busy month around the world for elections in democratic states and other societies. Before Americans officially vote on 3 November, at least 11 other national elections and three major referenda will have taken place—from New Zealand to Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania to Bolivia, Tanzania to Chile. The stakes are...
The Christian Literary Imagination Series Over the course of the 2020-2021 academic year, the Future of the Humanities Project is sponsoring a series of webinars on the Christian literary imagination in collaboration with Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford. The 'Christian Literary Imagination Series' will explore the role and function of the arts and humanities in...
In his recent encyclical, Fratelli tutti, Pope Francis presents a 're-envisaging the social role of property'. While the Pope restates and develops Catholic social teaching (CST) on this point, the fundamentals of this teaching are perennial. While affirming the right to private property, CST underscores divine purposes integral to this right. These purposes contextualize this right...
Lockdowns, gigantic fiscal deficits, tough legal restrictions and requirements: rich and poor nations have responded dramatically to the pandemic. Were these public health measures implemented in just ways? Edward Hadas will explain how Catholic Social Teaching can help answer that question. Edward Hadas is a Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford. His book Counsels of Imperfections: Thinking Through Catholic Social...
The Christian Literary Imagination Series Over the course of the 2020-2021 academic year, the Future of the Humanities Project is sponsoring a series of webinars on the Christian literary imagination in collaboration with Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford. The 'Christian Literary Imagination Series' will explore the role and function of the arts and humanities in...
What should economists study? Common answers include markets, money, scarcity, productivity, prosperity, distribution, and statistics. All of those are relevant, but Edward Hadas will propose a more radical starting point: the Great Exchange of gifts: of human labour to the world and of consumption goods and services from the world that labour has humanised. Edward...