The Parr Center is an embodiment of the University’s commitment to ethics. Our aim is to promote ethical development by providing the necessary resources - theoretical development, empirical knowledge, and discussion opportunities - to explore and advance our understanding of ethical issues.
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The Parr Center:

* Brings academic and theoretical work in ethics to bear on practical ethical issues
* Encourages the moral development and ethical awareness of our students
* Provides a public forum for productive discussions of ethical issues affecting the university, state, national, and international communities

In pursuing this mission, The Parr Center:

* Sponsors and supports programs and events that address ethical issues
* Facilitates continuing education in ethics
* Provides the resources, intellectual framework, and opportunity to explore ethical questions
* Hosts visiting scholars
* Sponsors research in ethics


"We are discussing no small matter, but how we ought to live." -- Socrates, in Plato's Republic


HISTORY

The Parr Center for Ethics was established in 2004-2005, thanks to a generous gift from the Gary W. Parr Family Foundation. Plans for the Center grew naturally in the fertile soil of the Ethics Fellows Program in the College's Institute for Arts and Humanities which was begun in 1997. That program helped to consolidate a community of scholars from across the University, all of whose research and teaching interests are squarely in ethics. Capitalizing on this community, the Parr Center for Ethics seeks to encourage and foster the palpable need for fruitful discussion and exploration of ethical issues.


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The Parr Center is an embodiment of the University’s commitment to ethics. Our aim is to promote ethical development by providing the necessary resources - theoretical development, empirical knowledge, and discussion opportunities - to explore and advance our understanding of ethical issues.
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The Parr Center:

* Brings academic and theoretical work in ethics to bear on practical ethical issues
* Encourages the moral... (read more)