In western economies, success has increasingly been defined in terms of material attainment and the achievement of status. This model of the good life avoids recognising the shadow that haunts success: that is, the possibility that one may not succeed and as a result be deemed a failure. Prof Clack will explore in this lecture how taking seriously our vulnerability can be a source for relationship, spontaneity and generosity and form the basis for richer accounts of what it might mean to live well.
Bev Clack is Professor in the Philosophy of Religion at Oxford Brookes University. Her main research interests involve applying feminist ideas to the philosophy of religion, considering the uses of psychoanalysis for a contemporary philosophy.