Marie Friquegnon

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FirstName / namefirst	Marie
LastName / namelast	Friquegnon
MainNamePhon	Marie Friquegnon
SortName	Friquegnon, Marie
bio	Marie Friquegnon was born in 1943, grew up in Brooklyn and attended the local Catholic school. She went to high school at the Convent of the Sacred heart, 91st Street, Manhattan. During this time she studied theology and scholastic philosophy. She then attended Barnard College where she majored in philosophy. She also took courses at Columbia University. The teachers who influenced her in philosophy were Sidney Morgenbesser, Richard Taylor, Arthur Danto, David Sidorsky, Joh Herman Randall, Mary Mothersill and Jean Potter; in religion, Jacob Taubes and Anton Zigmund-Cerbu. She took her masters and doctorate at New York University. Finishing in 1974, she studied Hegel and Marx with Sidney Hook. Her thesis advisor was a Marxist philosopher, Chauncy Downes. But the most important philosophical influence on her at N.Y.U. was the analytic philosopher Raziel Abelson. Following his suggestion she wrote a masters thesis defending the possibility of free will and a doctoral thesis defending the meaningfulness of religious belief. She worked from 1965 to 1967 as a caseworker with the Department of Welfare. From 1967 to 1968 she taught part-time at NYC Community College, Long Island University, Brooklyn College and N.Y.U. In 1969 she started to teach at William Paterson. She continues to teach there now as a Professor of Philosophy. In 1981 Marie Friquegnon began to develop what had been a longstanding interest in Buddhist philosophy. She returned to Columbia University to audit a course in Sanskrit and to take a course in Tibetan. She continues to study at the Padmasambhava Buddhist Center and she is involved in some translation projects there. She is also interested in philosophy of childhood, and has given lectures and published on children's rights and the nature of childhood. She lives in Stuyvesant Town in Manhattan. (Adapted from Source Apr 14, 2021)
affiliation	William Paterson University
phduniversity	New York University
IsInGyatsa	No
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