Courses
Biology, Medicine, and the Contours of Human Life
This course develops foundations for bioethical inquiry in view of the doctrine of creation, the nuptial anthropology proposed by John […]
Life, Death, and the Human Person
This course treats questions concerning illness, medical treatments, and death within the ambit of the anthropological foundations developed in JPI […]
Technology and Life
In view of the Cartesian separation between res extensa and rex cogitans that continues to shape our civilization, philosopher Robert Spaemann diagnosed a blind […]
Suffering, Death, and the Technological Imperative
Strikingly, Pope Benedict’s brief letter, “On the Urgent Task of Educating Young People” (2008), called for teaching young people to suffer […]
“The Genealogy of the Person”: An Exploration
In his 1994 Letter to Families, Pope John Paul II said that “the genealogy of the person is inscribed in the […]
Biologies, Technologies, and the Human Person
This course probes historical and philosophical underpinnings of several biological disciplines that play a role in contemporary human self-understanding as well […]