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A Nobel laureate lectures on Aristotle and the Moderns

A Nobel laureate lectures on Aristotle and the Moderns

Professor Edmund Phelps, recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Economic Science, presented this year’s Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Lecture on Aristotle & The Moderns at Columbia University. “The Good Life and the Good Economy: The View from Aristotle to Bergson and Rawls,” was the theme of Dr. Phelp’s speech, that took the overflow audience to a journey through various places and times, visiting such notable figures as Cervantes, William James, Henri Bergson, Voltaire, Dewey, Amartya Sen, Plato and of course, Aristotle.

Professor Phelps suggested that capitalism has tended over its history to have widened economic inclusion by creating jobs and pulling up low-end pay far beyond what east European socialism and west European corporatism are able under normal circumstances to achieve.

At the end of the lecture, he answered questions from the participants.

The “Aristotle and the Moderns” annual lecture series was initiated in 2005, after the establishment of the Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Chair in Columbia University, held by Professor Vangelis Kalotychos. The series focuses on the importance and relevance of Aristotle’s teachings in today’s world, considering contemporary debates in broadly conceived, innovative and multidisciplinary ways.

The chair and the lecture are endowed by entrepreneur Kyriakos Tsakopoulos, himself a graduate and trustee of Columbia, in memory of his grand father and namesake, Kyriakos Tsakopoulos of Arcadia, Greece.

A California native, Tsakopoulos is active in regional, state and national civic affairs and educational policy. He is a Trustee of the California State University System, the largest in the world, and sits on the boards of the University of California, Davis MIND Research Institute, the American Hellenic Institute Advisory Committee, and the Crocker Museum of Art, among several other boards and commissions. He is also a member of the California and United States Supreme Court Bars and an Archon of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.

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