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The Thomistic Institute

Concluding Panel Featuring Fr. Dominic Legge OP, R.R. Reno, and Vincent P Muñoz

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Thomism, Society & Culture, Catholic Intellectual Tradition, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Catholic, Philosophy, Catholicism

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🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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0:00.0

All right. Thank you very much, Ross, for those comments and thanks to all the speakers.

0:06.0

It's my job to sort of run the panel.

0:09.0

And I'll make a couple quick observations and that other people can, we can have some give and take.

0:20.0

I want to say that at Crayton University, where I

0:22.4

taught for 20 years from 1990 to 2010, I often had students in my freshman class who were surprised

0:29.1

to discover that Crate was a Catholic university. You mean this is a religious school? So this

0:35.9

is to reinforce the point that I think it's absolutely correct.

0:41.3

And I would say also that it's clear, I think it's quite right that multiculturalism,

0:50.3

political correctness, whatever we want to call the sort of fevered political utopianism is clearly an Erzat's first philosophy for the university.

1:03.7

I saw this as a professor where we wanted to have diversity across the curriculum.

1:09.3

And that's precisely the idea, right? Your first philosophy

1:12.7

provides a rationale for the whole. It provides some account of what the university is trying to,

1:19.3

what the end that it seeks. And so at a Catholic institution that had pretty good, pretty strong

1:26.5

core curriculum, but even there, the tendency was to reach towards political,

1:33.3

it was a sought political practice, by no means was it toxic,

1:39.3

but there was a tendency to go to some political project,

1:43.3

moral political project as the first philosophy

1:46.9

for the university. And I would suggest that this is actually progressive Protestantism

1:55.8

in its secular form that I don't think Yale and Harvard have changed much at all religiously

2:06.6

over the last 150 years, and that they were, in their own way, institutions that shifted Christianity

2:16.2

from a kind of transcendent concern, which were

2:20.3

people, elites were having more and more difficulty believing that Jesus rose from the dead

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