Las Casas Institute

’The Dangers of Totalitarianism Today - The Banality of Evil from the Perspectives of Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil’ A lecture by Dr Marie Cabaud Meaney   Have we learnt our lesson from the 20th century? Is the mantra of “never again” enough to prevent a regime like the 3rd Reich from raising its ugly...

Human Dignity Seminar Series   Two seminars will be held on the relationship between pietism (a form of reformed lutheranism), education, and the process of state building during the 18th Century in Prussia and Saxe-Weimar. The first seminar concerns the three elements that developed through the decades and came together in the establishment of a...

Human Dignity Seminar Series This is the second seminar on the relationship between pietism (a form of reformed lutheranism), education, and the process of state building during the 18th Century in Prussia and Saxe-Weimar. The first seminar will have looked at the three elements that developed through the decades and came together in the establishment...

We talk Locke, we act Hegel: The Nature of Modern Freedom Public lecture by Edward Hadas Everyone wants to be free, but modern people often feel like cogs in an oppressive social machine. What is going wrong? Part of the answer is philosophical – the inevitable failure of John Locke’s individualism and the seemingly inevitable...

Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican and Protestant Perspectives Book launch   Dignity is a fundamental aspect of our lives, yet one we rarely pause to consider; our understandings of dignity, on individual, collective and philosophical perspectives, shape how we think, act and relate to others. This book offers an historical survey of how dignity has been understood...