Hyde Park Institute helps students, alumni, and other members of the University of Chicago community sharpen their purpose and strengthen their character to serve the common good. In partnership with University of Chicago faculty, we sponsor programming and for-credit courses that facilitate dialogue about character, encourage the cultivation of virtue, and promote wise, ethical decision-making in academic, professional, and personal life.

 

"We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education."

Martin Luther King, Jr, The Purpose of Education

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"It is not a trivial question, Socrates said: what we are talking about is how one should live."

Bernard Williams, Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy