The Witherspoon Institute
Center on Ethics and the University
The Center on Ethics and the University studies the relationship between personal virtue and democratic life in a free society by drawing on the abundant resources of the natural law tradition. These resources are very much made in-house through the research programs of the Institute, which support scholarship in the areas of the social sciences, moral and political philosophy, and jurisprudence. The Center focuses on helping students of all ages to explore the ways in which virtue and character promote human flourishing. To that end, the Center organizes the Schreyer Summer Seminars, a collection of summer programs offered in Princeton, NJ. The Center also aims to restore the understanding of the liberal arts education as a moral enterprise. It provides resources to Fellows and other scholars who have created, or are in the process of creating, university programs that aim to restore the moral purposes of education grounded on the intellectual virtues of charity, integrity, and freedom of inquiry.










Schreyer Summer
Seminars 2010
HIGH SCHOOL
Moral Life and
the Classical Tradition

June 20 - 26, 2010

UNDERGRADUATE
and GRADUATE
Islam and
Religious Freedom
July 25 - 30, 2010

First Principles
in Natural Law

August 1 - 14, 2010

GRADUATE
Marriage and
the Social Sciences

June 16- 19, 2010

Aesthetics and Morality:
Philosophical Perspectives

August 15 - 21, 2010

LAW
Moral Foundations of Law
August 8 - 14, 2010
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