Ancient Philosophies as a Way of Life: Socrates

[Music] Stanford University so uh my name is John Hennessy and I'm uh the current president of Stanford University we're delighted to have you here for the Tanner lectures um I can't uh help but mentioning that we're gathered here in the Elliott uh conference Hall Elliot lenthal conference Hall Elliot lethal was a long distinguished devoted member

of the faculty in engineering who had a great Fascination for the Humanities and the role of the humanities who recently passed away but I think it's one of the remarkable things we have on this campus a broad interest in in intellectual Pursuits um from all members of the Campus Community I'm pleased to welcome

you to the first of two Tanner lectures on human values that will be given this year by professor John Cooper his topic is ancient philosophies as ways of life and as John just mentioned to me you can tell there's lots of interest in the history of philosophy and it's wonderful to see that um it's an honor to be able

to offer the Tanner lectures at Stanford they were established in 1978 by Obert Clark Tanner and the lecture series gives us an opportunity to invite nationally and an internationally acclaimed speakers whose work explores fundamental human problems from a range of perspectives Obert Tanner was an industrialist and legal scholar who studied philosophy at Harvard and

Stanford and later served as a member of the Stanford faculty in religious studies and he's established this lecture series at eight other institutions in addition to Stanford before I introduce Professor Cooper I'd like to take just one minute to recognize the people who helped organize this year's lectures please join me in thanking the members of the Bowen McCoy