Wisdom on the Vine: 'An Economy of Life'

Join us for this special event featuring a talk by esteemed Professor of Philosophy Talbot Brewer (UVA) based on his extraordinary essay “An Economy of Life”. About this talk: Perhaps nothing is more important to us than love. Given how badly we desire it, you might at least expect that we would be sure what it is. But on this question we find the deepest and seemingly most intractable obscurity. In this talk, Professor Brewer will return to the dialogues of Plato to consider his strange yet compelling idea of love, and suggest that a return to the Platonic idea of love might help us find our way from an economy that disfigures what is best in us to an economy that brings our potentiality fully to life.