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Fall Semester 2009 October 1: Mercer University’s Center for the Teaching of America’s Western Foundations and Great Books Program warmly welcome Dr. James Otteson, Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Yeshiva University, who will deliver a lecture entitled “The Scottish Enlightenment on the Promise and Peril of Commercial Society” from 6:30-7:45 pm the evening of October 1 in the Fickling Recital Hall. October 2: Dr. Otteson will also lead a faculty-student discussion on selections (Part I, Section 1, Chapters 1-4 and Part II, Section 2, Chapters 1-3) from Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments. on Friday, October 2, from 10:00-10:50 am (place to be announced). October 26: Mercer University’s Center for the Teaching of America’s Western Foundations and Great Books Program warmly welcome Dr. Patrick Deneen, Associate Professor of Government, Georgetown University, who will deliver a lecture entitled "The Sustainable Republic and the Alternative Tradition in America" from 5:00-6:30 pm the evening of October 26 (location to be announced). October 26: Dr. Deneen will also lead a faculty-student discussion on selections (to be announced) from Homer's Odyssey from 10:00-10:50 am (location to be announced). November 12: Mercer University’s Center for the Teaching of America’s Western Foundations and Great Books Program warmly welcome Dr. Paul Rahe, Professor of History, Hillsdale College, who will deliver a lecture entitled "Machiavelli and the Anti-Political Foundations of Modern Republican Politics" from 6:30-7:45 pm the evening of November 12 in Newton Chapel. November 13: Dr. Rahe will also lead a faculty-student discussion on selections from Hobbes (Leviathan, Chapters 14-15) and Machiavelli (The Prince, Chapters 15-18) from 10:00-10:50 am (location to be announced). Spring Semester 2010 March 24-25: Mercer University’s Center for the Teaching of America’s Western Foundations' Conference on Ancient Political Thought will include Dr. Jacob Howland, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tulsa, and Dr. Mary Nichols, Professor of Political Science at Baylor University, as featured speakers. Details of the conference will be added as they become available. |
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Dr. James Otteson, Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Yeshiva University, is this year's first lecturer for Mercer University's Center for the Teaching of Western Foundations. Dr. Otteson spent last year as a visitor in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. The previous year he was named the first place winner of the 2007 Templeton Enterprise Awards for his seminal book Actual Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2006). |
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Dr. Patrick Deneen, Associate Professor of Government at Georgetown University, is this year's second lecturer for Mercer University's Center for the Teaching of Western Foundations. Dr. Deneen holds the Markos and Eleni Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Chair in Hellenic Studies. In 2006 Deneen became the Founding Director of "The Tocqueville Forum on the Roots of American Democracy," an initiative that seeks to preserve and extend understanding of America's founding principles and their roots in the Western philosophical and religious traditions.
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To contact us: Will R. Jordan, Director |
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