Richard Garner

Richard Garner grew up in Cleveland and attended Ohio University and Penn State. He received his PhD from the University of Michigan. He was hired by The Ohio State University in 1963, and taught briefly as a visitor at other universities. His interest in Asian philosophy led him to spend some time at the Zen Center in San Francisco. When he returned to Ohio State, he began sitting in on Chinese classes. After four years of that he was offered the opportunity to teach English at Bejing University in the summer of 1980 (just four years after the death of Mao). Upon returning to Ohio, he spent the next ten years working on the manuscript for Beyond Morality, which was published by Temple University Press in 1994. He also wrote several articles in various fields. After retiring in 1995, Garner was offered an adjunct job teaching Asian Philosophy and Ethics at Rutgers University in 2000.