Human Dignity Seminar Series This seminar will explore the histories and methods of faith-based organisations in Northern Ireland during the conflict there. It will outline the practical methods used by small groups working on peace lines to restore human dignity in the midst of a conflict based upon othering. The seminar is led by Dr...
’The Dangers of Totalitarianism Today - The Banality of Evil from the Perspectives of Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil’ A lecture by Dr Marie Cabaud Meaney Have we learnt our lesson from the 20th century? Is the mantra of “never again” enough to prevent a regime like the 3rd Reich from raising its ugly...
Fr Dominic Legge, O.P., Director of the Thomistic Institute will speak for a joint lecture hosted by the Las Casas Institute, the Aquinas Institute, and the Oxford Chapter of the Thomistic Institute on the theme, "It's My Right!": Understanding Natural Rights and the Purpose of Politics.
Human Dignity Seminar Series Two seminars will be held on the relationship between pietism (a form of reformed lutheranism), education, and the process of state building during the 18th Century in Prussia and Saxe-Weimar. The first seminar concerns the three elements that developed through the decades and came together in the establishment of a...
Human Dignity Seminar Series This is the second seminar on the relationship between pietism (a form of reformed lutheranism), education, and the process of state building during the 18th Century in Prussia and Saxe-Weimar. The first seminar will have looked at the three elements that developed through the decades and came together in the establishment...
The right to conscientious objection seems increasingly to conflict with rights to certain services and medical procedures. Should society curtail conscience’s rights? Or should society nurture the skill of making responsible moral judgments, which involves granting people space in which to learn to exercise it well? The sponsoring institutions are very grateful to Baroness Nuala O’Loan for agreeing to...
Economics as a Moral Science series: Book launch: Agency and Causal Explanation in Economics Venue: Blackfriars Hall, Oxford Thursday, 3 October (week –1) - 5pm Registration via email
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. The first talk of the series: Prof Michael Scott, Christian Shakespeare: Question Mark - an introduction to a series of talks Rev Dr...
Human Dignity Reading Group Everyone knows that a "balance of terror" is a poor substitute for the true peace of human flourishing. Pope Paul VI said, "No more war!, war never again". How can Christians help bridge the gap between the dire reality of actual and threatened military destruction and the Christian aspiration for the...
We talk Locke, we act Hegel: The Nature of Modern Freedom Public lecture by Edward Hadas Everyone wants to be free, but modern people often feel like cogs in an oppressive social machine. What is going wrong? Part of the answer is philosophical – the inevitable failure of John Locke’s individualism and the seemingly inevitable...