The Beginning of the Philosophic Life and the Challenge of Faith in Revelation: Reflections on Rousseau’s Rêveries

Heinrich Meier (Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München)

Prof. Dr. Heinrich Meier

Director of the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation, Munich

Professor of Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich

Distinguished Visiting Professor, the Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago

Friday, April 25, 2014, 4:00 p.m., Higgins Hall, Room 300

Discussant: Prof. Charles Griswold, Boston University

Dinner & Discussion to follow in the McElroy Faculty Dining Rm.

RSVP to [email protected] by 4/18, if you plan to attend the dinner.

Heinrich Meier is the present director of the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation in Munich.  He is a Professor of Philosophy at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich and is the Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.  He was awarded the inaugural Peregrinus Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, in 1997.  He taught in the Political Science department at Boston College as a visiting professor, in the fall of 2003.  Heinrich Meier’s publications include his latest book, Politische Philosophie und die Herausforderung der Offenbarungs-religion (2013) and Über das Glück des philosophischen Lebens. Reflexionen zu Rousseaus Rêveriesin zwei Büchern[On the Happiness of the Philosophic Life. Reflections on Rousseau’s Rêveries in two books] (2011).  A full CV for Henrich Meier is available at https://socialthought.uchicago.edu/sites/socialthought.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/HeinrichMeier.pdf.

Charles Griswold is the Borden Parker Bowne Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. He earned his Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University in 1978. Professor Griswold's research interests include Ancient Philosophy, Moral and Political Philosophy, 18th century philosophy, philosophy and literature, and metaphilosophy. He is the co-editor, with David Konstan, of Ancient Forgiveness: Classical, Judaic, and Christian; Forgiveness: A Philosophical Exploration, Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment; and Self-Knowledge in Plato's Phaedrus. For more information on Professor Griswold, please visit his Boston University webpage at http://blogs.bu.edu/griswold/