There are words that aren’t spoken in polite company, but still are part of the common vocabulary. Philosopher Aaron James will speak about one of those terms and the traits it identifies in a free lecture Thursday, April 11, at 7:30 pm in BU’s McCormick Center, room 2303.James said in a Huffington Post blog that the term relates to “a person who systematically allows himself special advantages in cooperative life out of an entrenched sense of entitlement that immunizes him against the complaints of other people.” His lecture, “Are You an A**hole?” builds on his book with a similar title, which offers a philosophical analysis of the term and the people to whom it applies.
James is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of California at Irvine. He earned a doctoral degree from Harvard University and recently was an American Council of Learned Societies Burkhardt Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
The idea for his latest book came from a 2008 encounter with a fellow surfer who, he said, “was blatantly breaking the rules of right-of-way.”
I designed the poster for this lecture and it was one of those projects that I could picture immediately. A blast to do. In print versions around campus, the center of the "O" is reflective, like a mirror. —EGF.
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