joy

Re-Searching and Exploring Joy: A Critical Incident

Location: The Freeman Centre
2-5pm

£10

FREE to Critical Incident Pass Holders

The question of the meaning of joy has historically been intimately entangled with (both religious and secular) metaphysical interrogations of the significance and meaning of life and of Being. For Socrates, Plato and Aristotle (circa 300 BCE), for example, joy concerns the ultimate good and is the common activator of all human activity, for Locke (1695) joy is the utmost perfection, and for Lou Andreas-Salome’ (1903) it is the mainspring of the flourishing of life. These polyphonic characterisations are conjointed by the view that joy is the enigmatic and elusive basic modulator of the connectedness of experience, the thread and ground of human intentionality.

The intent of this workshop is triadic:

Ø To facilitate confidential and non-directive exegeses of the manifold viewpoints, experiences, modes, textures, variegations and nuances of joy;

Ø To co-create a liminal space (‘Ad limina’: For the medieval pilgrims a place of joy itself!) wherein what is personally most important and significant can show forth and be attended to with respectful openness;

Ø To redeem a space and a time for a Question that throughout the millenniums has resisted the adumbrating degradation from fundamentally processual mystery (requiring engaging-with) to brute problem (close-ended and finalised).

2pm - 5pm

£15/£10 concessions

FREE to Critical Incident PASS holders

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