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Can God Force Me to be Good? A Thomistic Answer

  • Tubac Room 1303 East University Boulevard Tucson, AZ, 85719 United States (map)

University of Arizona

The Thomistic Institute at the University of Arizona presents a lecture by Prof. Thomas Osborne of the University of St. Thomas, Houston, entitled “Can God Force Me to be Good? A Thomistic Answer.”

Tubac Room, Arizona Student Unions

Tuesday, Oct. 19

7:00 PM

This lecture is free and open to the public.


About the speaker:

Thomas M. Osborne, Jr. (Ph.D., Duke 2001), is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy, and a member of the Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St. Thomas (Houston). He has written many articles on medieval and late-scholastic philosophy and other topics, and is the author of Love of Self and Love of God in Thirteenth-Century Ethics (2005), Human Action in Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and WIlliam of Ockham (2014), and Aquinas's Ethics (2020).

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