All UP faculty and staff are welcome to participate in the Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group. We read and discuss ideas that matter in a convivial gathering, with good people and reasonable refreshments, in the Murphy Room (Franz Hall). Planning ahead? Dates for the 2021-22 year are 9/17, 11/5, 1/28 and 4/1. Contact Karen Eifler (eifler@up.edu) if you have suggestions for readings, poems or images to share. Bring a friend!
Friday, January 28, 3:30--5PM
Readings:
Jonathan Haidt: Why Universities Must Choose One Telos: Truth or Social Justice, from Heterodox: The Blog
Christian Alejandro Gonzalez: On Truth and Ideology in Academia, from Heterodox: The Blog (a response to Haidt)
Howard Nemerov's poem "To David, About His Education"
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