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Alasdair MacIntyre, Jean-Luc Marion, Charles Taylor Lecture:

What Can Philosophers Learn from the Tradition?

Saturday, April 30, 2005
9:00AM to 5:00PM

Max Palevsky Cinema
Ida Noyes Hall
The University of Chicago
1212 East 59th Street

On Saturday, April 30, the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture and the Lumen Christi Institute sponsored a one-day conference entitled "What Can Philosophers Learn from the Tradition?" This conference featured Jean-Luc Marion of the University of Paris; Alasdair MacIntyre of the University of Notre Dame; and Charles Taylor of Northwestern University.

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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

  8:30 - Mass celebrated by Archbishop Francis Cardinal George, Rockefeller Chapel, the University of Chicago, 5850    
            Woodlawn Avenue.
  9:00 - Registration. Coffee and Rolls, Sign-In, Ida Noyes Hall
  9:30 - Welcome, Dean Rosengarten, University of Chicago Divinity School
  9:45 - Session I. Alasdair MacIntyre, "Rediscovering Tradition from within Modernity"
11:00 - Break.
11:15 - Session II. Charles Taylor, "Modern Imaginaries and the Uses of Tradition"
12:30 - Lunch
  2:00 - Session III. Jean-Luc Marion, "The Edge of Tradition"
  3:15 - Coffee Break.
  3:45 - Panel Discussion with Francis Cardinal George and Jean Bethke Elshtain
  5:00 - Conference Reception

COST

$30 Full registration (includes lunch) for general public.
$5  Discounted registration (includes lunch) for students and faculty from the Univ. of Chicago, Univ. of Notre Dame, and Northwestern University.

Co-sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute; The Committee on Social Thought of the University of Chicago; The University of Chicago Divinity School; and the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture.

 
Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture
1047 Flanner Hall - Notre Dame, IN 46556
Phone: 574-631-9656   Fax: 574-631-6290   Email: ndethics@nd.edu