The Sedes Sapientiae Symposium heeds the call in Fides&Ratio to take Mary as the model of philosophy.
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The upcoming (2026) edition is on Mary and philosophy as a way of life.
Inspired by Pierre Hadot's work on (ancient) philosophy as a way of life, the next Sedes Sapientiae Symposium looks at how both Mary and Marian devotion can be understood as embodying this conception of philosophy as a way of life. Did Mary surpass Zeno and Epicurus, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius in living the philosophical life from the cradle to the cross? Is Marian devotion at its heart, or at least potentially, a form of 'stoicism for the masses'? Subscribe to our Newsletter to stay updated!
2025 edition: Mary and the philosophy of economics
Intimately positioned in the overlapping hearts of both the divine economy and of a very concrete human economy/household, what can we learn about the nature of the common good, capital, work, profit, etc. by seeing Mary as a locus philosophicus?
Call for Papers for edited volume.
There is now a call for Papers for an edited volume on Mary and political philosophy, following the 2024 edition of the Symposium.
Mary and political philosophy
The next (2024) edition will be on the theme of Mary and political philosophy on October 18th-19th in Leuven. Registration is open now.
Call for Papers: Philosophy and/as Mary
Following upon the initial 2023 edition of the Symposium, there is now a CFP for an edited volume.
The first Symposium was held in 2023.
The first Sedes Sapientiae Symposium was held in 2023 on paragraph §108 of Fides et Ratio, commemorating the quarter centenary of the encyclical.
