Session 1: Søren Kierkegaard on Anxiety and Being Human
The brilliant and influential Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard once
observed, “Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned
the ultimate.” This session will explore why he believes that we need to
think of anxiety as more than a disorder and how we can live with anxiety in
a way that brings out our true humanity.
This series will take place over four sessions in April. Tickets are available for individual sessions or for the entire series at a discount.
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On this Series: Existentialism, one of the most engaging and important philosophical
movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, has special
relevance for the twenty-first century. Its central concerns include dealing
with anxiety, preserving humanity in the face of powerful technologies, and
figuring out how to be free in a messy world. Join the award-winning
philosopher and author Scott Samuelson for any or all of four
sessions—each a lecture with a discussion period afterward—on key
existentialist philosophers and how they can guide us to live more
authentically.