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Paul
Rahe part of Templeton Series of Distinguished Lecturers
By Heather E. Linde, ‘04
Paul A. Rahe, a Jay P. Walker professor of history at
the University of Tulsa spoke as part of the Templeton Series of Distinguished
Lecturers on Sept. 26 in the Connelly Cinema. Rahe’s audience was
comprised of core humanities students and faculty.
The speech, titled “Don Corleone, Multiculturist,” addressed
forms of friendship in Mario Puzo’s book, The Godfather as well
as Aristotle, Sir Francis Bacon, Immanual Kant and Michael de Montaigne.
Rahe emphasizes that ancient politics and forms of friendship, though
present in ancient philosophies, exist in a different context in modern
philosophy.
Rahe inquires, “Can one be ‘a good American’ and be
‘armed’ with ‘true friends?’ ” He then quickly
replies, “There is clearly a radical difference between the republics
of classical antiquity and our own, and that difference turns in part
on the status accorded friendship within the public realm.”
Rahe is the author of Republics Ancient and Modern: Classical Republicanism
and the American Revolution. He studied at Cornell University, Yale University
and Oxford University and has been awarded numerous research fellowship
awards.
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