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The Virtue of Temperance

A Student Summa Theologiae Reading Group: The Virtue of Temperance

Led by Prof. Jennifer Frey(University of South Carolina)

Sundays at 2:00 pm and Mondays at 8:30 pm, EST

Jan 4 - 31, 2021

Reading groups gather once or twice a week via Zoom for relaxed, 1-2 hour discussions, working their way through a few articles of the Summa Theologiae or another of Aquinas's major works each week.

Applications for this group are are now closed

About the Speaker:

Jennifer A. Frey (University of South Carolina) received her BA from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana in 2000, and her PhD at the University of Pittsburgh in 2012. In 2013 she was Collegiate Assistant Professor and Harper Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago prior to taking up her current appointment as Assistant Professor in the Philosophy department at the University of South Carolina. Jennifer's research interests lie at the intersection of virtue ethics and action theory. She has publications in The Journal of the History of Philosophy, The Journal of Analytic Philosophy, and in several edited volumes. She is the co-project leader of a major research grant from the John Templeton Foundation titled "Virtue, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life."

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