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SUMMARY:Aquinas Seminar Series: Prof Peter Hampson on ‘Appreciating the fine and discerning the good: toward a theology of affordance’
DESCRIPTION: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 is aided by learning to see the world through the eyes of already virtuous agents.  But is there anything (psychologically speaking) beyond such moral competence?  What of those who appear to have extraordinarily high levels of moral expertise and spiritual sensitivity?  What is involved in such impressive levels of moral mastery\, imagination\, and creativity? Building on John Lederach’s experientially based reflections on peace-making\, I suggest that some already virtuous persons are sufficiently gifted to open themselves more fully to the potentialities of the world\, through a process of attentive\, passive receptivity.  They become able to discern and creatively imagine the good in situations where it is currently hidden from others. In a further move\, I briefly outline some possible theological connections with this psychological model\, with reference to Cusa’s De Possest\, to illustrate the deeper appreciation of the invisible Good (the True and Beautiful) in all that is\, seen and unseen. \nProfessor Peter Hampson\, Research Fellow\, Blackfriars Hall\, Oxford\, and Emeritus Professor of Psychology\, UWE Bristol
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/aquinas-seminar-series-prof-peter-hampson/
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SUMMARY:Aquinas Seminar Series: Rev Dr Nicholas Austin\, SJ on ‘Divine and Human Gift: Magnanimity in Thomas Aquinas and Ignatius Loyola’
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URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/aquinas-seminar-series-rev-dr-nicholas-austin-sj-on-divine-and-human-gift-magnanimity-in-thomas-aquinas-and-ignatius-loyola/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190207T163000
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SUMMARY:Aquinas Seminar Series: Prof Patricio Dominguez on ‘The Theory of Passions as Constituent of a Theory of Providence’
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URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/aquinas-seminar-series-prof-patricio-dominguez-on-the-theory-of-passions-as-constituent-of-a-theory-of-providence/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
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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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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 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.”
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/aquinas-seminar-series-prof-ed-feser-on-cooperation-with-sins-against-prudence-and-chastity/
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SUMMARY:Lecture\, Prof Roger Pouivet\, “Art and the Desire for God”
DESCRIPTION:A Thomistic Perspective in Aesthetics\n 
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/lecture-prof-roger-pouivet-art-and-the-desire-for-god/
LOCATION:Blackfriars Hall\, St Giles\, Oxford\, OX1 3LY\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Two special lectures: Prof Eleonore Stump
DESCRIPTION:Two lectures\, with lunch in between. \n“Guilt\, Shame\, and Satisfaction”\n“The Anselmian Interpretation of the Atonement: Love\, Goodness\, Justice\, and Forgiveness”.
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/two-special-lectures-by-prof-eleonore-stump/
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SUMMARY:Aquinas Reading Class
DESCRIPTION:Contact: Dr Peter Hunter OP\, peter.hunter@english.op.org
URL:https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/event/aquinas-reading-class/2018-10-11/
LOCATION:Aquinas Seminar Room\, 17 Beaumont Street\, Oxford\, Oxfordshire\, OX1 2NA\, United Kingdom
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