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Lorraine Pangle on “Plato vs. Homer: The Old Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry.” Lorraine Pangle is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin where she teaches ancient, early modern, and American political philosophy, with special interests in ethics, the philosophy of education, and problems of justice and moral responsibility. She has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Earhart Foundation. Her publications include Virtue is Knowledge: The Moral Foundations of Socratic Political Philosophy (University of Chicago Press, 2014), The Political Philosophy of Benjamin Franklin (Johns Hopkins, 2007), and Aristotle and the Philosophy of Friendship (Cambridge, 2003).
Presented by the Program on Constitutional Government on April 25, 2019.
Lorraine Pangle on “Plato vs. Homer: The Old Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry.” Lorraine Pangle is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin where she teaches ancient, early modern, and American political philosophy, with special interests in ethics, the philosophy of education, and problems of justice and moral responsibility. She has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Earhart Foundation. Her publications include Virtue is Knowledge: The Moral Foundations of Socratic Political Philosophy (University of Chicago Press, 2014), The Political Philosophy of Benjamin Franklin (Johns Hopkins, 2007), and Aristotle and the Philosophy of Friendship (Cambridge, 2003).
Presented by the Program on Constitutional Government on April 25, 2019.
