UPenn's Freeman to deliver Norton Lecture on March 1
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10:04 a.m., Feb. 24, 2009----The University of Delaware's Department of Philosophy has announced that Samuel Freeman, Avalon Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, will deliver the 2009 David Norton Memorial Lecture to be held at 3 p.m., Sunday, March 1, in Clayton Hall on the UD campus in Newark.

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The title of the talk is “Social Bases of Distributive Justice” and it will explore the extent to which distributive justice is a duty we have towards members of our societies, or to members of the entire global community.

Freeman is considered the pre-eminent expert on the work on the philosopher John Rawls.

The Norton Lecture is designed to present contemporary work by leading figures in ethics in a manner accessible to general members of the University of Delaware community.

The late Dr. Norton, for whom the lecture is named, joined the UD faculty in 1966 and helped establish the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program. He was the author of two major philosophy books, Personal Destinies and Democracy and Moral Development, in addition to almost 100 articles and essays.

A free reception will follow the talk.

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