Austin Woodbury
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Austin M. Woodbury, Australian Catholic philosopher, was born in 1899 near Spencer, in the Hawkesbury Valley of New South Wales. He joined the Marist Fathers and gained a doctorate in Rome, studying under the scholastic philosopher Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange. In 1945, he founded the Aquinas Academy in Sydney, a school of philosophy aimed mainly at lay people. He headed the Academy until 1975, teaching a strictly scholastic philosophy based on the teaching of Thomas Aquinas. A combative personality, he was often in conflict with the atheist Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney, John Anderson. Woodbury died in 1979.
[edit] Reference
J. Franklin, Corrupting the Youth: A History of Philosophy in Australia (Macleay Press, 2003), ch. 4.
[edit] External link
- Website of the Centre for Thomistic Studies, successor of the Aquinas Academy.
