John Liptay |
- Assistant Professor
- St. Thomas More College
- 1437 College Drive Saskatoon, SK S7N 0W6
- Phone: 306.966.8945
- jliptay@stmcollege.ca
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Education | Research Interests | Research Projects | Selected Publications
Teaching Responsibilities | Administrative Responsibilities |
Education |
- B.A. (Toronto)
- B.A. Hons. (Queen’s)
- M.A. (Toronto)
- Ph.D. (Toronto)
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Research Interests |
- Aquinas’ ethics and the Thomistic philosophical tradition
- Theoretical and normative issues in moral philosophy
- The philosophy of Bernard Lonergan
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Research Projects |
- On the Alleged Disintegration of Natural Law Theory (a critical discussion of Pauline C. Westerman’s thesis)
- How to Understand the First Principles of Natural Law (an investigation into the different ways that the first principles of natural law are understood today, with a defense of Finnis’ position)
- Maritain, Aquinas, and the Problem of Evil
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Selected Publications and Presentations |
- The Importance of Insight. Essays in Honour of Michael Vertin. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. (Co-editor with David S. Liptay)
- Natural Law and Prudence: Some Important, Elementary, and Overlooked Themes, Forty-First International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 6 May 2006.
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Teaching Responsibilities |
- Introduction to Philosophy (PHIL 133)
- Courses in ethical theory and applied ethics (PHIL 231, 233, 234)
- Medieval Philosophy (PHIL 210, 211)
- Topics in metaphysics and epistemology (PHIL 404)
- The Philosophy of Human Nature (PHIL 294) and of Religion (PHIL 302)
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Administrative Responsibilities |
- Member of Catholic Studies Working Group
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