MD Wright Torrey CV Revised 5-28-2013 - Biola University

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of the political good over the superiority of political activity per se, there are essential human virtues—justice, love, generosity—that are uniquely (if not exclusively) fostered in political community and potentially realized in civic friendship. Director: Professor J. Budziszewski EXPERIENCE: Assistant Professor of Government, 2012 – present Torrey Honors Institute, Biola University - La Mirada, CA • History and Development of Political Theory • Plato’s Republic • Augustine’s City of God • Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica • John Locke’s Second Treatise of Civil Government Visiting Assistant Professor of Government, 2011-2012 School of Public Affairs, Morehead State University – Morehead, KY • Philosophy of the Social Sciences • American Government • Jurisprudence Assistant Instructor / Teaching Assistant, 2004-2011 Department of Government, University of Texas, Austin • The American Constitutional Identity • The Constitutional Debates • Might and Right Among Nations • Constitutional Interpretation TEACHING INTERESTS: Great books of the Western tradition; statesmanship, the rule of law, and the common good; civil society and political order; history of political thought; contemporary political thought; patriotism and international order; American constitutional law and development; civil liberties; comparative constitutionalism; constitutional theory; jurisprudence. REFEREED ARTICLES – BOOK CHAPTERS: “Natural Law, Civic Friendship, and Stanley Hauerwas’s Counter-Polis Thesis,” in Natural Law and Evangelical Political Thought (Lexington Books, 2013), 225-249. “The Aim of Law and the Nature of Political Community: An Assessment of Finnis on Aquinas,” American Journal of Jurisprudence 54 (2009): 133-160. 2
OTHER PUBLICATIONS: “Getting Dignity Right,” published in the web magazine Public Discourse, August 17, 2012 (http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2012/08/5973/) “The Changing Idea of a University: American Higher Education and the Illiberal Use of Knowledge.” www.acton.org/programs/students/essay/2001/hmention2.html (published 2001) “Prepared to Lead: A Defense of Liberal Education,” Symposium (publication of the Torrey Honors Institute) 2, no. 3 (2002): 1-2. “Seeking the Greater Good,” Symposium 1, no. 4 (2001): 5. PAPERS GIVEN: “Civic Friendship as the Substantive Political Good,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 27-30, 2013. “The Common Good, Civic Friendship, and Political Authority,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, August 30-September 2, 2012. “Material and Special Parts in Aquinas’s Understanding of the Body Politic,” presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 12-14, 2012. Discussant for panel, “Theories of Moral and Political Obligation” at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 12-14, 2012. “Formal Properties of the Political Common Good,” presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, March 31-April 3, 2011. “Disentangling the Social and the Political in Thomistic Political Thought,” presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 2009. “The Roles of Family and State in the Moral Education of Children,” presented at the annual conference of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture, The Family: Searching for Fairest Love, South Bend, Indiana, November 6-8, 2008. “Thomas Aquinas, John Finnis, and the Distinction between Public and Private,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 2008. Also presented for the Graduate Research Colloquium, Department of Government, University of Texas, Austin, April 2008. “A Comparison of Hobbes and Spinoza on Human Nature, the State of Nature, and the Social Contract,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association, San Antonio, Texas, April 2006. “Pursuing the Ends of Government: The Political Theory and Context of the Federalist Papers,” presented at the Torrey Honors Institute, Biola University, Spring 2004. 3
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