Join us for Collegium Institute’s Annual Penn Club of New York Reception on Wednesday, April 26, at 6pm featuring a cocktail reception and special event entitled, “Should the University Teach Virtue?”
Few believe that undergraduate education in America should be reduced to job training or a credentialing service. Yet is there a way to reclaim the collegiate mission for robust moral and intellectual formation within our pluralistic if not deeply fragmented community? “Whose Virtue?” (to borrow a titular question from Alasdair MacIntyre) would be taught? Many fear, along with the great 20th century sociologist Max Weber, that at the risk of indoctrination it would be safer to confine these deeper human quests and questions to the margins of academic life. But what are the broad social costs of doing so?
Our featured guests for the event are Professors Jennifer Frey and Robert P. George.
Professor Frey is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina and was just appointed Inaugural Dean of the Honors College at the University of Tulsa. She was the co-Principal Investigator of a multi-year $2.1 million dollar grant from the John Templeton Foundation on “Virtue, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life.” She has published widely, especially on the thought of Elizabeth Anscombe, who revived the tradition of virtue ethics in the 20th century, and serves on the Faculty Advisory Committee of the Collegium Institute Anscombe Archive at the University of Pennsylvania. She also hosts a popular podcast, “Sacred and Profane Love.”
Professor George is the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University and Founding Director of Princeton’s James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. Author of a wide range of books and essays on natural law, political philosophy, and contemporary culture, he also has been a major university advocate for academic freedom. He has served as chairman of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom as well as on the President’s Council on Bioethics and on the US Commission on Civil Rights. The recipient of 22 honorary degrees, he also will receive this spring the Evangelium Vitae Award at the University of Notre Dame’s de Nicola Center for Ethics & Culture.
This event is cosponsored by First Things, America Magazine, and the Portsmouth Institute for Faith & Culture.
Date: Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Time: Reception begins at 6:00 PM EST. Remarks will begin at 6:45 PM EST.
Location: The Penn Club of New York
30 W 44th St.
New York, NY 10036
Registration Fees & Deadlines:
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