Join with the Angelicum for an event celebrating Dr. Russell Hittinger’s latest work, On the Dignity of Society: Catholic Social Teaching and Natural Law (Catholic University of America Press, 2024).
After a brief presentation of the book, by the volume’s editor, Prof. Scott Roniger (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University), Prof. Hittinger will share some personal reflections of the genesis of these essays.
In the work, Hittinger presents Catholic social teaching not only as a defense of the dignity of the human person, but more fundamentally as an elucidation of the dignity of society. Human persons – as naturally familial, political, and ecclesial animals – seek their own perfection in communion. This volume represents the fruits of Hittinger’s historically important body of work on Catholic moral and social philosophy and theology, rooted in Thomistic natural law theory and animated by the thought of Saint Augustine.
A reception will follow in sala della Torretta
