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["Michael Keaney" <michael011@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Professor Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago Law School) will
deliver a lecture on ?Liberty of Conscience: The Attack on Equal
Respect?
University of Helsinki
Time: Thursday, June 14 at 3.15 pm
Venue: Porthania PIII, Yliopistonkatu 4

Professor Martha Nussbaum will present a historically based argument
that equal respect for citizens is the bedrock of American freedom.
Since even before it was a nation, America had to address the ongoing
struggle between religious fervour and religious freedom. But the
Founders of the future United States overcame religious intolerance and
hatred in favour of a constitutional order dedicated to fair treatment
for people's deeply held conscientious beliefs: Liberty of conscience
became a right. This respect for religious difference formed the bedrock
of the American nation: it made equality possible. Yet today there are
signs that this legacy is misunderstood. The prominence of a particular
type of Christianity in American public life suggests the unequal worth
of citizens who hold different religious beliefs, and our political and
legal traditions are invoked to defend the idea that this widespread
Christianity is what defines the Americans as a nation. Nothing,
Nussbaum insists, could be further from the Founding Fathers'
objectives.

Martha Nussbaum is one of the most distinguished philosophers of our
time. She holds appointments in the Law School, Divinity School, and
Philosophy Department at the University of Chicago and is a Board Member
in the university's Human Rights Program. She is the author of thirteen
books, including The Fragility of Goodness (1986), Love?s Knowledge
(1990), The Therapy of Desire (1994), Women and Human Development
(2000), The Upheavals of Thought (2001), and Frontiers of Justice
(2006), and the editor or coeditor of many more. She holds twenty-seven
honorary degrees from universities around the world, including being
Academician at the Academy of Finland. Professor Nussbaum has been
cooperating with Finnish philosophers for a long time, and thus she has
greatly promoted scholarship in ancient philosophy and feminist studies
as well as moral and political philosophy in Finland.


Free admission. Welcome!


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