Students piled into the Honors College Commons of the M.D. Anderson Memorial Library at 5 p.m. Thursday for “What’s Fair: A Lecture on Phronesis,” hosted by the Honors College’s phronesis department.
Featured speaker professor Paul Woodruff of The University of Texas Austin, recipient of a Darrell K. Royal Regents Professorship in Ethics and American Society, took the stand to discuss how he thought society should handle distributing awards and public recognition.
“Rewards mark the difference between winners and losers,” Woodruff said.
In the lecture, Woodruff drew examples from the history of the Greek war with the city of Troy and the trials Gen. Agamemnon were put through.
To entertain the attendees of his lecture and legitimize his argument, Woodruff used several voices to read excerpts from his translation of “The Ajax Dilemma: Justice, Fairness, and Rewards.”
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