{"id":11212,"date":"2022-08-22T10:59:20","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T14:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=11212"},"modified":"2022-08-25T16:58:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T20:58:17","slug":"philosophy-professor-receives-national-humanities-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2022\/08\/22\/philosophy-professor-receives-national-humanities-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy professor receives national humanities grant"},"content":{"rendered":"

University of Detroit Mercy Professor\u00a0Juan Carlos Flores<\/a>\u00a0is the recipient of a $295,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to create the first critical edition of writings by 13th Century philosopher Henry of Ghent.<\/p>\n

\"JuanFlores will be the project director and will work with Gordon Wilson, emeritus professor at University of North Carolina Asheville, on the three-year project.<\/p>\n

\u201cHenry of Ghent was the most important thinker in Europe during the last quarter of the 13th Century and as influential as his near-contemporary Thomas Aquinas,\u201d said Flores, who teaches philosophy and is co-director of the University Honors Program.<\/p>\n

A \u201ccritical edition\u201d of classical or medieval writings uses all known versions of a work \u2014 including drafts, notes, manuscripts, editions, and copies \u2014 to establish a definitive text for future scholars to study and translate.<\/p>\n

The project will focus on the monumental\u00a0Summa<\/em>\u00a0of Henry of Ghent, specifically Articles 73-75 which contain his philosophy of language. The editors will be working with manuscripts written in Latin shorthand, which requires expertise in paleography and knowledge of classical and medieval sources.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will be the first critical edition of these articles,\u201d Flores said. \u201cThe texts that are now available cannot be completely trusted. Only a critical edition can establish what is original and what is derivative. Punctuation or a change of word or phrase can change the meaning completely.\u201d Critical editions annotate variant readings and supply references, providing context for readers.<\/p>\n

After establishing the Latin text through this edition, Flores plans to translate it into English so Henry of Ghent\u2019s philosophy of language becomes available to a wider audience of scholars and students. He has already published an English translation of Henry of Ghent\u2019s writings on human knowledge.<\/p>\n

NEH<\/a>\u00a0grants are highly sought-after and underwrite projects that will \u201cfoster the exchange of ideas and increase access to humanities knowledge, resources and experiences,\u201d said NEH Chair Shelly C. Lowe in a news release. More than $31.5 million in this round of grants will underwrite 226 humanities projects across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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