On Thursday, November 10, 2011, Professor Daniel Markovits of Yale Law School delivered a lecture entitled "Toleration and the Special Problem of Revealed Religion." This event took place as part of the activities of IDI's Human Rights and Judaism Project.
Daniel Markovits is Guido Calabresi Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He works in the philosophical foundations of private law, moral and political philosophy, and behavioral economics. He has written articles on contract, legal ethics, distributive justice, democratic theory, and other-regarding preferences. Professor Markovits concentrates, in each area, on the ways in which legal orderings engage the human instinct in favor of sociality to sustain cooperation even among persons who pursue conflicting interests and endorse competing moral ideals. He finds respectful relations in surprising places, for example in contracts between self-interested buyers and sellers, litigation between adversary disputants, and political competition between partisan parties. In each case, Markovits argues, seemingly competitive interactions contain, in their immanent logic, forms of reciprocal recognition and respect. (For further information about Prof. Markovits, click here.)
This was open to the public with advance registration.
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Lecture: Toleration and the Special Problem of Revealed Religion
Speaker: Prof. Daniel Markovits
Thursday, November 10, 2011
The Israel Democracy Institute
4 Pinsker Street, Jerusalem
10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.