The Sedes Sapientiae Symposium heeds the call in Fides&Ratio to take Mary as the model of philosophy.
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The upcoming (2025) edition is on Mary and the philosophy of economics.
Mary was intimately positioned in the overlapping hearts of both the divine economy and of a very concrete human economy/household – the holy family in Nazareth. What can we learn about the nature of the common good, capital, work, profit, etc. by looking at how she related to the supreme goodness she brought to fruition – by taking Mary as a locus philosophicus?
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Call for Papers for edited volume.
There is now a call for Papers for an edited volume on Mary and political philosophy, following the 2024 edition of the Symposium.
Mary and political philosophy
The next (2024) edition will be on the theme of Mary and political philosophy on October 18th-19th in Leuven. Registration is open now.
Call for Papers: Philosophy and/as Mary
Following upon the initial 2023 edition of the Symposium, there is now a CFP for an edited volume.
The first Symposium was held in 2023.
The first Sedes Sapientiae Symposium was held in 2023 on paragraph §108 of Fides et Ratio, commemorating the quarter centenary of the encyclical.