Marx as an Ethical Thinker
A Conversation With Michael Lazarus
12.00-1.30pm | Friday, February 21
Elm Library, 31 Whitney Avenue
What does Karl Marx, who famously dismissed “bourgeois morality,” have to offer ethical thought? Against many common views, Marx is best understood in a tradition of ethics originating in Aristotle and Hegel that envisions the human good in the life-well lived of the political community. Drawing out the ethics of Marx’s critique of “value” pays rich dividends to grasping the role of human action in his thinking.
Michael Lazarus is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University and a visiting postdoctoral fellow in Comparative Literature at Yale University.
This event is open to all members of the Yale community. Lunch will be served.
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The political economy of ethics is the opulence of a good conscience, of virtue, etc.; but how can I live virtuously if I do not live?
—Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844