Laurence Berns

Dr. Berns has been teaching at St. John’s College, Annapolis, since 1960. He is the author of “Gratitude, Nature and Piety in King Lear” (Interpretation, 1972); “Aristotle’s Poetics” (in Ancients and Moderns, Basic Books, 1964); “The Relation between Philosophy and Religion: Reflections on Leo Strauss’s Suggestion Concerning the Source and Sources of Modern Philosophy” (Interpretation, 1991); “Aristotle and Adam Smith on Justice: Cooperation Between Ancients and Moderns?” (Review of Metaphysics, 1994) and “Our Political Situation: Good Government, Self-government and American Democracy” (in The Great Ideas Today: 1997, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.). He is completing an annotated translation of Aristotle’s Politics.