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In this Interview with George B. Pepper, co-founder of the Karl Jaspers Society of North America, Gregory J. Walters explores the role that Jaspers’ philosophy played in George B. Pepper’s teaching career at Iona College, New Rochelle, New York, his recollections surrounding the origin of the Karl Jaspers Society of North America, formative philosophical influences on his thinking (Socrates, Augustine, Galileo Galilei, Giordano Bruno, Dietrich von Hildebrand, Robert Pollock, and Hannah Arendt), distinction and relations between philosophy and religion, the Holocaust, Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations, and the Boston heresy case involving Rev. Leonard Edward Feeney. For Pepper, a key challenge related to faith and the future of humanity is communication across boundaries without deception and invasion.
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Daniel Maier-Katkin, Stranger from Abroad: Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Friendship and Forgiveness (New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2010).
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See the “Philosophical Faith and the Future of Mankind” by Leonard H. Ehrlich, this volume.
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Patrick J. Ryan, S.J., “Prophetic Faith and the Critique of Tradition Jewish, Christian and Muslim Perspectives,” presented as The Annual Laurence J. McGinley Lecture, November 15, 2010 Fordham University. http://www.fordham.edu/audience/mcginley_chair/images/documents/Fall%202010%20-%20Father%20Ryan%20text.pdf, last accessed July 4, 2011.
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George B. Pepper, The Boston Heresy Case in View of the Secularization of Religion: A Case Study in the Sociology of Religion (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1988).
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Pope Innocent III, ex cathedra (Fourth Lateran Council, 1215).
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Karl Jaspers, “Kierkegaard and Nietzsche: Their Historic Significance,” in Edith Ehrlich, Leonard H. Ehrlich, and George B. Pepper, Karl Jaspers: Basic Philosophical Writings (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1986), 37–53.
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Walters, G.J. (2012). An Interview with George B. Pepper. In: Wautischer, H., Olson, A., Walters, G. (eds) Philosophical Faith and the Future of Humanity. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2223-1_5
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