Hutton Honors College

Discussion Lunch with Mike Martin
on Morality and Mental Health in America

• Thursday, April 19, 2007
• 12:30-2 p.m.
• Harlos House, 1331 E. Tenth St.
• SIGN-UP REQUIRED

Mike Martin is a philosopher and author of From Morality to Mental Health: Virtue and Vice in a Therapeutic Culture. Among the questions Professor Martin asks is, "As we look at morality in the United States, are we replacing morality with mental health, in confused and dangerous ways, or are we integrating morality and mental health in creative and helpful ways?"

A member of the philosophy department at Chapman University in California, Professor Martin has addressed a wide range of intriguing topics in his work, including responsibility for health and addictions; the relationship between depression and moral health; honesty in love; adultery and fidelity; drug wars and faith-based therapy; ethics as therapy; virtuous giving, whether through philanthropy or service; ethics in business, the professions, science, and religion, etc. His many books include Self-Deception and Morality, Meaningful Work: Rethinking Professional Ethics, Creativity: Ethics and Excellence in Science, and Albert Schweitzer's Reverence for Life: Ethical Idealism and Self-Realization (forthcoming).

The lunch will be held at Harlos House, 1331 E. Tenth Street, and is co-sponsored by the Wells Scholars Program.

On Thursday, April 19, from 4 to 5:30 p.m., Professor Martin will be giving a public lecture on his book “From Morality to Mental Health: Virtue and Vice in a Therapeutic Culture” in Woodburn 101. His visit to campus is sponsored by the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions and the IU Center on Philanthropy.

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