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JUSTICE

A Conference on the Cardinal Virtues

The D.B. Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership
Viterbo University
La Crosse, Wisconsin

April 13-14, 2007

Friday, April 13         

Session I        

 #1        “Family Size, Distributive Justice, and Environmental Ethics”

            Heidi M. Giebel, University of St. Thomas   

#2        “Radical Friendship with God: Meister Eckhardt on Justice”

            John Thompson, Duke University

Session IIa     

#3        “Friendship and Justice in Plato’s Republic: Socrates’ Just Treatment of Polemarchus”

            R. Michael Olson, St. Michael’s College

#4        “Aristotle on Justice and Friendship”

            Andrew Barrette, University of Wisconsin-Platteville

Session IIb     

#5      “Immigration and Social Justice”                                   

          Eric Kraemer, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

#6       “Achieving Justice by Ameliorating War through Collective Security”

           Keith Knutson, Viterbo University

Session III     

#7        “The Utilitarian Basis for Justice: Aiming for a Happy World”

            Andrew Gustafson, Creighton University

#8        “Endorsement, Theocracy and Liberal Democracy”

            Nicholas K. Meriwether, Shawnee State University

1:45-2:45pm   Session IV     

#9      “Justice, Piety, and Mercy: A Thomist Inquiry”

          James G. Hanink, Loyola Marymount University

Session Va     

#10      “Cries Against Injustice and Dehumanization: The Literary Voices of Nazi Death Camp Victims”

            Gregory Paul Wegner, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

#11       “The Value of Justice in an Age of Bio-politics”

             Lissa Skitolsky, Luther College

Session Vb     

#12      “Disparities in Health Care: Is Ethics Part of the Problem?”

            Mark Repenshek, Columbia St. Mary’s Health System

Keynote Lecture    Fine Arts Center Main Theatre

             “From Anger to Justice: the Well-Tempered Soul”

             Paul Woodruff, University of Texas at Austin

           

Saturday, April 14

Session VIa   

#14      “Justice, Order and Peace: A Reading of Augustine’s City of God, Book XIX, in the Light of His Conversion Experience” 

            Karin Heller, Whitworth University

#15      “Justice Empowered by Faith: Bonhoeffer and the ‘Jewish Question’”                                    

            Dean Stroud, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

Session VIb   

#16      “At the Foundations of Information Justice”

            Matt Butcher, Loyola University Chicago

#17      “Paul Haggis’ Crash: Serving the Public in Los Angeles and St. Louis County, Minnesota”

            Thomas W. Zelman, College of St. Scholastica

Session VIIa  

 #18      “Are There Any Just Wars?”

             Steve Viner, Washington University

#19      “The Importance of Jus in Bello”

             David K. Chan, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

Session VIIb  

#20      “When Jobs Require Unjust Acts: Resolving Conflicts between Roles and Common Morality”

             David Bauman, Washington University

#21      “Cross-cultural Difficulties with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission”

             Michael Wodzak, Viterbo University

Session VIII  

#22      “The Construction of Justice in Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae”

             Maxime Allard, Dominican University College

#23      “What Part of the Soul Does Justice Perfect?”

            Shane Drefcinski, University of Wisconsin-Platteville

Session IXa

#24      “Jesus on Economic Justice in Luke: Accommodationist or Subversive?”

            James Metzger, Luther College

Session IXb

#25     “Just Ricoeur”

            David H. Fisher, North Central College        

#26      “An Ethics of Justice vs. An Ethics of Care: Irreconcilable Paradigms or Ultimate Opportunity?”

             Jason Howard, Viterbo University