On Tuesday, November 26, from 15:00 to 16:30, P. Patrick Zoll, SJ, will present his paper titled “The Good of Thomas Aquinas, written together with Eleonore Stump. Aquinas’s thought was recognized as brilliant and insightful from his own time onwards, and there is a resurgence of interest in it today not only among Catholics and other Christians but among contemporary humanistic philosophers also, as a quick review of bibliographic sources will evince. Nonetheless, with many pressing problems in the world, with growing secularization of society, and with rising recognition of the need for multicultural studies, people may wonder why anyone would want to study the thought of a thirteenth-century European Catholic. What good is Aquinas now?, people may think. This small essay is an attempt to give a short answer to that question. Our essay has two parts, the first focuses on Aquinas’s metaphysics and the second on Aquinas’s ethics.

The seminar is open to researchers and students in philosophy, theology and related subjects at advanced level. Zoom-link will be sent to everyone who registers interest. marten.bjork@newman.se

P. Patrick Zoll SJ is professor in metaphysics at Hochschule für Philosophie, München.