‘HABIT MATTERS: THE BODILY CHARACTER OF THE VIRTUES’

PROFESSOR STANLEY HAUERWAS DUKE UNIVERSITY

VON HUGEL INSTITUTE SILVER JUBILEE COMMEMORATION LECTURE (1987-2012)

This year the Von Hügel Institute celebrates its Silver Jubilee and we are delighted to have Professor Stanley Hauerwas to deliver the Jubilee Lecture: ‘Habit Matters: The bodily Character of the Virtues’. 

The 2012 VHI Silver Jubilee Lecture is part of a Public Lecture Tour by Professor Hauerwas (the other lectures being at the Centre for Catholic Studies, University of University and Blackfriars Oxford). The Lecture will be chaired by Professor Mary McAleese, former President of Ireland, Honorary Fellow of St Edmund's College, and Patron of the Von Hügel Institute.

Professor Stanley Hauerwas is the Gilbert T. Rowe professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School. His work cuts across disciplinary lines as he is in conversation with systematic theology, philosophical theology and ethics, political theory, as well as the philosophy of social science and medical ethics.

The event will take place on

Tuesday, 30th October 2012, 5:30pm

Venue: Cripps Auditorium (Magdalene College)

1-3 Chesterton Road

Cambridge CB4 3AD

Info and website here.