Politics and Morality

FAIN: FS-10090-75

Duke University (Durham, NC 27705-4677)
John H. Hallowell (Project Director: January 1975 to present)

To conduct a seminar on politics and morality. The seminar will discuss what kind of consensus is required by a democratic society, the relationship between public philosophy and political dialogue, civil disobedience, etc. After examining traditional answers of Greek, Christian, and modern liberal philosophers, attention will be focused on three contemporary problems: civil rights, obscenity and the law, and the so-called Watergate phenomenon.