The Thomistic Institute of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., and theCatholic and Dominican Institute of Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, NY jointly present an inaugural workshop on Thomas Aquinas & Contemporary Philosophy.

This workshop will bring together scholars and students interested in philosophy, especially the work of Thomas Aquinas. It will also consider the values and goals of philosophy in the Catholic tradition, and the engagement of these ideas within the context of the contemporary academy.

The Conference will be June 23-26, 2011 at Mount Saint Mary College, 330 Powell Ave., Newburgh, NY 12550.

The Keynote Speaker will be Fr. Charles Morerod, O.P., Rector of the Angelicum University, Rome, and Secretary of the International Theological Commission.

Other speakers include:

• Fr. James Brent, O.P., the Catholic University of America
• Fr. Lawrence Dewan, O.P., Dominican University College, Ottawa, Canada
• Dr. Alfred J. Freddoso, Notre Dame University
• Dr. Joshua Hochschild, Mount St. Mary University (MD)
• Dr. Gyula Klima, Fordham University
• Fr. Joseph Koterski, S.J., Fordham University
• Dr. John O’Callaghan, Notre Dame University
• Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P., Director of the Thomistic Institute

The brochure can be found here: http://www.op-stjoseph.org/media/more/thomas_aquinas_contemporary_scholarship_brochure/

Aquinas Lecture 2011

‘If Love It Is…’:
Thomistic Reflections on
the Psychology of Love

Michael Sherwin, OP
(University of Fribourg, Switzerland)

Wednesday 26 January 2011

5.00pm

The Aquinas Institute
Blackfriars Oxford

Further Information from vivian.boland@english.op.org

Download the event poster here.

The Logic of Desire

Aquinas on Emotion

http://cuapress.cua.edu/BOOKS/viewbook.cfm?Book=lold

When Thomas Aquinas completed his Treatise on the Passions, it was likely the longest sustained discussion of the emotions ever written. His influence on medieval and early modern philosophy was enormous, overshadowing every other medieval author on the topic of emotion. Although Aquinas’s account of emotion merits attention for its historical significance and enduring value, it remains neglected by philosophers and theologians.

With emotion emerging as a focus of interest in many disciplines, the time is ripe for a reconsideration of Aquinas’s contribution. Desire and emotion are central to Aquinas’s theological project, and his views on many topics, including the relationship between cognition and emotion, show remarkable prescience in the light of recent developments. Emotion is particularly important to his understanding of virtue and vice. Focusing on the Summa theologiae, Nicholas Lombardo contributes to the recovery, reconstruction, and critique of Aquinas’s account of emotion in dialogue with both the Thomist tradition and contemporary analytic philosophy. It considers Aquinas’s thought on emotion in its historical context and inner logic, and shows how it bears on larger issues in his anthropology and ethics.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Nicholas E. Lombardo is a Dominican priest engaged in research at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland.

PRAISE FOR THE BOOK:

“Nicholas Lombardo’s beautifully argued and carefully documented book is a persuasive retrieval of what Saint Thomas himself obviously regarded as essential to our understanding of the moral and spiritual life–even more important now than in his own day.”–Fergus Kerr, O.P., Honorary Fellow, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh