University of Nevada, Las Vegas: “Conserving Liberty: Natural Rights and the Virtue of Responsibility”
The Great Works Academic Certificate Program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas will be hosting JMC faculty partner Mark Blitz for a lecture on the defense of natural rights:
The philosophical ground of the United States is in equal natural rights for all people. But how can we rationally defend the existence of those rights? What virtues of character and political practices are necessary to secure those rights? What difficulties do those practices face? In attempting to answer those questions, Professor Blitz will refer to the Declaration of Independence, The Federalist Papers, and current issues such as the place and limits of expertise in government.
Tuesday, October 19, 2021 • 4:00 PM
John S. Wright Hall, Building C, 148 • University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Free and open to the public
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Mark Blitz is Fletcher Jones Professor of Political Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College. He served during the Reagan Administration as associate director of the United States Information Agency and as a senior professional staff member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. He has been vice president of the Hudson Institute and has taught political theory at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Reason and Politics: The Nature of Political Phenomena; Conserving Liberty; Plato’s Political Philosophy; Duty Bound: Responsibility and American Public Life; Heidegger’s “Being and Time” and the Possibility of Political Philosophy; and is co-editor (with William Kristol) of Educating the Prince. He received his AB and PhD from Harvard University.
Professor Blitz is a JMC faculty partner.
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