Ethics@noon--Professor Josiah Ober (Princeton) on "Why Should Socrates Drink the Hemlock?"

Ethics in Society sponsors a series of weekly conversations, led by invited faculty members and students on topics of their own choosing. These lectures are intended for the Bay Area community, faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate students. Ethics at Noon is a brown-bag forum whose purpose is to provide an informal and ongoing forum for discussion of ethical issues, particularly as they relate to current events at the local, national, or international level.

This week's speaker is Josiah Ober, from Princeton Uniersity's Department of Classics and Center for Human Values.