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Dr. Ryan Harte

Biography

Ryan Harte is Assistant Professor in Philosophy, and a member of the Classical Studies and Religious Studies programs. He specializes in ancient Greek and Chinese philosophy and literature, as well as their reception in later thought. His academic background is in philosophy as well as classics, sinology, and comparative literature.

Dr. Harte has published on philosophy as a way of life, Daoism and Greek tragedy, medieval Chinese poetry and self-cultivation, Zhuangzi and Simone Weil, and critiques of modern moral theory from ancient and comparative perspectives. He regularly teaches courses in Chinese philosophy, Plato, Classical Chinese language, Classical Studies (tragedy, poetry, science-medicine, etc.), Ethics & Values, and "Topics in Comparative Philosophy" (past topics: Nihilism and Nothingness, Zhuangzi and Dante, Mysticism).

Education

PhD, University of California, Riverside, 2020

Major: Comparative Literature & Philosophy

MA, University of Chicago, 2011

Major: Philosophy & Chinese

BA, University of Chicago, 2010

Major: Humanities & Chinese

Teaching

PHIL 492R

Advanced Topics in Philosophy, Spring 2025

PHIL 2050

Ethics and Values, Spring 2025

PHIL 2050

Ethics and Values, Spring 2025

PHIL 384R

Topics in Comparative Philosophy, Spring 2025

Presentations

Harte, Ryan (Presenter & Author), Utah Ancient Greek Philosophy Circle, "Ethics of Attention in Plato", University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. (November, 2023)
Harte, Ryan (Presenter & Author), Invited Guest Lecture & Discussion, "TBD", Salt Lake Community College, Salt Lake City, UT. (October, 2023)
Harte, Ryan (Presenter & Author), Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition—Annual Conference, "Homecoming and Exile in Early Chinese Thought", Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT), Seattle, WA. (September, 2023)
Harte, Ryan (Presenter & Author), Intermountain Philosophy Conference, "Grace as Comparative Category", Weber State University . (March, 2023)
Harte, Ryan (Presenter & Author), Utah Ancient Greek Philosophy Circle, "Comparing Daoism and Platonism ", University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. (September, 2022)
Harte, Ryan (Presenter & Author), Intermountain Philosophy Conference, "Getting It Right vs. Perceiving Truth, Some Thoughts from the Zhuangzi", N/A—virtual. (February, 2022)

Scholarly/Creative Works

Harte, Ryan , (2024) "Interfaith Tolerance in Daoist Tradition" . Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Harte, Ryan , (2024) "A Daoist Critique of Effort in Pierre Hadot's Philosophy" (Issue: 3, vol. 52). Journal of Religious Ethics. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jore.12483
Harte, Ryan , Cercas Curry, Alba , "Do I Look Like a Man with a Plan?: The Joker as a Daoist Wild Card" . Routledge.
Harte, Ryan , (2023) "Zhuangzi and Simone Weil on Decreating the Self" (Issue: 3, vol. 14). Journal of Comparative and Continental Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1080/17570638.2023.2184541
Harte, Ryan , (2022) "Spiritual Exercises and Poetry_ A Case Study with Du Fu" (Issue: 1, vol. 54). Metaphilosophy. https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.12598