Jacques Maritain Center
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Grant me, O merciful God,
that I might ardently love,
prudently ponder,
rightly acknowledge,
and perfectly fulfill all that
is pleasing to you,
for the praise and glory of your name.
- Saint Thomas Aquinas
Friday, July 13
7:30pm Ralph McInerny
Welcome and Keynote Address
Saturday, July 14
8:00am Morning Prayer and Mass
8:45 Breakfast
10:00 Chair: Rev. Kevin Flannery
Lecture: Rev. Lawrence Dewan
Nature as a Metaphysical Object
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Lunch
1:30 Chair: Steven Snyder
Lecture: John O'Callaghan
Distinguer pour Unir: Aquinas v. Putnam on the Unity of Nature
3:00 Break
3:30 Quodlibet: Anthony Rizzi
The Primary End of Marriage
4:15 Evening Prayer
Sunday, July 15
8:00am Morning Prayer and Mass
8:45 Breakfast
10:00 Chair: Steven Jensen
Lecture: Vittorio Possenti
Aquinas, Nature, and Teleology
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Lunch
1:30 Chair: Michael Paietta
Lecture: Jude Dougherty
Maritain on the Limits of the Empiriometric
3:00 Break
3:30 Lecture: Rev. Leo J. Elders
Nature as the Basis of Moral Actions
5:00 Evening Prayer
Monday, July 16
8:00am Morning Prayer and Mass
8:45 Breakfast
10:00 Chair: Daniel McInerny
Lecture: Mario Enrique Sacchi
From Nature to God: The Physical Character of St. Thomas Aquinas' First Way
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Lunch
1:30 Chair: Rev. Peter Hunter
Lecture: Rev. Benedict Ashley
Art Perfects Nature
3:00 Break
3:30 Quodlibet: Anne Gardiner
The Order of Providence and the Sacrament of Order, Paralleled in St. Thomas Aquinas
4:15 Quodlibet: Michael Waddell
The Natural and the Supernatural in St. Thomas' Early Doctrine of Truth
5:00 Evening Prayer
Tuesday, July 17
8:00am Morning Prayer and Mass
8:45 Breakfast
10:00 Chair: Timothy Smith
Lecture: Angelo Campodonico
Philosophical Anthropology Facing Aquinas? Concept of Human Nature
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Lunch
1:30 Chair: John Saward
Lecture: Louis Chammings
The Nature of Semiotics and the Semiotics of Nature, According to John Deely Revisiting John Poinsot (John of St. Thomas)
3:00 Break
3:30 Quodlibet: Steven Long
Regarding the Nature of the Object of the Moral Act According to St. Thomas Aquinas
4:15 Quodlibet: John Goyette
St. Thomas on Substantial Unity Against the Pluriformists
5:00 Evening Prayer
Wednesday, July 18
8:00am Morning Prayer and Mass
8:45 Breakfast
10:00 Chair: Brian Kelly
Lecture: Hector Zagal
Intellectus Agens: Natural and Supernatural Order
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Lunch
1:30 Chair: Anthony Andres
Quodlibet: Christopher Kaczor
The Status of Thomas? Commentary on the Nichomachean Ethics
2:15 Quodlibet: Steven Baldner
Prime Matter: A Thomistic Response to Some Recent Criticisms
3:00 Break
3:30 Quodlibet: Marie George
Nature as Determinatio ad Unum: The Case of Natural Virtue
4:15 Quodlibet: Grace Goodell
Concerning Several Core Traits of Human Nature: An Anthropologist Invites a Thomistic Dialogue
5:00 Evening Prayer
Thursday, July 19
8:00am Morning Prayer and Mass
8:45 Breakfast
10:00 Chair: Anthony Lisska
Lecture: Rev. Robert Gahl
Human Nature, Poetic Narrative, and Moral Agency
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Lunch
1:30 Chair: Anthony Rizzi
Quodlibet: William Carroll
Creation and Evolution
2:15 Quodlibet: Christopher Martin
Is Usury a Sin "Contra Naturam"?
3:00 Break
3:30 Quodlibet: Fulvio Di Blasi
What Nature? Whose Nature?
Reflecting on Some Recent Arguments in Natural Law Ethics
4:15 Evening Prayer
6:30 Banquet (Morris Inn)
Friday, July 20
8:00am Morning Prayer and Mass
8:45 Breakfast
10:00 Departure
Thanks to:
The Saint Gerard Foundation
and
The George Strake Foundation
and
The Raih Family
Contact Information:
Jacques Maritain Center
P. O. Box 495
Notre Dame, IN 46556-0495
U.S.A.
Phone: 219.631.5825
Fax: 219.631.8211
E-mail: Maritain.1@nd.edu
Website: www.nd.edu/~maritain