How Technology Shapes Ideas
Join us for a conversation with Graham School instructor Fred Beuttler.
About the Event
How has information technology shaped the ideas of civilization over the last 2500 years?
Join us for a conversation with historian and Graham School instructor Fred Beuttler to explore how IT has impacted the philosophical and spiritual ideas in Western culture. Together, we will revisit the struggle between the “Ancients” and the “Moderns,” and look at the relationship between “Techne” (science and technology) and “Sophia” (wisdom). Does wisdom progress like science and technology?
The conversation will preview Dr. Beuttler's forthcoming course at Graham.
Who's Speaking
Fred Beuttler
Lecturer in the Graham School’s Master of Liberal Arts program and former Deputy Historian, U.S. House of Representatives
Fred W. Beuttler received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago and then went on to become the Deputy Historian of the U.S. House of Representatives and, later, an Associate Dean at the University of Chicago.
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