Wie verdient het over ons te regeren? Wie is, In het huidige klimaat van weerstand tegen autoriteiten en elites, het beste in staat om ons land te leiden? Moet onze overheid altijd bestaan uit de mensen die het best en het slimst zijn? Of willen we liever een bestuur dat de bevolking representeert, zowel wat betreft sociaal-economische status als opleidingsniveau?

Kom en leer van de wereldberoemde Harvard-filosoof Michael Sandel in Nijmegen op 9 mei 2023.

Voorafgaand aan de lezing ontvangt Michael Sandel een eredoctoraat van de Radboud Universiteit.

A brew of anger and frustration

In his bestseller and Book of the Year 2020 The Tyranny of Merit, philosopher Michael Sandel argues that we live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favor of those who already have a head start. The consequence is a brew of anger and frustration that has fueled populist protest. To overcome the polarized politics of our time, Sandel states, we must rethink our attitude toward success and failure that has accompanied rising inequality. He offers an alternative way of thinking about success – more attentive to the role of luck in human affairs, more conductive to an ethics of humility, and more hospitable to a politics of the common good.

Backlash against experts and elites

Especially for this occasion, Michael Sandel will elaborate on meritocracy in relation to authority and government. Are those with academic credentials better equipped to govern us than differently educated citizens? And what accounts for the backlash against experts and elites?
After his interactive lecture, Sandel will discuss these and related questions in more detail with Radboud scholars political scientist Carolien van Ham, political philosopher Vivienne Matthies-Boon and philosopher Christoph Lüthy. Philosopher and ethicist Marcel Becker will chair the evening.

This program is in English.

Datum en tijd: Dinsdag 9 mei 2023, van 19.30 – 20.00 uur; uitreiking eredoctoraat. Lezing van 20.15 – 21.30 uur
Plaats: De Vereeniging, Keizer Karelplein 1d, Nijmegen
Entree: € 15,-  of € 7,50

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