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Gonzaga University’s “What Can We Learn?” lecture series, which focuses on lessons from great thinkers of the past, continues this fall with the topic, “What Can We Learn from Aristotle?”
Gonzaga faculty members Duane Armitage, philosophy lecturer, and Shannon Dunn, assistant professor of religious studies, will provide insights into the thoughts and values of Aristotle, according to a press release.
Armitage will discuss aspects of Aristotle’s thought in general that are of enduring value for us today. Armitage has been a full-time lecturer in Gonzaga’s philosophy department since 2013.
Dunn will discuss the lasting value of an Aristotelian understanding of the virtue of courage. She has been a full-time assistant professor in Gonzaga’s religious studies department since 2012. Dunn is also a writer for SpokaneFAVS.
This marks the 11th consecutive year of this lecture series, which has focused on historical figures including: Socrates, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Charles Darwin, St. Thomas Aquinas, Jane Austen, Abraham Lincoln, William James, William Shakespeare, Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, Confucius and Lao Tzu, John Muir and Aldo Leopold, Herodotus and Thucydides, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and St. Ignatius of Loyola. The most recent event in this series, presented March 18, 2014, was titled, “What Can We Learn from Galileo?”
The free public event starts at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 22 in the Jepson Center’s Wolff Auditorium
