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Movie screening of “2081″ based on Kurt Vonnegut’s “Harrison Bergeron”. 2081 depicts a dystopian future in which, thanks to the 212th Amendment to the Constitution and the unceasing vigilance of the United States Handicapper General, everyone is “finally equal….”

Movie screening to be followed by a talk by Professor Geoffrey Hamilton from the Department of English & Drama who will be leading a discussion about American ideas of equality, freedom, and the role of government as they relate to this film.

Tuesday, January 12, 2010
The New Ethics: A Synthetic Approach to Understanding Good and Evil
A Public Lecture by Dr. Chris diCarlo
Student Centre, Presentation Room
7:00 pm
FREE ADMISSION!

If humans, like all other animate or inanimate things in the universe function as a product of a complex series of causal events, wherein lies their virtue or their vice? How much control does any one of us have over our actions? Are people ‘good’ simply because they have been lucky enough to be able to control their volitions, desires, and intentions in ways that are approved by a given society? And are others ‘bad’ simply because they have not been so lucky? How much control did Tiger Woods have over his actions? How much control does an alcoholic have? Or a serial killer? Or you?
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