The DC Young Professionals Chapter of the Thomistic Institute presents a lecture by Fr. John Baptist Ku, O.P. titled “Virtue in Human Action”

Fr. John Baptist's talk addresses the questions: Why is it that “I do not do the good I want, but I do the evil I do not want” (Rom 7:19)? What is a virtue, and how is understanding the moral life according to virtue better than conceiving it in terms of commands or utility?

Monday, August 21st

7:00 PM

St. Charles Catholic Church | 3304 Washington Blvd, Arlington, VA 22201

Reception to follow after the lecture

This lecture is free and open to the public.

About the Speaker:

Fr. John Baptist Ku, O.P., was born in Manhattan (1965) and grew up in Fairfax, Virginia. After graduating from the University of Virginia, he worked at AT&T for five years before entering the Dominican Order in 1992. After serving for three years in St. Pius Parish in Providence, R.I., he completed his doctoral studies at the University of Fribourg in 2009. He now teaches at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., where he has also served as book review editor of The Thomist (the faculty’s journal), chaplain to commuter students, and chaplain to the Immaculate Conception Chapter of Third Order Dominicans, and assistant student master. He served as student master and subprior at St. Dominic Priory from 2015-2018, and is currently the subprior.