Reading Group

Thomistic Philosophy: On Happiness

Fridays | 9.30-11am | Elm Library

This reading group for undergraduate and graduate students will consider Aquinas’s treatise On Man’s Last End from the the Summa Theologiae.

Discussions will be organized in the style of a studium parvum, with seminar leaders and participants glossing questions and articles in communal reading. Preparation of readings is encouraged but not required. Weekly discussions will take pace on Friday mornings in the Institute Library. Tea, coffee, and breakfast pastries will be served and books will be provided. Those interested in participating should contact Patrick Hough.

Starts September 6.

Now that we have treated the exemplar, God…it remains for us to treat of His image, man, insomuch as he too is the principle of his actions, as having free-will and control of his actions.

Aquinas, Summa Theologiae I-II