The University of Sheffield’s Professor of the Public Understanding of Philosophy, Angie Hobbs, will join high profile guests and speakers to discuss the moral resourcing of the nation at Westminster Abbey this week (Wednesday 14 November 2012).
The debate, entitled Faith and secularism: the Moral Resourcing of the Nation will address the following questions:
o How can morality best be shaped in a plural society which is constantly under pressure from multiple strands of opinion and a variety of social forces?
o What shared historic and contemporary moral and religious resources can be brought to bear on issues such as the quest for wealth, fame, competition, self-esteem?
o Can faith and secular work together to renew our moral resources?
Hobbs, an agnostic professor of philosophy, will join John Milbank Professor of Religion, Politics and Ethics, University of Nottingham, a radical orthodox professor of theology, to debate the issues and discuss with the audience.
Hobbs will argue for a reworking of some aspects of Plato’s Ethics of Flourishing and Virtue as a moral resource which can be shared by people of all faiths and of none.
