11.2. REPAIR Scholarly Talk by Daniel Miller
Welcome to REPAIR Scholarly Talk! Professor Daniel Miller (London's Global University) will give a talk entitled The Good Enough Life. The event takes place February 11 at 15:00 at Porthania, room P673 (Yliopistonkatu 3, 6th floor). The discussants will be announced later.
The Good Enough Life
This talk juxtaposes a philosophical enquiry into the nature of the good life with an ethnography of the retired people in a small Irish town. The ethnography examines topics ranging from freedom and inequality to the creation of community and the purpose of life. These alternate with discussions of similar topics by a wide range of philosophers in the Western tradition, from Socrates and the Stoics through Kant, Hegel and Heidegger to Adorno, Rawls, MacIntyre and Nussbaum. By creating community as a deliberate and social project, where affluence has not led to an increase in individualism, the people in this Irish town have found a way to live the good enough life. The talk also shows how anthropology and philosophy can complement and enrich one another in an inquiry into the good life.