2025 Adams Symposium Panel Discussion скачать в хорошем качестве

2025 Adams Symposium Panel Discussion

Featuring Alexander Nehamas, Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature Emeritus, Princeton University Joanna Sierks Flynn, Associate Director for State Outreach, Carolina Public Humanities Eric Choi, Philosophy Ph.D. Student and Adams Fellow Susan Wolf, Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Emerita Tyree Daye, Poet and Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature Al Duncan, Associate Professor of Classics Hannah G. Williams, Ph.D. Candidate and Teaching Fellow in Art History ~ The systematic, articulate, and quantifiable pursuit of knowledge is one of modernity’s great achievements. It has established the detached, impersonal attitude of scientific investigation as the paradigm of our cognitive relationship to the world and one another. But we all live within a vast web of personal relationships with both people and things. Here, love and beauty are paramount. Blending intellect with feeling and knowledge with passion, they impose upon us the task of interpretation. Unlike the generalizing tendency of science, interpretation reveals the individuality of what we love and, to the extent it succeeds, it contributes to our own. It is a knowledge that changes us. And it is the purpose of the humanities to try and make sure that it changes us for the better. Many thanks to this year’s sponsors: Taylor Charitable Trust UNC College of Arts & Sciences UNC Department of Philosophy UNC PPE (Philosophy, Politics, Economics) Program