Join us for the 2025 GHI 2nd Forum! This session introduces The Good Life: Religions, Philosophies & Sciences pillar inviting participants to explore how do religious, philosophical, and scientific ways of thinking and being foster good lives in an uncertain world.
2nd GHI Forum
- Title: The Good Life: Religions, Philosophies & Sciences
- Date: April 11, 10:00–11:30 AM EDT
- Where: Online (Zoom link HERE)
- Speakers: Rafal K. Stepien, Simran Jeet Singh, Andreas Ohlemacher, Wiebke Denecke
【Abstract】
How do religious, philosophical, and scientific ways of thinking and being nurture good lives? Taking this as a foundational question, this Forum of the Global Humanities Intitiative at MIT is devoted to bringing greater clarity and honesty into our understandings of belief, reason, and human discovery in all its myriad dimensions. Hosted by the MIT Pillar on ‘The Good Life’, the Forum outlines the challenges facing our endeavor, discusses and debates diverse conceptions of the good life stemming from several of the world’s intellectual traditions, explores the experiential potential of engaged scholarship in the first-person, and proposes ways to harvest the meaning-making potentials of religions, philosophies, and sciences in the service of more cosmopolitan modes of inter-personal, inter-communal, and inter-religious human flourishing.