David Clairmont
Assistant Professor
Degrees
B.A., University of Notre Dame; M.A, Ph.D., University of Chicago
Research Profile
Clairmont specializes in the comparative study of religious ethics, particularly the moral thought of Roman Catholicism and Theravada Buddhism. He is interested in questions of moral formation, moral weakness, and the importance of inter-religious dialogue for the future of Catholic moral theology. He is co-editor (with Don S. Browning) of American Religions and the Family: How Faith Traditions Cope with Modernization (Columbia University Press, forthcoming) and is preparing a manuscript for publication titled Moral Motivation and Comparative Ethics: Bonaventure, Buddhaghosa and the Problem of Material Simplicity.Contact Information
435
Malloy Hall
574-631-3848
David.A.Clairmont.1@nd.edu
http://www.nd.edu/~theo/
