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Markets & Morality / St. Benedict Institute hosting Dr. David Paul Deavel
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Mon, 2/17
Taking Advantage of Freedom: What to Do with Liberty When You Have It
Event Date/Time:
Date: 2/17/2020
Time: 7:00pm-8:30pm
Event Location Information:
Company Name: Winants Auditorium, Hope College
Address:263 College Ave
Holland, MI 49423
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Website: saintbenedictinstitute.org
Additional Event Details:
(Please join us in hosting Dr. David Paul Deavel for a talk on “Taking Advantage of Freedom: What to Do with Liberty When You Have It.” This event is co-sponsored by Markets & Morality and the Saint Benedict Institute.
While political, economic, and intellectual freedom is a precious gift to humans, our long history shows that we are ready to give it away. Why is that? One answer might be given from the Nobel-Prize-winning Russian writer, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008): when people don’t understand and use the freedom they have, they will throw it away to the detriment of themselves and their loved ones. This lecture will give a brief introduction to the life and career of Solzhenitsyn and then outline four enemies of freedom along with the way to defeat them. The goal is to take advantage of freedom in order to preserve it and flourish as individuals and societies.)