Robert Miner
Professor
Education:
Ph.D. - Philosophy University of Notre Dame
Brief Biography:
In December 2024, Cambridge UP released my translation Thomas Aquinas: Questions on the Passions (Summa 1a2ae 23-46). It's the first standalone edition of these questions, among the most innovative to appear in Thomas's corpus. I have also translated Giambattista Vico’s New Science (Yale UP, 2020, with Jason Taylor) and Thomas Aquinas: Questions on Love and Charity (Yale UP, 2016). My books include Nietzsche’s Gay Science (Edinburgh UP, 2022), Nietzsche and Montaigne (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and Thomas Aquinas on the Passions (Cambridge UP, 2009. In 2023 I joined the Philosophy department at Providence College. From 1998 to 2023, I taught at Baylor University, Boston College and Xavier University.
Area(s) of Expertise:
History of medieval and modern thought; Nietzsche
Teaching Philosophy:
Teaching is invigorating and challenging. It’s one of my favorite things to do! Though teachers cannot help conveying information, the primary aim of teaching is not to “deliver content.” It is to awaken latent powers of the mind. These powers get actualized as students learn to read more closely, to ask deeper questions, to listen for answers, and to perceive connections between disciplines. Those who learn in this way will acquire habits of thinking, listening, and communicating that cut across conventional boundaries. “Let him be made to show what he has just learned in a hundred aspects, and apply it to as many different subjects, to see if he has properly grasped it and made it his own” (Montaigne, “Of the Education of Children”—as relevant today as it was in 1580!)
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