Eugene Bales has been a successful teacher of philosophy and related fields for nearly thirty eight years and is presently the Academic Vice President of Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas. He ha...view moreEugene Bales has been a successful teacher of philosophy and related fields for nearly thirty eight years and is presently the Academic Vice President of Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas. He has presented and published papers on Plotinus and Heidegger, and is the author of A Ready Reference to Philosophy East and West (University Press of America, 1987), which was selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Book of 1988-1989. In 1998 he received the Mortvedt Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership Award at Bethany College.view less