Dr. Michael B. Brezinsky holds the Ph.D. in Philosophy from Tulane University, mentored by Dr. Michael E. Zimmerman. Prior to this, he earned the M.A. in Philosophy from Northern Illinois University under the tutelage of Drs. Michael C. Gelven, and Theodore Kisiel. There, he had the privilege of helping to compile the index to Kisiel's groundbreaking work, The Genesis of Heidegger's Being and Time, as well as assisting the Donald Cress translation of Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy from Latin to English. Brezinsky specializes in Existential-Ontological thought and the History of Philosophy, and is particularly interested in the role and responsibility that Philosophical thinking might assume in the ongoing, critical phenomenon of human evolution. Currently Instructor of Philosophy at Delgado Community College in New Orleans, Dr. Brezinsky dedicates these lectures to his students in the spirit of philosophical courage and wonder.