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In the late 1960s and early 1970s, a generation of young Americans sought to
create lives and build communities which were outside of mainstream American
norms and practices. They looked in new directions for spiritual fulfillment,
experimented with communal living arrangements, pushed back against

Join us for an event with Associate Professor Will MacAskill, co-founder of
the Global Priorities Institute and author of Doing Good Better: Effective
Altruism and a Radical New Way to Make a Difference.

In this talk, Professor MacAskill will introduce the philosophy of
longtermism, presenting the argument that...

Abstract: What should be the relationship between normative and historical reasoning in political theory? This question is often addressed in terms of the idea of a “normative payoff” hidden in the depts of past political thought, waiting to be teased out by incisive commentary.