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SCRANTON — Marywood University’s Philosophy department, Munley College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will host Christopher Phillips, Ph.D., best selling author, for a lecture and discussion, “What Makes Life Worth Living?” The free event will be held at 7 p.m. Friday, April 10 in the Swartz Center for Spiritual Life.
Phillips is a professor, writer, social entrepreneur, and pro-democracy activist. His selected writings include “Socrates Café,” “Six Questions of Socrates,” “Constitution Café,” and “Socrates in Love: Philosophy for a Passionate Heart.”
He earned his doctoral degree in communications and his master’s degrees in the humanities, the natural sciences and education. He was awarded the Distinguished American Leadership Award in 2012. He is a Network Fellow at Harvard University’s Safra Center for Ethics and was named the first Senior Fellow at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.
He was a Senior Fellow in the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, where he designed and taught courses on such subjects as ”Socratic Method and Democratic Citizenship”and ”Money and Democracy.“
Orchestrating discussions at nursing homes, maximum-security prisons, churches, homeless shelters, bookstores, and coffeehouses across the country Phillips urges attendees of his lectures to share their worldviews and analyze their most basic assumptions.
For more information on the lecture, contact Dr. Philip Jenkins, associate professor of philosophy at Marywood University, at pjenkins@marywood.edu.