On Thursday, June 10, we invite you to the last lecture in the series "JP2 Lectures" at the Angelicum, which will be given by Prof. Dariusz Gawin. The lecture, entitled "The Phenomenon of Solidarity", will be devoted to the role of solidarity in society in relation to the experience of the Polish democratic opposition in the People's Republic of Poland. The broadcast of the lecture will start at 2.30 PM (CET).
Should politics be a way of overseeing economic growth and social processes, or should it also be a life lived within communities concentrated around the idea of freedom? Does freedom spread in the structures of the post-modern world all by itself as a vital function of social life, or does it require constant civic care, defense, or even heroism when it is endangered? Can a society function properly if its members know nothing of the public happiness which flows from common action? One cannot imagine an honest attempt to deal with these questions without first coming to terms with the phenomenon of August and “Solidarity”.

Prof. Dariusz Gawin - born in Warsaw in 1964. Historian of ideas, publicist. Deputy Director of the Warsaw Rising Museum, head of the Starzyński Institute. Head of the Department of Civil Society at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Author of, among others, the book "Poland: Eternal Romance" for which he received the Andrzej Kijowski Award.

Monthly lectures, “JP2 Lectures,” from scholars around the world are offered by the new St. John Paul II Institute of Culture at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas – the Angelicum in Rome, the Roman alma Mater of fr. Karol Wojtyła.

The first lecture in the "JP2 Lectures" series took place on October 19, 2020 during the inauguration of the academic year at Angelicum. The lecture entitled "Does Christianity need culture?" was given by the President of the Pontifical Council for Culture, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi. Watch the lecture (with English subtitles): [ Ссылка ]

Watch the lecture given by prof. John Finnis “John Paul II and the Fundamentals of Ethics”:
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Watch the lecture given by abp. Rowan Williams “Faith on Modern Areopagus”:
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Watch the lecture given by prof. Marek A. Cichocki “European Identity. North and South: the main line of divide”:
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Watch the lecture given by prof. John Cavadini “Trajectories of Vatican II in the Theology of St. John Paul II”:
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Watch the lecture given by prof. François Daguet OP “Political Theology from St. Thomas Aquinas to John Paul II and Benedict XVI”:
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Watch the lecture given by prof. Chantal Delsol “The End of Christendom”:
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Watch the lecture given by prof. Rémi Brague „Meaning of Art in Christianity in Modern World”: [ Ссылка ]
Watch the lecture given by prof. Renato Cristin „Formal Europe and vital Europe”: [ Ссылка ]

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