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TODAY, the Department of Religion presents:

"Job, God & the Problem of Evil"
with

SUSAN NEIMAN
Director, Einstein Forum
Ph.D, Harvard University
Research Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation Study Center 


TUESDAY, January 25
Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
4:15pm
	
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"Moral inquiry and political activism start where reason is missing. When righteous people suffer and wicked people flourish, we begin to ask why. Demands for moral clarity ring long, loud bells because it is something we are right to seek. Those who cannot find it are likely to settle for the far more dangerous simplicity, or purity, instead."
~ from Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists

An article about Neiman and her philosophy: "Whose Values Are They, Anyway? The peculiar politics of moral passion." 
http://www.slate.com/id/2191959/

This year's Hardigg Fellow is Professor Susan Neiman, Director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, Germany. Susan Neiman is an American moral philosopher, cultural commentator, and essayist. She has written extensively on the juncture between Enlightenment moral philosophy, metaphysics, and politics, both for scholarly audiences and the general public. She currently lives in Germany, where she is the Director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam.

Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Neiman left home as a teenager to join the anti-Vietnam War movement. Later she studied philosophy at Harvard University, earning her Ph.D. under the direction of John Rawls and Stanley Cavell. During graduate school, she spent several years of study at the Free University of Berlin. Slow Fire, a memoir about her life as a Jewish woman in 1980s Berlin, appeared in 1992. From 1989 to 1996 she taught philosophy at Yale University, and from 1996 to 2000 she was an associate professor of philosophy at Tel Aviv University. In 2000 she assumed her current position at the Einstein Forum. She is the author of several award-winning books, including Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy (2002) and Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-Up Idealists (2008).

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~religion/events/