Franciscan University of Steubenville

A lecture by Prof. Erik Dempsey (University of Texas at Austin)

Monday, November 11

6:00 PM

Location TBA

This lecture is free and open to the public.

This lecture was made possible through the support of Grant 63391 from the John Templeton Foundation. The opinions expressed in this lecture are those of the speaker and do not necessarily reflect the views of the John Templeton Foundation.

About the speaker:

Professor Erik Dempsey an Associate Professor of Instruction in the Departments of Government, Classics, and Religious Studies, and is the Assistant Director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Study of Core Texts and Ideas. He has taught at UT for over ten years, during which time he has offered classes in the history of political philosophy, on the Bible and its interpreters, on American political thought, on classical philosophy and literature, and others. His favorite classes to teach are Jerusalem and Athens, a class comparing the political, moral, and theological ideas of the Hebrew Bible to Aristotle's, and the Question of Relativism, a class on what he considers the central quandary of our time. He writes primarily about Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, and he is currently studying John Locke's commentaries on St. Paul's epistles. Last but not least, he is an Eagle Scout.