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March 5th, 2015

On Civil Disobedience

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Estimated reading time: 10 minutes

Forum for Philosophy

March 5th, 2015

On Civil Disobedience

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Estimated reading time: 10 minutes

Kimberley Brownlee/ Nick Bunnin

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Thursday 5 March 2015, 6.30 – 8pm
Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE

Kimberley Brownlee, Associate Professor of Legal and Moral Philosophy, University of Warwick

Chair: Nick Bunnin, Institute for Chinese Studies, University of Oxford

Is it acceptable to use civil disobedience to protest against the law? Do we have a moral right, and sometimes a moral duty, to engage in civil disobedience? Should we be punished when we do so? In this lecture, Kimberley Brownlee discussed the merits of this practice made famous by Thoreau, Gandhi, King, and Aung San Suu Kyi.

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