[PHILOS-L] CfP DREAMING A BETTER WORLD: Aristotelians, Marxists, & Christians in Dialogue & Action for Social Equilibrium and Peace

[Jeffery Nicholas]

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CALL for PAPERS

 

St. Nicholas of Myra Conference on Catholic Social Thought

&

CASEP (Center for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics and Politics)

 

28-29 March 2025, Providence College, Providence, RI

 

THEME

DREAMING A BETTER WORLD:

Aristotelians, Marxists, & Christians in Dialogue & Action for

Social Equilibrium and Peace

 

In January 2024, Pope Francis met with members of DIALOP (Transversal Dialogue Project). DIALOP is dedicated to dialogue between Marxists/Socialists and Christians in European countries to change the world. Francis shared with them the desire for more dialogue in service, not to financial markets, but to humanity, inclusive political, economic, and religious institutions, and dreaming for a better world. Francis noted the need for solidarity as an aspect of justice. Moreover, we need dialogue that breaks with historically established norms, dialogue that includes the vulnerably, disadvantaged, and marginalized.

A dialogue between Christians and Marxists/Socialists invites dialogue with their shared forefather, Aristotle. Aristotle’s influence on Marx is well-known, especially the analysis of economics within the whole historical-social situation. Moreover, Aristotle’s influence on Christianity, particularly through Thomas Aquinas, cannot be ignored. Concepts such as Eudaimonia and the Common Good are key to these dialogues.

These points serve as a departure for this call for papers—how can Aristotelians, Socialists/Marxists, and Christians dream a better world together? How can we together share ideas and imagine different ways of changing the world, especially by engaging with those least well off in society.

 

Possible topics:

·                The Point is not to describe it, but to change the world

·                What is justice? What is the relation between justice and love? Justice and peace?

·                What concepts do Aristotelians, Socialists/Marxists and Christians share to change the world

·                Alienation as a religious and a political concept

·                Solidarity beyond ideology

·                The New Left Church

·                Marxism as a failed political program

·                Catholic social thought and/or Liberation Theology as failed traditions

·                Aristotelian, Socialist/Marxist, and Christian challenges to nation-state liberalism

·                Aristotelian, Socialist/Marxist, and Christian challenges to the language of rights

·                The Eucharist and the Commodity Form

·                Faith, Hope, and Love: Theological and/or Cardinal Virtues of the City

·                Inclusive Communities

·                Marxism and Queer Theory

 

Proposals on any of these are related topics are encouraged. Accepted papers will be shared before the conference, and the conference will take the form of short presentations and deep discussion about the ideas of different attendees. An expectation is to collect selected papers into a publishable volume.

 

Proposals of 500-words, along with a bibliography and CV, due by 6 December 2024.

Notifications expected: 11 January 2025.

Full papers expected for distribution to attendees: 7 March 2025.

Submit Proposals: jeffery...@gmail.com

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Professor Tom Jeannot

Tom Jeannot has been at Gonzaga since 1986. He works on moral philosophy, personalism, philosophical hermeneutics, Hegelian Marxism and Critical Theory, classical American philosophy, and the thought of Bernard Lonergan.

 

Sponsored by the Dean of Arts and Sciences, Providence College, CASEP, The Humanities Program, the Philosophy Department, the Political Science Department, and the Theology Department

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