Metaphysics

7th Annual Philosophy Workshop: Aquinas on Metaphysics

phil/theo lectures

Lectures

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A lecture on April 18, 2015 at New York University.

To Be Good Is To Do the Truth: Reality, Good, and the Primordial Conscience | Prof. Reinhard Huetter

What is Truth? | Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP

Introduction to Metaphysics Part One: Form and Matter; Substance and Accidents | Fr. T.J. White

Introduction to Metaphysics Part Two: Transcendentals and the Existence of God | Fr. T.J. White

Introduction to Metaphysics Part Three: Philosophy as Wisdom | Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP

A lecture on February 18, 2017 at New York University.

Freedom for Excellence: Virtue & Moral Character According to Aquinas (Pt 1) | Fr. Thomas Petri, OP

A lecture on June 30, 2017 at Aquinas Philosophy Workshop.

The Distinction of Essence and Existence | Prof. Edward Feser

A lecture on July 1, 2017 at Aquinas Philosophy Workshop.

Causality and Ontotheology | Prof. Emeritus Alfred Freddoso

June 30, 2017 at Aquinas Philosophy Workshop.

Form-Matter Composition | Prof. Jeffrey Brower

June 29, 2017 at Aquinas Philosophy Workshop.

What Is a Substance? | Prof. Michael Gorman

Teleology and Actuation | Prof. Candace Vogler

October 19, 2017 at University of California, Berkeley.

Blinded by Scientism? The Proper Role—And Limits—Of Science in the Quest for Truth | Edward Feser

A lecture delivered at Brown University on 11/9/17

Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Problem of Unjust Laws | Fr. Dominic Legge, OP

It's My Right!: Understanding Natural Rights and the Purpose of Politics | Fr. Dominic Legge, OP

A lecture at George Mason University on November 7, 2017.

God After Darwin: Are Christianity and Evolution Compatible? | Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP

Aquinas's Political Philosophy | Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, OP

This lecture was given October 12th, 2017 at the University of Maryland.

How To Not Ask About "The Meaning of Life" | Prof. Joshua Hochschild

This lecture was given during a conference on Thomas Aquinas and the Greek Fathers at Ave Maria University, that was held January 26-27, 2018, entitled: "What is Beauty? Is God Beautiful?" This event was hosted by the Aquinas Center and the Thomistic Institute.

What Is Beauty? Is God Beautiful? | Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP

This lecture was offered February 9th, 2018 at Vanderbilt Medical School.

What is the Soul, and When Does It Come To Be? | Prof. James Madden

This lecture was offered on June 7th, 2018 as part of the "Thomistic Philosophy and Natural Science Symposium" held at the Dominican House of Studies, Washington DC.

Hylomorphism and the New Mechanist Philosophy of Neuroscience | Dr. Daniel De Haan

This lecture was given on Oct. 10th, 2018, for the Leonine Forum at the CIC in Washington, D.C. 

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Wisdom in the Face of Modernity: Is Faith Reasonable? | Fr. Dominic Legge, OP

This talk was offered at Yale on Oct. 1st, 2018 and was present by Professor Paige Hochschild. Dr. Hochschild is a professor of historical and systematic theology at Mount St. Mary's University (MD), specializing in Augustine, Thomas Aquinas and the early Church. She also teaches philosophy courses at the Seminary at Mount St. Mary's. She has written a book on the place of memory in Augustine's theological anthropology, and publishes on the Church, education, tradition, 20th c. theological debates within the Church (Scripture, history; marriage).

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Hobbits & Humility: Catholicism, Christology and the Lord of the Rings | Paige Hochschild

This lecture was delivered at Harvard Law School on October 20, 2018. It was part of a conferenced entitled "Christianity and the Common Good."

From the Common Good to Public Order (and Back)| Gladden Pappin

This talk was offered on October 2nd, 2018 at George Mason University by Dr. Michael Root (CUA)

Speaker Bio: 
Michael Root is a native of Norfolk, Virginia. He studied at Dartmouth College (BA, summa cum laude) and Yale University (PhD. in theology). He has taught at Davidson College, Trinity Lutheran Seminary, and Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary. For ten years, he was Research Professor at the Institute for Ecumenical Research in Strasbourg, France.

Ecumenical dialogues have been at the center of Root’s service. He was on the drafting team for the Catholic-Lutheran Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, and served on the Catholic-Lutheran dialogue both nationally and internationally, the international Lutheran-Anglican dialogue, and the US Lutheran-Methodist dialogue. He was a staff consultant to the 1993 World Conference on Faith and Order (Spain) and the 1998 Lambeth Conference (England). He has been the executive director of the Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology.

Root is the author (With Gabriel Fackre) of Affirmations and Admonitions (1998) and editor of Justification by Faith (with Karl Lehmann and William Rusch, 1997), Baptism and the Unity of the Church (with Risto Saarinen, 1998), and, with James Buckley, Sharper than a Two-Edged Sword: Preaching, Teaching and Living the Bible (2008), The Morally Divided Body: Ethical Disagreement and the Divided Church (2012), and Christian Theology and Islam (2013). In addition, he is the author of many scholarly articles and an associate editor of the journal Pro Ecclesia.

Purgatory - Good News for Most of Us | Prof. Michael Root

This lecture was presented at Harvard Law School as part of a 2-day Conference on "Christianity and the Common Good." Speakers included  Prof. Gerard Wegemer (University of Dallas), Prof. J. Budziszewski (University of Texas, Austin), Prof. Gladden Pappin (University of Dallas)  Prof. Sarah Byers (Boston College) Fr. Dominic Legge, OP (Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception and the Thomistic Institute), Prof. Jacqueline Rivers (Harvard University) and Prof. Adrian Vermeule (Harvard Law School) with the Keynote offered by Justice Neil Gorsuch (United States Supreme Court)

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Faith, Natural Law And The Common Good | J.Budziszewski

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Form-Matter Composition | Prof. Jeffrey Brower

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