Twenty-seventh Annual

The American Maritain Association

gratefully acknowledges the generous support

and sponsorship of the following organizations

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Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life

Lumen Christi Institute for Catholic Thought and Culture

New Oxford Review

Thursday, October 16, 2003

9:00 a.m. Registration opens

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Columbus Hall Foyer (East Tower, Gold Level, L2)

10:00—10:15 a.m. Plenary Session 1

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Columbus Hall A-B (East Tower, Gold Level, L2)

President’s Welcome

Alice Ramos, St. John’s University, New York

10:30 a.m.—12:00 p.m. Concurrent Session 1

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Session 1A

Columbus Hall A-B (East Tower, Gold Level, L2)

Chair: James Hanink, Loyola Marymount University

Paul Richard Blum, Loyola College

“Knowing vs. Acting: The Paradoxes of Human Freedom in Lorenzo Valla”

James R. Stoner, Jr., Louisiana State University

“Christian Socrates? The Apology of Thomas More”

Salvador Piá Tarazona, University of Navarre

“Transcendental Anthropology by Leonardo Polo”

Session 1B

Grand Suite 3 (East Tower, Gold Level, L2)

Chair: William Haggerty, Gannon University

Joseph de Torre, University of Asia and the Pacific,

Philippines

“The Truth That Liberates: Liberty, Liberalism,

Socialism, and Liberation Theology”

Mario Ramos-Reyes, Kansas City College

“The Enemies of Maritain: From the Left and the Right”

Catherine Wilson, University of Pennsylvania

“Maritain and the ‘Necessity of New Political

Formations’”

Session 1C

Stetson Conference Center, Suite F-G

(West Tower, Purple Level, L3)

Chair: Peter Redpath, St. John’s University, New York

Roberta Bayer, Independent Scholar

“Philosophical Darkness and Human Freedom”

Pamela Proietti, University of Memphis

“Modern Scientific Rationalism and Faith”

William M. O’Donnell, Independent Scholar

“A Just Peace Theory”

1:30—3:00 p.m. Concurrent Session 2

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Session 2A

Columbus Hall A-B (East Tower, Gold Level, L2)

Chair: Alice Ramos, St. John’s University, New York

Jude Dougherty, The Catholic University of America

“Wretched Aristotle”

Pawel Tarasiewicz, The Catholic University of Lublin

“Freedom or Truth?: A Personalist’s Reply”

Matthew Pugh, Providence College

“Maritain on Truth in Aquinas”

Session 2B

Grand Suite 3 (East Tower, Gold Level, L2)

Chair: Robert O’Brien, Fordham University

Robert A. Delfino, St. John’s University, New York

“Race, Ethnicity, Culture and Personal Identity”

Peter Koritansky, Malone College, Canton, Ohio

“Aristotle and Aquinas on the Justice of Slavery and the Challenge of Pre-Modern Politics”

Richard Rolwing, Independent Scholar

“Did Roger Taney Violate the Natural Law?”

Session 2C

Stetson Conference Center, Suite F-G

(West Tower, Purple Level, L3)

Chair: John O’Callaghan, University of Notre Dame

Peter Pagan, Aquinas College, Nashville

“Nature and Grace: Extrinsicism Defended”

Denis A. Scrandis, Fordham University

“The Grace and Humanity of Jesus according to Jacques Maritain”

Martin John Miller, Lexington College, Chicago

“Under the Sign of Freedom: Service and Human Dignity in Gaudium et Spes”

3:15—4:15 p.m. Plenary Session 2

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Columbus Hall A-B (East Tower, Gold Level, L2)

Chair: Alice Ramos, St. John’s University, New York

Jean Bethke Elshtain, University of Chicago

“Maritain and Human Rights”

4:30—6:00 p.m. Concurrent Session 3

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Session 3A

Columbus Hall A-B (East Tower, Gold Level, L2)

Chair: Gregory Kerr, DeSales University

David Klassen, The Catholic University of America

“Jacques Maritain and Natural Rights: The Priority of Metaphysics over Politics”

Randall Smith, University of St. Thomas, Houston

“’We’ve Got to Represent!’: From Enlightenment Rights to Post-Modern Virtues”

Session 3B

Grand Suite 3 (East Tower, Gold Level, L2)

Chair: Robert O’Brien, Fordham University

Bernard Quinn, Independent Scholar

“Maritain and the Catholic Culture of Catholic Schools: Liberating Elementary Education from Pragmatism and Other Uncongenial Ideas”

Brian W. Hughes, Boston College

“Maritain and Newman: Freedom, Theology, and Transcendence in University Education”

Thomas Bayer, Independent Scholar

“The First Amendment, Catholicism and School Vouchers”

Session 3C

Stetson Conference Center, Suite F-G

(West Tower, Purple Level, L3)

Chair: Christopher Cullen, S.J., Fordham University

Gavin T. Colvert, Assumption College

“Aquinas and the Limits of Political Authority: Natural Lawyer or Virtue Politician?”

Giuseppe Butera, University of Dallas

“Scotus’s Misreading of Aquinas:

A Defense of Aquinas’s Theory of Temperance”

Kyongsook Kim, The Catholic University of America

“The Notion of Contingency in Aquinas’s

Moral Theory”

7:30—9:00 p.m. Concurrent Session 4

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Session 4A

Columbus Hall A-B (East Tower, Gold Level, L2)

Chair: John Trapani, Walsh University

Ralph Nelson, University of Windsor

“The Ambiguity of Autonomy”

John Cuddeback, Christendom College

“A Free Culture: Living the Primacy of the For-Itself”

Siobhan Nash-Marshall, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul

“Freedom, Primary Values and the Human Person”

Session 4B

Grand Suite 3 (East Tower, Gold Level, L2)

Chair: Teresa I. Reed, Rockhurst University

Montague Brown, St. Anselm College

“Fairness, Freedom, and Responsibility”

Raymond Dennehy, University of San Francisco

“The Treason of Intellectuals and the Culture of

Freedom”

Scott M. Sullivan, Holy Apostles College and Seminary, Cromwell, Connecticut

“Rights, Violinists, and a Dereliction of Duty:

Maritain’s Rational Justification for Human Rights and

Test Case Example of its Usefulness”

Session 4C

Stetson Conference Center, Suite F-G

(West Tower, Purple Level, L3)

Gabriel Marcel Society

Chair: Thomas Michaud, Wheeling Jesuit University

Presenter: Thomas Anderson, Marquette University

“Gabriel Marcel on Personal Immortality”

Commentator: Brendan Sweetman, Rockhurst University

Presenter: Peter Redpath, St. John’s University, New York

“Marcel and the Recovery of Philosophy in Our Time”

Commentator: Gregory Kerr, DeSales University

9:15—10:15 p.m. Reception

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Wrigley Room (West Tower, Bronze Level, L1)

Cash Bar

Friday, October 17

8:45—10:15 a.m. Concurrent Session 5

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Session 5A

Columbus Hall A-B (East Tower, Gold Level, L2)

Chair: James Stoner, Louisiana State University

James Hanink, Loyola Marymount University

“Sovereignty and Some Counterfeits”

Thomas Rourke, Clarion University, Clarion, Pennsylvania

“Revisiting Popular Sovereignty: The Classical Statement and Contemporary Implications”

Katie Hollenberg, Independent Scholar

“Authority as a Source of Freedom”

Session 5B

Grand Suite 3 (East Tower, Gold Level, L2)

Chair: John Gueguen, Illinois State University

Douglas A. Ollivant, School of Advanced Military Studies, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

“Brownson, Maritain, and the American Project:

The United States as seen by Two Converts”

Robert J. Phillips, Wheeling Jesuit University

“Catholicism and Democratic Despotism in Democracy in America”

José Enrique Puente, Instituto Jacques Maritain de Cuba

“The Future of the United States according to Jacques Maritain”

Session 5C

Stetson Conference Center, Suite F-G

(West Tower, Purple Level, L3)

Chair: John Morris, Rockhurst University

Carson Holloway, University of Nebraska at Omaha

“Aristotle on Morality and Cosmic Teleology:

A Response to Contemporary Darwinian Aristotelians”

Robert Vigliotti, Rockhurst University

“MacIntyre and Heidegger on the Animal in Human Nature”

John G. Trapani, Walsh University

“‘O Death, Where is Thy Sting’: Deconstructing the Dualism of Death”

Session 5D

New Orleans Room (West Tower, Gold Level, L2)

Chair: Gregory Kerr, DeSales University

Gene Fendt, University of Nebraska at Kearney

“Mimesis and Catharsis: The Construction of Freedom

through Art”

Jacqueline Oprean, Walsh University

“Do Songbirds Really Sing?:

Art and the Spiritualization of Humanity”

John Dunaway, Mercer University

“The Pilgrim’s Call: Vocation in the Life and Work of

Maritain”

10:30 a.m.—12:30 p.m. Plenary Session 3

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Authors on Maritain

Columbus Hall A-B (East Tower, Gold Level, L2)

Chair: John O’Callaghan, University of Notre Dame

John McGreevy, University of Notre Dame

Catholicism and American Freedom

(W. W. Norton, 2003)

Jude Dougherty, The Catholic University of America Jacques Maritain: An Intellectual Profile

(The Catholic University of American Press, 2003)

Ralph McInerny, University of Notre Dame

The Very Rich Hours of Jacques Maritain

(University of Notre Dame, 2003)

John Hittinger, Sacred Heart Seminary, Detroit, Michigan

Liberty, Wisdom, and Grace: Thomism and Democratic Political Theory (Lexington Books, 2003)

2:00—3:30 p.m. Concurrent Session 6

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Session 6A

Columbus Hall A-B (East Tower, Gold Level, L2)

Étienne Gilson Society

Chair: Peter Redpath, St. John’s University, New York

Desmond FitzGerald, University of San Francisco

“Anton Pegis’s Thomistic Theory of Man as

an Incarnate Angel”

Session 6B

Grand Suite 3 (East Tower, Gold Level, L2)

Chair: Catherine Green, Rockhurst University

Richard F. Crane, Greensboro College, North Carolina

“The End of an Age: Jacques Maritain, the Second World War and the Promise of History”

Alice Ramos, St. John’s University, New York

“Freedom for Excellence vs. Freedom of Indifference”

Teresa I. Reed, Rockhurst University

“Time and Human Freedom”

Session 6C

Stetson Conference Center, Suite F-G

(West Tower, Purple Level, L3)

Chair: William Haggerty, Gannon University

Michael Waldstein, International Theological Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family, Gaming, Austria

“Personalism, the Common Good and Mary’s Fiat:

De Koninck, Maritain, Simon and Wojtyla”

John W. Carlson, Creighton University

“Freedom Isn’t Free: Yves R. Simon on Progress of the Will”

Francis Slade, St. Francis College, Brooklyn

“There Ain’t No End to Doin’ Right”

Session 6D

New Orleans Room (West Tower, Gold Level, L2)

Chair: Astrid O’Brien, Fordham University

Ann M. Wiles, James Madison University

“The Intuition of Being”

Heather Erb, Independent Scholar

“‘From Rivulets to the Fountain’s Source’: Image and Love in Aquinas’s Christian Anthropology”

Jeffrey L. Nicholas, Villanova University

“Thomism, Maritain, and Feminism: Toward a Thomistic Critical Theory”

3:45—5:45 p.m. Plenary Session 4

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Grand Suite 3 (East Tower, Gold Level, L2)

Chair: John Gueguen, Illinois State University

Ralph McInerny, University of Notre Dame

“Absence of God, Absence of Man”

Hadley Arkes, Amherst College

“The Maladies of the Political Class: When Reasons Cease to Matter”

7:30—9:00 p.m. Concurrent Session 7

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Session 7A

Atlanta Room (West Tower, Gold Level, L2)

Étienne Gilson Society: Book Session

Moderator: Peter A. Redpath, St. John’s University, NY

Author: John Deely, University of St. Thomas, Houston

Four Ages of Understanding: The First Post-Modern Survey of Philosophy from Ancient Times to the Turn of the Twenty-first Century (University of Toronto, 2001)

Respondents:

Mary C. Sommers, University of St. Thomas, Houston

Kenneth Schmitz, John Paul II Institute, Washington, D.C.

Curtis Hancock, Rockhurst University

Session 7B

Grand Suite 3 (East Tower, Gold Level, L2)

Chair: Douglas A. Ollivant, School of Advanced Military Studies, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

Michael Baur, Fordham University

“What is Living and What is Dead in the New Natural Law Theory”

Gerson Moreno-Riano, Cedarville University, Ohio

“Natural Law, the Social Sciences, and

the Human Person”

James Edward Helmer, University of Notre Dame

“Should Natural Lawyers Aspire to be Justificatory

Liberals?”

Session 7C

Stetson Conference Center, Suite F-G

(West Tower, Purple Level, L3)

Chair: Astrid O’Brien, Fordham University

Louis Chamming’s, President of Cercle d’Études Jacques et Raïssa Maritain, Paris

“The Person Facing Information Society”

Richard Cain, Wheeling Jesuit University

“Education at the Crossroads Revisited: Technology, Education and Maritain’s Integral Humanism”

Frederick Erb, III, Independent Scholar

“Freedom and Varieties of Thomistic Higher

Education”

9:15—10:15 p.m. Reception

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Truffles (West Tower, Blue Level, 2nd Floor)

Cash Bar

Saturday, October 18, 2003

8:45 a.m. Departure for University of Chicago

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Buses Leave from the front of the Hyatt Regency

9:45—10:45 a.m. Plenary Session 5

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The University of Chicago Divinity School

Swift Hall, Third Floor Lecture Hall

Chair: Catherine Green, Rockhurst University

Russell Hittinger, University of Tulsa

“In Memoriam: Leo XIII (1810-1903): Emergence of The Theme of Freedom in Papal Social Doctrine”

11:00 a.m.—12:30 p.m. Concurrent Session 8

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Session 8A

The Divinity School, Swift Hall, Third Floor Lecture Hall

Chair: Michael Baur, Fordham University

John Conley, S.J., Fordham University

“Religious Freedom as a Catholic Crisis”

William Gould, Fordham University

“The Role of Religion in Democratic Societies: The Contributions of Jacques Maritain, John Courtney Murray, and John Paul II”

Piotr Jaroszynski, The Catholic University of Lublin

“Freedom and Tolerance”

Session 8B

The Divinity School, Swift Hall, Room 206

Chair: John Dunaway, Mercer University

Henk E. S. Woldring, Free University, Amsterdam

“The Human Person and the Culture of Freedom in Need of Social Integration”

Scott H. Moore, Baylor University

“Virtue and Freedom in Murdoch’s The Nice and the Good “

Eric Garcia, Rockhurst University

“The Human Person and a Culture of Freedom”

Session 8C

The Divinity School, Swift Hall, Room 200

“Reflections on Fides et Ratio: Newman, Maritain, and Strauss”

Chair: Thomas Woods, St. Mary’s College of

Madonna University, Orchard Lake, Michigan

Frederick Crosson, University of Notre Dame

“Newman: Implicit Reason and Explicit Faith”

John Hittinger, Sacred Heart Seminary, Detroit, Michigan

“Maritain: The Light of Faith, the Light of Reason”

James V. Schall, S.J., Georgetown University

“The Common Good: Why is it Good? Why is it Common?”

Session 8D

The Divinity School, Swift Hall, Room 106

Chair: Brendan Sweetman, Rockhurst University

John F. Morris, Rockhurst University

“Stem Cells, Cloning, and the Human Person”

Catherine Green, Rockhurst University

“Thinking Well about Our Genetic Future”

Joseph Califano, St. John’s University, New York

“True Humanism, Applied Medical Technologies, and the Critically Ill: Three Actual Case Studies”

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12:45—2:15 p.m.

Luncheon

The Quadrangle Club, University of Chicago

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2:30—4:30 p.m. Plenary Session 6

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The Divinity School, Swift Hall, Third Floor Lecture Hall

Chair: Christopher Cullen, S.J., Fordham University

Alasdair MacIntyre

Center for Ethics and Culture, University of Notre Dame

“Freedom and Punishment”

Romanus Cessario, O.P., St. John’s Seminary, Boston

“Freedom and Satisfaction”

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5:00 p.m.

Mass, 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Bond Chapel, The University of Chicago Divinity School

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6:00 p.m. Return to Hyatt Regency

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Annual Banquet

Truffles

Hyatt Regency Hotel

(West Tower, Blue Level, Second Floor)

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7:45 p.m.

Cocktails

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8:15 p.m.

Dinner

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President’s Welcome

Graduate Student Prize

David Klassen, The Catholic University of America

Humanitarian Award

Raymond Dennehy, University of San Francisco

Maritain Medal for Scholarly Excellence

Alasdair MacIntyre, University of Notre Dame

Announcement of the 2004 Conference

Sunday, October 19, 2003

9:00—11:00 a.m. Plenary Session 7

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Author Responds to His Critics

Columbus Hall A-B (East Tower, Gold Level, L2)

Organizer: Peter Pagan, Aquinas College, Nashville

Chair: Stanley Fish, Dean, University of Illinois at Chicago

Author: Kenneth R. Craycraft, Jr.

The American Myth of Religious Freedom

(Spence Publishing, 1999)

Respondents:

Philip Hamburger, John P. Wilson Professor of Law

School of Law, University of Chicago

The Honorable John T. Noonan, Jr., United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, San Francisco, California

11:15—11:45 a.m. Plenary Session 8

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Business Meeting of the Association

Columbus Hall A-B (East Tower, Gold Level, L2)

All are welcome

Chair: Alice Ramos, President

FORTHCOMING FROM AMA

Truth Matters

Essays in Honor of

Jacques Maritain

Edited by John G. Trapani, Jr.

Drawing upon the richness of Maritain’s

thought, the contributors to this volume

engage readers with philosophical essays about the search for truth in human life and civic engagement. Across a range of topics, the authors implicitly challenge the claims of relativism and

postmodernism, and argue instead that

theoretical truth-claims have practical

consequences, that truth matters to

those who are affected by it.

Feb 2004 / Paperback: (0-9669226-6-2) $14.95