RSA Thursday - Breakfast with Socrates: the philosophy of everyday life
| Event Name | RSA Thursday - Breakfast with Socrates: the philosophy of everyday life |
| Start Date | 29th Oct 2009 1:00pm |
| End Date | 29th Oct 2009 2:00pm |
| Duration | 1 hour |
| Description |
The unexamined life is not worth living (Socrates). Only by examining our everyday lives and finding meaning in the ordinary, can we really learn what life's all about. Robert Rowland Smith grounds abstract ideas in the concrete experience of daily living, applying big thoughts to life's little challenges. From waking up (What does it really mean to be awake? What is consciousness? How do we know we exist?) to pounding the treadmill at the gym (a sign of virtue or of vice, of healthy exertion or unhealthy narcissism?) to shopping (Freudian therapy or, as Marx would have it, capitalist plot to enslave the masses?) Join Robert Rowland Smith at the RSA for an eye-opening and mind-expanding journey through the day, in the company of some of the greatest figures in the history of ideas, from Descartes to Derrida. Speaker: Robert Rowland Smith, consultant, writer and lecturer on philosophy, literature and psychoanalysis, and author of Breakfast with Socrates (Profile Books, Oct 2009). Chair: Matthew Taylor, RSA Chief Executive  Suggested hashtag for Twitter users: #rsaphilosophyRelated RSA ProjectsFind out more about the Connected Communities Project
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