The Cambridge Forum for Legal & Political Philosophy will host a public lecture by Professor Joseph Chan of Academia Sinica (Taiwan) on Tuesday, March 7th, at 5:00pm, in Room G24 of the Faculty Building. The title of the lecture is 'The Moral Limits of Violence in Political Resistance.'
Professor Chan left his native city of Hong Kong after the Chinese Communist dictatorship (and its local quislings) wielded brutal force during the past few years to squelch the efforts of the people of Hong Kong to maintain liberal-democratic institutions. His lecture arises in part from his experiencing of those grim events. Here is a two-sentence abstract of the lecture:
Is violence in political resistance against state injustice morally permissible? Joseph Chan examines the moral limits of force and the extent to which the principles of just cause, responsible prospects of success, necessity, and proportionality can provide practical moral guidance to participants in resistance movements that are highly dynamic and open-ended.
Everyone is welcome to attend the lecture.
