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Perth Philosophy Circle 2025 - Lecture FiveDeath and the Modern
By Mark Jennings
Everyone dies. To be is – eventually – not to be.
And yet – we have long sought to transcend this ultimate limitation. Human beings are blessed – or perhaps, burdened – with the facility to seek meaning and understanding in all experience, including death, and have done so for a very long time. It is simple to presume that the history of human reflection on death is a story of progression from primordial supernaturalism to modern materialism – simple, and false.
Tracing that history at breakneck speed, all the way to the chain of contingency that has produced the present, we will reckon with the significance of what Charles Taylor calls the “immanent frame.” How has secularism and the concomitant changes in the conditions of belief transformed our imaginings of the limitations of human existence? What fractured dreams may come, when many of us hold to a moribund materialism, while others have found once firmly held assurances fragilized?
18th Aug / 6PM
Clancy's Fish Pub
Free to attend
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Clancy's Fish Pub Fremantle, 51 Cantonment St, Fremantle WA 6160, Australia, Fremantle
