{"id":41,"date":"2017-03-21T14:41:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T18:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/father-monan\/?page_id=41"},"modified":"2017-03-21T23:15:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T03:15:01","slug":"rev-monans-speeches-writings-and-thought","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/father-monan\/rev-monans-speeches-writings-and-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Fr. Monan’s Speeches, Writings, and Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"

The foundation of Fr.\u00a0Monan’s activities was both intellectual and spiritual. In 1942, at seventeen years old, he joined\u00a0the Society of Jesus. He would go on to earn a\u00a0PhD in philosophy from Belgium’s\u00a0Universit\u00e9 catholique de Louvain (and would later accept thirteen honorary degrees). Monan\u00a0entered the priesthood in 1955. He was the author of many books ranging from scholarly philosophical monographs, such as\u00a0Moral Knowledge and Its Methodology in Aristotle<\/em><\/a>, to volumes concerning wider cultural issues, like\u00a0Echoes of a University Presidency: Selected Speeches<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>The humanistic aims of intellectual endeavor were always at the forefront of his thought. As he put it in an interview from 2009:<\/p>\n

We [Jesuits] have a variety of political and ideological inclinations…<\/span>Wonderful that within the Society we do have different points of view. I think it helps us be able to assist people more, because we\u2019re familiar with difference. And we have people in several different camps so that we\u2019re able to be of assistance to the constituencies of those camps.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Compact Audio Player Error! The mp3 file URL that you entered in the \"fileurl\" parameter looks to be invalid. Please enter a valid URL of the audio file.<\/div> with Fr. Monan and photographer and broadcaster Bobbie Hanvey\u00a0for his \u201cRamblin\u2019 Man\u201d show on Downtown Radio, recorded at Boston College November 5, 2009. 1<\/a>\u00a0<\/sup><\/p>\n

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1. J. Donald Monan, SJ interview with Bobbie Hanvey, 2009 November 5, Bobbie Hanvey archives, John J. Burns Library, Boston College.\u00a0\u21a9<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The foundation of Fr.\u00a0Monan’s activities was both intellectual and spiritual. In 1942, at seventeen years old, he joined\u00a0the Society of Jesus. He would go on to earn a\u00a0PhD in philosophy from Belgium’s\u00a0Universit\u00e9 catholique de Louvain (and would later accept thirteen honorary degrees). Monan\u00a0entered the priesthood in 1955. He was the author of many books ranging […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-41","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","no-image","with-title"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/father-monan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/father-monan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/father-monan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/father-monan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/father-monan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":47,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/father-monan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/father-monan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/father-monan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}