Thomas
International Center Program Coordinator Harrison Lee will be interviewing Dr.
Fulvio Di Blasi about his most recent book, Ancient Wisdom and Thomistic Wit:
Happiness and the Good Life.
The
interview will be broadcasted live on the Thomas International Center’s
Facebook page and YouTube channel and then saved as posts on both of those
sites.
In Ancient
Wisdom and Thomistic Wit, Dr. Fulvio Di Blasi explains difficult ethical
concepts and arguments from Thomas Aquinas and his Ancient Greek predecessors,
making them accessible even to readers with no previous background in
philosophy. All the while, the author makes the topic engaging by demonstrating
the relevance of ancient and medieval insights to contemporary life and popular
culture. “I have often encountered, both with young students and adults, the
difficulty of making them understand the existential meaning, so to speak, of
the technical notions of moral philosophy…In my teaching experience, there is
no concept, though sophisticated and difficult, that cannot be easily explained
even to very young students or to people who have no background knowledge of
the scientific field to which that concept belongs” (from the Author’s
Introduction). “[Fulvio Di Blasi] may be one of the two or three best young
catholic philosophers in the world today” (Ralph McInerny, 2004), From
Aristotle to Thomas Aquinas Natural Law, Practical Knoledge, and the Person
(2017). Fulvio Di Blasi is an Italian attorney and international scholar expert
in moral philosophy and natural law theory. He is the Director of the Thomas
International Online University. He has a Ph.D. in Philosophy of Law from the
University of Palermo, and has taught in several universities both in Europe
and in America. His books include, God and the Natural Law (2003), John Finnis
(2008), Ritorno al diritto (2009), and Questioni di Legge Naturale (2009). The
book is available in English and Italian.
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