Conference On Philosophy And The Family

[Daniel Peterson]

My friend and colleague Ralph Hancock is organizing a conference that some here might find of interest:

THE GOODS OF FAMILY:

JERUSALEM & ATHENS, GENERATION & EROS

BYU & Sundance Resort, November 2-5 2011

(The first in a series of conferences and seminars on THE GOODS OF FAMILY : PHILOSOPHICAL, RELIGIOUS & LITERARY PERSPECTIVES)

The power of permanent male-female love is one of the strongest forces in humankind’s experience… Authentic married love … still holds its ancient power of mutual sacrifice and striving, until “I lift thee, and thou lift me, and both ascend together.”

--Bruce C. Hafen, Covenant Hearts

Wednesday Nov 2

4pm Ralph Hancock: “A Familiar Eternity: A Latter-day Saint Perspective on the Family”

7pm J Morse: “Loved into Existence”

Thursday Nov 3

10am Paul Rahe: “What Constitutes Marriage: A Common Sense View from Ancient Philosophy and Law”

11:00 The Family in The Odyssey: A Discussion initiated by Nalin Ranasinghe & Neal Kramer

12-1:30 Reason, Faith & Tradition in Contemporary Conservatism: a panel discussion featuring authors of new books bearing on this topic:

Mark Blitz, Conserving Liberty (Hoover Institution Press)

Ralph Hancock, The Responsibility of Reason (Rowman & Littlefield)

Peter Lawler, Modern and American Liberty (ISI Press)

Daniel Mahoney, The Conservative Foundations of The Liberal Order

(Lunch with panel discussion)

2-3:30 SEMINAR SESSION ONE: Plato, Symposium (& Phaedrus)

http://www.amazon.co...537177&sr=1-3#_

4:00 Mark Blitz “Plato on Education in the Family: Fathers & Sons”

7:00 Maggie Gallagher: What is Sexual Desire a Desire for? Reflections on the Meaning of the Human Body”

Friday Nov 4

9-10:30 SEMINAR SESSION TWO (Genesis)

http://www.firstthin...f-fatherhood-24

http://www.firstthin...an-old-story-29

http://www.firstthin...ning-of-wife-24

11-1 Peter Lawler, “Being a Person These Days: Implications for the Family’s Future”

Followed by discussion, with lunch

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4-5:30 SEMINAR SESSION THREE (Plato, Laws, & Aristotle)

Plato, Laws Book IV: 720e -- 721e; Book VI: 765d – 766c; 779e – 785b; Book VII: 788a – 799c; 817e – 818d (or continue to 822d); Book VIII: 835c – 842b; Book XI: 922b – 932d

Aristotle Nichomachean Ethics VIII:1, 7-12; Politics I:1-3, 12-13; II:2-4

7-9:30 Dinner

Saturday Nov 5

SUNDANCE:

9am-1pm SEMINAR SESSION FOUR: OPEN DISCUSSION

What is good about marriage & family? For the soul? For the City? What goods are not favored by marriage and family? If there is a “highest good,” where does it stand in relation to marriage and family?

& BRUNCH

[Calm]

Cost?

[Daniel Peterson]

Admission free.