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Professor Hinde has received a Huxley Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, a Society Medal of the Association for the Study of Animal Behavior, a Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the Society for Research in Child Development, a G. Stanley Hall Medal of the American Psychological Association, and a Distinguished Career Award of the International Society for the Study of Personal Relationships.
This lecture will explore the view that morality comes from basic human tendencies, and that moral precepts evolve from interaction, over pre-historical and historical time, between what people do and what they are supposed to do.
Professor Hinde will share his thoughts on the nature of morality and its relation to religious systems, how morality changes over time, how different cultures adopt their own moral values, how morality develops in the individual, and why moral conflicts are everywhere.
Members of the Press and interested parties are cordially invited to attend.
Professor Emeritus of the University of Cambridge to deliver lecture in HKU
13 Nov 2003
Professor Robert A Hinde, Professor Emeritus of the University of Cambridge is to deliver a Distinguished Lecture entitled The Nature of Morality at 6:00pm on Friday, November 14, at Rayson Huang Lecture Theatre, the University of Hong Kong. The lecture is organized by HKU's Department of Psychology.
Professor Hinde has received a Huxley Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, a Society Medal of the Association for the Study of Animal Behavior, a Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the Society for Research in Child Development, a G. Stanley Hall Medal of the American Psychological Association, and a Distinguished Career Award of the International Society for the Study of Personal Relationships.
This lecture will explore the view that morality comes from basic human tendencies, and that moral precepts evolve from interaction, over pre-historical and historical time, between what people do and what they are supposed to do.
Professor Hinde will share his thoughts on the nature of morality and its relation to religious systems, how morality changes over time, how different cultures adopt their own moral values, how morality develops in the individual, and why moral conflicts are everywhere.
Members of the Press and interested parties are cordially invited to attend.
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