IN PERSON: A moral crisis is a condition of sudden uncertainty involving competing values or principles with no obvious resolution. The experience can be profoundly confusing, but narratives can help us understand ourselves and our situation. In this course, we will consider a number of such narratives: the story in the Book of Genesis of the "fall of man"; two brief novels, Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" and J.M. Coetzee's "Disgrace"; a short story, Alice Munro's "Lives of Girls and Women"; brief philosophical examples; and one film, "Atonement," from the Ian McEwan novel. In this discussion-based course, we will use these texts as invitations to think about how we fall into a moral crisis, how we should think about such crises and how we might get out of a crisis. | Facilitated discussion.
Max enrollment: 15.
Location: Judea Reform Congregation, 1933 W. Cornwallis Rd, Durham NC 27705
