Florida State University

The Thomistic Institute at Florida State University presents a lecture by Prof. Kenneth Kemp of St. Thomas University titled “St. Thomas Aquinas on Natural Law: The Contemporary Relevance of a Medieval Idea.”

About the lecture: St. Thomas’ concept of “natural law” has played an important role in ethics, in political philosophy, and philosophy of law. This lecture will spell out natural-law theory as a composite of six important ideas, ideas which offer important answers to contemporary questions about the nature of morality, its content, and its relation to ordinary human law. Although St. Thomas presented the ideas in his Summa Theologiae, the theory has a significant philosophical component which should appeal to Catholic and Protestant, Christian and Muslim, theist and atheist.

BEL 023 (Bellamy Building, 113 Collegiate Loop, Tallahassee, FL 32306)

Tuesday, February 4

7:30 PM

This event is free and open to the public.

About the speaker:  Kenneth W. Kemp is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, and a Fellow of that University’s Center for Catholic Studies. His education includes an M.A. in the History and Philosophy of Science as well as a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame. His research work has included ethics (in particular questions of morality and war) and historical and philosophical inquiry into the relations between science and religion (with a particular focus on the theory of evolution).