PAST EVENT
Issuing Citations is public-facing event series aimed at fostering research connections, nurturing inchoate projects, and providing an organizational catalyst for future conferences and publications. It's a space for graduate students and early career faculty alike to co-present, interact, and form connections across disciplinary lines.
April’s event will feature one talk!
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To live and move as a moral agent requires the ability to discern good from bad and act accordingly. Were the good of the natural order made intelligible through the intentional ordering of those goods, then the moral agent would need a way to discover this intelligibility within themselves. This, for John Henry Newman, is the role of the conscience. This discussion will trace two developments in Newman’s thought on the conscience: conscience as morally perfective, and conscience as epistemically significant. Understood within Aquinas’s distinction between objective impression (synderesis) and subjective disposition (conscientia), Newman shows conscience to be a real but deficient experience of God, who is intimately involved in the self-creation and self-knowledge of each human person. It is the voice of God which beckons from the center of human being as both limit and potentiality, moving the person toward what they were created to be.
Beatrice Institute will provide the first round of drinks for attendees, after which interlocutors are on their own.
Tip your bartenders, chase the rabbit, and see you on Wednesday, April 29th!