GUEST LECTURE 7:30pm. Monday 7th April at Waterford Cheshire, John’s Hill What’s all this about ‘Well-being’? Wisdom Perspectives on a Well-lived Life Well-being (‘Wellness’, ‘Happiness’, ‘Flourishing’) has perhaps always been a deep aspiration of human beings. And over the past decade or two, it has loomed large not only in the everyday concerns of very many people but also in the media and in academic research. In this lecture I will examine the conception of ‘subjective well-being’ that has been developed in recent writing in psychology and economics. And I will evaluate this conception critically in the light of two alternative conceptions of a well lived life: one inherited from classical Greek philosophy and the other informed by religious traditions, especially Christianity and Buddhism. Speaker: Joseph Dunne is Cregan Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Education at Dublin City University. A native of Thurles, Co. Tipperary, he was educated at local schools, Rockwell College and University College Dublin, before joining the teaching staff of St. Patrick’s College Dublin in 1970, where he taught philosophy in the Education and Humanities programmes and was founding Head of Human Development, a subject devoted to interdisciplinary study of the human life-span. He has held visiting appointments at Duke University and the University of British Columbia, and been a frequent speaker in Britain, North America, Scandinavia and Ireland on issues concerning practical knowledge, professional judgement, childhood, citizenship, and the fate of religion in late modernity. His book, Back to the Rough Ground: Practical Judgment and the Lure of Technique (Notre Dame and London: University of Notre Dame Press,1997) has been widely regarded as a landmark work in retrieving the philosophical significance of practical wisdom (phronesis) and demonstrating its pertinence to a range of contemporary professions, including teaching. The author of many journal articles and reviews, he has co-edited Questioning Ireland: Debates in Political Philosophy and Public Policy (Dublin: IPA, 2000), Childhood and its Discontents: The First Seamus Heaney Lectures (Dublin: Liffey Press, 2002) and Education and Practice: Upholding the Integrity of Teaching and Learning (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004). His Persons in Practice: Essays in Education and Public Philosophy is forthcoming from University of Notre Dame Press. For further information, please email [email protected].
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