updated 2012 04 04

Religious Wisdom and Perennial Philosophy: East and West 

Symposium / Colloque  
a symposium sponsored by Canadian Jacques Maritain Association 
un colloque international co-parainé par l'association canadienne Jacques Maritain
in association with the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities  
en collaboration avec le Congrès des sciences sociales et humaines

 May 30-31 // 2012 // 30 au 31 mai  
University of Waterloo / Université Waterloo 

St. Jerome’s University
Room 3014


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For general information on the Congress, http://congress2012.ca/. Simply click on “Registration”. The instructions are clear and straightforward.
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Tentative programme: 

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Morning Session: Eastern Perspectives

 Thursday, May 31, 2012

Morning Session: God and the Influence of Maritain
9:00 - 9:45 - Mark Guillaudeu, University of Virginia, USA: “Along the Road: Faith and Reason in Roman Catholicism and dGe-lugs pa Buddhism”.

9:45 – 10:30 – Melanie Coughlin, McGill University, Canada: “Nishitani’s Philosophy of Religion and Shinran’s Awareness of Evil”.

10:30 – 11:00 – Break

11:00 – 11:45 – Anne Wiles, James Madison University, USA: “Rabindranath Tagore: East Meets West Through Poetry and Education”.

11:45 – 12:30 – Louis Groarke, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada: “Descartes: East and West”.
 9:15 – 10:30 – Jude P. Dougherty, The Catholic University of America, USA: “Morality with and without God”.


10:30 – 11:00 – Break

11:00 – 11:45 – Jason West, Newman Theological College, Canada: “Jacques Maritain on non-Christian Mystical Experience: Contradiction or Continuity”.

11:45 – 12:30 – Mario Ramos-Reyes, Kansas City College, USA: “In Search for Authenticity: Would ‘Maritainismo’ qualify as a Latin American Philosophy?”
12:30 – 2:00 – Lunch
 12:30 – 2:00 – Lunch
Afternoon Session: Islamic and Christian Perspectives
 Afternoon Session: Perennial Philosophy, Culture and Wisdom

2:00 – 2:45 – Stefano Bigliardi, Lund University, Sweden: “Above Amazement and Analysis. Reading the Contemporary Muslim Debate on Miracles through Philosophia Perennis”.

2:45 – 3:30 – David Lea, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates: “The ‘Double Truth Theory’ in the context of Islamic and Christian Thought”.

3:30 – 4:00 – Break

4:00 – 4: 45 – Louis Perron, St. Paul University, Canada: “Religion et philosophie en Occident: le cas d’Augustin”.

4:45 – 5:30 – Robbie Moser, Mount Alison University, Canada: “Dangerous Medicine: The Anti-Philosophy of Wittgenstein and Al-Ghazali”.
2:00 – 2:45 – John W. Carlson, Creighton University, USA: “’Perennial Philosophy’ in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition”.


2:45 – 3:30 – Will Sweet, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada: “Philosophy East and West, and the Project of Intercultural Philosophy”.

3:30 – 4:00 – Break

4:00 – 4:45 – Vincent Wargo, North Dakota State University, USA: “Tradition and Festivity: Josef Pieper and Post-Modern Philosophy”.

4:45 – 5:30 – Shane Waugh, University of Wollongong, Australia: “Wisdom, Service, and the Epistemic Virtue of Humility”.




May 31, 17h - 19h  President's Reception 

Conference dinner : TBA
 
 

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For more information, please contact:

Dr Nikolaj Zunic
Department of Philosophy
St. Jerome’s University
290 Westmount Road North
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
N2L 3G3
Phone: 519-884-8111 ext. 28229
E-mail: nzunic[at]uwaterloo.ca