Philosophy Expert to Discuss Heart, Reason and Faith at Holy Cross

Adriaan Peperzak, the Arthur J. Schmitt Chair of Philosophy and director of the Center for the Catholic Intellectual Tradition at Loyola University of Chicago, will give a talk titled "How Rational is the Heart? How Natural is Reason? How Universal is Faith?" on April 21 at 7 p.m. in the Rehm Library at the College of the Holy Cross. The talk is free and open to the public.

Peperzak’s lecture will focus on the distinct but related questions of whether our emotional life entails its own form of reasoning, whether there is an unconditioned natural reason, and whether reason is determined by the context of a faith tradition or a particular culture.

Much of Peperzak’s research in the history of philosophy has been dedicated to interpreting Hegel (six books and numerous articles), Emmanuel Levinas (two books and three others edited), and the classical tradition from Plato through Bonaventure to modern figures including Descartes, Heidegger, and Ricoeur. He has also produced several book-length works in ethics, social and political philosophy, metaphilosophy, and philosophy of religion. His current work is concentrated on the connections of philosophy with its metaphilosophical roots and to the situations from which it emerges.

The event is sponsored by the Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture.

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