I had attended the Interdisciplinary Studies Institute conference in Pasadena in early August. The conference is organized by Oskar Gruenwald and is an organization of Christian oriented philosophers. I presented a paper on virtue ethics as applied to business. Dr. Gruenwald suggested that I integrate the natural rights views of Henry B. Veatch in his book "Rational Man" and I have been doing him better by reviewing the ideas of Aquinas as described or elaborated by Robert P. George, Russell Hittinger and Leo Strauss as well as Veatch before submitting the article to Dr. Gruenwald's Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. About 25-30 people attended the conference but a significant number came for either the first or second day. It was a very exciting group that I found much more dynamic, alive and inspired than the business school conferences I have heretofore attended. Kim Quy, a Vietnamese graduate student studying at the University of London took these pictures (except for the last one!).
