{"id":9137,"date":"2015-03-29T05:25:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T05:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/?p=9137"},"modified":"2024-04-22T14:38:40","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T18:38:40","slug":"moral-arguments-divestment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/2015\/03\/29\/moral-arguments-divestment\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Moral Arguments About Divestment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Making Moral Arguments\u00a0<\/strong><strong>About Divestment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hans Oberdiek, Professor Emeritus<br \/>\n<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Krista Thomason, Assistant Professor<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Department of Philosophy<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Monday, April 6, 2015<br \/>\n4:30 p.m.<br \/>\nScience Center 199<\/p>\n<p>In conversations about divestment, economic arguments often take center stage. What about the moral arguments? Is divesting the right thing to do? Could there be moral arguments against divestment? Moral philosophers have been making moral arguments since the earliest days of philosophy, so the tools and skills they use can be helpful in thinking about the moral issues surrounding divestment. Join us for a conversation about the moral arguments for and against divestment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/03\/2014-09-22-climate_marchers_nyc.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9144\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9144\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/03\/2014-09-22-climate_marchers_nyc.jpg\" alt=\"2014-09-22-climate_marchers_nyc\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/03\/2014-09-22-climate_marchers_nyc.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/03\/2014-09-22-climate_marchers_nyc-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/03\/2014-09-22-climate_marchers_nyc-1024x666.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This event is presented by the Philosophy Department\u00a0and the Peace &amp; Conflict Studies Program<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making Moral Arguments\u00a0About Divestment Hans Oberdiek, Professor Emeritus Krista Thomason, Assistant Professor Department of Philosophy Monday, April 6, 2015 4:30 p.m. Science Center 199 In conversations about divestment, economic arguments often take center stage. What about the moral arguments? Is divesting the right thing to do? Could there be moral arguments against divestment? Moral philosophers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/2015\/03\/29\/moral-arguments-divestment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Making Moral Arguments About Divestment<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[191,99,276,90],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9137"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9146,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9137\/revisions\/9146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}