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Nicholas Denyer to speak on ‘The Origins of Justice’
On Monday 23rd March at 4.30 pm, Mr Nicholas Denyer will be speaking on:
‘The Origins of Justice’
Why be just? Why be nice to other people? One obvious answer is that you will be punished if you aren’t. But the obvious answer raises new questions. For example, why be nice if you won’t get caught? The thinkers of classical Greece had a plausible, and unsettling, answer to all these questions. In this talk, Mr Denyer will be looking at that answer, exploring problems from the classic Prisoners’ Dilemma to the response of the island of Melos to Athenian aggression.
Mr Denyer is Fellow and College Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge.
The talk is hosted by the St Paul’s Girls’ School Classics Society. Tea and cake will be served from 4.00 in the Dining Hall and the talk will be held in the Old Library. The event will finish between 5.30 and 6.00. There is no charge.
The address of the school is St Paul’s Girls’ School, Brook Green, London, W6 7BS; main telephone 020 7603 2288. The nearest tube is Hammersmith.
All are welcome, but if you or your pupils would like to attend, please email Gregory Wilsdon at with expected numbers as soon as possible and at the latest by Friday 20th March.