Our very own Josh Ober is this year's Sather Lecturer at UC Berkeley.
Josiah Ober is the Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Professor in Honor of Constantine Mitsotakis, Professor of Classics and Political Science, and Professor, by courtesy, of Philosophy at Stanford University and Visiting Sather Professor of Classics at UC Berkeley, Fall 2019.
Fall 2019 Sather Lectures - The Greeks and the Rational: The Discovery of Practical Reason
Lecture 1. Gyges’ Choice: Rationality and Visibility
September 19
Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall, 7:00pm
Lecture 2. Glaucon’s Dilemma: Origins of Social Order
September 26
370 Dwinelle Hall, 5:30pm
Lecture 3. Deioces’ Ultimatum: How to Choose a King
October 3
370 Dwinelle Hall, 5:30pm
Lecture 4. Cleisthenes’ Wager: Democratic Rationality
October 10
370 Dwinelle Hall, 5:30pm
Lecture 5. Melos’ Prospects: Rational Domination
October 17
370 Dwinelle Hall, 5:30pm
Lecture 6. Agamemnon’s Cluelessness: Reason and Eudaimonia
October 24
370 Dwinelle Hall, 5:30pm
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