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Shabbat Scholar in Residence: Dr. Samuel Fleischacker

Friday, June 16, 2017 22 Sivan 5777

All Day

 

Please join us on Shabbat Shelach, June 16-17, as we welcome
Dr. Samuel Fleischacker,
Professor of Philosophy at the
University of Illinois-Chicago, and currently a
Berggruen Fellow at NYU, as our Shabbat Scholar.

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Speaking Schedule & Topics

What is Humanism
 Friday Night - 7:45 PM

Holiness and Humanism
Sermon: Saturday Morning - 10:30 AM

Halachah and Humanism
Pre-Mincha Class - 6:55 PM

Zionism and Humanism
Seuda Shelishit Discussion -  8:15 PM

 

 

 

About Dr. Fleischacker

Samuel Fleischacker is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois-Chicago, and currently a Berggruen Fellow at NYU. He studied at Yale University, receiving his Ph.D. in 1989.  He works in moral and political philosophy, the history of philosophy, aesthetics and the philosophy of religion. Among the issues that have particularly interested him are the moral status of culture, the nature and history of liberalism, and the relationship between moral and other values (aesthetic values, religious values, political values). His publications include The Ethics of Culture (Cornell, 1994), A Third Concept of Liberty: Judgment and Freedom in Kant and Adam Smith (Princeton, 1999), On Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations: A Philosophical Companion (Princeton, 2003), A Short History of Distributive Justice (Harvard, 2004), Divine Teaching and the Way of the World (Oxford, 2011), What Is Enlightenment? (Routledge, 2012), and The Good and the Good Book (Oxford, 2015). Professor Fleischacker has been a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities at Edinburgh University, and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton.  He taught previously at Williams College.

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