Aquinas Lecture features the Rev. Mauricio Beuchot Puente, O P, of the Universiad Nacionale Mexico, speaking on the topic of Thomism in Early Colonial Philosophy in Mexico 4 p.m., Cullen Hall Reception to follow Sun. The Reverend Mauricio Beuchot Puente, OP The Center for Thomistic Studies will sponsor the 2001 Aquinas Lecture, featuring the Rev. Mauricio Beuchot Puente, OP, on Thomism in Early Colonial Philosophy in Mexico, on Thursday, Feb. 1, at 4 p.m., in Cullen Hall. Father Beuchot will discuss the use of Thomistic principles by some of the first philosophers in colonial Mexico, including Bartolome de las Casas, Alonso de la Vera Cruz and Tomas de Mercadois. Father Beuchot is a priest of the Dominican Order who received his doctorate from the Iberoamerican University of the Jesuits in Mexico City. He is a full professor at the Universidad Nacional de Mexico, and a researcher at the Research Institute of Philology at the same university, where he studies the philosophy of colonial Mexico written in Latin.
Admission is free.
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