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Can a Liberal Democracy Survive Moral Relativism
A lecture by Fr. Stephen Fields, S.J. (Georgetown University)
When:
May 9, 2024 | 5:30 PM PDT
Location:
Loma Peloma Center 1108
This lecture is free and open to the public. No pre-registration is required.
About the speaker:
Stephen Fields, S.J. is Professor of the Philosophy of Religion and Systematic Theology at Georgetown University. With degrees from Yale and Oxford, he has been visiting professor at Fordham, Santa Clara, and St Joseph's Universities. His books and articles deal with a wide range of topics, including metaphysics, aesthetics, nature and grace, modern interpreters of Aquinas, Christian mysticism, Christianity and other religions, and recent papal thought. The undergraduates elected him to the university's most distinguished teaching award, and he has served as chaplain of the campus Knights of Columbus. He has lectured on liberalism at the University of Chicago and at the Thomistic Institute's Harvard and Stanford chapters on St. John Henry Newman, whom he has taught for over twenty years.