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🗓️ 3 October 2023
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This lecture was given on June 2, 2023, at the 12th Annual Aquinas Philosophy Workshop at Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, NY For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Candace Vogler is the David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor of Philosophy and Professor in the College at the University of Chicago, and Principal Investigator on "Virtue, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life," a project funded by the John Templeton Foundation. She has authored two books, John Stuart Mill's Deliberative Landscape: An Essay in Moral Psychology (Routledge, 2001) and Reasonably Vicious (Harvard University Press, 2002), and essays in ethics, social and political philosophy, philosophy and literature, cinema, psychoanalysis, gender studies, sexuality studies, and other areas. Her research interests are in practical philosophy (particularly the strand of work in moral philosophy indebted to Elizabeth Anscombe), practical reason, Kant's ethics, Marx, and neo-Aristotelian naturalism.
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0:53.4 | I'm very glad to be introducing Dr. Candice Vogler. |
0:58.7 | I think that at a conference like this, it's important for people to recognize that |
1:04.0 | although Thomas, probably most of the things in say the Sumatelloje, I think, are true. |
1:12.9 | He doesn't address every issue or develop all of his thoughts, |
1:17.9 | and it's not always clear how to apply Thomas's work to contemporary thoughts. |
1:24.0 | So there's a real need for people to do this, not just to look at Thomas' texts or even |
1:30.1 | just Thomists, but to engage more widely with different intellectual currents. And with Dr. Vogler, |
1:39.2 | we have a very fine instance of this. She's at the University of Chicago, not a Catholic institution. She's |
1:48.0 | published and worked on many different issues, moral philosophy, ethics, sexuality. I think she's |
1:56.2 | also been important, frankly, just for her help with the general tone of Catholic intellectual |
2:02.6 | culture. Even at the University of Chicago, you may know Father Stephen Brock. He has a book |
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