Raimond gaita biography of william shakespeare

Australian philosopher

Raimond "Rai" Gaita (born Raimund Joseph Gaita; 14 May ) is a German-born Australian philosopher and writer, best known for his biography about his early life, titled Romulus, My Father. He was foundation professor of philosophy at the Australian Catholic University, and professor of moral philosophy at King's College London.

Early life and education

Raimond Joseph Gaita^[1] (born Raimund) was born in Dortmund, Westphalia, Germany, on 14 May , to a Yugoslav-born Romanian father, Romulus Gaiță (28 December &#;&#; May ) and a German mother, Christine ("Christel") Anna Dörr (16 November &#;&#; ).^[2] In Germany, from to , Romulus was employed as a smith and metal worker.^[2] The Gaita family migrated to Australia from Yugoslavia^[3] in April , just before Raimond turned four.^[4]

The family lived in an isolated shack in the Victorian countryside.

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His father, along with his father's best friend Pantelimon Hora,^[5] were strong moral influences during his childhood. His mother suffered from an undiagnosed mental illness, which caused her to be promiscuous, and she started a relationship with Hora's brother. Raimund was exposed to several traumas as a child, including the suicide of his mother in ^[3]

He attended Baringhup Primary School, St.

Patrick's College, Ballarat and Melbourne High School in Melbourne, graduating in In he graduated from the University of Melbourne (BA Hons, Philosophy), before earning an MA (First Class Honours) there in ^[1]

In he received a PhD from the University of Leeds in England.^[1]

Career

Academia

From to Gaita lectured in philosophy, Melbourne Teachers' College, and the following year moved to England and started work as a tutor at Leeds University, which he did until From he lectured at the University of Kent at Canterbury, before being appointed to King's College London in , a position he maintained for 12 years until ^[1]

During this time, he was appointed Foundation Research Professor of Philosophy at the Institute of Advanced Research at the Australian Catholic University (ACU) in , a title he retained , becoming Foundation Professor of Philosophy, at ACU from until Also from to , he was Professor of Moral Philosophy at King's College London London.^[1]

In he was appointed emeritus professor of moral philosophy at King's College London, as well as professorial fellow in the Melbourne Law School and at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne.^[6] TFrom , he has been Honorary Professorial Fellow at Melbourne Law School.^[1]

He regards philosophy as a vocation rather than a career.^[5]

Writing

The story of his childhood and the lives of Gaita's family members and close friends is told in his memoir Romulus, My Father.

He wrote it over a few weeks after Gaita gave the eulogy at his father's funeral, and after its publication in it became an instant bestseller.^[3]

He has also written many books and articles on moral philosophy.^[6]

In November , he published Justice And Hope: Essays, Lectures and Other Writings, in which he covers topics from Donald Trump to asylum seekers in Australia to reconciliation,^[7][8] Edited by Scott Stephens, some of the writings in this collection date from the s, but all are relevant to today's world.

With this book he hoped to reach the younger generation and show that "the world is good despite all the suffering in it".^[9] He dedicated the book to his grandchildren.^[10]

Other activities

As a public intellectual, Gaita has contributed to public debate about reconciliation, collective responsibility, the role of morality in politics, the Holocaust, genocide, crimes against humanity, and educational topics.^[6]

Until around , Gaita hosted a series of public lectures given by other philosophers, first at Australian Catholic University and then at the University of Melbourne, called "The Wednesday Lectures".

He has a strong belief in having conversations with others "not when you've done your thinking, but in order to think".^[11][8]

In , he held a seminar for Year 11 and 12 philosophy students at Melbourne Grammar School, following an earlier visit during which he discussed Romulus, My Father with Year 9 students.^[12]

In May The Conversation published an essay based on the recent Jim Carlton Integrity Lecture delivered by Gaita at the Melbourne Law School, about the moral and philosophical elements pertaining to the Israeli-Palestine War.^[10]

Awards and recognition

Books

Romulus My Father won the Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction in the Victorian Premier's Literary Award, and was shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards for Contribution to Public Debate, the Braille Book of the Year, and the National Biography Award.

It was nominated by the New Statesman, London, as one of the best books of and, in , by The Australian Financial Review as one of the ten best books of the decade.^[1] It was published by Text Publishing in its Text Classics series in ^[1]

After a lot of persistence on the part of Roxburgh, the story was made into a a feature film of the same name in by Richard Roxburgh.

Robert Connolly and John Maynard produced the film, Eric Bana played Romulus, and Kodi Smit-McPhee, then aged nine, was selected to play the young Raimund – a role for which he won the AACTA Award for Best Young Actor.^[3]

A Common Humanity: Thinking about Love and Truth and Justice was nominated by The Economist as one of the best books of ^[6]

The Philosopher's Dog was shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, and The Age Book of the Year, ^[6] It was nominated by the Kansas City Star as one of the ten best books of ^[1]

Personal honours

• Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities^[13][1]
• Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Antwerp, Belgium, "for his exceptional contribution to contemporary moral philosophy and for his singular contribution the role of the intellectual in today's academic world".^[1]
• Festschrift, edited by Christopher Cordner of the University of Melbourne: Philosophy, Ethics, and a Common Humanity: Essays in Honour of Raimond Gaita (Routledge)^[1]
• International conference held by Flinders University, Adelaide: A Sense for Humanity: The Ethical Thought of Raimond Gaita^[1]
• Festschrift, edited by Craig Taylor and Melinda Graefe ,Sense for Humanity: The Ethical Thought of Raimond Gaita (Monash University Press); with contributions from conference delegates J.

  M. Coetzee, Robert Manne, Barry Hill, English poet and playwright Nick Drake (who wrote the screenplay for Romulus, My Father^[14]), and others.^[1]

Personal life

Rai is married to Yael Gaita, and each of them have two daughters from prior marriages.

One of his step-daughters is Michelle Lesh, and one of his daughters is Katerina. In Rai and Yael bought land in central Victoria, not far from where he lived as a child, and Raimund found that the move brought back memories of the pain he suffered as a child.^[3] Yael is Jewish and Israeli.^[10]

Gaita was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in late , but continues to live a life governed by his moral convictions.

He has been on climate change rallies in Melbourne with Katerina, despite the discomfort of pouring rain, in an act of civil disobedience with Extinction Rebellion.^[3]

Quote

Gaita said in ^[3]

For me to be a moral philosopher is basically to try to understand what this strange thing we call morality is.

Ours is a society in which we discuss things. And I think of that as the deepest form of hope.

Selected bibliography

Books

• Gaita, Raimond, ed. (). Value and understanding&#;: essays for Peter Winch.
  Raimond gaita biography of william shakespeare pdf Because the writing is so simple … I knew it was his life coming through the story … that had moved them. Until around , Gaita hosted a series of public lectures given by other philosophers, first at Australian Catholic University and then at the University of Melbourne, called "The Wednesday Lectures". It was nominated by the New Statesman , London, as one of the best books of and, in , by The Australian Financial Review as one of the ten best books of the decade. Further reading J.

  London: Routledge.

• &#; (). Good and evil&#;: an absolute conception. London: Macmillan.
• &#; (). Romulus, my father. Melbourne: Text Publishing.
• A Common Humanity: Thinking about Love and Truth and Justice, Melbourne: Text Publishing, ; London & New York: Routledge,
• The Philosopher's Dog, Melbourne: Text Publishing,
• Why the War Was Wrong (ed.), Melbourne: Text Publishing,
• Breach of Trust: Truth, Morality and Politics, Melbourne: Black Inc.,
• Good and Evil: An Absolute Conception, Revised edition, London & New York: Routledge
• Gaza: Morality, Law and Politics (ed.), Perth: University of Western Australia Press,
• Essays on Muslims and Multiculturalism (ed.), Melbourne: Text Publishing,
• Singing For All He's Worth: Essays in Honour of J.

  G. Rosenberg, Alex Skovron, Raimond Gaita and Alex Miller (eds.), Sydney: Picador,

• After Romulus, Melbourne: Text Publishing,
• Who's Afraid of International Law (ed. with Gerry Simpson), Monash University Publishing,
• Justice And Hope: Essays, Lectures and Other Writings (Melbourne University Press, November )

Many translations of The Philosopher's Dog were published, including in Dutch, Korean, Chinese, Turkish, and Portuguese.^[1]

Essays

• Gaita, Raimond (December ).

  "Remembering the Holocaust&#;: absolute value and the nature of evil". Quadrant.

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  39 (12): 7–^[15]

• &#; (May ). "Remorse and the depiction of evil". Turnings of Attention. Quadrant. 40 (5): 33–^[16]
• &#; (July–August ).
  Raimond gaita biography of william shakespeare Gaither, Bill. Born in Germany, Raimond Gaita came to Australia with his parents at the age of four, and was brought up largely by his father, near Barninghup, Victoria. It was nominated by the New Statesman , London, as one of the best books of and, in , by The Australian Financial Review as one of the ten best books of the decade. Gaita once told CA: "When Romulus, My Father became a bestseller I was astonished [because] I had never considered myself a writer with a capital 'W' and because my philosophical writing had often been considered difficult to understand.

  "Romulus Gaita". Turnings of Attention. Quadrant. 40 (7–8): 22–^[17]

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