Human Dignity – “Aquinas at 800” Conference

Описание: Chair: Carlos A. Casanova | Visiting Professor at the Hamilton Center, University of Florida

Aquinas and the Nietzschean Critique of Compassion
John O’Callaghan | Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame

Thomas Aquinas, Social Ontology, and Autistic Identity
Michael Waddell | McMahon Aquinas Chair in Philosophy, Saint Mary's College

Human Dignity, the Mystical Body of Christ, and the Tertia Pars
David Lantigua | Associate Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame


This conference celebrates the 800th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Aquinas, exploring the ongoing importance of his thought to contemporary cultural, philosophical, and theological discussions.

The comprehensive and systematic character of Aquinas’ thought has for centuries informed inquiry into questions of human dignity, freedom, economic development, work, poverty, the environment, and other issues of global significance.

In gathering many of the most accomplished contemporary scholars of Aquinas’ thought from throughout the world working on themes in Ethics, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Anthropology, Political Theory, Christology, Trinitarian Theology, Sacramental Theology and Ecclesiology, among others, the conference promotes fruitful interchange of diverse perspectives on the importance of Aquinas in the world today.

Jacques Maritain Center
https://maritain.nd.edu