Are All Values Relative? Thinking About Objective Values in Ethics, Art and Religion in a Pluralist World of Conflicting Beliefs
“There’s considerable doubt and confusion in the modern world about objective values, and about how we can find them if they do exist,” says Robert Kane, a philosophy professor at the University of Texas at Austin. In his lecture he suggests how to “overcome doubts about objective values,” whether they pertain to art, politics, religion, or ethics.
In his 40-year academic career, Kane has won 15 teaching awards and authored numerous articles and books about ethics and free will. The Significance of Free Will (Oxford University Press, 1996) won first prize in the University of Texas’s Robert W. Hamilton Faculty Book Awards Program in 1997.
Presenter(s): Robert Kane
Date: April 17, 2007
Location: Gasson 305
Sponsor(s): Religion and the Arts Journal
URL: http://frontrow.bc.edu/program/kane/
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