Dear all, The next meeting of the Moral Sciences Club will be held on Tuesday 14th May. We are delighted to welcome Meghan Sullivan (Notre Dame) who will be giving a talk entitled 'The Love Imperative - A Defense'. Here is an abstract for the talk:
*We naturally think of love as discriminatory -- you love your partner more than strangers, your friends more than your adversaries, and your home team over opponents. Indeed, most philosophers -- influenced by the Greeks -- have worked hard to carve out a theory of when and why we are permitted to be so partial in our affections. Universal love, if we can even understand it, seems only like an option for saints or hippies... not a realistic or practical ethical framework for most of us. In this talk, I'll offer a philosophical defense of the Love Imperative, which features in various manifestations in many religiously motivated approaches to morality. I'll look specifically at one Christian understanding, defend it from some difficult objections, and indicate how it might be the basis for a mainstream philosophical approach to ethics. This talk draws in part from a book manuscript I am currently working on that develops an intellectualist conception of love and argues for key applications in moral theory, epistemology and philosophy of religion.* The meeting will be held from 2:30 until 4:15 in the Jane Harrison Room at Newnham College, and will be followed by tea and coffee. If you would like to have dinner with the speaker in the evening following the talk, please email the secretaries of the club (mscsecretar...@gmail.com) by midday on Monday. This dinner is open to anyone who has attended the talk and those who sign up for dinner will be notified of the details closer to the time. Best wishes, -- Annie Bosse, Benjamin Marschall and Lucy McDonald Secretaries of the Moral Sciences Club Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge msc...@hermes.cam.ac.uk http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/seminars-msc _____________________________________________________ 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.
