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Racial Justice – Talk & Book Panel 4:15 pm
Racial Justice – Talk & Book Panel @ CUNY Grad Center, rm 9204/5
Oct 3 @ 4:15 pm – 7:30 pm
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The CUNY Graduate Center Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC) and the Philosophy Program present a talk and book panel on: RACIAL JUSTICE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3 (Rooms 9204-5) 4:15-5:00 PHILOSOPHY COLLOQUIUM LECTURE: “Racial Justice”: Charles W. Mills, Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center 5:00-5:05 Break 5:05-5:45 BOOK PANEL on Charles W. Mills’s 2017 book, Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism Frank M. Kirkland (CUNY Hunter College & the Grad Center) John Pittman (CUNY John Jay College) 5:45-6:30[...]
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Dimitris Vardoulakis on “Authority and Utility in Spinoza: From Epicureanism to Neoliberalism?” 6:00 pm
Dimitris Vardoulakis on “Authority and Utility in Spinoza: From Epicureanism to Neoliberalism?” @ Wolff Conference Room, D1103
Oct 25 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
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The paper argues that Spinoza is influenced by epicureanism. This is evident particularly in the conflict between authority—understood as the kind of figure that is impervious to argumentation—and the calculation of utility (phronesis) that is the precondition of action. This conflict is complex because in certain circumstances we may calculate that it is to our utility to allow a person in authority to calculate on our behalf. The paper indicates, in addition, that the way[...]
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2017 Sep October 2018 Nov 2019