About this Event
Join Rachel Barney, Canada Research Chair in Ancient Philosophy at the University of Toronto for a Tanner Lecture on The Authority of Craft. This three-day event will be held at the Toll Room, Alumni House on the UC Berkeley Campus and will follow evolving public health guidelines. Please register for each event separately, under Tickets.
Lecture 1 – The End of Craft
Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 4:10 p.m.
What is a craft? For Plato, paradigmatic craft-practitioners include the doctor, carpenter and navigator; an updated, more generous conception should include the dancer, coder, waitress, painter, chef, professional athlete, and firefighter. This Platonic conception of craft as involving disinterested teleological rationality can explain how craft sets objective norms for correct action, and for the excellence of the practitioner.
Lecture 2 – Craft, Métier, Utopia
Thursday, April 25, 2024, 4:10 p.m.
Especially when practised as a line of work — as a job or métier — craft sets norms for its practitioners. And so thinking about craft turns out to be a way of thinking about Utopia: a society in which a just distribution of work could secure both the flourishing of the worker and the common good.
Seminar and Discussion with the Commentators
Friday, April 26, 2024, 4:10 p.m.
Commentary by Adam Gopnik, Rachana Kamtekar, Christine Korsgaard and Alexander Nehamas.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Toll Room, Alumni House, Alumni House, Berkeley, United States
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