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The Fall 2010 theme semester, "What Makes Life Worth Living?"
By: LSA
Friday, August 07, 2009
The Fall 2010 theme semester, "What Makes Life Worth Living?" invites the campus and community to consider a question which has been central to philosophical, religious, and political thought for millennia; engagement with it is considered a hallmark of education in the liberal arts. This vast theme will attempt to focus on the role of the college experience in formulating answers to this enduring question. Theme semester organizers, John Chamberlin (Political Science, Ford School, Center for Ethics in Public Life) and Christopher Peterson (Psychology, Organizational Studies, Center for Character and Well-Being), plan a broad array of opportunities for students to read, think, talk, and write about the many answers to this question across time and around the globe. Students will be encouraged to develop their abilities at moral discernment, to value the diversity of ways that others engage and answer the theme question, to ponder the obligations of citizens in communities – from local to international -- and to make the commitments necessary to live meaningfully in their individual and communal lives. These discussions and explorations will enrich our intellectual life together. I am very grateful to my colleagues who have agreed to organize these activities.
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