The third in a four part series of disputations, exploring disputed questions live among young people. Led by Professor R.J. Snell. For Princeton students Lunch provided

The Moral Life and the Classical Tradition Seminar is a week-long program for rising high school juniors and seniors as well as rising college freshmen interested in the ancient philosophical tradition and its influence in the Christian moral life.

The Moral Life and the Classical Tradition Seminar is a week-long program for rising high school juniors and seniors as well as rising college freshmen interested in the ancient philosophical tradition and its influence in the Christian moral life.

This summer we will be offering a new seminar for incoming college freshmen on how to navigate the opportunities and challenges of the contemporary university.

This seminar, for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, examines two topics central to the work of the Witherspoon Institute, namely, (1) the purpose of the university and (2) friendship and marriage. Unfortunately, these topics are often taken up from the vantage point of the culture wars, rather than from a patient, careful study of first principles. In these two weeks, we examine them from the background of philosophical anthropology, the metaphysics of the person, and a study of personal action and the human good.

Online Seminar Led by R. J. Snell Reading: De Ente et Essentia, by Thomas Aquinas. Aquinas’s text De Ente et Essentia is no easy read, and in fact much of it can seem slightly arcane—debates about the language of genus and species don’t make everyone’s pulse quicken with excitement. I’ll admit, the text is technical […]