University of South Florida

A lecture by Prof. Erik Dempsey (University of Texas at Austin)

Saturday, October 28th

6:00 PM

Marshall Student Center, Room 3711

This lecture is free and open to the public.

About the Speaker:

Erik Dempsey (PhD, Boston College) is the Assistant Director of UT's Thomas Jefferson Center for the Study of Core Texts and Ideas.  He completed his doctorate at Boston College in June 2007. He is interested in understanding human virtue, and the proper place of politics in a well-lived human life, the different ways in which human virtue is understood in different political situations, and the ways in which human virtue may transcend any political situation. His dissertation looks at Aristotle's treatment of prudence in the Nicomachean Ethics, and Aristotle's suggestion that virtue should be understood as an end in itself.  He is currently at work turning his dissertation into a book by adding chapters which consider Thomas Aquinas' interpretation of Aristotle in terms of natural law, and Marsilius of Padua's critique of Thomas.