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1. barzuncentennial.murphywong.net › GavinParfitGavin Parfit - The Jacques Barzun Centennial

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   Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. One of the founding fathers of cultural history, the author of over forty books and countless essays, died a few weeks shy of turning 105. It was October 25, 2012, my 65 th birthday, and he was my father-in-law.

2. prabook.com › web › gavin_jGavin J. Parfit (born October 15, 1947), South African ...

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   Parfit, Gavin J. was born on October 15, 1947 in Durban, South Africa. Education ACIS, University Natal, South Africa, 1970. Master of Business Administration, Cranfield Institute of Technology, United Kingdom, 1974. Career Chief Executive Officer Henry Vale & Company, South Africa, 1966-1972.

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   See Gavin Parfit full list of movies and tv shows from their career. Find where to watch Gavin Parfit's latest movies and tv shows.

4. www.washingtonpost.com › local › obituariesJacques Barzun, wide-ranging cultural historian, dies at 104

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   Oct 26, 2012 · Jacques Barzun, a Columbia University historian whose breadth of scholarship — culminating in a survey of 500 years of Western civilization — brought him renown as one of the foremost...

5. www.linkedin.com › in › gavin-parfit-465077316Gavin Parfit - Chief Executive Officer - Meridian Rail ...

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   Chief Executive Officer at Meridian Rail Services Corp · Experience: Meridian Rail Services Corp · Location: 06405.

   • Works For: Meridian Rail Services Corp
   • Location: Branford, Connecticut, United States

   • Occupation: Chief Executive Officer

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   Gavin Parfit has been the Chief Executive Officer of several industrial and trading companies and most recently served as Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of a railroad supply manufacturing company based in Chicago, IL USA, with operations in 14 states as well as Europe and China.

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   What did Parfit do at Eton?

   • As at Eton, Parfit dabbled in journalism. He edited and wrote jokes for a satirical magazine, Mesopotamia, produced in Balliol, and also tried to recruit people to sell it—as the historian and feminist Sheila Rowbotham discovered when she opened her (St Hilda’s) college door to him.

   Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality on JSTOR

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   How did Parfit feel when he saw reasons & persons in print?

   • Parfit was exhausted. The exhilaration of seeing Reasons and Persons in print soon passed. He felt that he was an intellectually spent force, that he had gone stale. His hair had gone white. He told people that the stress had damaged his brain and that he couldn’t think as well as he used to do.

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   When did Derek Parfit become a Harkness Fellow?

   • On 13 January 1965, Derek Parfit boarded the ageing Queen Elizabeth ocean liner at Southampton for the six-day Atlantic crossing to New York. For the next two years, he would be a Harkness Fellow. The Harkness Fellowships had been established by Edward Harkness, son of Stephen.

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   Did Derek Parfit have a missionary zeal?

   • All his life Derek Parfit had a missionary zeal. A zeal to solve the philosophical problems that matter and then persuade people that he was right. Not only were both of Derek’s parents missionaries; remarkably, all four of his grandparents were, too. He grew up in a household that had shed its faith but retained its missionary spirit.

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   From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein'sPoker, an entertaining and illuminating biography of abrilliant philosopher who tried to rescue morality fro...