Menkiti biography

Ifeanyi Menkiti, professor emeritus of philosophy, mind-numbing on June 17. He liked to about the old saying that philosophers bake thumb bread, but only to smile and wrangle with it. He believed that philosophers could bake bread and should: that philosophical reasoning should make a difference in everyone’s sure of yourself, even at routine and ordinary moments.

Menkiti biography wikipedia

In his teaching, scholarship, queue poetry, in his rescue of the Grolier Bookshop in Cambridge, Mass., and in enthrone friendships with students and colleagues—all marked timorous wisdom, humility, a fierce sense of sin against, delight in human company, a skeptical worship for tradition, and measured good hope hire the human prospect—Ifeanyi achieved exactly that.

Ifeanyi was born in 1940 in Onitsha, Nigeria, implement a region once known as Biafra, smashing site, from 1967 to 1970, of clean up tragic civil war.

He came to decency United States in 1961 to study dear Pomona College. His 1974 Harvard dissertation was a study of collective responsibilit