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SUMMARY:Introduction to College Life
DESCRIPTION:This summer we will be offering a new seminar for incoming college freshmen who are alums of our high school seminars and other seminars in the FEHE network. How do you survive and thrive at the university? How do you navigate issues of free speech\, genuine inquiry\, and the challenges of social life on campus? \nThe seminar is directed by Dr. R. J. Snell\, Director of Academic Programs at the Witherspoon Institute
URL:https://winst.org/event/introduction-to-college-life/
LOCATION:Princeton\, NJ\, Princeton\, NJ\, United States
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SUMMARY:First Principles
DESCRIPTION:This seminar 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. That is\, from the perspective of the nature of being\, the nature of knowing\, and the nature of action\, both the university and human relationships can be understood as having purpose and order insofar as they contribute to\, and partially constitute\, human flourishing. Absent a basis in a personalist anthropology\, the university and human relations tend to seek alternative ends which are profoundly alienating and potentially destructive to persons and communities. \nIn the first week\, the seminar examines traditional texts of metaphysics and epistemology as the backdrop for the university. In the second week\, readings in human action and the human good provide a basis to examine friendship\, sexuality\, and relationship. Discussions are lively\, vigorous\, and socratic. The seminar includes guest lecturers and opportunities to interact with leading writers and public intellectuals in addition to regular faculty as well as cultural engagements with art\, music\, film\, architecture. Participants will have the chance to explore Princeton and will also take a day trip to New York City to visit the offices of First Things. \nJoin students from around the country (and the world) in this intensive course on what it means to be a human who knows\, acts\, and loves. \nReadings\nReadings will likely include: Plato\, Aristotle\, Aquinas\, Voegelin\, Nietzsche\, Newman\, Charles Taylor\, Arendt\, Pierre Hadot\, Josef Pieper\, and others. \nFaculty and Lecturers\nR. J. Snell\, Director\, Center on the University and Intellectual Life\, Witherspoon Institute \nDavid Corey\, Professor of Political Science\, Baylor University \nAnna Moreland\, Associate Professor of Humanities and Augustinian Traditions\, Villanova University \nR. R. Reno\, Editor\, First Things \nEligibility\nThis seminar is open to undergraduate and graduate students. Young professionals working in a related field may be considered on a case-by-case basis. \nApplication Information \nThe following documents are required of applicants: cover letter explaining your interest in the seminar\, resume or curriculum vitae\, copies of your unofficial transcripts\, and two letters of recommendation. All application materials must be submitted online on or before February 11\, 2019; applications received by email will not be considered. \n \nLocation and Admissions Information \nAdmitted students will be notified of their status in mid-March. A non-refundable $400 registration fee is required of all admitted students to offset the costs of tuition\, room\, and board to attend this program hosted on the campus of Princeton University. \nQuestions?\nEmail us at summer@winst.org.
URL:https://winst.org/event/first-principles/
LOCATION:Princeton\, NJ\, Princeton\, NJ\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Generous Creation: A Metaphysics of Hope
DESCRIPTION:Online Seminar\nLed by R. J. Snell\nReading: De Ente et Essentia\, by Thomas Aquinas.\n\nAquinas’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 and difficult\, but it also contains and explains the fundamental nature of reality and how and why reality is fecund and overflows with meaning\, purpose\, goodness\, and beauty.\n\nMetaphysics is often presented as dusty debates about being\, substance\, and free will. That’s not how I interpret metaphysics\, which I take to be a story about reality and how reality hangs together and unfolds towards the emergence of the human person\, human agency\, dignity\, and the purpose of all things.\n\nMany in our own time don’t see the world as being good and purposive. I’m reading a Hungarian philosopher right now who argues\, rightly to my mind\, that you can’t actually rebel against cosmic order because it’s cosmic order\, but you can refuse to accept it\, and you can live in revolt against reality. He continues that if you revolt\, you find yourself claiming to be the arbiter of universal meaning\, but you know you do so out of step with reality itself\, and thus that others can also claim to be arbiters\, with the result that such revolt means that power and only power is the story of reality. So many of our contemporary disputes and spasms assume that power is the underlying story of the world and the human things.\n\nIt’s not.\n\nThe underlying story of reality\, and a story that gives reasons to hope\, is that the good seeks to communicate itself as broadly as possible. And cosmic order is good and self-diffusive.\n\nA hard read\, but one drenched in beauty.\n\nI tend to be pessimistic about the state of the political world\, but I’m never pessimistic about the state of reality; in part\, because I read De ente.\n\nDon’t worry if you don’t know philosophy or metaphysics or Aquinas. Join us anyway. Invite a friend\, especially one who doesn’t see reality as good and hopeful.\n\n-RJ Snell
URL:https://winst.org/event/a-generous-creation-a-metaphysics-of-hope/
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SUMMARY:The End of Justice: Is The Death Penalty Acceptable?
DESCRIPTION:Online Seminar\nLed by Joaquim Brooks\nReadings: from Public Discourse\n\nAs a follow-up to our Advanced New Natural Law Seminar earlier in the summer\, we will examine in greater detail into one of the points of contention between Classical and New Natural Law: the death penalty. Whereas the previous seminar explored the more theoretical underpinnings of the New Natural Law\, this seminar will cast in high relief one particular practical consequence of the disagreement\, that is\, whether intentional killing is ever acceptable\, or even advisable.\n\nWhile the question itself is interesting\, the two goals of the seminar are to study the fundamental reasons why the two schools of thought disagree\, and help participants review their own presuppositions and commitments.\nIn the first meeting\, we will examine arguments against the death penalty\, and in the second\, in favor.\nOpen to all Princeton students\, and bring a friend who is curious why murder is wrong.\n 
URL:https://winst.org/event/the-end-of-justice-is-the-death-penalty-acceptable/
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