7th Comparative Philosophy Workshop: "Completing One’s Life"

Comparative Philosophy Workshop （VII）

Organizer: Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai)，Sun Yat-sen University

Topic: Completing One’s Life

Speaker: Katrin Anna Flikschuh (Professor, London School of Economics)

Moderator: Hugo El Kholi (Research Fellow, Sun Yat-sen University)

Discussant: Billy Wheeler (Research Fellow, Sun Yat-sen University) 

Time: April 28th, 10:00am-12:00pm

Venue: R106, No.13 Administrative Building of Department of Philosophy (Zhuhai), SYSU

Abstract:

In this lecture, introducing recent African writings on personhood and personal destiny, I will see about the different views of completing one’s life. Specifically, I introduce a version of Menkiti's stages view of typical human life and then investigate human ability to take one's life as a physically