[SydPhil] MQ Philosophy Work in Progress (WIP) seminar Tuesday 19th of May Paul Podosky (Macquarie)

[Emily Hughes]

Dear all,

You are warmly invited to the next MQ Philosophy Work in Progress (WIP)
seminar which will be given by *Paul Podosky (Macquarie University)*

The details are as follows:
Date: Tuesday 19th of May
Time:   13:00-14:00
Room: 17WW 113

*Title: Reverence and Veneration*

Abstract: Encounters with extraordinary excellence are not always
aspirational. Sometimes they are arresting. I argue that a distinctive
class of non-emulative responses to perceived excellence is best understood
not as admiration but as a different emotion altogether: reverence. Unlike
admiration, which responds to excellence within the subject’s operative
sense of human possibility, reverence arises when excellence appears to
exceed it entirely. It naturally invites not praise but veneration.
Attending to reverence and veneration matters because, unlike admiration
and praise, their interplay under conditions of misplacement can
unjustifiably foreclose possibilities for self-improvement and constitute a
form of self-harm.

Further information about the seminar series including the zoom link and
details on future talks can be found at the seminar webpage:
https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/bwQYCK1DvKTBmwgq3FMf4U5OBhe?domain=mqphilosophy.github.io

We look forward to seeing you there.

*Dr Emily Hughes *(she/her)

ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) Fellow in Philosophy

School of Humanities, Faculty of Arts

Michael Kirby Building, 17 Wally's Walk

Level 2, Room 233

Macquarie University – Wallumattagal Campus, Dharug Country

NSW 2109 Australia

E: emily.hughes at mq.edu.au

W: https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/JXP2CL7EwMfm4OxPEsqhkUyzaA2?domain=researchers.mq.edu.au



*I acknowledge that Macquarie University stands on the land of the Dharug
Nation, land that was never ceded. I pay my respects to the Dharug
people, the Wallumattagal clan, and their Elders past and present. Always
was, always will be, Aboriginal land.*