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Those of you in the Boston area are invited to a Kraft-Hiatt Lecture at Brandeis University: The Self Beyond Itself: Rethinking How Individuals can Become Morally More Corageous and Societies More Humane Heidi Ravven, Donald Katz, and Thandeka Monday, Sept. 23, 2013 5 - 6:30 p.m Mandel Center for the Humanities, 3rd floor Reading Room Bringing together research from the new brain sciences, the philosophy of Spinoza, and from studies of perpetrators, bystanders, and rescuers during the Nazi Holocaust, Heidi Ravven proposes that both great evil and great good are more often than not the actions of groups and of individuals as members of groups. She will offer a fresh approach to how all of us can develop the wisdom and the courage to recognize and challenge harm doers and how institutions can be redesigned to support and encourage such challenges. Respondents: Donald Katz, Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Brandeis University Thandeka, Unitarian Universalist theologian and congregational consultant
Posted on: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 00:53:54 +0000

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