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| Date: | 17:00-18:30, Tuesday, May 8 |
Place: | Seminar Room, 2nd Floor, Building 101, Komaba Campus, The University of Tokyo |
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11th Yakamawa Kenjiro Lecture Series
Political Philosophy and the Dark Arts
Speaker：Steven Smith (Yale University, Alfred Cowles Professor of Political Science and Professor of Philosophy)
Date：17:00-18:30, Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Venue：Seminar Room, 2nd Floor, Building 101, Komaba Campus, University of Tokyo
Language: English
Abstract:
"A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading." Those words, written by the great Polish philosopher and dissident Leszek Kolakowski, come to my mind every time I try to address the question what is political philosophy and what is it for, what are its methods, if any, and how does it differ from other branches of knowledge? these apparently simple questions are also the most difficult to answer. I want to consider especially the role of political philosophy as a pedagogic enterprise, that is, as a type of political education.
Supported by: FUTI (Friends of UTokyo Inc.) and MacMillan Center, Yale University, HMC (The University of Tokyo, Humanities Center)
Organised by: UTCP
