The Ronk Lecture Hall in the Dwight Schar College of Education was filled with hearty discussions of natural law hosted by the Thomistic Institute at Ashland University on Feb. 11.
Dr. Peter Koritansky, guest lecturer from the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI), sought to develop discussions on positivism and the natural law tradition to garner an understanding of the question in his lecture titled, “Are Unjust Laws Really Laws?”
Koritansky is a professor of History, Philosophy and Religious Studies at UPEI in Charlottetown, Canada, where he teaches courses in ancient and medieval philosophy, moral and political philosophy, philosophy of law and Catholic thought.
He has also taught at Malone University in Canton and Walsh University in North Canton.
The Thomistic Institute, driven by “Catholic thought in the contemporary world” and the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas, was founded in Washington, D.C. in 2009 to “strengthen the intellectual formation of Christians at universities, in the Church and in the wider public square.”
More upcoming events hosted by the Thomistic Institute at Ashland University include a guest lecture titled, “Politics and the Problem of Moral Relativism,” on April 22.
For more information on the Thomistic Institute, visit their website at thomisticinstitute.org.