Past Events on Academic Topics





Community and the Common Good in Lady in the Water:

In an engaging talk, Joseph Wysocki (The Morrison Doctoral Fellow in Constitutional Studies at Baylor University) discussed M. Night Shyamalan's Lady in the Water, comparing its striking similarity to some of the moral and political issues addressed in the work of Alasdair MacIntyre. The film's eclectic community ultimately exposes what may be a tension between two of MacIntyre's claims on the nature of modernity and virtue.