This seminar invites students to examine the central ethical questions that arise in the everyday practice of medicine and to interpret those questions through a moral framework drawing from both natural law and medicine’s traditional orientation toward the patient’s health. This framework will be contrasted with principlism and consequentialism as participants consider what sort of […]

The “Arete Summer Seminar in Ethics, Philosophy, and Religion at Duke University” will aim to prepare high school students with a “tool kit” for approaching these subjects in college, offering them a roadmap of sorts. Plato and Aristotle will be primary interlocutors along with a number of other great minds. The seminar will examine the […]

This colloquium aims to bring together scholars interested in challenging narratives of progressive secularization in the long nineteenth century, whether or not those narratives follow new historicist and materialist approaches (e.g. McGann, de Man) or humanist approaches (e.g. M.H. Abrams, Earl Wasserman). While humanists like Wasserman often emphasize Romanticism's spiritual orientation as a movement towards […]

Today Americans increasingly view their political opponents not only as misguided, but also as bad people whose ways of thinking are dangerous and incomprehensible. This degree of civic rancor threatens our democracy. How can we learn how to talk to one another and find common humanity across partisan divides? How should we engage with "the […]

The Duke Clergy Health Initiative welcomes David Wang, Ph.D., an associate professor of psychology and pastoral counseling at Biola University, to Duke Divinity School. Prof. Wang will discuss challenges and recent developments in the assessment of the spiritual, character, and moral formation of seminary students during a public lecture at noon on Thursday, Nov. 14 […]