Michael Novak (February 16, 2010)

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Michael Novak (February 16, 2010)

Michael Novak

the George Frederick Jewett Scholar in Religion, Philosophy, and Public PolicyAmerican Enterprise Institute

(Listen or download this talk)

approx runtime: 1 hour 30 minutes

“Three Battle-Cries In Search of Meaning:

Social Justice,

the Common Good,

and Personal Liberty”

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 5:30 pm
0012 Westbrook Duke Divinity School

Sponsored by the Thomas International Center in cooperation with the Duke Divinity School, the Gerst Program in Political, Economic, and Humanistic Studies, the Center for the History of Political Economy, and the Duke Political Science Department

and with the generous support of the Lehrman Institute

Michael Novak, philosopher, theologian, and author, is the 1994 recipient of the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion. He has been an emissary to the United Nations Human Rights Commission and to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe. He has taught at numerous universities, including Harvard, Stanford, and Notre Dame. He has written twenty-seven books on the philosophy and theology of culture, especially the essential elements of a free society, including The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism (1982), Free Persons and the Common Good (1989), The Universal Hunger for Liberty (2004), and No One Sees God: The Dark Night of Atheists and Believers (2008).