Making Good Understood
We convene a multidisciplinary community to develop compelling responses to the most pressing ethical issues of our era.
Fellowships
Current Fellows
Meet our 2025-26 ECG Fellows.
Their Work
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Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., Center for Virtue Ethics
Supporting preeminent scholars whose research advances human flourishing in both moral and spiritual contexts, facilitating the development of undergraduate courses exploring topics such as justice and the common good, and deepening the ethical formation of Notre Dame students and faculty.
Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab
Promoting broad-based, far-reaching interdisciplinary research, thought, and policy leadership in artificial intelligence and other technology ethics by engaging with relevant stakeholders to examine real-world challenges and provide practical models and applied solutions for ethical technology design, development, and deployment.
This changing world will confront humankind with enormous new moral problems of unprecedented proportion and consequences … it will take a very special kind of university to direct change in such a way that humans do not destroy themselves and their world … It is this kind of institution that Notre Dame aspires to be.
—Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C.
Notre Dame is one of the most trusted universities in the United States. No institution is better positioned to foster reasoned, constructive conversations rooted in the Catholic ideals of respect for human dignity and the unity of knowledge, and guided by the rational ideals of adherence to evidence and consistency in argumentation. And no institution is better positioned to develop students who approach the world with openness, with curiosity, with compassion, and with moral courage.
—Rev. Robert Dowd, C.S.C.
Virtue ethics tells us that the moral life is not simply about discrete actions properly performed, nor about achieving laudable results in the world, but about becoming a certain kind of person.
—Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C.
Media Mentions
More Media Mentions-
To Fix Our Immigration System, Promote the "Right to Stay"
July 23, 2025
Author Antônio Lemos was a 2024-25 Wilsey Distinguished Graduate Fellow with ECG.
As Pope Leo XIV begins his pontificate, many people expect him to continue Pope Francis’ focus on migrants’ rights, a cause he has already promoted in several public statements. In fact, even his choice of name—Leo—appears to signal a deeper commitment to this issue. His namesake, Pope Leo XIII, was the first pope to promote part of migrants’ rights that is often over-looked: the right not to migrate.
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BigThink: The Three Laws of Love and How to Follow Them
June 01, 2025
Aristotle thought that a friend you love is considered your ‘second-self’, someone whose pain feels like your own. Philosopher Meghan Sullivan asks What happens when you extend that kind of love to strangers?