To Heal a Fractured World / The Ethics of Responsibility

In 2007, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks published one of his most important works, “To Heal a Fractured World”, in which he asks: What are our duties to others, to society, and to humanity? How do we live a meaningful life in an age of global uncertainty and instability? Explore these questions and many others in this interactive seminar led by Ron Levy, Professor of law at ANU.   

Participants may wish to purchase a copy of Rabbi Sacks’s book. We will aim to read the first 4 chapters.

This is a four part course that will run on:

• Sunday October 19 from 10:30am-12noon

• Sunday November 2 from 10:30am-12noon

• Sunday November 16 from 10:30am-12noon

• Sunday November 30 from 10:30am-12noon

Ron Levy is a Professor in the College of Law, Governance and Policy at the Australian National University. His work seeks to understand how contentious public problems can be better managed using new forms of democracy and deliberation. He has examined polarising questions involving the human rights of individuals and groups, Indigenous issues, constitutional reform and deeply divided societies. He currently co-leads the Deliberative Peacemaking collaborative book project, which draws on more than 25 contributors from 14 countries.

Prof Levy's books include Deliberative Peace Referendums (Oxford University Press, 2021, with Ian O'Flynn and Hoi Kong); The Law of Deliberative Democracy (Routledge, 2016, with Graeme Orr) and The Cambridge Handbook of Deliberative Constitutionalism (Cambridge University Press, 2018, with Hoi Kong, Graeme Orr and Jeff King eds).