Existential Flourishing

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What does it mean to live an excellent or flourishing human life? Professor McMullin offers a new way to think about this ancient question.

University of Essex Colchester Campus

What does it mean to live an excellent or flourishing human life? In this lecture, Professor Irene McMullin offers a new way to think about this ancient philosophical question, arguing that flourishing is achieved when individuals successfully balance three different kinds of normative demand - which arise from our capacity for self-realisation, from our relationships with others, and from our place in a shared world. This condition of plurality subjects all of us to tensions, conflicts, and the need for compromise. Flourishing is human excellence within each of these domains, achieved in such a way that success in one does not compromise success in another. Our Professorial Inaugural Lecture series celebrates excellence in research undertaken by our recently appointed professors. Our researchers are daring, visionary thinkers, constantly asking difficult questions and providing answers that give insights into your life.Conducting internationally significant research means our researchers have their fingers on the pulse. They are at the forefront of the latest research findings and emerging trends, looking at issues that affect you now and in the future, which shape thinking and influence policy. Our new professors will offer enlightening explanations on their specialist subjects in areas such as politics, philosophy, literature, film, and theatre studies, history, life sciences, sociology and economics. It’s a privilege to have leading global thinkers at our University and through this lecture series we are keen to share our very best research, to exchange ideas and inspire you.

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