<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">Dear all,</div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(36,36,36)"><p style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;direction:ltr;margin:0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"><br></span></p><p style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;direction:ltr;margin:0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">The next Agora Speaker Series talk at the University of Wollongong will be given by Professor <span style="font-size:14.6667px">Alexandre Lefebvre</span> of Sydney University, in Building 20-4, May 16 at 3.30pm. This is an in-person talk. <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(32,18,77)"></span>All welcome!</span></p></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(32,18,77)"><p style="margin:0px 0px 0px 36pt;color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:15px;direction:ltr;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"><b>Liberalism as a Way of Life</b></span></p><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px 0px 0px 36pt;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">Alexandre Lefebvre</div><div aria-hidden="true" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"> </div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px 0px 0px 36pt;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">This presentation is based on my forthcoming book, <i>Liberalism as a Way of Life</i>, and about how liberal values and practices can be the basis for a personal worldview, way of living, and spiritual orientation. You don’t have to be liberal and something else, such as Christian, Buddhist, Kantian, hedonist, utilitarian, or whatever else. It is fully possible and rewarding to be liberal through and through. This means that the values and attitudes enshrined in liberal political institutions, and ubiquitous in the background culture of liberal democracies – such as reciprocity, tolerance, personal freedom, impartiality, equality of opportunity, irony, and the like – have the potential to inform a much more general sensibility, one that is supple enough to be realized in all different aspects of life: from family to the workplace, from friendship to enmity, from humour to outrage, and everything in between.</div><div aria-hidden="true" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px 0px 0px 36pt;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"> </div><div class="gmail-x_elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px 0px 0px 36pt;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">Alexandre Lefebvre is Professor of Politics and Philosophy at the University of Sydney. He is the author of <i>Liberalism as a Way of Life</i> (Princeton 2024), <i>Human Rights and the Care of the Self</i> (Duke 2018), <i>Human Rights as a Way of Life: on Bergson’s Political Philosophy</i> (Stanford 2013), and <i>The Image of Law: Deleuze, Bergson, Spinoza</i> (Stanford 2008).</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:15px;direction:ltr;margin:0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">Warm regards,</span></p><p style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:15px;direction:ltr;margin:0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">School of Liberal Arts</span></p></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"></div></div></div>
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