Member Profiles

Leonard Ferry

Niagara College

Education

AMA Presentations

(2024) “Freedom through Authority: A Defense of Yves R. Simon.”

(2023) “Defensive Democrats: The New Normal?”

(2020) “Rhonheimer’s Devilishly Good Citizens?’”

Publications

Edited Books

(2008) Brining the Passions Back In: Emotion in Political Philosophy, with Rebecca E. Kingston.

Academic Articles

(2022) “Law, Reason, and Virtue in the Ethics of Aquinas: Insights from Anscombe,” Maritain Studies 38: 54-70.

(2018) “‘Bound by the Good,” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 92: 241-60. 

(2016) “Pseudo-passions: Needless Categorization or Insightful Distinction?” New Blackfriars 97 (1067): 111-20.

(2014) “Sorting Out Reason’s Relation to the Passions in the Moral Theory of Aquinas,” Proceedings of the American Catholic Association 88: 227-44.

(2014) “What’s an Ostrich Worth to Wolterstorff?” Maritain Studies 30: 121-38.

(2013) “Prudent Pugs: Do Purportedly Irrational Animals Have Reasons for Action?” Heythrop Journal 54 (4): 543-53.

(2010) “The Framework of Deference: Obedience as a Political Virtue,” Maritain Studies 26: 3-41.

(2009) “The Allure of Consent and the Interpretation of Aquinas on Political Authority,” Maritain Studies 25: 30-45.