web01.fireside.fm Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:36:33 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Ethics and Culture Cast - Episodes Tagged with “Ethics” https://ndcec.fireside.fm/tags/ethics Fri, 03 Jan 2025 16:00:00 -0500 Lively conversations with professors, fellows, scholars, and friends of the University of Notre Dame's de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture. The Center is committed to sharing the richness of the Catholic moral and intellectual tradition through teaching, research, and public engagement, at the highest level and across a range of disciplines. For more information visit http://ethicscenter.nd.edu en-us episodic From the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture Notre Dame de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture Lively conversations with professors, fellows, scholars, and friends of the University of Notre Dame's de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture. The Center is committed to sharing the richness of the Catholic moral and intellectual tradition through teaching, research, and public engagement, at the highest level and across a range of disciplines. For more information visit http://ethicscenter.nd.edu no catholic, academics, university, notre dame, prolife, pro-life, ethics, bioethics, philosophy, political science, theology Notre Dame de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture khallenius@nd.edu Episode 85: Jennifer Newsome Martin https://ndcec.fireside.fm/85 853aaae6-8913-4fe1-83bb-cf6ed46e3535 Fri, 03 Jan 2025 16:00:00 -0500 Notre Dame de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture full Notre Dame de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture Jennifer Newsome Martin is a systematic theologian with an appointment in the Program of Liberal Studies and the Department of Theology. She was appointed director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture in 2023, succeeding O. Carter Snead in the position on July 1, 2024. 28:55 no Jennifer Newsome Martin is an associate professor in the Program of Liberal Studies with a joint appointment in the Department of Theology, and, as of July 2024, the director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture. We chat about her first semester in the director's chair, our recently-concluded Fall Conference on the Catholic Imagination, and preview some exciting new initiatives at the de Nicola Center. Special Guest: Jenny Martin. theology, ethics, culture, university, notre dame Jennifer Newsome Martin is an associate professor in the Program of Liberal Studies with a joint appointment in the Department of Theology, and, as of July 2024, the director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture. We chat about her first semester in the director's chair, our recently-concluded Fall Conference on the Catholic Imagination, and preview some exciting new initiatives at the de Nicola Center.

Special Guest: Jenny Martin.

Links:

  • Director Jennifer Newsome Martin — About the director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture
  • "What is Catholic Culture" - Inaugural dCEC Director's Lecture — Professor Jennifer Newsome Martin's inaugural lecture as director of the dCEC considers—alongside such theological interlocutors as St. John Henry Newman, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Pope Benedict XVI, Remi Brague, and others—the paradoxical origins of a Catholic culture rooted in such non-Catholic cultures as Athens and Jerusalem. The lecture not only characterizes the phenomenon of Catholic culture writ large as having to do with the human desire for God and the welcoming of all that is proper to the life of the human being, but also articulates the relationship between ethics and culture—and, put more strongly, an ethics of culture—specifically within the context of liberal arts education.
  • Fall Conference 2024: "Ever Ancient, Ever New: On Catholic Imagination" — A playlist of 40 sessions from the 2024 Fall Conference on Catholic Imagination (Oct. 31–Nov. 2, 2024) at the University of Notre Dame
  • Upcoming Events at the de Nicola Center
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]]> Jennifer Newsome Martin is an associate professor in the Program of Liberal Studies with a joint appointment in the Department of Theology, and, as of July 2024, the director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture. We chat about her first semester in the director's chair, our recently-concluded Fall Conference on the Catholic Imagination, and preview some exciting new initiatives at the de Nicola Center.

Special Guest: Jenny Martin.

Links:

  • Director Jennifer Newsome Martin — About the director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture
  • "What is Catholic Culture" - Inaugural dCEC Director's Lecture — Professor Jennifer Newsome Martin's inaugural lecture as director of the dCEC considers—alongside such theological interlocutors as St. John Henry Newman, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Pope Benedict XVI, Remi Brague, and others—the paradoxical origins of a Catholic culture rooted in such non-Catholic cultures as Athens and Jerusalem. The lecture not only characterizes the phenomenon of Catholic culture writ large as having to do with the human desire for God and the welcoming of all that is proper to the life of the human being, but also articulates the relationship between ethics and culture—and, put more strongly, an ethics of culture—specifically within the context of liberal arts education.
  • Fall Conference 2024: "Ever Ancient, Ever New: On Catholic Imagination" — A playlist of 40 sessions from the 2024 Fall Conference on Catholic Imagination (Oct. 31–Nov. 2, 2024) at the University of Notre Dame
  • Upcoming Events at the de Nicola Center
  • Theme Song: "I Dunno" by Grapes — I dunno by grapes (c) copyright 2008 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. Ft: J Lang, Morusque
]]> Episode 70: Paul Blaschko https://ndcec.fireside.fm/70 9d3a4e56-0277-4118-b559-5e342750abc5 Thu, 09 Jun 2022 14:30:00 -0400 Notre Dame de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture full Notre Dame de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture Paul Blaschko is an assistant teaching professor of virtue ethics, the director of the Sheedy Family Program in Economy, Enterprise, and Society, and the co-author of "The Good Life Method: Reasoning through the Big Questions of Happiness, Faith, and Meaning." 45:00 no Paul Blaschko is an assistant teaching professor in philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He heads up curriculum design and digital pedagogy for the God and the Good Life Program, and has recently been working to develop similar curricula at universities across the nation as part of an initiative funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Blaschko completed an MA in philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, a PhD at the University of Notre Dame, and held the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship prior to being appointed to his current position. Special Guest: Paul Blaschko. work, philosophy, ethics, economy, book, god Paul Blaschko is an assistant teaching professor in philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He heads up curriculum design and digital pedagogy for the God and the Good Life Program, and has recently been working to develop similar curricula at universities across the nation as part of an initiative funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Blaschko completed an MA in philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, a PhD at the University of Notre Dame, and held the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship prior to being appointed to his current position.

Special Guest: Paul Blaschko.

Links:

  • The Good Life Method — For seekers of all stripes, philosophy is timeless self-care. Notre Dame philosophy professors Meghan Sullivan and Paul Blaschko have reinvigorated this tradition in their wildly popular and influential undergraduate course “God and the Good Life,” in which they wrestle with the big questions about how to live and what makes life meaningful.
  • Sheedy Family Program in Economy, Enterprise, and Society — The Sheedy Family Program in Economy, Enterprise, and Society is a community at Notre Dame where students and professors dedicated to exploring business and the liberal arts can do so through dedicated coursework, collaborative research, meaningful dialogue, and purpose-driven career discernment.
  • ProfBlaschko on TikTok
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]]> Paul Blaschko is an assistant teaching professor in philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He heads up curriculum design and digital pedagogy for the God and the Good Life Program, and has recently been working to develop similar curricula at universities across the nation as part of an initiative funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Blaschko completed an MA in philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, a PhD at the University of Notre Dame, and held the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship prior to being appointed to his current position.

Special Guest: Paul Blaschko.

Links:

  • The Good Life Method — For seekers of all stripes, philosophy is timeless self-care. Notre Dame philosophy professors Meghan Sullivan and Paul Blaschko have reinvigorated this tradition in their wildly popular and influential undergraduate course “God and the Good Life,” in which they wrestle with the big questions about how to live and what makes life meaningful.
  • Sheedy Family Program in Economy, Enterprise, and Society — The Sheedy Family Program in Economy, Enterprise, and Society is a community at Notre Dame where students and professors dedicated to exploring business and the liberal arts can do so through dedicated coursework, collaborative research, meaningful dialogue, and purpose-driven career discernment.
  • ProfBlaschko on TikTok
  • Theme Song: "I Dunno," by grapes — I dunno by grapes (c) copyright 2008 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. Ft: J Lang, Morusque
]]> Episode 41: Dr. Mark Komrad, MD https://ndcec.fireside.fm/41 2e0543ba-9672-49fb-8693-4dfddb158111 Wed, 20 Nov 2019 09:00:00 -0500 Notre Dame de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture full Notre Dame de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture Dr. Mark Komrad, MD is a psychiatrist on the clinical and teaching staff of the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, and the author of "You Need Help: A Step-by-Step Plan to Convince Your Loved One to Get Counseling." He spoke with us about the emerging ethical crisis surrounding physician assisted suicide and euthanasia of patients with non-terminal mental disorders. 32:50 no Dr. Komrad is a psychiatrist on the teaching faculty of Johns Hopkins and Sheppard Pratt in Baltimore and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland and Tulane. He earned his undergraduate degree in molecular biophysics at Yale University, his M.D. degree at Duke Medical School, and trained in internal medicine and psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. He was an attending psychiatrist on the Treatment Resistant Psychotic Disorders Unit at Sheppard Pratt Hospital for 15 years, where he continues to train residents in psychotherapy and psychopharmacology. In addition to clinical psychiatry, Dr. Komrad is a medical ethicist. He chaired the Ethics Committee and ethics consultation service for the Sheppard Pratt Health System in Maryland for over 25 years. He served on the Ethics Committee of the American Psychiatric Association for 6 years, which oversees ethics and professionalism for psychiatry in the U.S. Recently he has been speaking throughout the U.S. and internationally, also consulting to government policy makers, expressing ethical concerns related to physician assisted suicide and euthanasia, especially concern that these procedures are available to people with mental illness in some countries. He speaks widely about why legalizing these procedures is neither good social policy nor good medical ethics. Special Guest: Mark Komrad, MD. euthanasia, suicide, mental disorders, psychiatry, pas, physician assisted suicide, medicine, ethics, medical ethics Dr. Komrad is a psychiatrist on the teaching faculty of Johns Hopkins and Sheppard Pratt in Baltimore and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland and Tulane. He earned his undergraduate degree in molecular biophysics at Yale University, his M.D. degree at Duke Medical School, and trained in internal medicine and psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. He was an attending psychiatrist on the Treatment Resistant Psychotic Disorders Unit at Sheppard Pratt Hospital for 15 years, where he continues to train residents in psychotherapy and psychopharmacology.

In addition to clinical psychiatry, Dr. Komrad is a medical ethicist. He chaired the Ethics Committee and ethics consultation service for the Sheppard Pratt Health System in Maryland for over 25 years. He served on the Ethics Committee of the American Psychiatric Association for 6 years, which oversees ethics and professionalism for psychiatry in the U.S. Recently he has been speaking throughout the U.S. and internationally, also consulting to government policy makers, expressing ethical concerns related to physician assisted suicide and euthanasia, especially concern that these procedures are available to people with mental illness in some countries. He speaks widely about why legalizing these procedures is neither good social policy nor good medical ethics.

Special Guest: Mark Komrad, MD.

Links:

  • Dr. Mark Komrad, MD homepage
  • Video: Physician-Assisted Suicide & Euthanasia for Non-Terminal Patients with Mental Disorders: An Emerging Ethical Crisis — Talk delivered at St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN
  • You Need Help: A Step-by-Step Guide to Convince a Loved One to Get Counseling — Just about everyone knows a relative, friend, or coworker who is exhibiting signs of emotional or behavioral turmoil. Yet figuring out how to reach out to that person can feel insurmountable. We know it is the right thing to do, yet many of us hesitate to take action out of fear of conflict, hurt feelings, or damaging the relationship. Through a rich combination of user-friendly tools and real-life stories, Mark S. Komrad, MD, offers step-by-step guidance and support as you take the courageous step of helping a friend who might not even recognize that he or she is in need. He guides you in developing a strong course of action, starting by determining when professional help is needed, then moves you through the steps of picking the right time, making the first approach, gathering allies, selecting the right professional, and supporting friends or relatives as they go through the necessary therapeutic process to resolve their problems.
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]]> Dr. Komrad is a psychiatrist on the teaching faculty of Johns Hopkins and Sheppard Pratt in Baltimore and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland and Tulane. He earned his undergraduate degree in molecular biophysics at Yale University, his M.D. degree at Duke Medical School, and trained in internal medicine and psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. He was an attending psychiatrist on the Treatment Resistant Psychotic Disorders Unit at Sheppard Pratt Hospital for 15 years, where he continues to train residents in psychotherapy and psychopharmacology.

In addition to clinical psychiatry, Dr. Komrad is a medical ethicist. He chaired the Ethics Committee and ethics consultation service for the Sheppard Pratt Health System in Maryland for over 25 years. He served on the Ethics Committee of the American Psychiatric Association for 6 years, which oversees ethics and professionalism for psychiatry in the U.S. Recently he has been speaking throughout the U.S. and internationally, also consulting to government policy makers, expressing ethical concerns related to physician assisted suicide and euthanasia, especially concern that these procedures are available to people with mental illness in some countries. He speaks widely about why legalizing these procedures is neither good social policy nor good medical ethics.

Special Guest: Mark Komrad, MD.

Links:

  • Dr. Mark Komrad, MD homepage
  • Video: Physician-Assisted Suicide & Euthanasia for Non-Terminal Patients with Mental Disorders: An Emerging Ethical Crisis — Talk delivered at St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN
  • You Need Help: A Step-by-Step Guide to Convince a Loved One to Get Counseling — Just about everyone knows a relative, friend, or coworker who is exhibiting signs of emotional or behavioral turmoil. Yet figuring out how to reach out to that person can feel insurmountable. We know it is the right thing to do, yet many of us hesitate to take action out of fear of conflict, hurt feelings, or damaging the relationship. Through a rich combination of user-friendly tools and real-life stories, Mark S. Komrad, MD, offers step-by-step guidance and support as you take the courageous step of helping a friend who might not even recognize that he or she is in need. He guides you in developing a strong course of action, starting by determining when professional help is needed, then moves you through the steps of picking the right time, making the first approach, gathering allies, selecting the right professional, and supporting friends or relatives as they go through the necessary therapeutic process to resolve their problems.
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]]> Episode 20: James Hankins https://ndcec.fireside.fm/20 2e8e3ed8-ef5d-4958-af95-f7a192327a62 Thu, 17 May 2018 13:00:00 -0400 Notre Dame de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture full Notre Dame de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture James Hankins is a professor of intellectual history at Harvard University and a Visiting Researcher at the Center in the Spring 2018 semester. 33:50 no James Hankins is a professor of Renaissance intellectual history at Harvard University. He is the Founder and General Editor of the I Tatti Renaissance Library from Harvard University Press, a member of the British Academy, and is the author or editor of over twenty volumes and more than eighty articles, essays and book chapters. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Center in the Spring 2018 semester, where he worked on a monograph entitled, The Virtue Politics of the Italian Humanists. Special Guest: James Hankins. James Hankins is a professor of Renaissance intellectual history at Harvard University. He is the Founder and General Editor of the I Tatti Renaissance Library from Harvard University Press, a member of the British Academy, and is the author or editor of over twenty volumes and more than eighty articles, essays and book chapters. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Center in the Spring 2018 semester, where he worked on a monograph entitled, The Virtue Politics of the Italian Humanists.

Special Guest: James Hankins.

Links:

  • I Tatti Renaissance Library — The I Tatti Renaissance Library is the only series that makes available to a broad readership the major literary, historical, philosophical, and scientific works of the Italian Renaissance written in Latin. Each volume provides a reliable Latin text together with an accurate, readable English translation on facing pages, accompanied by an editor’s introduction, notes on the text, brief bibliography, and index. Presenting current scholarship in an attractive and convenient format, The I Tatti Renaissance Library aims to make this essential literature accessible to students and scholars in a wide variety of disciplines as well as to general readers.
  • Previous Episodes of Ethics and Culture Cast — Ethics and Culture Cast features lively conversations with professors, fellows, scholars, and friends of the Center for Ethics and Culture. Episodes are released every other Thursday during the academic year.
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]]> James Hankins is a professor of Renaissance intellectual history at Harvard University. He is the Founder and General Editor of the I Tatti Renaissance Library from Harvard University Press, a member of the British Academy, and is the author or editor of over twenty volumes and more than eighty articles, essays and book chapters. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Center in the Spring 2018 semester, where he worked on a monograph entitled, The Virtue Politics of the Italian Humanists.

Special Guest: James Hankins.

Links:

  • I Tatti Renaissance Library — The I Tatti Renaissance Library is the only series that makes available to a broad readership the major literary, historical, philosophical, and scientific works of the Italian Renaissance written in Latin. Each volume provides a reliable Latin text together with an accurate, readable English translation on facing pages, accompanied by an editor’s introduction, notes on the text, brief bibliography, and index. Presenting current scholarship in an attractive and convenient format, The I Tatti Renaissance Library aims to make this essential literature accessible to students and scholars in a wide variety of disciplines as well as to general readers.
  • Previous Episodes of Ethics and Culture Cast — Ethics and Culture Cast features lively conversations with professors, fellows, scholars, and friends of the Center for Ethics and Culture. Episodes are released every other Thursday during the academic year.
  • Theme Music: "I dunno" by Grapes — I dunno by grapes (c) copyright 2008 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/grapes/16626 Ft: J Lang, Morusque
]]> Episode 12: Gilbert Meilaender https://ndcec.fireside.fm/12 bc8a6fd2-745b-4e3a-8a39-ee7e40b96d08 Thu, 08 Mar 2018 14:00:00 -0500 Notre Dame de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture full Notre Dame de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture A chat with Gilbert Meilaender, author of "Not By Nature But By Grace: Forming Families Through Adoption." 23:13 no In this episode, we sit down with Gilbert Meilaender, the author of Not By Nature But By Grace: Forming Families Through Adoption, the inaugural volume in the Center's "Catholic Ideas for a Secular World" book series with the University of Notre Dame Press. We discuss his intellectual journey, the meaning of adoption for families and for Christians, and how he wants to be a burden to his children. Special Guest: Gilbert Meilaender. In this episode, we sit down with Gilbert Meilaender, the author of Not By Nature But By Grace: Forming Families Through Adoption, the inaugural volume in the Center's "Catholic Ideas for a Secular World" book series with the University of Notre Dame Press. We discuss his intellectual journey, the meaning of adoption for families and for Christians, and how he wants to be a burden to his children.

Special Guest: Gilbert Meilaender.

Links:

  • Not By Nature, But By Grace: Forming Families Through Adoption — Working from within the contours of Christian faith, this book examines the relation between two ways of forming families—through nature (by procreation) and through history (by adoption). Christians honor the biological tie between parents and children, for it is the work of God in creation. Yet Christians cannot forget that it is adoption, and not simply natural descent, that is at the center of the New Testament’s depiction of God’s grace. Gilbert Meilaender takes up a range of issues raised by the practice of adoption, always seeking to do justice to both nature and history in the formation of families, while keeping at the center of our vision the truth that it is not by nature but by grace that we can become adopted children of the one whom Jesus called his Father.
  • Catholic Ideas for a Secular World - NDCEC Book Series with UND Press — The purpose of this interdisciplinary series is to feature authors from around the world who will expand the influence of Catholic thought on the most important conversations in academia and the public square. The series is “Catholic” in the sense that the books will emphasize and engage the enduring themes of human dignity and flourishing, the common good, truth, beauty, justice, and freedom in ways that reflect and deepen principles affirmed by the Catholic Church for millennia. It is not limited to Catholic authors or even works that explicitly take Catholic principles as a point of departure. Its books are intended to demonstrate the diversity and enhance the relevance of these enduring themes and principles in numerous subjects, ranging from the arts and humanities to the sciences.
  • Friendship: A Study in Theological Ethics — Certain relationships are of profound importance for human life and of great significance for the moral life. In Friendship: A Study in Theological Ethics, Gilbert C. Meilaender explores some of the tension which Christian experience discovers in one such relationship, that of the bond of friendship. These tensions help to explain why friendship was a more important topic in the life and thought of the classical civilizations of Greece and Rome than it has usually been within Christendom.
  • Working: Its Meaning and Its Limits — _Working: Its Meaning and Its Limits _enables any reader interested in understanding the moral and spiritual significance of work in our lives to enter into a conversation not only about what we do but who we are. The wide range of readings proposes different ways of thinking about something most of us do every day—work. As part of the Ethics of Everyday Life series, these readings are an invitation to reflection and conversation. They focus not on rules for the workplace or on dilemmas in business ethics but on one of the most fundamental aspects of human existence in every time and place.
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]]> In this episode, we sit down with Gilbert Meilaender, the author of Not By Nature But By Grace: Forming Families Through Adoption, the inaugural volume in the Center's "Catholic Ideas for a Secular World" book series with the University of Notre Dame Press. We discuss his intellectual journey, the meaning of adoption for families and for Christians, and how he wants to be a burden to his children.

Special Guest: Gilbert Meilaender.

Links:

  • Not By Nature, But By Grace: Forming Families Through Adoption — Working from within the contours of Christian faith, this book examines the relation between two ways of forming families—through nature (by procreation) and through history (by adoption). Christians honor the biological tie between parents and children, for it is the work of God in creation. Yet Christians cannot forget that it is adoption, and not simply natural descent, that is at the center of the New Testament’s depiction of God’s grace. Gilbert Meilaender takes up a range of issues raised by the practice of adoption, always seeking to do justice to both nature and history in the formation of families, while keeping at the center of our vision the truth that it is not by nature but by grace that we can become adopted children of the one whom Jesus called his Father.
  • Catholic Ideas for a Secular World - NDCEC Book Series with UND Press — The purpose of this interdisciplinary series is to feature authors from around the world who will expand the influence of Catholic thought on the most important conversations in academia and the public square. The series is “Catholic” in the sense that the books will emphasize and engage the enduring themes of human dignity and flourishing, the common good, truth, beauty, justice, and freedom in ways that reflect and deepen principles affirmed by the Catholic Church for millennia. It is not limited to Catholic authors or even works that explicitly take Catholic principles as a point of departure. Its books are intended to demonstrate the diversity and enhance the relevance of these enduring themes and principles in numerous subjects, ranging from the arts and humanities to the sciences.
  • Friendship: A Study in Theological Ethics — Certain relationships are of profound importance for human life and of great significance for the moral life. In Friendship: A Study in Theological Ethics, Gilbert C. Meilaender explores some of the tension which Christian experience discovers in one such relationship, that of the bond of friendship. These tensions help to explain why friendship was a more important topic in the life and thought of the classical civilizations of Greece and Rome than it has usually been within Christendom.
  • Working: Its Meaning and Its Limits — _Working: Its Meaning and Its Limits _enables any reader interested in understanding the moral and spiritual significance of work in our lives to enter into a conversation not only about what we do but who we are. The wide range of readings proposes different ways of thinking about something most of us do every day—work. As part of the Ethics of Everyday Life series, these readings are an invitation to reflection and conversation. They focus not on rules for the workplace or on dilemmas in business ethics but on one of the most fundamental aspects of human existence in every time and place.
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]]> Episode 4: David Solomon https://ndcec.fireside.fm/4 584170bc-8ac4-4fb2-a77d-629b361c9be7 Thu, 09 Nov 2017 00:15:00 -0500 Notre Dame de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture full Notre Dame de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture This episode features CEC founding director, professor emeritus David Solomon. We chat about what brought him to Notre Dame, his work with thousands of undergraduates and graduate students, and the foundation of the Center's annual Fall Conference. 22:47 no David Solomon, the founding director of the Center for Ethics and Culture, began his legendary career at Notre Dame in 1968 and retired in May 2016. During his tenure, he served as the director of undergraduate studies in the philosophy department, founded and directed the Arts & Letters/Science Honors Program, and directed the Notre Dame London Program. In addition to his service in academic administration, he taught ethics and medical ethics to thousands of undergraduate and graduate students and directed more than 40 doctoral dissertations. Professor Solomon established the Center for Ethics and Culture in 1999 with the aim of bringing "the great treasures of the Catholic moral and intellectual tradition to bear upon the most pressing ethical questions of the day." He handed the reins of the Center to current director Carter Snead in 2012. Special Guest: David Solomon. David Solomon, the founding director of the Center for Ethics and Culture, began his legendary career at Notre Dame in 1968 and retired in May 2016. During his tenure, he served as the director of undergraduate studies in the philosophy department, founded and directed the Arts & Letters/Science Honors Program, and directed the Notre Dame London Program. In addition to his service in academic administration, he taught ethics and medical ethics to thousands of undergraduate and graduate students and directed more than 40 doctoral dissertations.

Professor Solomon established the Center for Ethics and Culture in 1999 with the aim of bringing "the great treasures of the Catholic moral and intellectual tradition to bear upon the most pressing ethical questions of the day." He handed the reins of the Center to current director Carter Snead in 2012.

Special Guest: David Solomon.

Links:

  • The CEC's David Solomon Fellowship — Director O. Carter Snead announced the establishment of a $1.25 million endowed graduate student fellowship honoring the Center's founding director, David Solomon. "Professor Solomon is the visionary who had the will, the creativity, the insight, the judgment, and the energy to create the Center for Ethics and Culture so many years ago," said Snead. "We are very pleased that, in perpetuity, there will be a David Solomon Fellow in the College of Arts and Letters who will share David's passion for the Catholic mission of the University of Notre Dame." (Dateline: December 1, 2016)
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]]> David Solomon, the founding director of the Center for Ethics and Culture, began his legendary career at Notre Dame in 1968 and retired in May 2016. During his tenure, he served as the director of undergraduate studies in the philosophy department, founded and directed the Arts & Letters/Science Honors Program, and directed the Notre Dame London Program. In addition to his service in academic administration, he taught ethics and medical ethics to thousands of undergraduate and graduate students and directed more than 40 doctoral dissertations.

Professor Solomon established the Center for Ethics and Culture in 1999 with the aim of bringing "the great treasures of the Catholic moral and intellectual tradition to bear upon the most pressing ethical questions of the day." He handed the reins of the Center to current director Carter Snead in 2012.

Special Guest: David Solomon.

Links:

  • The CEC's David Solomon Fellowship — Director O. Carter Snead announced the establishment of a $1.25 million endowed graduate student fellowship honoring the Center's founding director, David Solomon. "Professor Solomon is the visionary who had the will, the creativity, the insight, the judgment, and the energy to create the Center for Ethics and Culture so many years ago," said Snead. "We are very pleased that, in perpetuity, there will be a David Solomon Fellow in the College of Arts and Letters who will share David's passion for the Catholic mission of the University of Notre Dame." (Dateline: December 1, 2016)
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]]> Episode 1: O. Carter Snead https://ndcec.fireside.fm/1 993e8521-b140-4eac-93da-0f5caa3364fb Thu, 28 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0400 Notre Dame de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture full Notre Dame de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture This inaugural episode features a chat with Carter Snead, director of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture. 20:19 no In this first episode of Ethics and Culture Cast, we chat with O. Carter Snead, the William P. and Hazel B. White Director of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture. In addition to directing the work of the NDCEC, Snead is a professor of law and concurrent professor of political science at Notre Dame. In this conversation, Professor Snead talks about the Center's mission to share the richness of the Catholic moral and intellectual tradition across a variety of disciplines, and at the highest level. Special Guest: Carter Snead. In this first episode of Ethics and Culture Cast, we chat with O. Carter Snead, the William P. and Hazel B. White Director of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture. In addition to directing the work of the NDCEC, Snead is a professor of law and concurrent professor of political science at Notre Dame. In this conversation, Professor Snead talks about the Center's mission to share the richness of the Catholic moral and intellectual tradition across a variety of disciplines, and at the highest level.

Special Guest: Carter Snead.

Links:

]]> In this first episode of Ethics and Culture Cast, we chat with O. Carter Snead, the William P. and Hazel B. White Director of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture. In addition to directing the work of the NDCEC, Snead is a professor of law and concurrent professor of political science at Notre Dame. In this conversation, Professor Snead talks about the Center's mission to share the richness of the Catholic moral and intellectual tradition across a variety of disciplines, and at the highest level.

Special Guest: Carter Snead.

Links:

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