November 1, 2024
Please join the Classics Department in welcoming Professor Jeffrey Rosen as our guest speaker for the Annual Christopher Roberts Lecture.
Jeffrey Rosen is the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, a professor of law at the George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor to The Atlantic.
Friday November 1, 2024
Lecture: 4:30pm, Weiss 235
The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of Founders and Defined America
Jeffrey Rosen profiles the Founders to show what pursuing happiness meant in their lives. By reading the Classical Greek and Roman moral philosophers who inspired the Founders, Rosen shows us how they understood the pursuit of happiness as a quest for virtue, for developing character and calm self-mastery because, in their view, political self-government required personal self-government.
Further information
- Location: Weiss 235
- Time: 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
- Cost: Free