Faculty Speaker - Professor Marsh McCall at Greek Embassy

Dr. McCall, one of the storied professors and speakers on campus, will share and encourage discussion about the core ethical beliefs of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Epicureans, and the Stoics. Together, we will consider how these philosophers and philosophical schools confront the fundamental human issues of justice, absolute versus relative morality, fear of death, fate versus free will, and the relationship between humans and the divine. Handouts will be provided.

Dr. McCall is the founding dean of the Continuing Studies Program.  He received his doctorate in Classics at Harvard in 1965 and taught at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Berkeley before arriving at Stanford in 1976.  His research lies in the areas of Greek tragedy, ancient rhetoric, and textual criticism.

He has been the recipient of Stanford’s greatest honors…the Dinkelspiel Award for outstanding service to undergraduate education in 1991 and Stanford’s Phi Beta Kappa Teacher of the Year award in 2000. In 2006 he received the Richard W. Lyman Award for exceptional volunteer service to the university from the Stanford Alumni Association.

Directions: The Embassy of Greece is located three blocks northwest of the Dupont Metro Station (Red Line). For additional directions, visit this map.

The Greek Embassy in Washington hosts a variety of cultural, intellectual, and social events many of which are free of charge. If you would like to receive email announcements of these events please write to Zoe Kosmidou, PhD, Minister Counselor, Cultural Affairs, Embassy of Greece, and USA Office Director, Hellenic Foundation for Culture, at zkosmidou@greekculture.us

This event is a part of the WDCSA Faculty Speaker Series, and it is presented jointly with the Stanford Alumni Association.