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Knollwood Club

1890 Knollwood Road

Lake Forest, IL 60045

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Founded in 1924, located on 240 rolling acres in Lake Forest, Illinois, Knollwood Club is one of the premier country clubs in Illinois. Members and guests alike enjoy our wide array of traditionally elegant facilities. The centerpiece of the Club is the H.S. Colt and C.H. Alison designed golf course, chosen several times as a championship level course for USGA and PGA events.

Business Casual

Traditional business casual attire is appropriate. This is not a black tie or formal event.

**No Denim/Jeans (Club Request)

Dinner includes:

Drinks & Hors D’Oeuvres

Farmhouse Salad

Beef Filet

Dessert

*Please alert your table host prior to the event about any allergy considerations you have.

Over the past 20 years, hundreds of Boston-area professors and community leaders have engaged in Cambridge Roundtable discussions at Harvard and MIT, adding depth and clarity to their lives professionally and personally.

Since 2014, Dartmouth began adapting the Cambridge Roundtable, offering three Roundtable gatherings per year. Mike Woodruff (Christ Church Lake Forest) attended one of these events and wanted to bring the idea to the North Shore.

Lakelight Institute is organizing the first event in what we hope is an ongoing series. Roundtables include quality conversations around ideas that matter, which are rare in modern society. Participation includes doing some pre-reading and being willing to engage in civil discussion over a nice meal. The author/researcher will join and answer questions around their work as an added bonus.

The Character Gap, by Christian B. Miller (Oxford University Press)

We like to think of ourselves, our friends, and our families as decent people. We may not be saints, but we are still honest, relatively kind, and mostly trustworthy. Miller argues here that we are badly mistaken in thinking this. Hundreds of recent studies in psychology tell a different story: that we all have serious character flaws that prevent us from being as good as we think we are - and that we do not even recognize that these flaws exist. But neither are most of us cruel or dishonest. Instead, Miller argues, we are a mixed bag.

Christian B. Miller | A.C. Reid Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University and Director of the Character Project, funded by the John Templeton Foundation and Templeton World Charity Foundation. He is the author of over 75 papers as well as two books with Oxford University Press, Moral Character: An Empirical Theory (2013) and Character and Moral Psychology (2014).