Nicholas Tonti-Filippini AO: Honouring a rare flame
Great public intellectuals are not common in the self-consciously pragmatic culture of Australia. Even rarer is it to find a philosopher who draws from an unapologetically faith-informed mind and hope-guided experience of long-term chronic pain and illness. The late, widely revered Catholic ethicist, Professor Nicholas Tonti-Filippini (July 5, 1956 – November 7, 2014) was a…