| WHAT: | Lecture: "Num Tertium Quid? Civic Virtues and Augustinian Eudaimonism" |
| WHEN: | Monday, April 4, 4:30 to 6 p.m. |
| WHERE: | The Catholic University of America Caldwell Hall, Monsignor Stephen P. Happel Room 620 Michigan Ave., N.E. Washington, D.C. |
| DETAILS: | Eric Gregory, professor, Department of Religion, Princeton University, will present a lecture titled "Num Tertium Quid? Civic Virtues and Augustinian Eudaimonism" as part of the School of Theology and Religious Studies' Moral Theology and Ethics Area Annual Lecture Series. Gregory's interests include religious and philosophical ethics, theology, political theory, law and religion, and the role of religion in public life. In 2007, he was awarded Princeton's President's Award for Distinguished Teaching. A graduate of Harvard College, he earned a master's degree in philosophy and a diploma in theology from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and his doctorate in religious studies from Yale University. He has received fellowships from the Erasmus Institute, University of Notre Dame, the Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, Harvard University, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is the author of Politics and the Order of Love: An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship (University of Chicago Press, 2008). Among his current projects is a book tentatively titled, What Do We Owe Strangers? Globalization and the Good Samaritan , which examines secular and religious perspectives on global justice. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact 202-319- 6524. |
| SPONSOR: | School of Theology and Religious Studies |