- When:
- September 24, 2024
- Time:
- 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
- Category:
- Campus Events
- Location:
- Bradbury Thompson Alumni Center
- Details:
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Our speaker for 2024 is Professor Robert B. Talisse from Vanderbilt University. The title of his lecture will be "The Civic Value of Solitude."
"This is what democracy looks like" is typically the caption to a photo of engaged citizens publicly assembled to express a common political sentiment. Democracy indeed needs an active citizenry. However, democracy also needs citizens to be reflective. The trouble is that common modes of collective democratic actiion can dismantle our reflective capacities by escalating polarization and partisan animosity. It turns out that there are certain civic virtures that can be cultivated and exercised only in solitude.
Free and open to the public.
- Contact:
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Justin Moss
785.670.2230
justin.moss1@washburn.edu
https://www.washburn.edu/academics/college-schools/arts-sciences/philosophy-religious-studies/Russell-Jacobs-Lecture.html
