The Use and Abuse of Ethics
“The Use and Abuse of Ethics”
Srinivas Aravamudan, Geoffrey Harpham, and Sam Wells
What is Ethics? And Who Cares?: The Series
September 26, 2008
This discussion focused on whether there is meaning and value in talking about “ethics.” This event was the first in a series of bimonthly gatherings of faculty from across the university with interest in broadly conceived notions of ethics.
For background reading on this particular discussion, please see Geoffrey Harpham’s essay, Ethics (pdf).
Read Srinivas Aravamudan’s response.
Read Sam Wells’s response.




