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Schemel Forum Evening Course: Enlightened Self-Interest Examined

Thursday, 06 February, 2014

Enlightened Self-Interest Examined
Thursdays: Feb. 6, 13, 20, 27 and March 6, 13

On his historic visit to America in the early 19th century, Alexis de Tocqueville noted that Americans eagerly linked the pursuit of self-interest to the common good and saw it as a civic responsibility to cultivate the connection. Tocqueville called it self-interest rightly understood or enlightened self-interest. Through readings from Thucydides, Plato, Adam Smith, Tocqueville, Milton Friedman, and Joseph Stiglitz, this course will examine the notion and ask whether the connection between self-interest and the common good is rightly understood in America today.

Course Instructor:
Dr. Matt Meyer, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, The University of Scranton

 

Contact:

Emily Brees

Phone: 570-941-6206
Website: Click to Visit

Categories:

Weinberg Memorial Library, Room 305

300 Monroe Avenue
 Scranton, PA 18510