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CTS Faculty Present Research on Jacques Maritain
11/13/2007
The University of St. Thomas Center for Thomistic Studies faculty presented several papers in the 31st Annual Meeting of the American Jacques Maritain Association at the University of Notre Dame, Oct. 25-27. One of the plenary addresses on the conference theme of “The Majesty and Poverty of Metaphysics” was delivered by Dr. John Hittinger, UST vice-president for academic affairs, titled “Jacques and Raissa on ‘The Prince of the World.’”
UST philosophy professor, Dr. John Deely organized a session and gave a paper “Maritain, Ratzinger and the New Era of Intellectual Culture.” In the same session, Fr. Ted Baenziger, CSB, discussed his translation project in “MicroSigns: Maritain’s Talk on the Vocation of the Little Brothers of Jesus.” Dr. Steven Jensen, associate professor of philosophy, spoke on “Why the Senses Cannot Have Truth: The Need for Abstraction.”
Two Center graduate students also delivered papers: Stephen Sparks “Maritain, Searle, and a Philosophically Neglected Dimension of the Universe” and Domenic D’Ettore “Distinct as One Thing from Another: Giles of Rome and Domingo Banez on the Real Distinction.”
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