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SUMMARY:Prof Edward Feser - Classical Theism & the Nature of God
DESCRIPTION:The Oxford Chapter of the Thomistic Institute\, in collaboration with The Aquinas Institute\, welcome Prof. Edward Feser\, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pasadena City College\, California. \nThe classical theism of Augustine\, Anselm\, Aquinas and other great theologians of the past ascribes certain distinctive attributes to God\, such as simplicity\, immutability\, and eternity. These attributes have been controversial in more recent theology and philosophy of religion. Yet they follow unavoidably from the very arguments that lead us to knowledge of God’s existence. In this talk I show why this is so\, and respond to criticisms of classical theism raised by thinkers like Alvin Plantinga. \nAll are welcome\, to register: https://goo.gl/mWkg8f
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/prof-ed-feser-on-the-divine-attributes/
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SUMMARY:Aquinas Seminar Series: Prof Ed Feser on Cooperation with Sins against Prudence and Chastity
DESCRIPTION:In modern times there is a tendency to pit morality against intelligence\, either in a voluntarist way that makes morality primarily a matter of the will or in a sentimentalist way that makes it primarily a matter of feeling.  From the Thomist point of view\, this is a mistake.  Morality is an essentially cognitive enterprise\, and hinges on the virtue of prudence – the habit of knowing the right thing to do and the right way of doing it.  One cooperates with sins against prudence when one either encourages voluntarist and sentimentalist tendencies\, or fails to discourage them when one has a special obligation to do so.  In this paper I set out Aquinas’s account of the nature of prudence and of the vices opposed to it.  It turns out that there is a special connection between these vices and sins against chastity. Aquinas’s account can in turn be developed into an account of the various ways one might fall into cooperating with sins against prudence.  And it turns out that there is also a special connection between such cooperation and cooperation with sins against chastity.  The key to understanding the special connection between sins against prudence and sins against chastity lies in Aquinas’s account of the “blindness of mind” that is among what he calls the “daughters of lust.”
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SUMMARY:Annual Aquinas Lecture\, Prof William Desmond
DESCRIPTION:Communities of the Metaxu: Interdependence beyond Dependence and Independence\nIn modernity we tend to identify the meaning of freedom with the idea of autonomy. By comparison with autonomy\, we find problematic the idea of heteronomy\, or variations of it. Autonomy stresses the nomos of to auto\, the law of the self/same; heteronomy stresses the nomos of to heteron\, the law of the other.   These notions are correlative to an understanding of independence and dependence\, the first often given primacy\, the second often made subordinate.  I want to argue that a satisfactory concept of interdependence is difficult to comprehended if our thinking is constrained by these oppositions. This is especially evident if we stress the “between\,” the “inter” of interdependence. I want to explore the matter in terms of what I call a metaxological understanding of community. A metaxological understanding stresses a logos of the metaxu (between)\, stresses our need to word the between. This metaxological understanding of community will illuminate ways of “being together” that point towards interdependence as beyond the dyadic contrast of dependency and independence.  I want to stress a more original porosity of being prior to autonomy and beyond autonomy\, a patience of being before a striving to be. Forget the porosity and the patience and we miss how our freedom is an endowed freedom\, a freedom received as itself from what is other to itself. A richer understanding of interdependence is possible if we bear these considerations in mind.  \nWilliam Desmond   \nDavid Cook Chair in Philosophy\, Villanova University\, Thomas A.F. Kelly Visiting Chair in Philosophy\, Maynooth University\, and Professor of Philosophy Emeritus\, Institute of Philosophy\, KU Leuven. 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/annual-aquinas-lecture-prof-william-desmond/
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SUMMARY:Aquinas Seminar Series: Prof Jennifer Frey - ‘On Possessing Oneself: The Moral Psychology of Temperance’
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URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/aquinas-seminar-series-prof-jennifer-frey-on-temperance-and-the-common-good/
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