Summer Seminars of the Center
The Schreyer Summer Seminars are a series of intensive courses exploring
vital moral questions in various aspects of social, philosophical,
legal and political thought. They constitute the core of the
Witherspoon Institutes effort to encourage and inform outstanding
young men and women at the undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate
level who aspire to academic careers.
While the Center on Ethics and the University hosts five of Schreyer Summer Seminars, the Center on Religion and the Constitution organized the following summer seminars:
Moral Foundations of Law Seminar
August 2012
Princeton, NJ
Moral Foundations of Law is a comprehensive, week-long program investigating the relationship between sound norms of critical morality and the civil law. Under the direction of Gerard V. Bradley (Notre Dame Law School) in collaboration with Robert P. George (Princeton University) and John Finnis (University of Oxford; University of Notre Dame), the seminar covers some of the most challenging questions facing law students today, including: the moral justifying aim of punishing criminals; morals legislation; marriage and family; legal positivism and natural law theory; the right to privacy; church and state. Evening lectures are presented by legal experts, including appellate court judges and law professors.
Church and State:
Religion in the Young American Republic
July 30-August 3, 2012
The seminar on church and state for young faculty will explore the interaction of religion and political life in the early American republic. Beginning with consideration of the American colonial and revolutionary eras, including the First Great Awakening and the theological contribution of Jonathan Edwards, the seminar will go on to take up the nations early life under the new Constitution with its First Amendment protection for religious freedom. As the Second Great Awakening swept over American Christian life in the period 1795 to 1810, how did various religious and political actors in the country come to consider or reconsider the relationship of church and state? Looking forward to the Jacksonian period, what political, legal, and social forces came to affect the further evolution of this relationship? Readings in the seminar will be primary sources in early American religious and political thought.
While the Center on Ethics and the University hosts five of Schreyer Summer Seminars, the Center on Religion and the Constitution organized the following summer seminars:
Moral Foundations of Law Seminar
August 2012
Princeton, NJ
Moral Foundations of Law is a comprehensive, week-long program investigating the relationship between sound norms of critical morality and the civil law. Under the direction of Gerard V. Bradley (Notre Dame Law School) in collaboration with Robert P. George (Princeton University) and John Finnis (University of Oxford; University of Notre Dame), the seminar covers some of the most challenging questions facing law students today, including: the moral justifying aim of punishing criminals; morals legislation; marriage and family; legal positivism and natural law theory; the right to privacy; church and state. Evening lectures are presented by legal experts, including appellate court judges and law professors.
Church and State:
Religion in the Young American Republic
July 30-August 3, 2012
The seminar on church and state for young faculty will explore the interaction of religion and political life in the early American republic. Beginning with consideration of the American colonial and revolutionary eras, including the First Great Awakening and the theological contribution of Jonathan Edwards, the seminar will go on to take up the nations early life under the new Constitution with its First Amendment protection for religious freedom. As the Second Great Awakening swept over American Christian life in the period 1795 to 1810, how did various religious and political actors in the country come to consider or reconsider the relationship of church and state? Looking forward to the Jacksonian period, what political, legal, and social forces came to affect the further evolution of this relationship? Readings in the seminar will be primary sources in early American religious and political thought.
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