This installment in our Education for Citizenship series on
virtues and vices examines greed, a selfish and excessive desire
for more than is needed. How much is enough? What enables advertisers
to convince citizens to consume more than is reasonable? Are
seductive images of comfort, convenience, and sexual stimulation that
bombard us in advertising edging out non-market values of care,
community, love, and public service? Are market values changing college campuses? Join us for a conversation that casts a critical eye on the effects of greed on individual and collective life.
Related Themes: citizenship, greed, vices, virtues
greed
Education for Citizenship Series:
Consuming Culture and Greed
David Loy and Juliet Schor with Mark Gonnerman
Wednesday, December 3, 2008 | 7:30 – 9:00pm | Kresge Auditorium | Free and Open to All
This installment in our Education for Citizenship series on
virtues and vices examines greed, a selfish and excessive desire
for more than is needed. How much is enough? What enables advertisers
to convince citizens to consume more than is reasonable? Are
seductive images of comfort, convenience, and sexual stimulation that
bombard us in advertising edging out non-market values of care,
community, love, and public service? Are market values changing college campuses? Join us for a conversation that casts a critical eye on the effects of greed on individual and collective life.
Related Themes: citizenship, greed, vices, virtues
Director's Notes
Post by Mark Gonnerman
Thursday, 12 November, 2009
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The Aurora Forum is pleased to join with Stanford Lively Arts and the Stanford Institute on Creativity and the Arts to present a series of conversations on "Art+Invention" with artists who are in residence or visiting the Stanford Campus. Our guests in this series are people who contribute to and illuminate various cultures, expand awareness through new technologies, and probe philosophical questions that are at the heart of humanistic inquiry. This will be fun! Click here for an overview of this exciting new venture.
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