Philosophy Club Meeting
Please join us at our next meeting of the University of Hartford Philosophy Club this Wednesday, Oct. 13 from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. in Room 420 Auerbach Hall at the University of Hartford. You can also join the meeting online by clicking on the WebEx link below.
This week Club member Richard Hall will read and discuss his article:
“Get tough with anti-vaccine people; true freedom, conservatism demand it”
Imagine that stalking your neighborhood are foreign terrorists armed with biological weapons who threaten the health and lives of all those they encounter. Right now, there are terrorists with biological weapons in our midst, not foreign but domestic — our fellow citizens.
They are the people who refuse to be vaccinated against COVID-19. In so doing they have weaponized their bodies as biological weapons loaded with the COVID-19 virus, threatening to infect anyone who encounters them.
I am fed up with those who refuse vaccination for COVID-19. I propose that the following urgent measures should be taken against them....
Click on link for full paper:Richard A. S. Hall is Professor of Philosophy at Fayetteville State University, a constituent institution of the University of North Carolina. He holds the Ph.D. and B.A. in philosophy from the University of Toronto and Boston University respectively. His publications include five books. His most recent book is The Justice of War: Its Foundation in Ethics and Natural Law (Lexington Books, 2020). Others are The Neglected Northampton Texts of Jonathan Edwards: Edwards on Society and Politics (The Edwin Mellen Press, 1990); Josiah Royce’s Proposal How to Establish World Peace (The Edwin Mellen Press, 2017); and White Calvinists Fighting Against Black Slavery (The Edwin Mellen Press, 2016). He has chapters in the following publications: The Contribution of Jonathan Edwards to American Culture and Society (The Edwin Mellen Press, 2008); Josiah Royce for the Twenty-First Century (Lexington Books, 2012); Middlebrow Wodehouse (Ashgate, 2016); and entries in The Jonathan Edwards Encyclopedia (Eerdmans).
The University of Hartford Philosophy Club Online:Meetings: Wednesday, 1 p.m.-2 p.m.
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An ongoing weekly tradition at the University since 2001, the University of Hartford Philosophy Club is a place where students, professors, and people from the community at large meet as peers. Sometimes presentations are given, followed by discussion. Other times, topics are hashed out by the whole group.
Presenters may be students, professors, or people from the community. Anyone can offer to present a topic. The mode of presentation may be as formal or informal as the presenter chooses.
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Brian D. Skelly, Philosophy
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