Lecture by Owen Flanagan on May 6
The Philosophy Department is pleased to announce a lecture by Owen Flanagan, James B Duke Professor and Professor of Neurobiology at Duke University. The lecture will take place 4:00 – 6:00 pm on Tuesday, May 6th, in the Ford Alumni Center room 202. The title of the lecture is “Varieties of Moral Self Cultivation.”
Abstract: In addition to communal work to develop good people, most traditions have methods of self-cultivation that are designed to help create, sustain, develop, and perfect various virtues and other excellences. Professor Flanagan will talk about some mindfulness techniques in classical Confucianism and classical Buddhism and relate them to some contemporary psychological thinking about human first nature and to some philosophical thinking about the possibilities of rational control and ethical criticism.