The Morningside Institute
The Morningside Institute is an independent scholarly endeavor dedicated to examining human life through the liberal arts. Morningside helps scholars and students contribute to academic disciplines and understand them in light of the rich traditions that lie at their origin. The Institute also helps students integrate the beauty of culture in New York City with their search for truth in the intellectual life.
- Update frequency
- every 18 days
- Average duration
- 141 minutes
- Episodes
- 60
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Transcendence, Providence, and Divine Agency in Nature
This is the third lecture in a four-part series by Prof. William Carroll (Oxford) titled “Evolution, Cosmology, and Creation: From Darwin and Hawking to Aquinas”. This lecture explores whether it is …
Creation and a Self-Sufficient Universe
This is the second lecture in a four-part series by Prof. William Carroll (Oxford) titled “Evolution, Cosmology, and Creation: From Darwin and Hawking to Aquinas”. This lecture explores whether the a…
The Challenges of Evolution and the Metaphysics of Creation
This is the first lecture in a four-part series by Prof. William Carroll (Oxford) titled “Evolution, Cosmology, and Creation: From Darwin and Hawking to Aquinas”. This lecture explores the challenges…
The City and Its Gods: Deus ex Machina: Byzantine Sanctuaries and Apple Stores
The second of two lectures by critic in architecture, Prof. Kyle Dugdale (Yale and Columbia). It is a commonplace of urban history to assert that the cities of antiquity belonged to their gods, and t…
The City and Its Gods: Seeking the Go(o)ds of the City, from Aristotle to Activism
The first of two lectures by critic in architecture, Prof. Kyle Dugdale (Yale and Columbia). It is a commonplace of urban history to assert that the cities of antiquity belonged to their gods, and th…
The Stoic Roots of Augustine’s Conversion
Lecture by Prof. Sarah Byers (Boston College).
What happened, exactly, in Augustine’s famous “conversion scene”? Professor Byers will show that Augustine is drawing on Stoic and Platonic epistemology…
Do Bad Catholics Make for Good Fiction?
Novelist Randy Boyagoda, a professor of English at the University of Toronto, talks about what it means to create art and tell stories about pursuing the good as fallen persons. He discusses recent a…
Morality and Mortality in Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop | Sr. Ann Astell
This presentation by Sr. Ann Astell, Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, was given as part of "The Moral Imagination of the Novel", a conference held at Columbia University on 4-5 …
Fiction and Moral Reflection | Thomas Pavel
This presentation by Professor Thomas Pavel (University of Chicago) was given as part of "The Moral Imagination of the Novel", a conference held at Columbia University on 4-5 October 2019.
Professor P…
Etiquette and Morality in the Novel
This presentation by Spencer Lee Lenfield, PhD candidate in English at Yale University, was given as part of "The Moral Imagination of the Novel", a conference held at Columbia University on 4-5 Octo…
The Anti-Moral Imagination Of Michel Houellebecq | Dhananjay Jagannathan
This presentation by Dhananjay Jagannathan, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, was given as part of "The Moral Imagination of the Novel", a conference held at Columbia Universi…
‘Now, How Were His Sentiments to be Read?’ Imagination and Discernment in Jane Austin’s Persuasion | Lauren Kopajtic
The handout can be found here: http://bit.ly/36mEs
This lecture by Lauren Kopajtic, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, was given as part of "The Moral Imagination of the Novel",…
The Need for a Christian Critical Tradition | William Gonch
This presentation by William Gonch, PhD candidate in English at University of Maryland, was given as part of "The Moral Imagination of the Novel", a conference held at Columbia University on 4-5 Octo…
Walker Percy's The Moviegoer Seen Again | Paul Elie
This lecture by Prof. Paul Elie (Georgetown) was given as part of "The Moral Imagination of the Novel", a conference held at Columbia University on 4-5 October 2019.
The conference was co-hosted by th…
How Can I Say What I Never Knew? The Limits of Moral Knowledge in Great Expectations
This presentation by Catherine Enwright, PhD candidate in English at Boston College, was given as part of "The Moral Imagination of the Novel", a conference held at Columbia University on 4-5 October…
The Crisis of Liberalism | Patrick Deneen and Vincent Phillip Muñoz
In light of the increasing tensions apparent in liberal societies, is liberalism an inherently contradictory system whose success generates its own downfall? Patrick Deneen elaborates on the argument…
Local Goods, Global Good, and Desire | Dr. Candace Vogler
A lecture given during "Desire and the Good Life: Reflections on the Aristotelian Tradition," a conference cosponsored by the Thomistic Institute, the Morningside Institute, and the Philosophy Depart…
To be Good is to Do the Truth | Dr. Jennifer Frey
The handout for this lecture is available at thomisticinstitute.org/hand-out-for-…jennifer-frey
A lecture given during "Desire and the Good Life: Reflections on the Aristotelian Tradition," a conferen…
The Rationality of Desire: A Defense of Platonism | Dr. Dhananjay Jagannathan
The handout for this lecture is available at https://thomisticinstitute.org/hand-out-for-dr-dhananjay-jagannathan.
A lecture given during "Desire and the Good Life: Reflections on the Aristotelian Tra…
Does the Phrase "Great Books" Have a Determinate Meaning? | Dr. Eva Brann
Hear the lecture by Dr. Eva Brann (St. John's College) given at Morningside Institute’s conference “The Great Books at 100,” in celebration of the centennial of Columbia University's Contemporary Civ…