Challenging Perspectives: The Muhlenberg College Center for Ethics
In its Muhlenberg College Center for Ethics seeks to develop our capacities for ethical reflection, moral leadership and responsible action by engaging community members in scholarly dialogue, intellectual analysis and self-examination about contested ethical issues.
The Center often is at the forefront of conversations—often difficulty but always engaging—around the ethics of contemporary philosophical, political, economic, social, cultural and scientific issues.
Each semester, the Center hosts guest speakers, events and programs and provides faculty development opportunities and support for student programming.
The annual programming themes are solicited from the Muhlenberg community and are designed and managed by rotating faculty directors for a truly interdisciplinary approach.
Past topics have included Civility & Disobedience; The Boundaries of Home: Patriotism in a Global Era; Sustainable Communities: Balancing Economy, Ecology, and Justice; Women in Global Perspective; Science and Sensibility: Studying Nature as Human Endeavor; and Sex, Ethics and Pleasure Politics.
The theme for the 2016-2017 year, War & Peacebuilding, explores the ethics of war and conflict and the resulting impact on debates around public policy and popular culture. The program mission and its associated speakers and programs challenge participants to engage with a nation that has experienced near constant—but not always visible to us in our daily lives—for at least the last fifteen years.
