The Canadian Jacques Maritain Association - l'association canadienne Jacques-Maritain

Schedule of presentations - Autumn meeting 1995

Theme: Natural Law

Friday, October 27, 1995

(Saint Paul University, 223 Main St., Ottawa) 8 p.m.

Ralph Nelson (University of Windsor), "Between Inconsistent Nominalists and Egalitarian Idealists"

Saturday, October 28

(Dominican College, 96 Empress, Ottawa) 9:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.

  • Lawrence Dewan (College dominicain and Catholic University), "Natural Law and the First Act of Freedom: Maritain Revisited"
  • Bernard Vinaty (College dominicain), "Pascal croyait-il en la loi naturelle?"

    11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Annual business meeting of the Association and Lunch

  • William Sweet (St Francis Xavier University), "Maritain's Criticisms of natural Law Theories"
  • Louis Perron (University of Ottawa), "L'anthropologie de Jean Ladriere: une interpretation contemporaine de la loi naturelle"
  • Murray Littlejohn (University of Ottawa), "Augustinian Wisdom and Natural Law"