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Friday 29th May, 2026, 7:30pm to 9:30pm
St John's Church, Bridgetown (Both live and streamed)
Professor Clare Carlisle on - The Shape of our Lives
Tickets: £5
Booking: via EVENTBRIGHT
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We often wonder about the meaning of our lives - but answers seem elusive.
Some philosophers have argued that lives do not have meaning at all.
In this talk I will suggest that it might be better to think about the
shape of our lives, rather than their meaning. All sorts of things shape
our lives, and perhaps they are most profoundly shaped by two things: love
and loss. With this in mind, I will explore how devotion and mourning give
shape to our lives.
Clare Carlisle
is Professor of Philosophy at King's College London, and the author of eight
books on philosophy and philosophers - including Spinoza, Kierkegaard and
George Eliot. Her book The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life
was awarded the 2024 PEN America Biography Prize. Her latest book, Transcendence
for Beginners, explores the connections between philosophy and life writing.
While she was trained in European philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge,
Clare also has a longstanding interest in Indian traditions, including yoga,
Advaita Vedanta, and Indian Buddhism. In 2024 she was invited to give the
Gifford Lectures at the University of St. Andrews, and she is currently
president of the British Society for Philosophy of Religion.
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