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Our Institute has been promoting knowledge of Thomas Aquinas’ teaching and his legacy, and research into his ideas and their contemporary value, since 2004. Located in the University of Oxford, we help introduce Aquinas to new scholars in various disciplines, and contribute to the exchange of ideas in this world-class University by bringing international scholars to speak at our events or to carry out research. Our seminar series and colloquia foster a research community, and, often in colla ...
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Prof Andrea Aldo Robiglio -On Learning Failures and Scholarly Vices part of the 2021 Aquinas Seminar Series on the theme De Magistro: Aquinas and the Education of the Whole Person, exploring what Aquinas offers towards a philosophy and praxis of education, bringing him into con­versation with other thinkers and with movements towards educating the …
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Prof Adam Eitel on 'The Idea of 'the Preacher' in Thomas Aquinas's Super Isaiam and In Jeremiam', part of the 2021 Aquinas Seminar Series on the theme De Magistro: Aquinas and the Education of the Whole Person, exploring what Aquinas offers towards a philosophy and praxis of education, bringing him into con­versation with other thinkers and with mo…
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Rev Prof Michael Sherwin, OP on "Integrated Humanities Programmes & the Renewal of Catholic Educa­tion" part of the 2021 Aquinas Seminar Series on the theme De Magistro: Aquinas and the Education of the Whole Person, exploring what Aquinas offers towards a philosophy and praxis of education, bringing him into con­versation with other thinkers and w…
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Prof Fáinche Ryan "The Role of Intelligence in Good Human Living: Aquinas and the teachability of Prudentia" part of the 2021 Aquinas Seminar Series on the theme De Magistro: Aquinas and the Education of the Whole Person, exploring what Aquinas offers towards a philosophy and praxis of education, bringing him into con­versation with other thinkers …
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Rev Dr Nicholas Austin, SJ "The Education of the Eye: Aquinas and the Virtue of Right Attention" part of the 2021 Aquinas Seminar Series on the theme De Magistro: Aquinas and the Education of the Whole Person, exploring what Aquinas offers towards a philosophy and praxis of education, bringing him into con­versation with other thinkers and with mov…
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A special lecture from November 2018 from Prof Roger Pouivet. Art and the Desire for God - A Thomistic Perspective in Aesthetics Many philosophers claim that philosophy must question the nature of “aesthetic experience” Consequently, “Aesthetics” is mainly devoted to the description of this assumed aesthetic experience. My intention now is to try t…
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Rev Prof Vivian Boland, OP, "Can Aquinas’s sana doctrina on Learning and Teaching Be Extracted from Its Place in sacra doctrina?" part of the 2021 Aquinas Seminar Series on the theme De Magistro: Aquinas and the Education of the Whole Person, exploring what Aquinas offers towards a philosophy and praxis of education, bringing him into con­versation…
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Rev Dr David Goodill, OP "Wittgenstein, Training, and Habits" part of the 2021 Aquinas Seminar Series on the theme De Magistro: Aquinas and the Education of the Whole Person, exploring what Aquinas offers towards a philosophy and praxis of education, bringing him into con­versation with other thinkers and with movements towards educating the whole …
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Dr Zena Hitz (St John’s College, Annapolis) “The Spontaneity of the Mind and the Desire to Learn” part of the 2021 Aquinas Seminar Series on the theme De Magistro: Aquinas and the Education of the Whole Person, exploring what Aquinas offers towards a philosophy and praxis of education, bringing him into con­versation with other thinkers and with mo…
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“Development” conveys notions of improving, refining, advancing – change for the better. While Aquinas did not think that eternal wisdom could improve, he did hold – perhaps surprisingly – that natural and divine law could develop in some fashion. The Colloquium will explore the development of human, natural, and divine law as well as the contrast …
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“Development” conveys notions of improving, refining, advancing – change for the better. While Aquinas did not think that eternal wisdom could improve, he did hold – perhaps surprisingly – that natural and divine law could develop in some fashion. The Colloquium will explore the development of human, natural, and divine law as well as the contrast …
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“Development” conveys notions of improving, refining, advancing – change for the better. While Aquinas did not think that eternal wisdom could improve, he did hold – perhaps surprisingly – that natural and divine law could develop in some fashion. The Colloquium will explore the development of human, natural, and divine law as well as the contrast …
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“Development” conveys notions of improving, refining, advancing – change for the better. While Aquinas did not think that eternal wisdom could improve, he did hold – perhaps surprisingly – that natural and divine law could develop in some fashion. The Colloquium will explore the development of human, natural, and divine law as well as the contrast …
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A paper delivered to the 2019 Aquinas Seminar 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 c…
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Audio of the 2020 Aquinas lecture delivered by Russell Hittinger. Tradition or Pottage? Reflections on Catholic Social Doctrine Prof Russell Hittinger is the Senior Fellow in the Lumen Christi Institute at the University of Chicago, and a Visiting Scholar there in the Committee on Social Thought. This term he is a Visiting Professor in the Dominica…
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This year we will be unable to meet in person for the Aquinas Week, but we will put on a number of lectures over the weekend of the 26-29 June. Each day there will be live Q&As, usually in the evening, with each of the lectors - Fr Richard Conrad, OP, Fr Robert Gay, OP, Fr Simon Gaine, OP. In this third and final lecture, Fr Simon Gaine, OP introdu…
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This year we will be unable to meet in person for the Aquinas Week, but we will put on a number of lectures over the weekend of the 26-29 June. Each day there will be live Q&As, usually in the evening, with each of the lectors - Fr Richard Conrad, OP, Fr Robert Gay, OP, Fr Simon Gaine, OP. In this second lecture, Fr Robert Gay, OP introduces the Se…
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This year we will be unable to meet in person for the Aquinas Week, but we will put on a number of lectures over the weekend of the 26-29 June. Each day there will be live Q&As, usually in the evening, with each of the lectors - Fr Richard Conrad, OP, Fr Robert Gay, OP, Fr Simon Gaine, OP. In this first lecture, Fr Richard Conrad, OP introduces the…
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An introduction to the philosophy of nature from Dr William Simpson. William Simpson is a Junior Research Fellow of Wolfson College. His research interests span philosophy, physics and theology. His current work is funded by the John Templeton Foundation as part of the international project, God and the book of nature. He is an associate member of …
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