Rule of Law Program
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The Civic Institute has taught this popular seminar in various forms for some years.  In order to gain a new perspective on the perennial question of justice in society, it is necessary to take a wider view than is typically found in strictly academic political science curricula.  With this in mind, Roman Joch, the Executive Director of the Civic Institute, began the seminar with a lecture examining human nature from traditional cultural/religious perspectives to gain insight into the roots of disunity among communities of men.  From this viewpoint, he drew conclusions about the basic division in approach to social questions, labelled, in our day, liberalism and conservatism.   Michaela Freiova’s lecture applied the timeless insights of the world’s first work of philosophy of history, Augustine’s City of God, to the present situation.  The seminar also included an analysis of Relativism and Modernism by philosopher, Jiri Fuch, and Michal Semin’s summary of the teaching on social issues found in the Catholic tradition, especially over the last century.