Health and Society
Fighting for the Human Heart
The human heart beats 70 times per minute, 4,200 times per hour and 100,800 times per day. In that day, it pumps more than 2,000 gallons of blood through the body and provides...
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Dealing with North Korea and Iran in a Complex World: Diplomacy, Sanctions, or War?
Each year, the Jacksonville University Public Policy Institute partners with the Notre Dame Club of Greater Jacksonville to present a public policy lecture. On November 8, 2018,...
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Beyond the Soul and Barbed Wire: The Continuing Legacy of Solzhenitsyn
With Ralph Wood (Baylor University) on “The Uniquely Orthodox Character of Solzhenitsyn’s Literary Imagination,” David Deavel (St. Thomas University) on “Life, Liberty,...
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Authority, Rights, and Responsibilities
This session features Mary Ann Glendon (Harvard Law School) on “Can the Modern Human Rights Project Be Saved?” and Patrizia Giunti (University of Florence) on “The...
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Belief in the Modern World
This session features Wilfred McClay (University of Oklahoma) on “Guilt in the Immanent Frame,” and John Waters on “The Importance of Not Being God: A Higher Power Is...
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Down From the Mountaintop: Authorities and Structures of Power
This session features Jacqueline Rivers (Harvard University) on “As American as the Declaration of Independence? Social Structure and Higher Powers,” Rev. Eugene Rivers...
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Rev. Javier Prades on Post Secularity, Post Modernity, and Pluralism
This session features Rev. Javier Prades, the Rector of the University of San Damaso, Madrid. Presented at the Center for Ethics and Culture’s 2018 Fall Conference, “Higher...
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Religion, Science, and Technology in Dialogue
This session features Diana Schaub (Loyola University) on “Lincoln Reads the Bible: Science and Morality in the ‘Lecture on Discoveries and Inventions'”, and Bill Hurlbut...
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Higher Powers Catholicism and the American Project
This colloquy features Patrick Deneen (University of Notre Dame), V. Phillip Muñoz (University of Notre Dame), Gladden Pappin (University of Dallas, American Affairs), and Adrian...
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Liberalism and the Invisible Hand
Presented by Adrian Vermeule (Harvard Law School) at the Center for Ethics and Culture’s 2018 Fall Conference, “Higher Powers.” The Conference explored the perennial problem...
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Old Forgotten Words and Ancient Melodies
This talk features Carole Baker (Duke Divinity School) on “The Icon as Exemplary Image: Reflections on Iconology and the Visual Arts”, Jay Martin (University of Notre Dame) on...
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A House Divided – Polarization in Our Common Life
“Overcoming Polarization through Catholic Social Teaching” by John Carr (Georgetown University) and “Church and State in a Time of Polarization” by Mark Movsesian (St....
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