Professor John M. Rist\, the first occupant of the Fr. Kurt Pritzl Chair of Philosophy at the Catholic University of America\, and author of fifteen books and dozens of importan t scholarly articles\, will give the Third Annual Aquinas Lecture on Monda y\, Jan. 28\, at 5 pm in the Lecture Hall of the Ave Maria University Acad emic Building\, on the theme\, 'Must Morality Be Dependent on God?' The le cture is free and open to the public.
\nProfessor Rist was ed ucated in classics at Trinity College\, Cambridge. He taught Greek at Univ ersity College in the University of Toronto from 1959 to 1969\, and from 1 969 to 1980 was a professor of classics at the University of Toronto. He t aught from 1980 to 1983 as Regius Professor of Classics at the University of Aberdeen\, and returned to the University of Toronto\, where he was pro fessor of classics and philosophy from 1983 to 1996\, with a cross-appoint ment to St. Michael's College from 1983 to 1990. In 1997\, Rist became pro fessor emeritus of the University of Toronto in 1997. He has been part-tim e visiting professor at the Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum in Rome s ince 1998.
\nIn 1976 Rist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada\, and in 1991 he was elected a life member of Clare Hall\, Cambr idge. In 1995 he was the Lady Davis Visiting Professor in Philosophy at th e Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Among Rist's books are: Man\, Soul and B ody: Essays in Ancient Thought from Plato to Dionysius (1996)\, Augustine: Ancient Thought Baptized (1994)\, The Mind of Aristotle (1989)\, Platonis m and Its Christian Heritage (1985)\, Human Value: A Study of Ancient Phil osophical Ethics (1982)\, On the Independence of Matthew and Mark (1978)\, The Stoics (1978)\, Epicurus: An Introduction (1972)\, Stoic Philosophy ( 1969)\, Plotinus: The Road to Reality (1967)\, and Eros and Psyche: Studie s in Plato\, Plotinus and Origen (1964).
\nThis year's Aquinas Lectu re is fittingly given on the very feast day of St. Thomas Aquinas. The two previous Aquinas Lecturers were AMU alumna Professor Therese Scarpelli Co ry (Seattle University)\, and Fr. Ron Tacelli (Boston College).
DTSTART:20130128T000000Z SUMMARY:Lecture: John Rist on 'Must Morality Be Dependent on God?' END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20130129T210000UTC-379d8c@http://aveherald.com/ DTSTAMP:20261111T154419Z DESCRIPTION:The AMU Department of Music presents a Chamber Music Concert Ralph Votapek\, piano\; Paul Votapek\, clarinet\; Geoffrey Davy\, violin.
\nFeaturing works by Mozart\, Ravel\, Milhaud\, & Stravinsky
M
onday\, January 28th\, at 8:00 pm
Private Dining Room\, Bob Thomas St
udent Union Building
Admission Free All are welcome!
\nRalph
Votapek is the gold medalist of the first Van Cliburn International Piano
Competition and winner of the prestigious Naumberg Award. Born in Milwauk
ee\, he studied at Northwestern University\, the Manhattan School of Music
and the Julliard School. Mr. Votapek has made hundreds of appearances wit
h most of the major American orchestras\, including sixteen appearances wi
th the Chicago Symphony. He has made a special commitment to Latin America
where he has toured every other year for four decades. In the United Stat
es\, his solo recitals have taken place in Carnegie Hall\, Chicago's Orche
stra Hall\, Washington's Kennedy Center\, and on numerous college campuses
. His chamber music experience includes concerts with The Julliard\, Fine
Arts\, New World and Chester String Quartets.
Paul Votapek has
been a member of the Naples (FL) Philharmonic since 1988 and was chosen by
Music Director Christopher Seaman to be its principal clarinetist in 1996
. He has appeared as soloist with the Naples Philharmonic on four occasion
s.
Geoffrey Day is currently in his eighteenth season as a viol
inist with the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra. Mr. Day received his Bachelo
r of Music from the University of Michigan\, where he studied with Ruggier
o Ricci\, and earned a Master of Music from Michigan State University as a
student of I-Fu Wang. Since moving to Florida in 1994\, Mr. Day has perfo
rmed frequently as member of the Neapolitan Quartet and as a recitalist wi
th his wife\, pianist Lan Lam. He is a founding member of the Botticelli Q
uartet\, the Aurore Piano Trio and most recently Neapolitan Baroque\, an e
nsemble dedicated to historically informed performance with period instrum
ents.