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SUMMARY:The Rich and the Poor - Professor Philip Kitcher FBA (Columbia Uni
 versity)
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CONTACT:Clare Kitcat
DESCRIPTION:The C P Snow lecture will be given by Christ's Honorary Fellow
 \, Professor Philip Kitcher in the Yusuf Hamied Theatre on Tuesday 7 March
 .\n\nC P Snow was a Fellow of Christ's College and\, in memory of his cont
 ributions\, a lecture was endowed in his name some years ago by an admirer
 \, with the aim of bridging the division between the humanities and the sc
 iences.  As Snow argued in the first part of his 1959 Rede Lecture\, 'The 
 Two Cultures'\, this division is a major barrier to solving the world's pr
 oblems.\n\n“The Rich and the Poor” was C.P. Snow’s original title fo
 r his Rede Lecture (“The Two Cultures”).  In reflecting on the lecture
 \, Snow claimed that the second half of the lecture\, in which he emphasiz
 ed the obligations of the rich to the poor\, sounded his principal themes.
   But Snow’s vision of a world in which the advances of science would gr
 eatly reduce or even eliminate poverty has not been realized.  Avoiding po
 litics\, he had simply assumed that the benefits of knowledge would automa
 tically flow to areas of deprivation.\n\nOthers have seen more clearly the
  need for socio-political institutions through which poverty might be reme
 died.  The subsequent developments of global capitalism have not\, however
 \, lived up to Snow’s predictions.  This lecture will review successes a
 nd failures\, offer an approach to human development\, and argue that curr
 ent institutions are not only inadequate to deliver what is needed\, but a
 lso at odds with the conditions of ethical life.  Possibly also inimical t
 o the human future on our planet.
LOCATION:The Yusuf Hamied Theatre\, Christ's College
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