Back to All Events

What is Love? Plato’s Theology of the Body

Thomistic Institute in D.C.

A lecture by Prof. Joshua Hochschild (Mount St. Mary's University)

POSTPONED due to inclement weather

NEW DATE: Tuesday, February 18th

7:30 PM (doors open at 7pm)

The Basilica of Saint Mary’s Lyceum (located half a block to the left of the Basilica)

313 Duke St, Alexandria, VA 22314

This lecture is free and open to the public.

About the Speaker:

Joshua Hochschild is Professor of Philosophy at Mount St. Mary’s University, where he also served six years as the inaugural Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. His primary research is in medieval logic, metaphysics, and ethics, with broad interest in liberal education and the continuing relevance of the Catholic intellectual tradition. He is the author of The Semantics of Analogy: Rereading Cajetan’s De Nominum Analogia (2010), translator of Claude Panaccio’s Mental Language: From Plato to William of Ockham (2017), and co-author of A Mind at Peace: Reclaiming an Ordered Soul in the Age of Distraction (2017). His writing has appeared in First Things, Commonweal, Modern Age and the Wall Street Journal. For 2020-21 he served as President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association.


Previous
Previous
February 17

Infused Temperance and the Passions - A Summa Reading Group

Next
Next
February 19

What Can We Learn from Aquinas About AI?