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Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Lecture: 'Meaningfulness: A Third Dimension of the Good Life'

Monday, March 1, 2021 | 6:30 PM

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Join guest speaker Susan Wolf, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for this Assembly Series event.

In thinking about what we want for ourselves and for those about whom we care, we tend to think in terms of the categories of self-interest and morality. We want, in other words, to be both happy and good. These categories, however, leave something out: an interest that our lives be meaningful. This lecture, with Susan Wolf, will propose an analysis of meaningfulness in terms of subjective engagement with objective values. Understanding meaningfulness this way brings together the attractive elements of other more popular ways of thinking about the concept and makes intelligible why we should care deeply about having meaning in our lives.

Schools

Arts & Sciences

Topic

Humanities & Society

Website

https://artsci.wustl.edu/events/phi-b...

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Assembly Series
Event Contact

dkillen@wustl.edu

Speaker Information
Join guest speaker Dr. Susan Wolf of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for this Assembly Series event.
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