Seminar Series 2: Lecture 6 - Prof A C Grayling
Civic humanism and conversation about the good life
Key ideas:
- Civic humanism - an attempt to describe governance, human motivation and behaviour without recourse to the divine.
- Civic conversation - a process by which ideas, norms, values and behaviours are developed, recognised and enacted.
- Eudemonia - the outward appearance of living the good life. Described as having made contributions to the common good as well as benefiting from this over the period of one's life.
- Inequality and its effect on participation and how to change this.
- Motivation and how this occurs.
- The Good Life and how to describe it.
About the speaker
Prof A C Grayling, Professor of Philosophy, Birkbeck College, University of London
British philosopher and author. In 2011 he founded and became the first Master of New College of the Humanities, an independent undergraduate college in London. Until June 2011, he was Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London, where he taught from 1991. He is also a supernumerary fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford.
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