Events
Politics and the Modern State: Understanding the Common Good
A lecture by Prof. Bradley Lewis (The Catholic University of America)
When:
October 1, 2024 | 7:00 PM MDT
Location:
Indiana Memorial Union
Chapter:
Indiana University
This lecture is free and open to the public. No pre-registration is required.
About the speaker:
Bradley Lewis is associate professor of philosophy at the Catholic University of America. He specializes in political and legal philosophy, especially in classical Greek political thought and in the theory of natural law. He holds a B.A. from the University of Maryland and a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame. He has published scholarly articles in Polity, History of Political Thought, the Southern Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Communio, the Josephinum Journal of Theology, the Pepperdine Law Review, the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, and the Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, as well as chapters in a number of books. He is currently working on a book project provisionally titled The Common Good and the Modern State. He is also a fellow of the Institute for Human Ecology and serves as associate editor of the American Journal of Jurisprudence.
He has published more than forty academic articles in his areas of expertise and given more than 100 academic or popular-level talks or interviews about his work, including a series of interviews for the PBS show Closer to Truth.
He is the husband of another philosopher, Faith Glavey Pawl, and the proud father of one son and four daughters.