Can We Be Both Modern and Virtuous?
- Starts: 5:00 pm on Thursday, March 17, 2016
- Ends: 6:30 pm on Thursday, March 17, 2016
Lecture in Religion, Ethics, and Modernity
For many anthropologists seeking to develop a comparative and historical approach to ethical life, the philosophical tradition they find most congenial and stimulating is 'virtue ethics'. But the version of this that has been most influential in anthropology, as well as other human sciences, suggests that it applies not at all, or only in rather unhelpful ways, to modern liberal societies. Can virtue ethics be interpreted in such a way as to help us to understand, in its full complexity, ethical life in the contemporary world?
- Speaker(s)
- James Laidlaw, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
- Event Open To
- public
- Building
- 121 Bay State Rd.
- Show Fees
- free
- Link:
- http://www.bu.edu/cura/files/2016/02/Laidlaw-talk.pdf
- Contact Organization
- CURA
- Contact Name
- Arlene Brennan
- Information Phone
- 353-9050
- Contact Email
- arleneb@bu.edu
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