Busboys and Poets Author Event: Christopher Phillips
Date and Time
Jun 8, 2017 8:30 pm
Location
14th & V
2021 14th St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20009
Jun 8, 2017 8:30 pm
14th & V
Join us for an interactive discussion led by Democracy Café founder Christopher Phillips. Democracy Café’s purpose is to help everyone learn how to “make the most of their mortal moment, and achieve what the Greeks of old called arête, all-around excellence” – to learn how to ask the crucial questions about how one should live.
Dr. Phillips' Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, 2012 recipient of the Distinguished American Leadership Award, and a recent Senior Education Fellow at the National Constitution Center, as well as senior writing and research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania—is a roving ambassador for spearheading initiatives that create more open, inclusive and connected societies. As such, he travels the world over holding dialogues with people from all walks of life. He believes that the process of dialogue and the space of human interaction are good for us as individuals and essential for us as a society.His newest book is The Philosophy of Childing: Unlocking Creativity, Curiosity, and Reason through the Wisdom of Our Youngest.
Books will be available.
"A modern-day Socrates who's chosen the world, not just the agora, for his stage. [with] a model discourse that elevates working lives and reduces intellectualism's pretentions."
Richmond Times-Dispatch "Phillips has combined the approach of Socrates and the wisdom of Jefferson to show us the way."
Dr. Larry J. Sabato (author of A More Perfect Constitution, Director of, University of Virginia Center for Politics)
