Please join us for a lecture by Candace Vogler, the David B. and Clara E. Stern professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago.
The Highest Good
Philosophers used to take it that developing an account of the highest good was crucial to work in ethics and political philosophy, and, on some views, even to work in speculative or theoretical philosophy. An account of the highest good was supposed to ground accounts of how one should live (given one's situation) and what one should do (under one's circumstances). In this talk, Vogler will explore the topic of the highest good with special emphasis on the accounts of it provided by Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, and St. Thomas Aquinas. Vogler will urge that we ought to revive interest in this lost topic.
This lecture will also be available via zoom. Please email gernenz2@illinois.edu for a link.