Communities of the Metaxu: Interdependence beyond Dependence and Independence In 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...
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...
Special Lecture by Dr William Carroll. A joint event organised by the Aquinas Institute and the Ian Ramsey Centre, University of Oxford.
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...
Why Did God Die? Salvation According to St. Thomas Aquinas The Oxford Chapter of the Thomistic Institute, in collaboration with The Aquinas Institute, welcome Dr. Rik Van Nieuwenhove (University of Durham) About the Speaker: Rik Van Nieuwenhove lectures in Medieval Thought at Durham University, UK. He has published scholarly articles on medieval theology and spirituality,...
Special lecture by Prof Andrew Willard Jones, The Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, and author of “Before Church and State: A Study of Social Order in the Sacramental Kingdom of King Louis IX”.
Lecture by Prof Timothy Pawl