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2012 Jellema Lectures
April 4-5, 2012
Natural Justice
Dr. Jean Porter (John A. O'Brien Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame)
- Justice as a Virtue
Wednesday, April 4, 2012, 7:30 pm
Recital Hall, Covenant Fine Arts Center (Calvin College)
- Principles of Justice
Thursday, April 5, 2012, 3:30 p.m.
Recital Hall, Covenant Fine Arts Center
(Calvin College)
In these lectures, Prof. Porter explores the idea that justice is a virtue, following along the lines set by Aquinas' discussion of the cardinal virtue of justice in the Summa Theologiae, but also going beyond what he says through focused engagement with recent theories of justice, in both communal and personal/relational contexts, reflects a rational appropriation of the natural forms of life proper to us as social animals. In more contemporary terms, one might say that justice is fundamentally grounded in the good rather than the right. Yet Aquinas also says that the right is the object of the virtue of justice, and this suggests that the good as he understands it is in no way incompatible with acknowledging individual claims to self-determination and fundamental forms of respect and forbearance.
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