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Dr Sebastian Morello

Wolfgang Smith Chair in Philosophy

About Research

Email: sebastian.morello@stmarys.ac.uk

Biography

I teach modules on programmes in the School of Theology and the Arts, and I am currently overseeing the development of programmes in Philosophy. I also supervise a number of postgraduate research students.

I hold a BA degree in Philosophy and the Catholic Tradition from the Open University and MA and PhD degrees from the University of Buckingham. As a philosopher in the Western intellectual and spiritual tradition, I focus on classical realism, mysticism and esotericism, political traditionalism, philosophy of science, and ecological ethics. I have authored numerous books and my writing has featured in journals, both academic and popular.


Research

Research profile

  • ‘Wolfgang Smith et l’Initiation’ in Wolfgang Smith Pour Tous: Introduction à la physique, edited by Bruno Bérard (L’Harmattan,2025), 7-1.
  • Woodland Philosophy: Meditations on Hunting, Hiking, & Holiness (Angelico Press, 2025).‘
  • In Search of a Christian Social Order: T.S. Eliot as a Follower of Maritain’ in Religions, April 2025.
  • Unto the Ages of Ages: Essays on Political Traditionalism (AroucaPress, 2025).‘
  • Does Conservatism Require Grace? Attempting to Answer the Question that Haunts Conservatism’ in Intellectual Conservatism: From Burke to Scruton, edited by Ferenc Hörcher and Daniel Pitt (Routledge, 2025), 189-202.
  • Foreword for Friedrich Schiller, Letters Upon the Aesthetic Education of Man, Pocketbook Philosophy Series I (Old SovereignPublishing, 2025), 6-10.
  • Mysticism, Magic, and Monasteries: Recovering the Sacred Mystery at the Heart of Reality (Os Justi Press, 2024).
  • Conservatism and Grace: The Conservative Case for Religion by Establishment (Routledge, 2023).
  • The World as God’s Icon: Creator and Creation in the Platonic Thought of Thomas Aquinas (Angelico Press, 2020).
  • ‘Beyond the secular university’ (co-authored with Clare Hornsby) in Beyond McDonaldization: Visions of Higher Education, edited by Dennis Hayes (Routledge, 2017), 57-67.

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