Mary Warnock on Political Ethics
2009 was a tale of two crises. One was financial, the other political, but what bound these two breakdowns was a moral crisis that fractured the foundations of public trust in these systems of power. Gone may be the days of gathering with flaming torches at the gates of kings, but the public’s uproar at perceived injustice remains loud and clear. And with the leadership of this country soon to be at stake, never have these questions been more crucial.
Politician and ethicist, Baroness Mary Warnock, will address this ethical outcry, arguing that it is not just a crisis of illegality, but of the morality of individuals, businesses, institutions and governance structures. Structures which have been exposed as, flawed, or more shockingly, non-existent. She will preach the urgent need to inject into public discourse the huge ethical challenges that recent events have so sharply and disturbingly delineated.
Baroness Mary Warnock is one of Britain’s leading public figures. She is perhaps best known for expressing her views on assisted suicide, and her role in the production of the Warnock report - an inquiry into human fertilisation by the Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology, which she chaired. She is a philosopher of morality, education and mind and has written extensively on existentialism and ethics.
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