2011 Moral Conscience Lectures
Moral Conscience: from Aristophanes to Gandhi
A series of ten lectures at Northwestern University by
RICHARD SORABJI
Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford University
MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, & FRIDAYS
AT 4:00 P.M.
From
SEPTEMBER 21 to OCTOBER 12
Kaplan Institute for the Humanities Seminar Room
Kresge Hall, Room 2-370
Lecture topics include:
- Aristophanes to St Paul
- Graeco-Roman developments up to 600 CE
- Christian philosophical developments from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
- Contrition, confession, penance, absolution
- Protests and Protestants against terrorization of conscience
- Seventeenth Century England, the century of conscience
- Doubts and the eighteenth century rehabilitation of conscience
- More doubts and the revival of conscience in Tolstoy and Gandhi
- Retrospect: what is conscience and what is its value?
Funding for these lectures have been provided by the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences; the Kaplan Institute for the Humanities; the Departments of Philosophy, English, History, Political Science, and Religious Studies; the Classical Traditions Initiative; and the Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies.
