Very Short Introductions
LITERARY SPEED-DATING – OXFORD, 30 OCTOBER. Another event I failed to post here until after it took place. I am a little better at advertising talks on my twitter feed.
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Should we seek material security?
Americans are the 10th richest people on earth, yet as a recent Gallup-Healthways report puts it, the country has “good-but-not-great wellbeing compared with the rest of the world”. Many people think they know why…
ReadWhere does motivation come from?
The cult of reason did not prove to be as popular as the Catholicism it displaced. We should not be surprised. Unlike religion, rationality cannot tell us how to live. Reason gives us no reasons to act.
ReadFeast or Fast?
RELIGION, FOOD AND THE GOOD LIFE – CHURCH STRETTON, 21 OCTOBER, 19:30. “Religious traditions sometimes celebrate food and eating in feasts, but they also often promote abstinence, moderation and asceticism. Julian will argue that religion gets some things right and some things wrong about the pleasures and virtues of eating, and in this talk he’ll try to unpick the good from the bad.”
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