A Man for All Seasons, Robert Bolt’s 1960 play about Sir Thomas More, is usually interpreted as a defense of living and dying in accord with strict adherence to moral...
Steven M. Cahn is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The most recent books he has authored are Religion Within Reason...
Years ago the department of which I was then a member invited to campus a promising candidate for a faculty position. He had been highly recommended, based in part on...
Years ago at a meeting of the American Philosophical Association, I passed a group of graduate students who were responding enthusiastically as one described a position for which he had...
...a commitment to appointing new colleagues who give evidence of excelling as scholars, teachers, and contributors to the academic community. Steven M. Cahn is professor emeritus of philosophy at the...
...and College Sports David A. Hoekema, Campus Rules and Moral Community: In Place of In Loco Parentis Steven M. Cahn, Saints and Scamps: Ethics in Academia (25th Anniversary Edition) For...
All of us who seek to teach well would welcome a simple way to enhance our classroom skills. Here’s a suggestion. When we write a paper, we typically show a...
The following argument appeared in a thoughtful post last May by Sahar Joakim on the Blog of the APA: To me, Socrates and Plato are the greatest philosophers in the...
What is the essence of a good life? Contemporary philosophers have offered a variety of answers, including “active engagement in projects of worth,” (Susan Wolf, Meaning in Life and Why...
