Professor Sophie Grace Chappell The Open University

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Epiphanies

A serious and humane philosophical ethics should take epiphanies as seriously as humans do. An epiphany is an overwhelming existentially significant manifestation of value, often sudden and surprising, which feels like it “comes from outside”—it is something given, relative to which I am a passive perceiver—which teaches us something new, which “takes us out of ourselves”, and to which there is a natural and correct response. What will an ethics centred on epiphanies look like? And what won’t it look like? These are the questions that I will address in this talk.

This is a TRIP (The Royal Institute of Philosophy) Public talk