Nicholas Ramirez

Biography

Nicholas M. Ramirez is a Ph.D. student in Moral Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He received his B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science from Drew University and his M.T.S. from the University of Notre Dame where his areas of focus were on moral theology and the history of Christianity. He is a Solomon Fellow at the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture and a graduate fellow at the Jacques Maritain Center. Before coming to Notre Dame, Nicholas studied abroad with the Thomistic Institute for one semester at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome, after which he worked for the Thomistic Institue in Washington D.C. for one year. While in Washington D.C. Nicholas took several courses in moral theology at the Dominican House of Studies.

His academic interests include the moral theology of Saint Thomas Aquinas and the development of Saint Thomas' thought by the Thomistic commentary tradition. More specifically he is interested in questions concerning the effects of grace on post-lapsarian man, grace and human freedom, virtue theory and action theory, and bioethics. When he can, other topics he likes to look into concern the history of neo-scholasticism and questions on probabilism and casuistry.