This lecture was given on June 15, 2023, at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., as part of the 2023 Civitas Dei Summer Fellowship: "Friendship, Happiness, and the Search for God: Aristotle, Augustine, & Aquinas."
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Speaker Bio:
University of Washington
The Thomistic Institute at the University of Washington presents a lecture by Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P. of the Dominican House of Studies titled “The Search for Happiness: Wisdom from Aquinas and the Classical Tradition.”
Friday, November 4
2:00 PM
HUB 334
This lecture is free and open to the public.
About the Speaker:
Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P., is the Director of the Thomistic Institute and Assistant Professor in Dogmatic Theology at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, a Ph.L. from the School of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America, and a doctorate in Sacred Theology from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He entered the Order of Preachers in 2001, after having practiced constitutional law for several years as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice. He has also taught at The Catholic University of America Law School and at Providence College. He is the author of The Trinitarian Christology of St. Thomas Aquinas (Oxford University Press, 2016).
