Department of Philosophy Kraemer Lecture - "Loving Strangers"

The Philosophy Club is proud to endorse the philosophy department's latest guest speaker, Dr. Meghan Sullivan, Wilsey Family College Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Notre Dame Ethics Initiative! Her talk is titled, "Loving Strangers."

"Love is at the center of our lives... a cardinal virtue. But philosophers over the millennia have been particularly flummoxed about how and why we come to love other people and the moral significance of our ability to love. In this talk, I'll show how we can use the famous Parable of the Good Samaritan as a philosophical text, guiding us on these questions. We'll consider whether it is possible to love strangers and whether it is morally OK to extend love in this way. I'll defend a particular conception of what it is to love strangers in the modern world, and why this should be the central theme of ethics."

Join us for an engaging public talk. This lecture is open to everyone, so feel free to invite friends and colleagues!

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