ND Center for Ethics and Culture call for papers

The Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture have announced the theme for their fall conference in November: "The Summons of Freedom: Virtue, Sacrifice, and the Common Good." The focus seems to be on the importance of virtue in the fulfilmment of our humanity in freedom. Here is a link to their call for papers.

We welcome the submission of abstracts drawing on a wide range of moral and religious perspectives and academic specialties. Special consideration will be given to submissions of ideas for panel discussions that would bring together several people to discuss a focused theme. Possible issues to be explored are:

• the natural law and American democratic government
• analogous senses of the common good
• special demands on courage in contemporary culture
• the multiple threats of individualism
• philosophical and theological inquiries into the virtues
• the riches of Catholic social teaching
• the global economic crisis and the situation of late modern capitalism
• the secularization of contemporary culture
• imagining the common good: what the arts contribute
• the fate of Europe
• stewardship over nature: what does it entail?
• Catholic approaches to the common good: Maritain, McInerny, and
  MacIntyre
• “Whose common good?”: the unborn, the barely born, the disabled,
  and the elderly
• freedom and its relation to truth
• Pope Benedict on charity and hope
• the Christian Democratic movement in 20th Century politics
• Elizabeth Anscombe and the virtue revolution in ethics
• the sacrifices of family life