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Trans-Humanism, Center For Catholic Studies, Seton Hall University
Trans-Humanism, Center For Catholic Studies, Seton Hall University
Center for Catholic Studies Faculty Seminars and Core Curriculum Seminars
This seminar will focus on what we are transitioning to as a result of new innovations in technology — bio, nano, neuro — as well as in new methods of communication. This seminar will have us collectively examine what it is we are aspiring to as individuals, as disciplines, as a university, as a species. Delio and Haughey are partners with other academics trying to create an environment that can welcome and discern where our aspirations and technologies are pushing us to go.
Teaching As An Ethical Act, Center For Catholic Studies, Seton Hall University
Teaching As An Ethical Act, Center For Catholic Studies, Seton Hall University
Center for Catholic Studies Faculty Seminars and Core Curriculum Seminars
Teaching is a profession that places those of us who are teachers into powerful and influential roles. As with any exercise of power, one must learn to wield that power responsibly. It is on this question of responsibility that this workshop focuses its energies. We will look for guidance in the work of the late philosopher/theologian Bernard Lonergan to sort through the ethical dimensions of teaching – raising questions about one‘s attentiveness to the task, one‘s openness to insight, one‘s quality of judgment, and one‘s more or less adequate response to what is valuable. Finally, we will explore how one …