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Charles E. Butterworth (born 1938) is a philosopher of the Straussian school and currently an emeritus professor of political philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Butterworth is also a translator and editor of numerous books about the philosophers Rousseau, Alfarabi, and Averroes.

Butterworth received his B.A. from Michigan State University. He trained in political philosophy and Arabic as well as Islamic civilization at the University of Chicago, where he received an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science. He has also studied at the Ain Shams University in Egypt, the University of Bordeaux, and the University of Nancy in France (receiving a doctorate in philosophy from the latter).

Before joining the faculty of the University of Maryland, Butterworth taught at the University of Chicago and Federal City College (now the University of the District of Columbia). He has also taught at St. John's College, Georgetown University, and Harvard University, in addition to Marmara University, Birzeit University, the University of Bordeaux, the University of Grenoble, the University of Paris I (Sorbonne), the University of Paris X (Nanterre), and the École pratique des hautes études.

For several years he was the Principal Investigator for the Smithsonian-sponsored Project in Medieval Islamic Logic in Cairo. He has also been the Principal Investigator for a project on medieval Islamic logic sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and has organized a two-week Salzburg seminar on the Commonality of Cultural Traditions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

In 1992–1993, he was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. during which time he pursued a project on the relationship between revelation and political philosophy. From October 1999 until March 2000, Butterworth held a Fulbright Senior Scholar Research and Lecturing Award at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg, Germany, and from May through August 2000 a German Academic Exchange Professorship at the same university. Also, during May and June 2000, he gave a series of lectures at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris entitled "Des origines de la philosophie politique en Islam."

At the University of Maryland, he has been recognized as a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher (1990–91) and he received an award in Excellence in Teaching and Mentorship (2001–02) granted by the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences.

See also

• American philosophy
• List of American philosophers

References

1. Butterworth, Charles L. (1989). "On Misunderstanding Allan Bloom: The Response to The Closing of the American Mind". Academic Questions. Vol. 2, no. 4. pp. 56–80. ISSN 0895-4852.
2. *Rousseau's Reveries of the Solitary Walker (ISBN 978-0814710197)
   • Ethical Writings of Maimonides (ISBN 978-0814709849)
   • Alfarabi's Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle (co-foreworded with Thomas Pangle) (ISBN 978-0801487163)
   • Alfarabi's Political Writings: "Selected Aphorisms" and Other Texts (ISBN 978-0801489136)
   • Averroes' Three Short Commentaries (ISBN 978-0873952088)
   • Averroes Decisive Treatise and Epistle Dedicatory ISBN 0-8425-2479-7
3. *University of Maryland Biography "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-06-13. Retrieved 2009-11-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
4. The Murphy Institute http://murphy.tulane.edu/events/lectures/1622.php Archived 2011-07-27 at the Wayback Machine
5. Charles Butterworth University of Maryland Biography "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-06-13. Retrieved 2009-11-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

External links

• University of Maryland faculty page
• Journal of the History of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University

• 1938 births
• University of Maryland, College Park faculty
• University of Maryland College of Behavioral and Social Sciences people
• American political philosophers
• Harvard University Department of Philosophy faculty
• Michigan State University alumni
• University of Chicago alumni
• University of Bordeaux alumni
• University of Lorraine alumni
• Georgetown University faculty
• Academic staff of the University of Paris
• Academic staff of Grenoble Alpes University
• Living people
• University of the District of Columbia faculty
• 20th-century American philosophers
• 21st-century American philosophers
• Nancy-Université alumni