A weekly discussion of a chosen theological/philosophical text, with voluntary presentations by group members and some steady direction by people who might have a little more experience with the topic. The first book for this term is Charles Taylor's Ethics of Authenticity, which is a painless and short introduction into the debate over the vices and...
A weekly discussion of a chosen theological/philosophical text, with voluntary presentations by group members and some steady direction by people who might have a little more experience with the topic. The first book for this term is Charles Taylor's Ethics of Authenticity, which is a painless and short introduction into the debate over the vices and...
A weekly discussion of a chosen theological/philosophical text, with voluntary presentations by group members and some steady direction by people who might have a little more experience with the topic. The first book for this term is Charles Taylor's Ethics of Authenticity, which is a painless and short introduction into the debate over the vices and...
A weekly discussion of a chosen theological/philosophical text, with voluntary presentations by group members and some steady direction by people who might have a little more experience with the topic. The first book for this term is Charles Taylor's Ethics of Authenticity, which is a painless and short introduction into the debate over the vices and...
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...
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,...
A weekly discussion of a chosen theological/philosophical text, with voluntary presentations by group members and some steady direction by people who might have a little more experience with the topic. The first book for this term is Charles Taylor's Ethics of Authenticity, which is a painless and short introduction into the debate over the vices and...
The Oxford Chapter of the Thomistic Institute, in collaboration with The Aquinas Institute, welcome Prof. Edward Feser, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pasadena City College, California. The classical theism of Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas and other great theologians of the past ascribes certain distinctive attributes to God, such as simplicity, immutability, and eternity. These attributes have...