Category: Virtue and its Cultivation in Universities
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The left doesn’t mean what it says
28 October 2023. The Spectator. ‘Nigel Biggar, from the University of Oxford, says a new progressive has emerged, which is far more cynically-motivated than the old kind. These new progressives back fashionable, left-wing causes for money, and because their thinking is founded in a kind of warped Christianity. To explain, Nigel joins Cindy Yu.’
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Oxford Conversations
Oxford Conversations is a project designed to inspire postgraduate students and younger academics to pursue excellence in academic research and to consider ways to integrate work and faith through curated discussions with a range of Christian scholars and educators in Oxford, including Nigel Biggar, John Finnis and Alister McGrath. The conversations range across a variety of themes, including the academic journeys…
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Cultivating virtue in the university
McDonald Centre Annual Conference, 2017 While moral formation has historically been one of the university’s central purposes, universities in the modern era have become shy of intentionally shaping the character of their students, even while they do it in practice. But recent scandals and ethical failures in government, politics, banking, business, journalism, and health care…
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How might universities cultivate leaders of character?’
How might universities cultivate leaders of character? That was the question under discussion at a panel on 24 May 2017 at Rhodes House, organized by the Oxford Character Project, a research initiative and practical programme for postgraduate character development affiliated with the McDonald Centre. The panel included top university leaders and educational practitioners who spoke…
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Where’s the Virtue in the Humanities?
Whether in banks or on the battlefield, in the NHS or in national newspapers, the need for virtuous leadership is now patent. An education in the humanities is, in fact, an education in virtues that are at once intellectual and civic, underscoring its importance for non-economic public flourishing. Such moral formation would be much more…
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Flourishing of Universities
McDonald Centre Annual Conference, 2012 Last week, the McDonald Centre was honoured to host one of its most exciting events. Eleven leading scholars from top universities in the US and UK gathered to study the recent plight of universities. It was the first time that these scholars, all of whom have been supported in various…