Here's a talk by a guy I
really like. I have no idea what he's going to talk about, other than the title, but here he is anyway:
Natural Law, Moral Law, and Conscience by Dr. J. Budziszewski
Dr. Budziszewski gives an excellent presentation on how Natural Law, moral truth, and conscience all tie together. Very insighful.MP3 "The Wages of Sin & Denial"
Dr. J. Budziszewski
University of Texas-Austin
Founded in 1982 by physicist-theologian Dr. William Monsma (PhD, University of Colorado), the Institute offered a learning context where Christian faith and academic concerns were integrated. In its first decade, the Institute sponsored lectures by Christian academics, while also helping Christian graduate students and faculty at the University of Minnesota to thoughtfully engage academia from a distinctly Christian vantagepoint.
Since the mid 1990s, the Institute's horizons have also included international students and scholars, efforts which culminated in the Institute's first major conference, the
World View for World Healing Conference, in May 1998, with some 300 participants from across North America, as well as 40 speakers and facilitators from around the world.
Each year, the Institute records most of our 15-20 events.
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- May 1st, 2003 - Daniel Taylor
Leaving a Spiritual Legacy: Telling the Master Stories of Your Life
- April 3rd, 2003 - Peter Kreeft
Tolkien's Worldview: How the Greatest Book of the Century is a Religious Book
- March 6th, 2003 - Drs. Monsma and Macosko
Intelligent Design From Different Angles
- February 6th, 2003 - Andrew Fellows
U2 and the Search for Spiritual Reality
- January 2nd, 2003 - Gannon Murphy
God and the Problem of Evil
- December 19th, 2002 - Dr.William Monsma
Star of Bethlehem
- December 5th, 2002 - Dale Ahlquist
The Spiritual and Intellectual Delight of G. K. Chesterton
- May 16th, 2002 - Don Bierle
A Biologist Asks, "Where's the Evidence for God?"
- April 4th, 2002 - Vishal Mangalwadi
Two Enlightenments and One Light
- January 2nd, 2002 - Daniel E. Ritchie
Reconciling the Heart With the Head
- November 1st, 2001 - Dr. Walter Sundberg
The Danger of Sacred Politics
- February 1st, 2001 - David Clark
Is Morality Possible if There Is No God?
- January 4th, 2001 - Mary Ellen Ashcroft
Lost for Words: Reclaiming Meaning in an Age of Sound Bites
- April 6th, 2000 - Denis Haack
The Truth Is Out There
- March 2nd, 2000 - Walter Sundberg
Reshaping the First Amendment: A Point of No Return?
- January 6th, 2000 - J. Budziszewski
Written on the Heart? The Case for Natural Law
- April 1st, 1999 - Daniel E. Ritchie
Battle of the Books at Century's End
NOTE: Some of these speakers are not Catholic, and I haven't listened to all of these lectures (yet). I'll vouch for Peter Kreeft (on Philosophy), J. Budziszewski (on Natural Law) and Dale Ahlquist (on Chesterton) -- they're the some of the top Catholic folks in their respective fields -- but I simply don't know about the others. If you know better, please feel free to comment and let everyone else know.
Professor Budziszewski earned his doctorate from Yale University in 1981, and specializes in the relations among ethical theory, political theory, and Christian theology. The focus of his current research is natural law and moral self deception. His books include
The Resurrection of Nature: Political Theory and the Human Character (Cornell, 1986),
The Nearest Coast of Darkness: A Vindication of the Politics of Virtues (Cornell, 1988),
True Tolerance: Liberalism and the Necessity of Judgment (Transaction, 1992),
Written on the Heart: The Case for Natural Law (InterVarsity, 1997),
The Revenge of Conscience: Politics and the Fall of Man (Spence, 1999), and
What We Can't Not Know: A Guide (Spence, 2003). A good representation of his shorter work is "
The Revenge of Conscience" (First Things 84, [June/July 1998], pp. 21-27).
COMMENT: Having done a fair amount of study of the topic, his lecture "Playing Dumb" is one of the best explications of the subject I've encountered. I've listened to it several times, and pick up a new facet every time. I
highly recommend it!
, as well as discussion of the moral argument for the existence of God and more.
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