{"id":6168,"date":"2014-10-30T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T14:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/rpe\/2014\/10\/30\/upcoming-talks-at-gloucestershire-philosophical-society-rpe-students-welcome"},"modified":"2014-10-30T14:57:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T14:57:00","slug":"upcoming-talks-at-gloucestershire-philosophical-society-rpe-students-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/2014\/10\/30\/upcoming-talks-at-gloucestershire-philosophical-society-rpe-students-welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming talks at Gloucestershire Philosophical Society: RPE students welcome.."},"content":{"rendered":"
All meetings will be held at\u00a0Room HC203\u00a0<\/i>Francis Close Hall<\/i>University of Gloucestershire,<\/i>Swindon Road, Cheltenham.<\/i>between 7.30 and 9.30pm\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n

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Wednesday, November 12th. 2014. Dr. Roy Jackson<\/em>, University of Gloucestershire will give a talk on \u2018A Philosophical Novel: Hayy ibn Yaqzan\u2019<\/span><\/u><\/b><\/div>\n

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The philosophical tale \u2018Hayy ibn Yaqzan\u2019 , named after the hero of this story and written by the Muslim philosopher Ibn Tufayl (1105-1185), was the first Arabic novel, and anticipates such European works as Daniel Defoe\u2019s \u2018Robinson Crusoe\u2019 and Jean- Jacques Rousseau\u2019s \u2018Emile\u2019, as well as the thought of a number of western philosophers including Locke and Kant. The talk will discuss some of the philosophical themes contained within the novel<\/span>Roy is Reader in Philosophy of Religion at the University. He has lectured in Philosophy and Religion at various universities, including Kent, Durham, Roehampton, and King\u2019s College, London. Among his various publications are \u2018Nietzsche and Islam\u2019 (2007); \u2018What is Islamic Philosophy?\u2019 (2014); and \u2018The Complete Introduction to Nietzsche\u2019 (2014). His \u2018Complete Introduction to Plato\u2019 is forthcoming.<\/div>\n

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Wednesday, November 26th. 2014. Dr. Graham Spencer<\/em>, Gloucestershire Philosophical Society, will speak on \u2018British Philosophers and the American Revolution\u2019.<\/u><\/b><\/div>\n
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For Americans the word \u2018freedom\u2019 is almost sacred. No other country on earth places such store by it. The need for political and religious freedom was the driving force of the American Revolution, and its centrality in American political discourse remains to this day. What is overlooked, however, is the extent to which the founders drew upon the work of British philosophers to develop their ideas of political freedom. The talk will explore the contributions made by a few notable British philosophers to American ideals of freedom.<\/div>\n
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Graham has presented papers on a number of occasions to the Society and to the related \u2018Piggy\u2019 weekly seminar group. Most of his working life was spent in the area of local authority social housing: e.g.,\u00a0 homelessness \u00a0and policy development at the London Borough of Havering and Westminster City Council. After retirement he spent five years in Adult Education at Essex County Council. He has studied politics, philosophy and history at Birkbeck, London University and the University of Winchester. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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