Scholar lectures November 9 on
'Socrates and Philosophy as a Way of Life'
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — John Cooper, Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, will give a lecture November 9 at 4:30 p.m. on "Socrates and Philosophy as a Way of Life." The lecture will take place in Twilight Auditorium on the Middlebury campus, just off College Street (Route 125), and is free and open to the public.
Cooper is one of the world's most distinguished commentators on ancient philosophy. Among his books are Reason and Human Good in Aristotle (1975) and two collections of his essays, Reason and Emotion: Essays on Ancient Moral Psychology and Ethical Theory (1999) and Knowledge, Nature, and the Good: Essays on Ancient Philosophy (2004.) He is also the editor of Seneca: Moral and Political Essays (1995) and of what has now become the standard one-volume edition of Plato's work in English, Plato: Complete Works (1997).
His talk is on one of the most fascinating figures of the Western intellectual tradition and on the always important issue of the relation of philosophy to life at the very beginning of that tradition.
The lecture is sponsored by the philosophy, classics and political science departments. For more information, e-mail pdougher@middlebury.edu.