Durham Castle Lecture Series
The Durham Castle Lecture Series is devoted to bringing high-profile speakers to Durham who can contribute to academic and public discussion on issues of global significance.
The presenters have all made an outstanding contribution to their fields. The series is made possible by a generous gift from Santander Universities, and the purchase of additional equipment for the Great Hall was supported by the generous donations of Castle alumni.
Videos are reproduced here by the kind permission of the Master.
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Professor Edith Hall
Wednesday 24th January 2018
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Durham Castle Lecture - Professor Edith Hall, Aristotle Goes to the Movies
Aristotle's Virtue Ethics provide a valuable guide to living a good and fulfilling life which is still useful and practicable in the 21st century. But, unfortunately, his surviving treatises are often a challenging read even for the educated layperson.
This lecture discusses his own view of the moral edification which good drama can bestow, and asks what famous movies Aristotle would use, if he were alive today, to illustrate his principal ethical concepts.
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