Philosophy of Promises and Oaths

Feb 13 | 6.00-7.30pm | Elm Library

Is it wrong to make a promise if you can’t be sure that you will be able to keep it? Are wedding vows simply an especially solemn kind of promise? Are professional oaths an anachronism?

A discussion over dinner, this even is open to all current Yale students. Spaces are limited; RSVP using the form below.

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’Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth,
But the plain single vow that is vowed true.

William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well