Lecture Series on “Natural Law”: “Listen to the Language of Nature and To Act accordingly” – (Benedict XVI): Natural Law and Integrity of Creation
Lecture Series on "Natural Law": “Listen to the Language of Nature and To Act accordingly” - (Benedict XVI): Natural Law and Integrity of Creation
20
May
The Faculty of Religious Studies and Philosophy will hold a Public Lecture titled “Listen to the Language of Nature and To Act accordingly” – (Benedict XVI): Natural Law and Integrity of Creation on the 20th May 2021.
Covid-19 impacts our life and world dramatically. Scientists claim, that this situation might have been caused – among other factors – by a wrong treatment of nature by humans. Did nature put its brakes on to correct human behavior? Can we humans discover in nature how to act correctly? Does nature help us to get to know what to do? Philosophically speaking, should actions follow our being (agere sequitur esse), and is ethics fundamentally hooked up with reality and ontology? (bonum et verum convertuntur). Does the “ought” follow from the “is”, and should human life and societies comply with how things are?
After overcoming the mechanistic reductionism of the “natural fallacy”, which denies “value judgments” originating from “is” or facts, this Lecture Series attempts to trace back question of “natural goodness” (Philippa Foot), morals and good actions “in accord with reason” (S. Thomas Aquinas, S.Th. I-II.21.1.; ST I-II, 90.1). The philosophical and catholic tradition calls this the morality of the “natural law”. The lectures shed light on development and relevance of Natural Law from different philosophical and theological angles.
About the Talk & Speaker:
Can we humans discover in nature how to act correctly? Does nature help us to get to know what to do and how to act in harmony with human nature and ecology? Philosophically speaking, should human actions follow our being (agere sequitur esse)? The natural law tradition claims that human reason has access to understand and live in accord with nature. Following the Magisterium of the Church, this lecture sheds light on the relevance of Natural Law for the protection of our own “human ecology” and our natural environment.
Prof. Franz Gassner / Dr. Theol., M.A. Philosophy, University of Saint Joseph
Details:
Date: 20th May 2021
Time: 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Location: Don Bosco Auditorium, USJ Ilha Verde Campus
Organised by: Faculty of Religious Studies and Philosophy, University of Saint Joseph
*This Public Lecture will be conducted in English
