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Reading and Discussion Groups
The Ethical Enrichment Committee presents three upcoming reading and discussion groups. Each group has different requirements. If you you'd like more information, call the contact for the group in which you are interested. More to follow.
Ethics in Literature: A Reading Group
First Monday of the Month
Starting September 12, 2011 - Feb 6, 2012
1:00pm - 3:00pm
Elliott Library - Room 507
Each session will start and end with a poem and include a discussion of a novel from the syllabus provided to participants.
| Date | Readings |
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| January 9 | The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line between Christianity and Islam by Eliza Griswold |
| February 6 | Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian |
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March 6 |
The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Nysticism by Fritjof Capra |
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April 2 |
The Appointment: A Novel by Herta Mueller |
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May 7 |
The House of Wisdon: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance by Jim Al-Khalili |
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June 4 |
My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk |
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July 9 |
The Challenge for Africa by Wangari Maathi |
- Free NYSEC members; $10 per session for non-members
- Please register with Yalitza Garcia in the Leaders' Office, 212-874-5210 x118 or email ygarcia@nysec.org.
Second Tuesday of each month, SIX sessions (THIS CLASS IS FULL- Waiting List Available)
January 10, 2012- June 12, 2012
7:00- 8:30PM
Adler Study- Room 514
With Terry Perlin, Ph.D.
The problem of EVIL, its definition and description, its causes and possible "cures," is both very ancient and very contemporary. This discussion-based seminar will examine a variety of theories about evil -- ethical, theological, psychopathological, and social - in the context of actual historical, moral, legal and biographical cases. Discussions will be based upon readings done in advance. Select handout-outs will also be provided.
Participants must sign up for the entire sequence
of seminars and are responsible for acquiring
the following texts:
1. Adam Morton, On Evil
2. Deborah Lipstadt, The Eichmann Trial
3. Simon Baron-Cohen, The Science of Evil:
On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty
4. Hannah Arendt, On Violence
5. Emmanuel Carrere, The Adversary
- $20 - registraton required
- Please register with Yalitza Garcia in the Leaders' Office, 212-874-5210 x118 or email ygarcia@nysec.org.
CONNECT WITH US
Entry to our 100-year-old building and meeting rooms is available for most wheelchair users with prior arrangements. Please call ahead (212-874-5210 x 107) for setup of our portable system and plan to arrive one hour before start time.