Alan Fiske, professor of anthropology at UCLA, will give an informal talk to the Philosophy Faculty Board Room this Friday, 16th October 11.00 - 12.30:
‘Virtuous Violence: Moral Motives for Mayhem’. Abstract What motivates violence? How can good and compassionate people hurt and kill others or themselves? Why are people much more likely to kill or assault people they know well, rather than strangers? I argue that people mostly commit violence because they genuinely feel that it is the morally right thing to do. In perpetrators' minds, violence may be the morally necessary and proper way to regulate social relationships according to cultural precepts, precedents, and prototypes. All welcome. There will be time after the paper to get some lunch before Nakul Krisha’s Political Philosophy Workshop presentation at 13.00 in the same room. _________________ Richard Holton Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue Cambridge CB3 9DA Tel: +44 (0)1223 760827 http://people.ds.cam.ac.uk/rjh221/index.html <http://people.ds.cam.ac.uk/rjh221/index.html> ******************************************************************************************** Miss Charlie Evans, Secretarial Assistant Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA Tel: (01223) (3)35090, email: [email protected] ****************************************************************************************** _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
