Lectures from the 2024 Thomistic Summer Conference!

This summer, scholars from across the United States came to Thomas Aquinas College, California, for the third Thomistic Summer Conference. The College is now pleased to offer the text and/or audio of the following select talks:

• The Common Good and the Bonum Proprium of Man
  by Esther Berry (’23)
  Franciscan University of Steubenville

• The Wisdom of Human Things
  by Dr. Herbert Hartmann
  The Catholic University of America

• Religio as a Natural Virtue
  by Dr. John McCarthy
  Thomas Aquinas College, New England

• God as the Common Good of the Church
  by Dr. John Nieto
  Thomas Aquinas College, California

• Defending Acquired Virtue as Real Virtue from the Perspective of the Whole Human Person
  by Matthew Reising
  Baylor University

• The Natural Knowledge of God and the First Principles of the Natural Law in Thomas Aquinas
  by Dr. Brett Smith
  Thomas Aquinas College, New England

• Public Enemy Number One: Situational Ethics vs. the Common Good
  by Rev. Sebastian Walshe, O.Praem. (’94)
  St. Michael’s Abbey
• Necessity, Contingency, and the Moral Virtue of Religion
  by Dr. Anthony James Carey
  St. John’s College, Santa Fe
• The Species of Justice According to St. Thomas Aquinas
  by Dr. Daniel Gutschke
  Thomas Aquinas College, New England
• The Moral Wisdom of Charles de Koninck in Ego Sapientia and The Primacy of the Common Good against the Personalists
  by Anthony L. Hernandez
  Ave Maria University

• Natural Law and the Virtues
  by Dr. Michael Pakaluk
  The Catholic University of America

• The Deficiencies of Monarchy in Aquinas’s On Kingship
  by Dr. Elizabeth Weisser
  Baylor University

• St. Thomas on the Virtue of Legal Justice and the Political Common Good
  by Dr. John Goyette
  Thomas Aquinas College, California

• Prudentia Militaris: Virtuous Military Leadership and the Common Good
  by LTC Joshua Lehman
  U.S. Military Academy at West Point

• Esse in operibus legis: Aquinas, Divine Law, and the “New Perspective on Paul”
  by Rev. Francis J.  Caponi, O.S.A.
  Villanova University
• What is the Natural Law’s Relation to the Divine Law?
  by Patrick Gordon
  University of Dallas