Amber Carpenter/ Josh Cohen/ Edward Skidelsky/ Danielle Sands
Monday 11 May, 6.30 – 8pm
Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE
Amber Carpenter, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Yale-NUS College and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of York
Josh Cohen, Professor of Modern Literary Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London and a practising psychoanalyst
Edward Skidelsky, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Exeter
Chair: Danielle Sands, Lecturer in Philosophy, Royal Holloway, University of London and Forum for European Philosophy Fellow
What makes a life good? Is the ‘good life’ a happy life? Does the ‘good life’ name an individual experience or a social goal? In what ways have alterations in our perception of the human changed the notion of human flourishing? In this event, three thinkers will address the meaning and significance of the ‘good life’ today.
