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    Feb 22, 2016 @5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

    Becoming at Home in the Universe as Well as in Our Own Skin

    Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza believed that a turn inward in conscious self-reflection in order to understand ourselves and our unique experiences within the entire universe offers human beings our only possibility of freedom and transcendence. Recognizing ourselves in the world and the world within us enables us to engage passionately in wider and wider domains that become dimensions of our very selves, thus transforming our motives from self-serving to benevolent and responsible. Discoveries from the new brain sciences may be proving Spinoza right!

    The lecturer for this event is Heidi Ravven, Ph.D., Raven is a professor of religious Studies at Hamilton College and a fellow in neurophilosophy in the Integrative Neurosciences Research Program. A major grant from the Ford Foundation funded her work on The Self Beyond Itself: An Alternative History of Ethics, the New Brain Sciences, and the Myth of Free Will. She has served as a member of the U.N. Sustainable Development Advisory Committee and of the Atrocity Prevention Study Group in Washington, D.C.

    This event is part of a series sponsored by the McDevitt Center titled the Future of Being Human. In light of ecological crisis, rapid technological change, and widespread social alienation, what is the future of being human? Inaugurated in spring 2015 and continuing through spring 2017, this lecture series fosters a multidisciplinary conversation about what it means to be human in the 21st century.

    For more information, contact the McDevitt Center at (315) 445-6200 or [email protected], or visit the center online at lemoyne.edu/mcdevitt.
    Location : Panasci Family Chapel
    Category : Lecture/Reading