Rendering What is Due | Dr. Chad Pecknold

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🗓️ 10 August 2019

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Held each summer, The Civitas Dei Summer Fellowship Program supports rising scholars seeking to better understand the Catholic intellectual tradition. Sponsored by the Thomistic Institute and the Institute for Human Ecology, Civitas Dei Fellows spend a week together in Washington DC, examining the search for happiness as a fundamental end of the person and the polis.

The week-long seminar introduced students to foundational themes in philosophy, political theory, and theology, dealing with law, personhood, political life, and the search for happiness. The focus was on an introduction to foundations of political and moral theory of Augustine, Aquinas, and modern constitutional jurisprudence.

Speakers included Dr. Adrian Vermeule (Harvard Law School), Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P. (Dominican House of Studies) and Dr. Chad C. Pecknold (Catholic University of America)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Good morning.
0:02.6	I asked you to read book 10 from the city of God.
0:09.0	Books 1 and books 10 represent an inclusive of the whole first half of the city of God.
0:17.2	I'm one of these Augustinians who really
0:20.9	thinks that the first
0:22.8	half of the city of God is as important
0:25.0	as the second half.
0:26.4	Most people just read from the second half.
0:29.1	So I wanted you to get a taste of the first
0:31.7	and the last part of the first half.
0:35.6	But I also want to tell you what happened in between. And so I'm going to
0:41.2	spend about the first half of our time walking through some key points about this theme that
0:49.5	Father Aquinas raised yesterday of rendering what is due, the classical definition of justice, what we owe to one another and what we owe to the political community.
1:01.2	So I want to develop this theme or show you how Augustine develops this theme and how it's situated in his argument and why he culminates the whole argument around rendering what is due
1:13.6	around the question of sacrifice. We've already seen the ways in which sacrifice is already
1:20.9	a good and bad sacrifice are already keyed up in Lucretia and Regulus. The classical definition that he is working with, it happens to be a definition from
1:33.4	the greatest Roman Ritor and statesman Cicero.
1:38.7	And so we'll look at that.
1:41.4	Cicero's definition of a republica does not attend to religio per se,
1:48.0	but he's going to develop why the concept of res publica requires an understanding of true
1:58.7	religio.
2:00.2	So that's the curriculum we're going to follow today.
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