The Aquinas Institute
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Aquinas Seminar Series: Prof John Finley on The Metaphysics of Pregnancy: Matter, Individuation, and Communion
Aquinas Seminar Series: Prof John Finley on The Metaphysics of Pregnancy: Matter, Individuation, and Communion
Thomas Aquinas views the human being as integrally composed of spiritual soul and matter. As in all earthly species, matter is responsible for individuation: for the fact that many instances of ‘human’ can exist. Bodiliness can thus be viewed primarily as something that separates us from each other. Yet no less true for Aquinas are...
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Aquinas Seminar Series: Prof Peter Hampson on ‘Appreciating the fine and discerning the good: toward a theology of affordance’
Aquinas Seminar Series: Prof Peter Hampson on ‘Appreciating the fine and discerning the good: toward a theology of affordance’
People are situated as well as related and embodied creatures; we inhabit physical, social, moral and spiritual worlds each with their action potentials or affordances. Virtue acquisition is thus partly an habitual and social process entailing increasing sensitivity to the moral affordances of situations, the fineness and fittingness of accompanying actions, and their outcomes. It...
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The Condemnations of 1277 and the Origins of Modern Science
The Condemnations of 1277 and the Origins of Modern Science
Special Lecture by Dr William Carroll. A joint event organised by the Aquinas Institute and the Ian Ramsey Centre, University of Oxford.
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Annual Aquinas Colloquium: “Aquinas and the Development of Law”
Annual Aquinas Colloquium: “Aquinas and the Development of Law”
AQUINAS INSTITUTE ANNUAL COLLOQUIUM "Development" conveys notions of improving, refining, advancing - change for the better. While Aquinas did not think that eternal wisdom could improve, he did hold - perhaps surprisingly - that natural and divine law could develop in some fashion. The Colloquium will explore the development of human, natural, and divine law...