Gabriel Lear
Areas of Study: Department of Philosophy John U. Nef Committee On Social Thought Contact: Email
Arthur and Joann Rasmussen Professor in Western Civilization in the Department of Philosophy, Committee on Social Thought, and the College
Biography
Gabriel Richardson Lear (Professor of Philosophy) works on ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. Her book, Happy Lives and the Highest Good: An Essay on Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (Princeton, 2004), is about the relationship between morally virtuous action and theoretical contemplation in the happiest life. She is currently writing about Plato's aesthetics and about the status of beauty as an ethical concept in the work of several philosophers. She received her PhD in Philosophy from Princeton University (2001).
Current and Recent Courses
PHIL
59911
Ancient Greek Aesthetics