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Thomas Hurka, the Chancellor Henry N.R. Jackman Distinguished Professor of Philosophical Studies at the University of Toronto, will deliver the seventh annual Anbar Family Lecture at ���ϲ����� and Temple Adath Yeshurun.

Thomas Hurka

Hurka’s ���ϲ����� lecture, “More Seriously Wrong,” is Monday, Oct. 27, at 1 p.m. in 304 Tolley. The previous day (Sunday, Oct. 26) at 7 p.m., he will lecture on “The Best Things in Life” at Temple Adath Yeshurun (450 Kimber Rd., ���ϲ�����).

Both lectures are free and open to the public and are presented by the in the . The series is made possible by the Doctors Ada and Michael Anbar Lecture Series Fund, which aims to expose the campus community to the 3,000-year-old traditions of Jewish ethics.

“These lectures are meant to serve as an engaging and thought-provoking conversations, and this year’s is no exception,” says , professor and Sutton Distinguished Chair of Philosophy. “Professor Hurka will discuss what makes life worth living and why one immoral act is considered worse than another—subjects sure to leave a lasting impression.”

Hurka joined the Toronto faculty in 2002, after three decades at the University of Calgary, where he held a series of faculty appointments. He is the author of several books from Oxford University Press: “British Ethical Theorists From Sidgwick to Ewing” (November 2014); “Drawing Morals: Essays in Ethical Theory” (2011); “The Best Things in Life: A Guide to What Really Matters” (2011); “Virtue, Vice, and Value” (2001); and “Perfectionism” (1993).

A scholar of political philosophy, particularly normative ethical theory, Hurka also studies the justification of punishment, population ethics, nationalism, friendship and the morality of war. From 1989 until 1992, he wrote a weekly ethics column for the Globe and Mail newspaper.
For more information, contact Bradley at wbradley@syr.edu.