Member Profiles
Scott J. Roniger
Loyola Marymount University
Education
Ph.D., Philosophy, Catholic University of America (2017)
Ph.L., Philosophy, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross (2013)
M.A., Philosophy, University of Chicago (2012)
M.A., Dogmatic Theology, Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (2011)
S.T.B., Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (2010)
B.A., Business, Southeastern Louisiana University (2006)
AMA Presentations
(2024) “Sacred History as Teacher: Church and State in Catholic Social Doctrine.”
(2023) “Sources of Political Authority: The Family as Genesis of Political Form.”
(2020) “What is Philosophy? Thomistic and Phenomenological Reflections.”
Publications
Academic Articles
(2024) “The Dignity of Society in History: Introduction to Russell Hittinger’s Essays on Catholic Social Teaching and Natural Law,” in On the Dignity of Society: Essays in
Catholic Social Teaching, ed. Scott Roniger. Catholic University of American Press.
(2023) “How to Inherit a Kingdom: Reflections on the Situation of Catholic Political Thought,” with Russell Hittinger, Nova et Vetera 21: 971-990.
(2023) “Self-Knowledge, Friendship, and the Promulgation of the Natural Law,” Nova et Vetera 21: 287-333.
(2022) “The Activities of Truth,” International Philosophical Quarterly 62: 119-140.
(2021) “Prudence as Command Across Presence and Absence,” Review of Metaphysics 74: 577-619.
(2020) “Is There a Punishment for Violating the Natural Law?” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 94: 273-304.
(2019) “Natural Law and Friendship with God,” The Thomist 83: 237-276.
(2019) “Platonic Eros and Catholic Faith in Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited,” Logos 22: 42-77.
(2019) “The Metaphysician at Prayer: Thomas Aquinas on Metaphysics and Prayer as ‘Interpreters of Desire,” Nova et Vetera 17: 1163-1201.
(2019) “Virtue without Law? A Problem and Prospect for Virtue Ethics,” in Virtue Ethics: Retrospect and Prospect, ed. Elisa Grimi. Springer.
(2018) “Philosophy, Freedom, and Public Life: Plato’s Gorgias as a Protreptic,” Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 92: 123-135.
(2018) “Do Friends Need Justice or Do the Just Need Friendship? Natural Law as the Foundation for Justice and Friendship,” Lex Naturalis 3: 57-84.
(2017) “Speech and Being in Aristotle’s Metaphysics,” International Philosophical Quarterly 57: 31-41.
(2016) “Natural Law and the Imitation of Nature: A Thomistic Development of Human Ecology,” Lex Naturalis 2: 111-130.
(2016) “The Conversation of Ascent: Augustine’s Confessions, Book IX, Chapter 10,” Communio 42: 675-694.