How Societies Reach New Shared Moral Understandings |
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| Air date: | Wednesday, September 21, 2005, 3:00:00 PM |
| Category: | Wednesday Afternoon Lectures |
| Description: | Whole societies conduct moral dialogues about matters that range from gay marriage to the legitimacy of the US invasion of Iraq. Indeed such dialogues are these days often transnational. Moreover, surprizingly often new shared moral understandings do arise, and--these have behavioral consequences. But does consensus make these shared understandings morally right? How is one to tell? What are the implications for such shared understandings for the values we do teach in public schools (despite claims that such education has no normative tilt)? For additional discussion, see Chapters 1-4 of Amitai Etzioni's book, "The New Golden Rule."
For more information, visit http://www.amitaietzioni.org The NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series includes weekly scientific talks by some of the top researchers in the biomedical sciences worldwide. |
| Author: | Amitai Etzioni, Ph.D., George Washington University |
| Runtime: | 60 minutes |
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| CIT File ID: | 12780 |
| CIT Live ID: | 4244 |
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