Friday 16 January 2015

Reflection on first class 14 January

Good to see a number of old faces as well as some new ones! I look forward to seeing you again as well as others who will drop in on future classes this year. (Our current plans are here. These will be regularly updated as details are finalized so please keep an eye on that page. Although pre-registration (contact elizabethdrummondyoung@gmail.com) is helpful and allows us to keep you up to date with our classes, it's not essential. Please do feel free to turn up on the night. Classes are free but donations very welcome!)

For those of you new to the classes, I hope that the introduction to the principles on Monday will help you as we explore more concrete themes in the following weeks. This blog has a list of online resources (here) of which the Compendium of Social Doctrine (online here but also available as a book (ISBN: 978-1574556926) is probably the best single source.

The next class is on Roger Scruton (28 January). Since I last posted, we can also now confirm that Lord Drummond Young will be speaking on International Law and Natural Law on either 11 or 25 February.

I'll post some more on Scruton before the next class. In the meantime, those of you with online access to academic libraries can find my article on Scruton (from The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophers via Oxford Reference (http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199754694.001.0001/acref-9780199754694-e-1874) or, for those without such access, can browse his website here.

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