Dear all, You are warmly invited to the next MQ Philosophy Work in Progress (WIP) seminar which will be given by *Paul Podosky (Macquarie University)*
The details are as follows: Date: Tuesday 19th of May Time: 13:00-14:00 Room: 17WW 113 *Title: Reverence and Veneration* Abstract: Encounters with extraordinary excellence are not always aspirational. Sometimes they are arresting. I argue that a distinctive class of non-emulative responses to perceived excellence is best understood not as admiration but as a different emotion altogether: reverence. Unlike admiration, which responds to excellence within the subject’s operative sense of human possibility, reverence arises when excellence appears to exceed it entirely. It naturally invites not praise but veneration. Attending to reverence and veneration matters because, unlike admiration and praise, their interplay under conditions of misplacement can unjustifiably foreclose possibilities for self-improvement and constitute a form of self-harm. Further information about the seminar series including the zoom link and details on future talks can be found at the seminar webpage: https://mqphilosophy.github.io/seminars We look forward to seeing you there. *Dr Emily Hughes *(she/her) ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) Fellow in Philosophy School of Humanities, Faculty of Arts Michael Kirby Building, 17 Wally's Walk Level 2, Room 233 Macquarie University – Wallumattagal Campus, Dharug Country NSW 2109 Australia E: [email protected] W: https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/emily-hughes *I acknowledge that Macquarie University stands on the land of the Dharug Nation, land that was never ceded. I pay my respects to the Dharug people, the Wallumattagal clan, and their Elders past and present. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.* --------- SydPhil mailing list To unsubscribe, change your membership options, find answers to common problems, or visit our online archives, please go to the list information page: https://mailman.sydney.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/sydphil
