Toward a Thoughtful Conservatism
administrator2021-04-10T09:54:56-05:00Toward a Thoughtful Conservatism Seminar Description: It can be difficult to find sources of inspiration or aspiration if you feel at all [...]
Beauty, Value, and the Good
administrator2021-04-07T15:34:44-05:00Beauty, Value, and the Good HPI Mini-Seminar led by Hannah McKeown DESCRIPTION This course will consider two themes related to the idea of beauty as [...]
In the Shadow of End Times
administrator2021-01-15T09:44:23-06:00In the Shadow of End Times HPI Mini-Seminar led by Kévin Irakóze DESCRIPTION This course explores human collectivities’ reactions to the destruction of social worlds. [...]
Tahera Qutbuddin
administrator2020-10-28T11:03:57-05:00Tahera Qutbuddin is a Senior Faculty Advisor for the Hyde Park Institute. She is a scholar of classical Arabic literature and Islamic studies focusing on intersections of the literary, the [...]
Howard Nusbaum
administrator2020-10-01T16:29:59-05:00Howard Nusbaum is a Senior Faculty Advisor for the Hyde Park Institute. He is currently the Director of the Chicago Center for Practical Wisdom and Stella M. Rowley Professor of [...]
2020-2021 Courses
administrator2021-03-15T11:43:16-05:002020-2021 FOR-CREDIT COURSES Fall In the Physics, Aristotle lays out the basic concepts and principles governing his thought about physical reality. His approach is both philosophically [...]
Teaching for Wisdom 2019-20
administrator2020-09-21T12:40:46-05:00Teaching for Wisdom 2019-2020 Developing Character in the Classroom Are you interested in education and how kids learn? Have you considered how wisdom is taught [...]
On Liberty for a New Generation
administrator2021-04-10T09:56:03-05:00On Liberty for a New Generation Seminar Description: Members of Gen Z—US citizens born after the mid-1990s--are a rising and growing force [...]
Scholars in Ethics and Medicine 2019-20
administrator2020-09-10T11:13:32-05:00Scholars in Ethics and Medicine 2019-2020 Program Theme: Virtue, Wisdom, and the Practice of Medicine Theme Description: The practice of medicine focuses on actions that [...]
2017-2018 Courses
administrator2019-09-25T23:06:48-05:002017-2018 FOR-CREDIT COURSES Spring Practical reason can be distinguished from theoretical or speculative reason in many ways. Traditionally, some philosophers have distinguished the two by [...]
