
E. Hattaway, K. Jones, D. Sluder (Meeting of the Minds '07)

C. Bauch, D. Ellis, R. Susach (Meeting of the Minds '07) |
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The Meeting of the Minds is an annual theatrical event sponsored by the UWG Philosophy Program and the West Georgia Philosophical Society. In front of a public audience, philosophy students discuss a philosophical topic and debate one another while portraying figures from the history of philosophy.
Debate topics and casts of previous Meeting of the Minds events include:
- What is Beauty?, debated by Plato (Sepp Helgeson), Thomas Aquinas (Shelley Donaldson), Immanuel Kant (Charles Bauch), Friedrich Nietzsche (Philip Brewer), Martin Heidegger (Matthew Tapley), and Hans-Georg Gadamer (Christopher Pollard). The debate was moderated by Timothy Wright.
- 2007: What is the Aim of Human Existence?, debated by Hannah Arendt (Emily Hattaway), Albert Camus (David Ellis), Ludwig Wittgenstein (Kevin Jones), Aristotle (Charles Bauch), and Soren Kierkegaard (David Sluder). The debate was moderated by Raquel Susach.
- 2006: Does God Exist?, debated by Baruch Spinoza (Jake Earl), Friedrich Nieztsche (David Ellis), Nishida Kitaro (David Sluder), Bertrand Russell (Jared Bissell), Soren Kierkegaard (Matt Lewis), and Hannah Arendt (Christina Tacoronti).
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