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SUMMARY:The Virtues as Sources of Moral Guidance
DESCRIPTION:The Aquinas Institute will be co-sponsoring a two day conference with the Thomistic Institute on the 9-10 March\, 2026. Held in the Campion Hall Lecture Room\, it will discuss the virtues as guidance for morality. Speakers include: Richard Kim; Fr Nicholas Austin; Daniel De Haan; Roger Teichmann; Terence Irwin; John Cottingham; Gabriele De Anna; Sr Blandine Lagrut; and Roger Pouivet. Please see the full schedule below. \nFor more details\, and to register\, please follow the link. \nConference Schedule\nDay 1\, Monday\, March 9\, 2026 – Lecture Room\, Campion Hall\n9:00-9:20         Introduction \n9:20-10:20       Blandine Lagrut (Facultés Loyola Paris)\,\n‘Natural Piety\, Moral Horror\, and Supra-Utilitarian Virtues’ \n10:20-11:20     Roger Teichmann (St Hilda’s College\, Oxford)\,\n‘Practical Wisdom\, Language Use and the Erring Conscience’ \n11:20-11:40    Tea & Coffee break \n11:40 -12:40    Gabriele De Anna (University of Udine)\,\n‘Virtues\, Practices\, and Normativity: Thomas Aquinas and Moral Guidance by the Virtues’ \n12:40-15:00    Lunch Break \n14:30-15:00    Tea & Coffee in Entrance Hall\, Campion Hall \n15:00-16:00     Daniel De Haan (Blackfriars & Campion Hall\, Oxford)\,\n‘Virtue as an Irreducible Source of Normativity’ \n16:00-17:00     Roger Pouivet (Université de Lorraine)\,\n‘Truth as a Virtue of Justice’ \n17:00-18:00     Drinks Reception\, Campion Hall \n19:00                    Dinner for Speakers \nDay 2\, Tuesday\, March 10\, 2026 – Lecture Room\, Campion Hall\n9:00-10:00        Richard Kim (University of Loyola Chicago)\,\n‘Virtues as Sources of Practical Knowledge’ \n10:00-11:00      Nick Austin (Campion Hall\, Oxford)\,\n‘Virtue Theory Gets Practical: An Integrative Reading of Aquinas’s Ethics \n11:00-11:30      Tea & Coffee break \n11:30-12:45      Terence Irwin (Faculty of Philosophy\, Oxford)\,\n‘Vaulting Ambition in Virtue Ethics’ \n12:50-14:00      Lunch Break  \n14:30-15:00      Tea & Coffee in Entrance Hall\, Campion Hall \n15:00-16:00       John Cottingham (University of Reading)\,\n‘A Normative Deficit? Aristotle\, Anscombe\, MacIntyre\, and the Virtues’ \n16:00-16:15       Break \n16:15-17:30       Panel Discussion chaired by Daniel De Haan \n18:00-18:45       Drinks Reception\, Campion Hall
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/the-virtues-as-sources-of-moral-guidance/
LOCATION:Campion Hall\, Brewer Street\, Oxford\, OX1 1QS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:The Aquinas Institute
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SUMMARY:Thomistic Institute – Disability in the Mystical Body of Christ – Prof Paul Gondreau
DESCRIPTION:On Monday 9th March\, the Oxford Thomistic Institute will be hosting Prof Paul Gondreau\, of Providence College\, USA\, to speak on Disability in the Mystical Body of Christ. \nThe lecture will begin at 7.30pm in the Aula at Blackfriars\, and will be followed by refreshments. All are welcome. \nAbout the speaker\nPaul Gondreau (S.T.D.\, University of Fribourg) is a professor of theology at Providence College in Rhode Island\, where he teaches courses on Christ\, on the thought of St Thomas Aquinas\, and on human sexuality and marriage\, as well as on the Catholic vision of J.R.R. Tolkien. He is an associate editor of the journal Nova et Vetera. He has published widely in the areas of Christology\, Thomistic ethics\, especially as regards the moral meaning and purpose of human sexuality\, and the theology of disability.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/thomistic-institute-disability-in-the-mystical-body-of-christ-prof-paul-gondreau/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Priory,The Aquinas Institute
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SUMMARY:Divine Bootstrapping: Do Abstract Objects Lead to Atheism?
DESCRIPTION:Realism about a certain kind of ‘abstract object’\, namely\, universals or properties\, has been thought to pose a problem for theism.  To be a realist about universals or properties is just to believe that they exist.  First\, I talk about two different kinds of reason to believe in them\, which lead to two different roles they are supposed to play.  For the sake of argument\, I’ll assume they’re both good reasons.  Does realism about universals lead to a problem for theism — for a certain specific kind of theism\, one that says only God exists ‘a se’\, not dependent upon anything?  We’ll look at two arguments that say there would be a bad kind of circle of dependence.  Paying attention to the two roles universals are supposed to play will show that the two arguments fail\, for two different reasons.  The arguments were developed before the relatively recent growth of the ‘grounding’ literature; but they have to do with inadmissible grounding structure; so I’ll be connecting these debates\, which make use of notions of priority\, to the metaphysics of grounds. \nIn this lecture\, distinguished professor Dean Zimmerman\, Rutgers\, will speak at the Blackfriars Aula\, 3pm 11 March.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/divine-bootstrapping-do-abstract-objects-lead-to-atheism/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:How (Not) to Understand the Eucharist
DESCRIPTION:Fr Richard Conrad OP (Blackfriars)\, ‘“Faith Believes\, nor Questions How”: St Thomas on How (Not) to Understand the Eucharist’\nPart of this term’s lecture series\, Thursdays at 5pm unless otherwise noted\, presenting the breadth of Thomistic thought and its applications.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/how-not-to-understand-the-eucharist/
LOCATION:Aquinas Seminar Room\, 17 Beaumont Street\, Oxford\, Oxfordshire\, OX1 2NA\, United Kingdom
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