
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.