“Making and breaking exemplary models: Lessons for today” with Rebecca Langlands

What makes some people seem admirable to others? How is moral value attributed to people and actions? How does a community identify individuals as moral exemplars to be celebrated, commemorated and emulated? And when and how can their significance be recalibrated? Langlands explains how the study of ancient cultures might help us to identify and resolve shortcomings in modern exemplarist theory, including its inattention to gender, class, and ethnicity.