#  Video: Goodness: Altruism and the Literary Imagination 

 





December 11, 2012

 

 

The annual Ingersoll Lecture on Immortality was presented on December 6 by Toni Morrison, the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities, Emerita, Princeton University, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

In a talk titled 'Goodness: Altruism and the Literary Imagination,' she explored how authors illuminate concepts of good and evil. She also examined the treatment of goodness in her own novels.

Read more from the [Harvard Gazette](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/12/good-but-never-simple/).



 



 

 

 



 

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