Noted Philosophy Professor to Deliver MC's Thompson Lecture
Release Date: March 18, 2002
Richard Schacht, professor of philosophy at
the University of Illinois, will deliver the 2002 Thompson Memorial Lecture at Monmouth
College on March 26 at 7 p.m. in the Morgan Room in Poling Hall.
Entitled “The Future of Human Nature,”
Schacht’s presentation is free and open to the public.
Schacht, who received his doctorate from
Princeton University in 1967, specializes in 19th- and 20th-century European philosophy,
particularly Nietzsche, Hegel and existentialism. He has authored and edited some of the most
important recent secondary criticism on Nietzsche and is currently working on projects such as
“On Human Nature: Readings in Philosophical Anthropology” and “The Norton Anthology of Western
Philosophy.”
Schacht is also involved on the University
of Illinois campus, where he serves as the senate council chair for the Faculty-Student
Senate. He also chairs the Council on Undergraduate Education.
Samuel Thompson, for whom the lecture series
is named, served in the philosophy department for 46 years. After graduating from Monmouth
with a degree in English in 1924, he earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in philosophy from
Princeton University.
Most notable among his publications were two
popular textbooks: “A Modern Philosophy of Religion” and “The Nature of Philosophy.” Thompson
died in 1983.
Released
by the Office of College Communications
Barry McNamara, Associate Director of College Communications
Phone: 309-457-2117
Fax: 309-457-2330
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