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MU PHILOSOPHY AND MARQUETTE CENTER FOR PEACEMAKING PRESENTS:THE GENOCIDAL MARCH OF THE HEGELIAN SPIRIT
Professor Shannon Mussett
Utah Valley University
Friday - 3:30-5:00PM MH 105
This talk explores Hegel's formulation of the Americas as Spirit's destination once it has completed its work in Europe. This destination requires the "vanishing" of the peoples and cultures that were already there so that Spirit can remake the new world in its own image. In order to explore Hegel's justifications for genocide, I take up Spirit's relation to its negative: nature. Ultimately, Hegel must characterize indigenous Americans as hopelessly inferior because of their natural ties to geographically immature lands, their physical and spiritual weakness, and their inability to withstand the robustness of European culture. In so doing, he creates a philosophical justification for their erasure.
On Friday November 15th, Richard C. Taylor, Professor in the Marquette Philosophy Department, was awarded the Aquinas Medal for Excellence In Christian Philosophy by the International Étienne Gilson Society. The award was for the work he has done to promote Christian Philosophy through his own research and through his leadership in the Aquinas and ’the Arabs’ International Working Group. The award ceremony took place in Chicago at the annual meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. See the full story on Marquette Today.
Read the interview with Professor Taylor about the Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ International Working Group just published in IPMMonthly! Read the article here.
Recently featured on the Wisconsin Humanities podcast, Human Powered: Philosophy's own Theresa Tobin and the Education Preparedness Program (EPP)! Listen to it here!
And visit the EPP website for more information about this impactful program, including upcoming opportunities to apply for a blended course yourself!
Dr. Ericka Tucker recently published an article Limiting the Political Imagination: Spinoza’s Prohibition of Novelty in the Political Treatise. She will be giving a symposium talk at the North American Spinoza Society Meeting at University of South Carolina in May of 2025. The talk is titled “Epistemic Democracy and Spinoza’s Political Epistemology.”
OTHER DEPARTMENT GOINGS-ON
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Love philosophy? Join the Philosophy Club! First Fall 2024 meeting Monday October 7th, 7pm-8pm, in Cudahy 114. Stop by or email Bella DeRosa, President of the Philosophy Club.
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