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Human Nature: Roman Catholic Teaching and Its Implications

This project has addressed the moral, political and civic dimensions of life as they relate to the Roman Catholic conception of the human person. Internationally renowned scholars were invited to examine the deep and broad intellectual tradition of the Church human person. Internationally renowned scholars were invited to examine the deep and broad intellectual tradition of the Church as it informs a wide range of fields such as philosophy, natural science, law, political theory, psychology, theology, and aesthetics. The conference proceedings have recently been published by the Catholic University of America Press (2006).


Human Nature in Its Wholeness: A Roman Catholic Perspective (CUA Press 2006)
Edited by Daniel N. Robinson, Gladys Sweeney, and Richard Gill, L.C.

The contributors are Hadley Arkes, Jude P. Dougherty, Kevin Flannery, S.J., Robert P. George, Richard Gill, L.C., F. Russell Hittinger, Daniel N. Robinson, Robert Royal, Peter Ryan, S.J., Gladys Sweeney, and Carroll William Westfall.

Director: Daniel N. Robinson, Ph.D.
Assistant: Andrew Sodergren, M.S.



About Daniel Robinson

Daniel N. Robinson is Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, at Georgetown University, on whose faculty he served for thirty years.  He is a member of the Philosophy faculty at Oxford University, where he has lectured annually since 1991.  In Fall 2001, Professor Robinson delivered three inaugural lectures as Charles Test Distinguished Visiting Lecturer in Princeton University’s new James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, and taught as Visiting Professor in Princeton’s Psychology Department.

Over the years, Prof. Robinson has held visiting professorships at a number of universities, including Princeton University and Columbia University.