Living Well in Troubled Times: The 2022 Hong Kong Philosophy Series (1) Suffering and Flourishing (26 March 2022) 亂世生活無虞：2022香港哲學系列（講座一）苦難與昌盛（2022年3月26日）

Living Well in Troubled Times: The 2022 Hong Kong Philosophy Series (1)

Suffering and Flourishing 亂世生活無虞：2022香港哲學系列（講座一）苦難與昌盛  ( 2022年3月26日）

Date : 26 March 2022 (Sat) / 2022年3月26日 (星期六)
Time : 09:30 – 10:30 (Hong Kong Time 香港時間)
lecture + Q&A  講座+問答
Language : English 英語

In the midst of a pandemic, mounting geo-political struggles and wars now breaking out around the globe, the prospect of living well at this time might seem the luxury of the blessed few. This pessimism is not justified, we posit in this series. Instead, each person can not only survive but flourish in the midst of life’s many challenges. The resources of our theological and philosophical traditions point to how we can turn suffering to our advantage, to the virtues of learning how to appreciate our limitedness, and show us how we can preserve an interior refuge in the midst of exterior pressures.

The series is open to the general public, but undergraduate and graduate students are particularly welcome to attend.

This Online Series is co-sponsored by the Angelicum Thomistic Institute, the Centre for Sino-Christian Studies at the Hong Kong Baptist University, and the Centre for Catholic Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

1st Lecture: Suffering and Flourishing

Speaker: Eleonore Stump is the Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University of the United States. Her books include a major study Aquinas (Routledge, 2003); her extensive treatment of the problem of evil, Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering (Oxford, 2010); and her far-reaching examination of human redemption, Atonement (Oxford, 2018). She has given the Gifford Lectures (Aberdeen, 2003), the Wilde lectures (Oxford, 2006), the Stewart lectures (Princeton, 2009) and the Stanton lectures (Cambridge, 2018). She is past president of the Society of Christian Philosophers, the American Catholic Philosophical Association, and the American Philosophical Association, Central Division; and she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.