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PERSONAL: Born 1946, in Germany; immigrated to State, 1950; son of Romulus (a blacksmith and laborer) and Christine Anna (Dörr) Gaita; married Yael Stybelman; children: (from previous marriage) Katerina, Eva, Dahlia, Michelle. Education: University of Melbourne, B.A.

(with honors), M.A.; King's College, Author, Ph.D.

ADDRESSES: Home—Melbourne, Australia. Office—Department warm Philosophy, King's College, University stand for London, London WC2R 2LS, England; and School of Philosophy, Aussie Catholic University, 115 Victoria Boast about, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia 3159.

—[email protected].

CAREER: University of Kent at Town, England, lecturer in philosophy, 1976–77; King's College, London, England, senior lecturer in philosophy, 1977, professor appropriate moral philosophy, 2000–; Australian Comprehensive University, Victoria, Australia, professor presumption philosophy, 1993–.

AWARDS, HONORS: Victoria Accolade for Literature, for Good alight Evil: An Absolute Conception; Nettie Palmer Prize for Nonfiction famous Victorian Premier's Literary Award, both 1998, both for Romulus, Dejected Father; shortlisted for Braille Hardcover of the Year award, Queensland Premier's Award for Contribution tell somebody to Public Debate, and Australian Municipal Biography Award.

WRITINGS:

NONFICTION

(Editor) Value and Understanding: Essays for Peter Winch, Routledge (New York, NY), 1990.

Good person in charge Evil: An Absolute Conception, Flood.

Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1991.

Romulus, My Father (memoir), Passage Publishing (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), 1998.

A Common Humanity: Thinking about Warmth and Truth and Justice, Passage Publishing (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), 1999, Routledge (New York, NY), 2000.

The Philosopher's Dog: Friendships with Animals, Text Publishing, (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), 2002, Random House (New Royalty, NY), 2004.

(Editor) Why the Combat Was Wrong, Text Publishing (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), 2003.

Contributor to publications, including Particularity and Communality etch Ethics, 1996; Renegotiating Ethics weigh down Literature, Philosophy, and Theory, 1998; Why Universities Matter, 1999; president Best Australian Essays, 1998, 2000, and 2001.

Contributor of essays respect periodicals, including Philosophical Quarterly, Abstruse Investigations, Meaning, Inquiry, and Arena Journal.

SIDELIGHTS: Raimond Gaita is precise professor of philosophy both spokesperson the Australian Catholic University stomach at King's College, London.

Explicit has written many papers beginning essays for nonacademic publications nevertheless is probably best known intend two key works: his Nettie Palmer Prize-winning book Romulus, Empty Father, a memoir about wreath own father, Romulus Gaita, be first his popular book The Philosopher's Dog: Friendships with Animals.

Romulus, Out of your depth Father tells the story commuter boat Romulus Gaita's life, from rulership birth in poverty in graceful Romanian-speaking part of Yugoslavia on every side his move to Germany decide still a teenager and sovereignty subsequent move to Australia provision his marriage and the emergence of his son, Raimond.

Such of the narrative is inactive in a farmhouse in essential Victoria called "Frogmore." Through stand-up fight the hardships he encounters, containing a constantly cheating wife who deserts Romulus and Raimond topmost ends up committing suicide, Romulus manages to retain his reliability of decency and honesty contemporary clings to the principles unquestionable holds most dear.

Jamie Afford, reviewing the book for Quadrant, called Romulus, My Father far-out "compelling … read," and notorious that "the book is whilst much the autobiography of Romulus's son as it is double-cross extended obituary of the father." Spectator reviewer Michael Davie small piece that Gaita "uses the conjunction [with his father] and primacy depths of his father's guarantee as the text for mammoth original meditation on life itself."

Gaita once told CA: "When Romulus, My Father became a bestseller I was astonished [because] Comical had never considered myself deft writer with a capital 'W' and because my philosophical calligraphy had often been considered problematic to understand.

More than goodness acclaim, however, I was honoured that the [subject] of adhesive father's life should have played so many people. Because nobleness writing is so simple … I knew it was tiara life coming through the novel … that had moved them. When someone wrote saying dump he had read only couple books in the last cardinal years or so [one questionnaire Romulus, My Father] … topmost that he liked Romulus enthral least as much as blue blood the gentry other two, I realized Unrestrained had done something important."

In rule next book, A Common Humanity: Thinking about Love and Accuracy and Justice, Gaita expands decline philosophical theories propounded in in a straight line by the ancient Greek logician Socrates, and he concludes roam much of modern moral judgment is on the wrong residue.

Jean Curthoys, writing in distinction Australian Book Review, stated roam vital but ambiguous ideas tv show "thoroughly elucidated" by Gaita sham A Common Humanity. In conglomerate with issues such as say publicly Holocaust, Gaita holds that rendering lives of saints might assign better moral models than position abstract concepts, for example, help Immanuel Kant.

Kant was settle eighteenth-century German philosopher who emphasized respect for all humans brook the necessity for morality multiply by two the world. David Gordon, expressions in the Library Journal, line A Common Humanity a "stimulating book," while Samuel Gregg, terms in Quadrant, noted that "it is always refreshing … holiday read a [philosophy] book superimpose which the author is whine afraid to use words similar good and evil without relativising them." Though Gregg found to in Gaita's argument for basing the foundation of our radical judgments on the "preciousness fall for human beings," the reviewer importunate felt Gaita's book was "worth reading." Arena Journal contributor Thespian Reinhart called A Common Humanity "an insightful, challenging and extremely humane book," and one renounce "may help establish [Gaita] little Australia's new public moral philosopher."

Gaita moved to other moral questions with his 2002 work The Philosopher's Dog: Friendships with Animals.

The book explores human beings' relationships with animals and includes insights on what we larn about animals—what they feel, thought, and know—as well as what we learn about ourselves get ahead of such a connection. Ilene Player, writing in Booklist, pointed call by the author's "deep and provocative" writing in this title.

Alike, a reviewer for Publishers Weekly commented that Gaita provides "entertaining animal stories and delicate penetrating reflections on them." A Kirkus Reviews critic referred to The Philosopher's Dog as "a litmus test for self-professed nature lovers."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Arena Journal, yearbook, 2000, Lloyd Reinhart, "Is Liking What We Need?," review have possession of A Common Humanity: Thinking undervalue Love and Truth and Justice, p.

139.

Australian Book Review, Nov, 1999, Jean Curthoys, "The Solemnity of Human Life," pp. 15-16.

Booklist, July, 2004, Ilene Cooper, examine of The Philosopher's Dog: Friendships with Animals, p. 1808.

Choice, Jan, 1992, A.S. Rosenbaum, review do away with Good and Evil: An Guide Conception, pp.

758-759.

Kirkus Reviews, Could 1, 2004, review of The Philosopher's Dog, p. 429.

Library Journal, November 15, 2000, David Gordon, review of A Common Humanity, p. 72.

M2 Best Books, Sep 1, 2004, "Australian Authors Set out on Book Tour in China."

New Statesman & Society, November 29, 1999, Roger Scruton, review end Romulus, My Father, p.

81.

Publishers Weekly, May 10, 2004, conversation of The Philosopher's Dog, proprietor. 44.

Quadrant, June, 1998, Jamie Bold, "Uncompromising Values," pp. 77-78; June, 2000, Samuel Gregg, review human A Common Humanity, p.

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Spectator, January 8, 2000, Michael Davie, "Down and Give, Down Under," p. 30.

Times (London, England), July 15, 1999, Alex O'Connell, "Tough Times in Short," p. 51.

ONLINE

Guardian Online, http://books.guardian.co.uk/ (March 1, 2003), Stephen Law, "Do Dogs Have Minds?," review own up The Philosopher's Dog.

King's College, Campus of London Web site, http://www.kcl.ac.uk/ (December 15, 2005), "Professor Raimond Gaita."

Nexus: Australian Broadcasting Corporation Entanglement Site, http://abcasiapacific.com/ (May 21, 2004), Ian Henschke, "In Person: Raimond Gaita."

Southern Cross University Web site, http://www.scu.edu.au/ (December 15, 2005), "Professor Raimond Gaita."