The Thomistic Institute

This was the fourth lecture of our 2019 Summer Philosophy Workshop, "Aquinas on Human Action and Virtue." The annual four day conference was cosponsored by the Catholic and Dominican Institute and the Center for Ethics and Culture. The Conference ran from June 19th-23rd at Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, NY. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: www.thomisticinstitute.org/event...

This was the third lecture of our 2019 Summer Philosophy Workshop, "Aquinas on Human Action and Virtue." The annual four day conference was cosponsored by the Catholic and Dominican Institute and the Center for Ethics and Culture. The Conference ran from June 19th-23rd at Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, NY. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: www.thomisticinstitute.org/events...

This was the second lecture of our 2019 Summer Philosophy Workshop, "Aquinas on Human Action and Virtue." The annual four day conference was cosponsored by the Catholic and Dominican Institute and the Center for Ethics and Culture. The Conference ran from June 19th-23rd at Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, NY. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: www.thomisticinstitute.org/event...

This was the first lecture of our 2019 Summer Philosophy Workshop, "Aquinas on Human Action and Virtue." The annual four day conference was cosponsored by the Catholic and Dominican Institute and the Center for Ethics and Culture. The Conference ran from June 19th-23rd at Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, NY. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: www.thomisticinstitute.org/events...

This talk was offered for the Aquinas Society of Cincinnati and held at St. Gertrude Church, Cincinnati, OH 45243 This event was sponsored by the Aquinas Society of Cincinnati and the Thomistic Institute. For more info about upcoming TI events, visit: www.thomisticinstitute.org/events Event Description: What does it mean to call union with God ‘the highest common good’? Fr. Aquinas (Pontifical Fac...

This lecture was given on April 9th, 2019 at Williams College, and was co-sponsored by Williams Catholic. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events About the Speaker: Fr. Thomas Davenport, O.P., received his Ph. D. in physics from Stanford University in 2010, working in theoretical particle physics and subsequently entered the Order of Preachers. He has wr...

This talk was offered for the Aquinas Society of Cincinnati, hosted at St. Gertrude's Priory on March 26th, 2019. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: www.thomisticinstitute.org Event Description: St. Augustine of Hippo has vastly influenced Catholic thinking, and is the most quoted theologian in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. He was a man always surrounded by friends, and...

This lecture was offered on May 15th, 2019 at the University of Oxford. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: www.thomisticinstitute.org/events Speaker Bio: Sr Catherine Joseph Droste, OP is a Dominican Sister of St. Cecilia, Nashville, TN. Sr. Catherine Joseph currently serves as Professor and Vice-Dean of Theology at the Pontifical University of St Thomas in Rome (The Angelicum).

This lecture was offered on May 7th, 2019 at the University of Oxford. For more information about upcoming TI events visit: www.thomisticinstitute.org/events Lecture Description: This lecture will discuss the vocation of a lawyer from the perspective of virtue, specifically the four cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance. These virtues are the hinges of happiness for every...

This lecture was given April 25th, 2019 at Tulane University. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: www.thomisticinstitute.org/events. Speaker Bio: Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. serves presently as the Assistant Director for Campus Outreach with the Thomistic Institute in Washington, DC. He served previously as an associate pastor at St. Louis Bertrand Church in Louisville, KY where he al...

This lecture was offered at Vanderbilt Medical School on May 9th, 2019. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 Event Description: The Christian virtue of hope orients persons toward the God-given happiness promised in heaven: indeed, toward God himself. But how does this hope take shape in our lives now? This lecture will explore how the sacraments of...

This talk was presented at the University of Mississippi on April 29th, 2019. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1

This lecture was presented April 9th, 2019 at George Mason University and was sponsored by the Thomistic Institute and the Mason Catholic Patriots. For more info about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 About the Speaker: Thomas Hibbs is currently Distinguished Professor of Ethics & Culture and Dean of the Honors College at Baylor University. He is the author of books i...

This talk was given on May 30th, 2019 at Stanford University. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 Fr. Stephen Fields is an expert in philosophical theology and the history of Christian thought. He is the author of Being as Symbol: On the Origins and Development of Karl Rahner's Metaphysics and numerous scholarly articles. He is former president of...

This lecture was given at USC on April 16th, 2019. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events Speaker Bio Jonathan J. Sanford, PhD, is Professor of Philosophy and the Dean of the Constantin College of Liberal Arts at the University of Dallas. He graduated summa cum laude from Xavier University in Classics and Philosophy in 1997, received his PhD from Univer...

This lecture was offered at Hillsdale College on April 2nd, 2019. For more information on upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 About the Speaker: Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P., grew up as the youngest of ten children on a farm in Kansas, and studied history, philosophy, and classics at Benedictine College. He then went to St Andrews, Scotland for a Master of Letters in medieval hist...

This lecture was given April 1st, 2019 at Harvard Medical School. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 About the Speaker: Fr. Nicanor Austriaco, O.P., completed his Bachelor’s Degree (B.S.E.) in Bioengineering, summa cum laude, at the University of Pennsylvania, and then earned his Ph. D. in Biology from M.I.T. in the laboratory of Professor Leonard...

This talk was delivered at Stanford University on April 17, 2019. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 Speaker bio: Edward Feser is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California. He has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and a Visiting Scholar at the Social Philosoph...

This talk was offered at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland during the "Thomas Aquinas and the Church Fathers" Conference on April 6th, 2019. Speaker Bio: Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P., is the Director of the Thomistic Institute and an Assistant Professor in systematic theology at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, a...

This lecture was given at the University of Oxford on March 5th, 2019 and was organized in partnership with the Aquinas Institute at Blackfriars Hall. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 About the Speaker: Rik Van Nieuwenhove lectures in Medieval Thought at Durham University, UK. He has published scholarly articles on medieval theology and spiritua...

This lecture was offered for our Harvard graduate chapter on April 4th, 2019. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org

This talk was given at the University of Arizona on March 26th, 2019. For more info about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 Speaker Bio: Dr. James Madden lives in Atchison with his wife and their children. He is originally from Wisconsin, where he received a B.A. from St. Norbert College, and did his graduate work at Kent State (MA, 1998) and Purdue (Ph. D., 2002). He was...

This lecture was given on March 28th, 2019 at the University of Toronto. For more information about upcoming TI events, please visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 Event Description: Human beings naturally have the power of free choice, but mental habits can cause us to choose in determined ways. So how can we break out of deep bad habits to form new and better ones? “Divine grace” is the answer...

This talk was offered at Southern Methodist University on April 11th, 2019. For more info about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 About the Speaker: J. Budziszewski (Ph. D. Yale, 1981) is a professor of government and philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. His main area of research is the natural moral law, and he is most wellknown for his work on moral selfdecep...

This lecture was presented by Prof. James Madden(Benedectine College) with Prof. Mark Johnson (Princeton University) responding. The event was held on April 4th, 2019 and sponsored by the Thomistic Institute and The Aquinas Institute, Princeton University's Catholic Campus Ministry. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1