Feb. 2, 2012

CUA Lecture Series to Explore Works of Philosophers

Catholic University's School of Philosophy will present the Spring 2012 Lecture Series, which begins February 10 and runs through April 13. Among the topics to be discussed are Plato's Socratic period, emotion and evil in Kant, and St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae. Details follow:

Friday, Feb. 10, 2 p.m. Topic: "The Myth of Plato's Socratic Period" Speaker: Lloyd Gerson, professor of philosophy, University of Toronto Aquinas Hall, Auditorium

Friday, March 16, 2 p.m. Topic: "Freedom as Actuality: Hegel's Critique of the Will to Power to Choose." Speaker: David C. Schindler, associate professor of philosophy, Villanova University Aquinas Hall, Auditorium

Friday, March 30, and Saturday, March 31 Graduate Student Conference on "Emotion"

  • Friday, March 30, noon to 2:45 p.m. Student presentations Caldwell Hall, Monsignor Stephen P. Happel Room
  • Friday, March 30, 3 p.m. Topic: "The Dispassionate Study of the Passions" Speaker: Eva Brann, former dean and tutor at St. John's College in Annapolis Aquinas Hall, Auditorium
  • Saturday, March 31, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Student Presentations Caldwell Hall, Happel Room
  • Saturday, March 31, 3:15 p.m. Speaker: Michael Rohlf, assistant professor of philosophy, Catholic University Topic: "Emotion and Evil in Kant" Caldwell Hall, Happel Room

Friday, April 13, 2 p.m. Topic: "The Distinctiveness of the Natural Inclinations Proper to Man in Summa Theologiae 1-2.94.2" Speaker: Rev. Stephen Brock, professor of medieval philosophy, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross Hannan Hall, Room 106

The lectures are free and open to the public. For more information or to request disability accommodations, contact the Office of the Dean of the School of Philosophy at 202-319-5259 or visit http://philosophy.cua.edu.

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