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June 19-21, 1987 |
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Introduction
The John M. Olin Center for Inquiry into the Theory and Practice of Democracy is holding a conference, "Theoretical and Practical Perspectives on the Problem of Evil in Twentieth-Century Politics," on campus June 19-21, 1987.
The conference will address such questions as: What are the most evil political deeds and who are the most evil political actors? How can we understand the cause and the character of these evils? How do statesmen act and how should they act in response to evil? Do evil men do what they do from ignorance or from the intention to do evil? How is the phenomenon of fanaticism to be interpreted? These questions will be discussed with an eye to Hitler and Stalin, the Holocaust and the Gulag, the salient phenomena of the twentieth century that compel consideration of the problem of evil in politics.
The conference will include four public sessions. On Friday afternoon, June 19, there will be panels on Greek perspectives with Clifford Orwin (University of Toronto), Christopher J. Bruell (Boston College), and David Bolotin (St. John's College at Santa Fe), and on Biblical perspectives with Hillel G. Fradkin (Bradley Foundation) and Ernest Fortin (Boston College). On Saturday afternoon, June 20, there will be panels on liberal perspectives with Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. (Harvard University) and Leszek Kolakowski, and on radical perspectives with Joseph Cropsey, Werner Dannhauser (Cornell University), and Myron Rush (Cornell University). These sessions will held in the Social Science Auditorium (SS 122) beginning at 1:00 p.m. on June 19 and June 20.
The conference is the culmination of the Center's yearlong series of lectures and seminars on "The Problem of Evil in Twentieth-Century Politics."
| 1:30-3:00pm Greek Perspectives | David Bolotin (Aristotle) Christopher Bruell (Plato) Clifford Orwin (Thucydides) |
| 4:00-5:30pm Biblical Perspectives | Ernest Fortin Hillel Fradkin |
| 8:00-10:00 p.m. Discussion |
| 1:30-3:00pm Liberal Perspectives | Harvey Mansfield W. Carey McWilliams |
| Radical Perspectives | Werner Dannhauser (Nietzsche) |
| 4:00-6:00pm Radical Perspectives | Joseph Cropsey (Marx) Myron Rush (Stalin) |
| 8:00-10:00 p.m. Discussion |
| 10:00-12:30 p.m. Discussion |
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