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Reminder that the first Thomistic Institute talk of the semester will be tomorrow at 5:30 pm in 3-270. There will be refreshments (chips/veggies/fruit/soda) after the lecture. Please come if you’re interested and invite your friends!<br class="">
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<span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date:
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<div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Please join us for the continuation of a series of talks featuring the Thomistic Institute, an institute devoted to strengthening the intellectual formation of Christians at universities, in the Church, and in
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<div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b class="">Lecture Description:</b></div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.4000000059604645px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">J.R.R. Tolkien's </span><em style="word-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.4000000059604645px;" class="">The
Lord of the Rings</em><span style="letter-spacing: 0.4000000059604645px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> and related works present the beauties of the Elven realms as equally inspiration and temptation for humans. Why this fusion and confusion
between what inspires and what corrupts? Because Tolkien is following out a central problem of philosophy from Plato to the present, a problem he inherits especially from the culture of Romanticism and its fraught relationship with Roman Catholicism.</span></div>
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<div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.4000000059604645px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">David O’Connor is a faculty member in the departments of Philosophy and of Classics at the University of Notre
Dame. His teaching and writing focus on ancient philosophy, aesthetics, ethics and politics, and philosophy of religion. Dr. O’Connor is an acclaimed teacher and lecturer. His online lectures on love and sexuality have reached a wide international audience,
and are the basis of his two recent books, </span><em style="word-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.4000000059604645px;" class="">Love is Barefoot Philosophy </em><span style="letter-spacing: 0.4000000059604645px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">(in
Chinese translation, 2014) and </span><em style="word-wrap: break-word; letter-spacing: 0.4000000059604645px;" class="">Plato’s Bedroom: Ancient Wisdom and Modern Love</em><span style="letter-spacing: 0.4000000059604645px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> (2015).
He has also published extensively on the relation between philosophy, art, and literature, in both the ancient and the modern world.</span></div>
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