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The Philosophy of Capital Punishment

Iowa State University

A lecture by Prof. Peter Koritansky (University of Prince Edward Island)

Thursday, March 7th

7:00 PM

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This lecture is free and open to the public. If you can't make it to the lecture, make sure to listen to the recording after it is published on the Thomistic Institute podcast.

About the speaker:

Peter Karl Koritansky is a Professor of History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies at The University of Prince Edward Island in Charlottetown, Canada. At UPEI, he teaches courses in ancient and medieval philosophy, moral and political philosophy, philosophy of law and Catholic thought. He has also taught at Malone University (Canton, OH), Walsh University (North Canton, OH), the Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum (Rome) and has been a visiting scholar at The University of Notre Dame. Dr. Koritansky received his Ph.D in philosophy from The University of Toronto and is the author of Thomas Aquinas and the Philosophy of Punishment (CUA Press, 2012) and Engaging the Skeptic: Essays Addressing the Modern Secularist’s Most Serious Objections to the Catholic Worldview (Justin Press, 2018). He has also recently published “Thomas Aquinas and the Euthyphro Dilemma” (Heythrop Journal, 2018) and “Retributive Justice and Natural Law” (The Thomist, 2019). For the 2021-22 academic year, Dr. Koritansky is a John and Daria Barry Visiting Research Scholar at Princeton University with the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. He is currently completing a manuscript tentatively entitled "An Introduction to Thomistic Natural Law."

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