Professor Susan Mendus.‘Politics and Morality’ will be the main theme of a lecture to be delivered by a top professor for the Mabel Strickland Memorial Lecture at the Phoenicia Hotel on Thursday.
The lecture by Susan Mendus, a Morrell Professor Emerita in political philosophy at the University of York, will look into the relationship between politics and morality and more specifically into whether political success is compatible with moral goodness.
Prof. Mendus’s academic research focuses on problems in moral and political philosophy, especially toleration. She has lectured widely in the US, Australia, and the UK.
Her published books include Toleration and the Limits of Liberalism, Impartiality in Moral and Political Philosophy and Politics and Morality. In 2012 she gave evidence as an expert witness to the Leveson Inquiry into the Culture, Practice and Ethics of the Press.
Prof. Mendus was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2004, and was vice president of the academy from 2008-2012. In 2013 she was awarded the CBE for services to political science.
The Strickland Foundation is a public benefit organisation set up by Mabel Strickland, journalist and politician, in 1979. It aims to promote the observance of human rights, democratic principles and a free press.
Attendance at Thursday’s lecture, which starts at 6.30pm, is free.