The Wheel

Jul 03 2024 14 ep. 43 mins 2

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The Collegium Institute for Catholic Thought and Culture invites visiting scholars and faculty authors of new work that helps us to appreciate the shape of life today, both in its dynamism and its timelessness. Here we approach the mysteries of reality with wonder from multiple disciplinary angles, all centered on a commitment to truth. Here authors make their case for how and why their books are important, not just for specialists in their field, but for all of us who seek wisdom for a life well-lived.

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Sr. Blandine Lagrut — The Anscombean Daemon

Jul 03 2024 59 mins

Collegium Institute student fellow talks with Blandine Lagrut, a consecrated sister of the Chemin Neuf Community, who teaches philosophy at the Facultés Loyola Paris and is completing her Ph.D. at the University of Lorraine. Join us as we discuss Sr. Lagrut's research on the ethical thought of G.E.M Anscombe and how it connects with her scholarly and religious vocation.

Recovering the Lost Art of Dying with Lydia Dugdale

Mar 17 2023 43 mins

Student fellow talks with Dr. Lydia Dugdale about her new book, The Lost Art of Dying: Reviving Forgotten Wisdom. Dr. Dugdale, M.D., speaking from her own experience caring for dying patients, invites us to recover our sense of our own finitude and reconsider what it means to die well.

Seeking God with St. John Henry Newman

Feb 24 2023 24 mins

Collegium Institute student fellow talks with Dr. Ryan J. (Bud) Marr, Associate Provost of Mercy College in Iowa and director of the National Institute for Newman Studies and associate editor of the Newman Studies Journal, about his new book, Seeking God with St. John Henry Newman.

Kate Soper - Post-Growth Living: On the Good Life

Feb 10 2023 55 mins

Collegium Institute student fellow talks with Kate Soper, philosopher, author, and professor emerita at London Metropolitan university, about her 2022 book, Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism, which proposes a new understanding of the good life that delinks prosperity from endless growth.

Joshua Stuchlik — On the Principle of Double Effect

Jan 27 2023 26 mins

Collegium Institute undergraduate fellow talks with Dr. Joshua Stuchlik, Professor of Philosophy at University of St. Thomas, Minnesota, and assistant editor of the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, about his new book, Intention and Wrongdoing: In Defense of Double Effect.

David Deavel and Jessica Hooten Wilson —Solzhenitsyn and the American Culture

Jan 13 2023 46 mins

Collegium Institute student fellow talks with Dr. David Deavel, associate professor of Theology at University of St. Thomas, and Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson, inaugural Seaver College Scholar of Liberal Arts at Pepperdine university. Join us as we discuss Dr. Deavel and Dr. Wilson’s collection, Solzhenitsyn and the American Culture: The Russian Soul in the West.

Nate Anderson — Learning from Nietzsche in the Digital Age

Dec 31 2022 30 mins

Collegium Institute staff and students talk with Nate Anderson, deputy editor at Ars Technica and author of In Emergency, Break Glass: What Nietzsche Can Teach Us About Joyful Living in a Tech-Saturated World, about what we can learn from Nietzsche in the 21st century.

The Myth of Religious Violence? Revisiting our Global, National, and Campus Conflicts and the Path to Peace

Jun 18 2024 71 mins

In 2009 the landmark monograph of William Cavanaugh, The Myth of Religious Violence: Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict, was published by Oxford University Press. In that work, Cavanaugh showed how the term “religious violence” is not just an uncomplicated description of tragic phenomena witnessed all too frequently around the world. On the contrary, he argued, i

Mary Hirschfeld - Thomas Aquinas and the Theology of Economy

Sep 08 2022 28 mins

Student fellows converse with Professor Mary Hirschfeld about her book Aquinas and the Market: Toward a Humane Economy on the thought of Thomas Aquinas and how it relates to contemporary economic practice.

Remi Brague - The History of Humanism, and its Role in Modern Culture

Aug 25 2022 52 mins

Collegium undergraduate fellows enter into conversation with Remi Brague about his book The Legitimacy of the Human. They discuss human dignity, the philosophy of humanism, its history, and its significance in our contemporary cultural context.