Man is a sexual and procreative creature as well as a social animal. From sexuality, tradition holds, came children and family formation to protect child development. Until recently, most political philosophers began their treatise on the nature of the commonwealth or the state with a consideration of the family. But what does the family mean today? Have the old relationships of family, kinship, and tribe disappeared or have they been merely transmogrified? Are new types of families being formed? And how does a growing population of single people fit into this family formula? What, in short, are some of the deeper transformations at work in our culture that are affecting family formation? Over pizza, family style, Assistant Professor Jennifer Hook will discuss with students these issues central to our social existence.
Oct
2
2013
When: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Where: Harman Academy
Event Type: Polymathic Pizza
Where: Harman Academy
Event Type: Polymathic Pizza
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