25th Anniversary of Arts One at UBC
A prefatory comment from Professor Rowan…. Re-reading this 22 years later (2013) leaves me still confident of the relevance of its message. I change nothing, though my uneasiness concerning the […]
A Guide to Plato’s Republic: the Writing and Speeches of Bob Rowan
A GUIDE TO PLATO’S REPUBLIC  R. J. Rowan Department of Philosophy University of British Columbia 1975 Introduction With Plato we are back at the beginning. Rarely, perhaps never, has […]
Conscientious Objection: the Writing and Speeches of Bob Rowan
On Conscientious Objection As you read this essay you will soon recognize that it heavily reflects its period of writing (completed in late 1968). WWII was only 23 years ago, […]
Democracy, Education and Philosophy: the Writing and Speeches of Bob Rowan
Preface This set of dialogues was delivered on a CBC radio series over twelve weeks. I wrote and then read these aloud for broadcast, my voice trying to play both […]
The Retreat From Politics: the Writing and Speeches of Bob Rowan
THE RETREAT FROM POLITICS R. J. Rowan Delivered to the Vancouver Institute – January 31, 1970 I am far from supposing that I’m the first or will be the last […]