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Arthur Applbaum, from the Center for Ethics and the Professions at Harvard University, will speak at the Democracy and Dissent Lecture on Thursday, April 1, from 4-5:30 p.m. in Student Building Room 150, IU Bloomington. (The Student Building is the building with the clock tower, near the Sample Gates on East Kirkwood Avenue. His topic will be “Forcing a People to be Free.”
Applbaum is professor of ethics and public policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, where he developed the core course in political ethics. He is the author of Ethics for Adversaries: The Morality of Roles in Political and Professional Life (Princeton University Press, 1999).
Rainer Funk, University of Tuebingen, Germany, will speak Wednesday, March 31, at 4 p.m. in the Georgian Room at the Indiana Memorial Union at IUB. His topic will be “Violence in Our Time: Psychology and Religion.” He will be examining such questions as: Is there an alternative to violence besides more violence? How do we avoid using religion to legitimize violence?
Funk studied philosophy and theology before completing his dissertation on Erich Fromm’s social psychology and ethics. He was Fromm’s last assistant and prepared a 10-volume German edition of the collected works. Funk became Fromm’s sole literary executor and has published many of Fromm’s previously unpublished writings. Funk is a psychoanalyst and the owner of the Erich Fromm Archive in Tuebingen.
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