[Hac-announce] December Conversations

[Kenneth Selig]

I humbly suggest that no discussion of these issues can be adequately  
informed absent Sam Harris' new book, "The Moral Landscape." It is  
revolutionary re: the assumption that moral values are inherently  
different from any other scientific inquiry and perforce relativistic.  
Ken
Kenneth M. Selig
kmselig at sbcglobal.net














On Dec 9, 2010, at 7:02 PM, L.M.C. Harvey wrote:

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> About Conversations  December 11, 2010
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>             I am sending this note about the Saturday Conversations  
> as new information for those of  us who haven’t yet read the  
> newsletter  and  as a brief introduction to the Justice series of   
> lectures.  These were recorded during a course given by Michael  
> Sandel at Harvard U. on moral reasoning.  Ideas about what is due to  
> each individual and of  what a just society would consist, from  
> Aristotle to John Rawls (20C), are among the subjects of these  
> lectures.  We've previously viewed the first lecture, Doing the  
> Right Thing.  You may watch the lectures at your leisure and in any  
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>             athome.harvard.edu/programs/jmr/
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>             http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O2Rq4HJBxw&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=PL30C13C91CFFEFEA6
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>             This month we'll watch Episode 12 which has two parts:   
> The Good Life and Debating Same-Sex Marriage.  Professor Sandel  
> raises two questions. Is it necessary to reason about the good life  
> in order to decide what rights people have and what is just? If so,  
> how is it possible to argue about the nature of the good life?
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>             This list of principal readings taken from the course  
> description on the Harvard website will give you some idea of the  
> ideas covered.  This is not a list for Conversations although you  
> may be familiar with some or all of these authors.
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>     * Aristotle, Politics
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>     * Locke, Second Treatise of Government
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>     * Kant, Grounding of the Metaphysics of Morals
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>     * Mill, Utilitarianism
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>     * Rawls, A Theory of Justice
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> Other assigned readings include excerpts from Jeremy Bentham and  
> contemporary writers such as Nozick, Dworkin, MacIntyre, Sandel, and  
> Walzer.
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>             The book, Justice, that grew out of these lectures was  
> the subject of an HAC Book Discussion in May, 2010.
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