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SUMMARY:Anselm & Ralph of Battle A Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Anselm and his students on our relationship to non-human creatures\n\nAnselm’s friend and rival Ralph of Battle was arguably the most original theologian and philosopher of Lanfranc‘s circle\, alongside Gilbert Crispin. Prof Goebel is editing one of Ralph’s major works\, Meditatio Christiani de fide\, inspired by the Monologion and Boethius’ De fide catholica. Four MSS survive\, two of them in Oxford. Ralph’s anti-Anselmian claim that natural theology covers but a limited part of Christian theology\, and his rejection of Anselm’s proof of God’s existence in favour of a cosmological argument\, both seem to prefigure Aquinas. \nProf Dr Bernd Goebel (Faculty of Theology\, Fulda).
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/anselm-ralph-of-battle-a-lecture/
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
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SUMMARY:Natural Law: Foundations & Applications
DESCRIPTION:A seminar series on Mondays of Trinity Term\, 2021\, from 11am-12.30pm on Zoom. \nWeek 1 – 26 April – Rev. Dr Richard Conrad OP (Blackfriars)\nNatural Law: Revealed and Discovered? Changeless and Developing? \nWeek 2 – 3 May – Will Nolan (Exeter)\nPractical Reason in Aquinas: New Natural Law without Baggage? \nWeek 3 – 10 May – Michael Wee (Blackfriars)\nConnatural Moral Knowledge: Anscombe and Maritain on Natural Law Epistemology \nWeek 4 – 17 May – Rose Brugger (Queen’s) & Nathan Elvidge (Blackfriars)\nRationality without Personhood?: A Thomistic Analysis of Recent Developments in Stem Cell Research \nWeek 5 – 24 May – Dr Dominic Burbidge (St Peter’s)\nNatural Law and Social Science Methodology \nWeek 7 – 7 June – Dr Jonathan Price (St Cross)\nIs There a Natural Law Jurisprudence?
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/natural-law-foundations-applications/2021-06-07/
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
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SUMMARY:Philosophy meets Economics and Public Policy
DESCRIPTION:Four lectures by Dr Roberto Fumagalli\, Director of Philosophy\, Politics & Economics Programme\, King’s College London \nDr Fumagalli\, a visiting scholar at Blackfriars for Trinity Term 2021\, conducts research at the interface between philosophy\, economics and public policy.  He offers us four lectures growing out of his research\, which seeks:\n(a) to articulate and defend a reformed division of labour between philosophers\, economists and other empirical scientists in the ongoing attempt to define and measure well-being;\n(b) critically to assess the “principle of secular motivation” by refining current distinctions between religious\, secular and antireligious reasons;\n(c) to respond to the covid-related public health emergency by arguing against the use of lotteries and other randomization procedures for allocating scarce life-saving and other medical resources. \nThe lecture topics are:\n24 May – “A reformed division of labour for the science of well-being”\n31 May – “A more liberal public reason liberalism”\n7 June – “Preferences versus Opportunities: which conceptual foundation for normative welfare economics?”\n14 June – “Why we should not use randomization procedure to allocate scarce life-saving resources” \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/philosophy-meets-economics-and-public-policy/2021-06-07/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute,The Aquinas Institute
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SUMMARY:Philosophy meets Economics and Public Policy
DESCRIPTION:Four lectures by Dr Roberto Fumagalli\, Director of Philosophy\, Politics & Economics Programme\, King’s College London \nDr Fumagalli\, a visiting scholar at Blackfriars for Trinity Term 2021\, conducts research at the interface between philosophy\, economics and public policy.  He offers us four lectures growing out of his research\, which seeks:\n(a) to articulate and defend a reformed division of labour between philosophers\, economists and other empirical scientists in the ongoing attempt to define and measure well-being;\n(b) critically to assess the “principle of secular motivation” by refining current distinctions between religious\, secular and antireligious reasons;\n(c) to respond to the covid-related public health emergency by arguing against the use of lotteries and other randomization procedures for allocating scarce life-saving and other medical resources. \nThe lecture topics are:\n24 May – “A reformed division of labour for the science of well-being”\n31 May – “A more liberal public reason liberalism”\n7 June – “Preferences versus Opportunities: which conceptual foundation for normative welfare economics?”\n14 June – “Why we should not use randomization procedure to allocate scarce life-saving resources” \n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/philosophy-meets-economics-and-public-policy/2021-06-14/
CATEGORIES:Las Casas Institute,The Aquinas Institute
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SUMMARY:Reading Class: Ralph of Battle’s 'Meditatio cuiusdam Christiani de fide'
DESCRIPTION:Anselm and Ralph of Battle – A reading session\nRalph of Battle’s ‘Meditatio cuiusdam Christiani de fide’\n\nAnselm’s friend and rival Ralph of Battle was arguably the most original theologian and philosopher of Anselm‘s circle\, alongside Gilbert Crispin. Prof Goebel is editing one of Ralph’s major works\, Meditatio cuiusdam Christiani de fide\, inspired by the Monologion. Four MSS survive\, two of them in Oxford. Ralph’s anti-Anselmian claim that natural theology covers but a limited part of Christian theology\, & his rejection of Anselm’s proof of God’s existence in favour of a cosmological argument\, both seem to prefigure Aquinas. \nIn his Meditatio cuiusdam Christiani de fide\, Ralph raises an anthropological question that almost disappeared from the theological agenda by the time of Aquinas\, but which was very much a live issue in the days of Anselm\, who discusses it at length in Cur Deus homo. Augustine had argued that the “perfect number” of rational creatures in the City of God had been diminished by the fall of some of the angels\, and that it had to be restored by individual human beings. In saying so\, he had expressly left open whether the number of human individuals admitted to heaven was equal to that of the fallen angels – which would mean that being an ersatz for fallen angels is all there is to the purpose of our creation\, our value being essentially instrumental – or whether\, over and above these human substitutes\, other humans were included in the perfect number from the outset\, which would imply that the human race would have been created even if no angel had sinned\, and that it possesses an intrinsic value. Anselm strongly favoured the second alternative (as does Aquinas in his Quaestiones disputatae de malo). By contrast\, Ralph tentatively makes a case for the first alternative\, rejecting Anselm’s argument that if humans would not have been made unless some angels sinned\, the fall of some angels would have occurred by necessity and consequently would have been no sin at all. In doing so\, Ralph supplies\, amongst other things\, an interesting definition of free choice. \nThe text to be studied in the reading session\, with an English translation\, will be emailed to those who register.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/reading-class-ralph-of-battles-meditatio-cuiusdam-christiani-de-fide/
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
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