“Office is a Thing Borrowed: Jean Bodin between Sovereignty and Legality”
Ethics at Noon talk, Wed, Nov. 2, 12-2pm, Larkin #200.
Monthly Archives: October 2011
Ian Lee on Corporate Criminal Responsibility
Optional background reading for the Ethics at Noon talk, to be given by Ian Lee from the Faculty of Law, this Thursday, Oct. 20 at noon in the seminar room: here.
Sumner launches Assisted Death
Thanks to the panel today for an excellent discussion to launch Wayne Sumner’s new book, Assisted Death. From the left: Bernard Dickens, Wayne Sumner, James Downar, Donald Ainslie:
Thanks to the Department of Philosophy for co-sponsoring the event & reception.
On the very idea of a good war: Afghanistan ten years in
A few days ago we passed the 10-year anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan, which
began in early October, 2001, less than one month after 9/11. After about one month of fighting, close to Remembrance Day in November, Kabul fell and victory was all but declared. Then in December well before Christmas, after less than one more month of sporadic fighting, and less than three months after 9/11, Afghanistan was put on the path to its bright new future with western-backed Hamid Karzai as its interim transitional leader. The Taliban and Al-Qaeda had been defeated, and many more good things — security, development, governance, and the emancipation of women and girls — were promised by the West in what many would call “the good war.”
On Monday, October 17, the Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto presents a Public Issues Forum: On the very idea of a good war: Afghanistan ten years in
The event is free and open to the public.
POSTER ATTACHED– please distribute widely
Monday, October 17, 2011
3:00 pm – Panel presentations
4:30 pm – Q&A/discussion
5:30 pm – Reception
Cartwright Hall
(1st floor, St. Hilda’s Residence, Trinity College, 44 Devonshire Place)
Featured publication
Wayne Sumner on the right-to-die movement: “The Morgentaler Effect” The Walrus (January, 2011).
Wayne will be at the Centre for Ethics on Thursday, Oct. 13th, for an author-meets-critics session on his new book, Assisted Death: A Case Study in Ethics and Law, from 3-5pm. Commenting on the book will be Prof. Bernard Dickens, Dr. James Downar and Prof. Donald Ainslie.