Our Institute has been promoting knowledge of Thomas Aquinas’ teaching and his legacy, and research into his ideas and their contemporary value, since 2004. fostering the exchange of ideas Located in the University of Oxford, we help introduce Aquinas to new scholars in various disciplines, and contribute to the exchange of ideas in this world-class University by bringing international scholars to speak at our events or to carry out research. Our seminar series and colloquia foster a research community, and, often in collaboration with other academic groups, we engage in outreach, especially to young people.
Part of a day conference marking the twentieth anniversary of the death of Herbert McCabe, OP.
From a day conference on the philosophy of Herbert McCabe, OP to mark the twentieth anniversary of his death.
From a day conference on the philosophy of Herbert McCabe, OP to mark the twentieth anniversary of his death.
From a day conference on the philosophy of Herbert McCabe, OP to mark the twentieth anniversary of his death.
From a day conference on the philosophy of Herbert McCabe, OP to mark the twentieth anniversary of his death.
Prof Andrea Aldo Robiglio -On Learning Failures and Scholarly Vices part of the 2021 Aquinas Seminar Series on the theme De Magistro: Aquinas and the Education of the Whole Person, exploring what Aquinas offers towards a philosophy and praxis of education, bringing him into conversation with other thinkers and with movements towards educating the whole person. A handout for this paper is available on the Blackfriars website: https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Handout-_-Learning-failures-_.pdf
Prof Adam Eitel on 'The Idea of 'the Preacher' in Thomas Aquinas's Super Isaiam and In Jeremiam', part of the 2021 Aquinas Seminar Series on the theme De Magistro: Aquinas and the Education of the Whole Person, exploring what Aquinas offers towards a philosophy and praxis of education, bringing him into conversation with other thinkers and with movements towards educating the whole person. Outline: https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/lift-up-your-voice-with-strength.pdf Quotation handout: https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/quotations-handout.pdf
Rev Prof Michael Sherwin, OP on "Integrated Humanities Programmes & the Renewal of Catholic Education" part of the 2021 Aquinas Seminar Series on the theme De Magistro: Aquinas and the Education of the Whole Person, exploring what Aquinas offers towards a philosophy and praxis of education, bringing him into conversation with other thinkers and with movements towards educating the whole person. A copy of the slides from the lecture are available here: https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Blackfriars-Talk-handout.pdf
Prof Fáinche Ryan "The Role of Intelligence in Good Human Living: Aquinas and the teachability of Prudentia" part of the 2021 Aquinas Seminar Series on the theme De Magistro: Aquinas and the Education of the Whole Person, exploring what Aquinas offers towards a philosophy and praxis of education, bringing him into conversation with other thinkers and with movements towards educating the whole person.
Rev Dr Nicholas Austin, SJ "The Education of the Eye: Aquinas and the Virtue of Right Attention" part of the 2021 Aquinas Seminar Series on the theme De Magistro: Aquinas and the Education of the Whole Person, exploring what Aquinas offers towards a philosophy and praxis of education, bringing him into conversation with other thinkers and with movements towards educating the whole person.
A special lecture from November 2018 from Prof Roger Pouivet.Art and the Desire for God - A Thomistic Perspective in AestheticsMany philosophers claim that philosophy must question the nature of “aesthetic experience” Consequently, “Aesthetics” is mainly devoted to the description of this assumed aesthetic experience. My intention now is to try to show that this modern account, defining a large part of Aesthetics as a discipline, does not allow a correct description of our aesthetic life. Criticism of this modern and contemporary conception will be followed by the defence of a completely different thesis: 1) aesthetic properties are really possessed by the things to which they are rightly attributed (against aesthetic antirealism); 2) works of art are artifacts which function aesthetically (against artistic antirealism); and 3) we are made, thanks to our rationality which is the mark of our spirituality, to apprehend in natural things and works of art those properties by which they signify, and in particular their aesthetic properties (for a finalist account of human beings). Apprehension and appreciation of works of art presuppose the ability to respond to the aesthetic properties of things and works of art. We need to exercise virtues, intellectual and moral ones, to answer appropriately to aesthetic properties of works of art and natural things. Good in general, and good in our aesthetic life and in art, can be understood according to what Aquinas calls “the gradation to be found in things”. I will try to show that it is a reason to think that a successful aesthetic life is a form of desire for God as the source of all perfection.
Rev Prof Vivian Boland, OP, "Can Aquinas's sana doctrina on Learning and Teaching Be Extracted from Its Place in sacra doctrina?" part of the 2021 Aquinas Seminar Series on the theme De Magistro: Aquinas and the Education of the Whole Person, exploring what Aquinas offers towards a philosophy and praxis of education, bringing him into conversation with other thinkers and with movements towards educating the whole person.
Rev Dr David Goodill, OP "Wittgenstein, Training, and Habits" part of the 2021 Aquinas Seminar Series on the theme De Magistro: Aquinas and the Education of the Whole Person, exploring what Aquinas offers towards a philosophy and praxis of education, bringing him into conversation with other thinkers and with movements towards educating the whole person.
Dr Zena Hitz (St John's College, Annapolis) “The Spontaneity of the Mind and the Desire to Learn” part of the 2021 Aquinas Seminar Series on the theme De Magistro: Aquinas and the Education of the Whole Person, exploring what Aquinas offers towards a philosophy and praxis of education, bringing him into conversation with other thinkers and with movements towards educating the whole person.
Part of a seminar series organised in collaboration with the Anscombe Centre for Bioethics.
The first of a series of research seminars run in collaboration with the Anscombe Centre for Bioethics on natural law.
Christian Narratives & the Well-Lived Life: Thomistic ReflectionsThe 2021 Aquinas Lecture was given by Professor Mark Wynn, Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion, Oxford on 'Christian narratives and the well-lived life: Thomistic reflections'
A paper given at a special colloquium on Biblical Thomism.
A paper given as part of a special colloquium on Biblical Thomism.
Part of a special colloquium on reading the Scriptures with St Thomas Aquinas.
Part of a special colloquium on reading the Scriptures with St Thomas Aquinas.
“Development” conveys notions of improving, refining, advancing – change for the better. While Aquinas did not think that eternal wisdom could improve, he did hold – perhaps surprisingly – that natural and divine law could develop in some fashion. The Colloquium will explore the development of human, natural, and divine law as well as the contrast with eternal law. The speakers will discuss how theories of law treat changes in law itself or in the understanding of law.
“Development” conveys notions of improving, refining, advancing – change for the better. While Aquinas did not think that eternal wisdom could improve, he did hold – perhaps surprisingly – that natural and divine law could develop in some fashion. The Colloquium will explore the development of human, natural, and divine law as well as the contrast with eternal law. The speakers will discuss how theories of law treat changes in law itself or in the understanding of law.
“Development” conveys notions of improving, refining, advancing – change for the better. While Aquinas did not think that eternal wisdom could improve, he did hold – perhaps surprisingly – that natural and divine law could develop in some fashion. The Colloquium will explore the development of human, natural, and divine law as well as the contrast with eternal law. The speakers will discuss how theories of law treat changes in law itself or in the understanding of law.
“Development” conveys notions of improving, refining, advancing – change for the better. While Aquinas did not think that eternal wisdom could improve, he did hold – perhaps surprisingly – that natural and divine law could develop in some fashion. The Colloquium will explore the development of human, natural, and divine law as well as the contrast with eternal law. The speakers will discuss how theories of law treat changes in law itself or in the understanding of law.
A lecture given as part of the 2019 Aquinas Seminar Series
A lecture given as part of the 2019 Aquinas Seminar Series
A lecture from the 2019 Aquinas Seminar Series
Part of the 2019 Aquinas Seminar series.
A paper delivered to the 2019 Aquinas SeminarIn modern times there is a tendency to pit morality against intelligence, either in a voluntarist way that makes morality primarily a matter of the will or in a sentimentalist way that makes it primarily a matter of feeling. From the Thomist point of view, this is a mistake. Morality is an essentially cognitive enterprise, and hinges on the virtue of prudence – the habit of knowing the right thing to do and the right way of doing it. One cooperates with sins against prudence when one either encourages voluntarist and sentimentalist tendencies, or fails to discourage them when one has a special obligation to do so. In this paper I set out Aquinas's account of the nature of prudence and of the vices opposed to it. It turns out that there is a special connection between these vices and sins against chastity. Aquinas's account can in turn be developed into an account of the various ways one might fall into cooperating with sins against prudence. And it turns out that there is also a special connection between such cooperation and cooperation with sins against chastity. The key to understanding the special connection between sins against prudence and sins against chastity lies in Aquinas's account of the “blindness of mind” that is among what he calls the “daughters of lust.”
Seminar as part of the 2019 Aquinas Seminar Series
Audio of the 2020 Aquinas lecture delivered by Russell Hittinger.Tradition or Pottage? Reflections on Catholic Social DoctrineProf Russell Hittinger is the Senior Fellow in the Lumen Christi Institute at the University of Chicago, and a Visiting Scholar there in the Committee on Social Thought. This term he is a Visiting Professor in the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, Berkeley. He is a member of the Pontifical Academy of St Thomas Aquinas, and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.
This year we will be unable to meet in person for the Aquinas Week, but we will put on a number of lectures over the weekend of the 26-29 June. Each day there will be live Q&As, usually in the evening, with each of the lectors - Fr Richard Conrad, OP, Fr Robert Gay, OP, Fr Simon Gaine, OP.In this third and final lecture, Fr Simon Gaine, OP introduces the Tertia Pars.For links to the Zoom Q&A on Monday 29 June, 2020 at 8pm, email dym@english.op.orgAudio of the lecture is available on the Aquinas Institute Youtube Channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hO_WdwN5YEAnd the Aquinas Institute podcast on iTunes.If you have some questions in advance of the Q&A, please email them to dym@english.op.org
This year we will be unable to meet in person for the Aquinas Week, but we will put on a number of lectures over the weekend of the 26-29 June. Each day there will be live Q&As, usually in the evening, with each of the lectors - Fr Richard Conrad, OP, Fr Robert Gay, OP, Fr Simon Gaine, OP. In this second lecture, Fr Robert Gay, OP introduces the Secunda Pars. For links to the Zoom Q&A on Saturday 27 June, 2020 at 8pm, email dym@english.op.org Audio of the lecture is available on the Aquinas Institute SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/aquinasinstitute/sets/study-week-online If you have some questions in advance of the Q&A, please email them to dym@english.op.org
This year we will be unable to meet in person for the Aquinas Week, but we will put on a number of lectures over the weekend of the 26-29 June. Each day there will be live Q&As, usually in the evening, with each of the lectors - Fr Richard Conrad, OP, Fr Robert Gay, OP, Fr Simon Gaine, OP. In this first lecture, Fr Richard Conrad, OP introduces the Prima Pars. Handouts are available. Fr Richard's main handout: https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/wp-conte... The Thomist View of the Human Psyche: https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/wp-conte... Humanity Created for Communion with the Trinity in Aquinas - Fr Richard Conrad OP: https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/wp-conte... For links to the Zoom Q&A on Friday 26 June, 2020 at 8pm, email dym@english.op.org If you have some questions in advance of the Q&A, please email them to dym@english.op.org
An introduction to the philosophy of nature from Dr William Simpson.William Simpson is a Junior Research Fellow of Wolfson College. His research interests span philosophy, physics and theology. His current work is funded by the John Templeton Foundation as part of the international project, God and the book of nature. He is an associate member of the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion at the University of Oxford and good friend of the Aquinas Institute.
Fr Richard Ounsworth, OP, Lector in Scripture at Blackfriars, Oxford on St Paul on the Resurrection of Christ
In the first of a short series of podcasts from the Aquinas Institute, Fr Richard Conrad, OP, Director of the Aquinas Institute, speaks on How the Resurrection saves us.
A special lecture from Prof. Timothy Pawl from the University of St. Thomas, Saint Paul, MN.
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