Dignity through humility
Andy Smarick gave this as the opening lecture at the Values and Capitalism Summer Conference on June 15, 2017.
Thank you so much for having me here. It’s a real pleasure to get to talk to such a talented, curious group of young scholars.
I’m working with a number of colleagues on a multi-year initiate that we’re calling the “Human Dignity Project.” Our aim is to advance the often neglected but essential conviction that every single human has infinite value and limitless potential, and that it’s our job as fellow humans and citizens, as public leaders, as policymakers to enable others to live lives of happiness, of purpose, of contribution. As C.S. Lewis wrote, “Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.”
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