Loneliness and Friendship: Aquinas' Cure for What Ails the Soul

78705, 2210 Speedway,Austin TX 78712

20 October, 2021

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A lecture by Prof. Thomas Hibbs University of Texas at Austin The Thomistic Institute at the University of Texas at Austin presents a lecture by Prof. Thomas Hibbs of Baylor University titled “Loneliness and Friendship: Aquinas’s Cure for What Ails our Soul.” Wednesday, Oct. 20 WAG 214 6:00 PM This lecture is free and open to the public. About the speaker Thomas Hibbs is currently Distinguished Professor of Ethics & Culture and Dean of the Honors College at Baylor University. He is the author of books including Virtue's Splendor: Wisdom, Prudence, and the Human Good and Shows About Nothing, one of two books of his about film. He has nearly completed a book on Pascal, tentatively entitled Divine Irony and is at work on a book on Nihilism, Beauty, and God, an application of Jacques Maritain’s aesthetic theory to the arts of poetry and painting in the 20th century. He also has written on film, culture, books and higher education in publications including Books and Culture, Christianity Today, First Things, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. The Thomistic Institute exists to promote Catholic truth in our contemporary world by strengthening the intellectual formation of Christians at universities, in the Church, and in the wider public square. The thought of St. Thomas Aquinas, the Universal Doctor of the Church, is our touchstone.  The TI is an academic institute of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C.   You can find all of the Thomistic Institute lecture recordings on https://soundcloud.com/thomisticinstitute or through the Apple Podcast by searching "Thomsitic Institute."