In the Shadow of End Times
administrator2021-01-15T09:44:23-06:00In the Shadow of End Times HPI Mini-Seminar led by Kévin Irakóze DESCRIPTION This course explores human collectivities’ reactions to the destruction of social worlds. [...]
Tahera Qutbuddin
administrator2020-10-28T11:03:57-05:00Tahera Qutbuddin is a Senior Faculty Advisor for the Hyde Park Institute. She is a scholar of classical Arabic literature and Islamic studies focusing on intersections of the literary, the [...]
Howard Nusbaum
administrator2020-10-01T16:29:59-05:00Howard Nusbaum is a Senior Faculty Advisor for the Hyde Park Institute. He is currently the Director of the Chicago Center for Practical Wisdom and Stella M. Rowley Professor of [...]
2020-2021 Courses
administrator2020-10-01T16:22:12-05:002020-2021 FOR-CREDIT COURSES Fall In the Physics, Aristotle lays out the basic concepts and principles governing his thought about physical reality. His approach is both philosophically [...]
Teaching for Wisdom 2019-20
administrator2020-09-21T12:40:46-05:00Teaching for Wisdom 2019-2020 Developing Character in the Classroom Are you interested in education and how kids learn? Have you considered how wisdom is taught [...]
On Liberty for a New Generation
administrator2020-09-21T13:12:20-05:00On Liberty for a New Generation Seminar Description: Members of Gen Z—US citizens born after the mid-1990s--are a rising and growing force [...]
Scholars in Ethics and Medicine 2019-20
administrator2020-09-10T11:13:32-05:00Scholars in Ethics and Medicine 2019-2020 Program Theme: Virtue, Wisdom, and the Practice of Medicine Theme Description: The practice of medicine focuses on actions that [...]
2017-2018 Courses
administrator2019-09-25T23:06:48-05:002017-2018 FOR-CREDIT COURSES Spring Practical reason can be distinguished from theoretical or speculative reason in many ways. Traditionally, some philosophers have distinguished the two by [...]
2018-2019 Courses
administrator2020-09-02T14:21:32-05:002018-2019 FOR-CREDIT COURSES Fall Most of us seek to be reasonably good people leading what we take to be successful and satisfying lives. There is [...]
2019-2020 Courses
administrator2020-06-15T12:08:10-05:002019-2020 FOR-CREDIT COURSES Fall Aristotle’s approach to ethics is sometimes termed intellectualist, meaning that it has no room for a notion of the will, understood [...]
