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Title: Rights and Religion
Description: In this seminar, I’ll review some concrete debates and areas in which religious belief or practice or both have been felt to be in conflict with a shared modern understanding of human rights. Without pretending to offer a resolution to these debates, I will try to contextualise them by offering some reflections on the wider question of the relationship between Christianity and modernity.
Speaker: Philosophy, History, and Ethics teacher, EEB4.
After attending a Jesuit high school in Philadelphia, I studied philosophy and German literature as an undergraduate at Columbia before completing a PhD at Princeton in modern European intellectual history, writing a dissertation on Nietzsche. After 14 years of university teaching in the US at the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, and the 'Great Books' school St John's College (Annapolis, Maryland), I moved to Brussels in 2007, where for the past 15 years I have enjoyed being a secondary school teacher. I've been at EEB4 since 2015.
