Groundhog Day is widely admired as a classic of American cinema. Many viewers have found it to be not merely a satisfying comedy, but a film of remarkable depth which becomes increasingly rewarding with each viewing. A major source of the film's appeal is its acute moral insight; despite its fantastical premise, it presents a realistic portrayal of moral growth and transformation.

Moral Transformation in Groundhog Day

Thursday, February 2rd @ 7:30 PM

AAI 14 Arrow Street Suite G10 Cambridge MA 02138

Peter Wicks is Scholar-in-Residence at the Elm Institute. Educated at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Dr. Wicks came to the United States as Jane Eliza Procter Visiting Fellow at Princeton’s Graduate School before pursuing his doctoral studies in philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. Before joining the Elm Institute he taught in Villanova University’s Ethics Program as a Catherine of Siena Fellow. argument and persuasion.

His main research interests are the contemporary applications of Aristotelian ethical and political thought, the intellectual foundations of utilitarianism, and the psychology and ethics of persuasion. Along with Kelvin Knight, he is editor of the second edition of The MacIntyre Reader (University of Notre Dame Press. forthcoming).

He is executive secretary of the International Society for MacIntyrean Enquiry, a faculty affiliate of the Yale Program for Biomedical Ethics, and a fellow of Pauli Murray College. Since the spring of 2022 Dr. Wicks has taught a new course in Yale College on the psychology of