Blanton Room, SMU Laura Lee Blanton Building,

6185 Airline Rd, Dallas, TX 75205

Drawing on ideas in Rawls’ The Law of Peoples, this lecture will explore the reasons for insisting that democracies not only preserve a peace among themselves but extend toleration to other “decent” (though nondemocratic) societies and aid peoples requiring assistance to escape humanitarian emergencies or extreme poverty. The lecture will explore whether those normative commitments are realistic – i.e., are likely to be fulfilled by the democracies Rawls is addressing.

Our bus will leave the Texins Fitness Center at 11:15 am and return around 2:30 pm. SMU TC is providing a free box lunch to all participants. The cost is $10.00. Please reserve ‘tickets’ before Tuesday, October 15 (SMU TC has offered a few additional tickets).