W37W The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness (Hybrid/In-Person)
In-Person | Registration opens 12/16/2025 10:00 AM EST
[NEW COURSE] You are an inmate in a Nazi death camp where a dying SS trooper asks you to forgive him for his atrocities. Can you do so? Should you do so? We will read and discuss Simon Wiesenthal’s The Sunflower. The discussion will also include formal reconciliation efforts in Rwanda and South Africa. Discussion, Lecture, Reading
Thomas Low
Tom Low is neither a professional philosopher nor an academic but has been a serious reader since his teens. He has led courses at Osher on figures as diverse as Plato, Montaigne, Thoreau, William James, Marcus Aurelius, and the great economists.