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Sydney’s Philosophy in the Café - Philo Agora

Every Second Tuesday at 7:30 pm
Fair Trade Coffee Company
33 Glebe Point Road, Glebe

June 30: Abhijit Pal: Suicide, Literature and Philosophy: To Be or Not to Be?

Suicide is a popular theme in both literature (eg. Shakespeare) and philosophy (Camus referred to it as the only truly serious philosophical problem).  In the increasing awareness of mental health issues, why have both fields been largely absent from discourse on suicide? Current attitudes are based on the medical model of suicide, as a pathological state in need of treatment (antidepressants and CBT).  What are the reasons for this absence and what is to be done?

Abhijit is currently a student in medicine who graduated with a first class honours degree in neuroscience from the University of Sydney and has the intention of doing research in psychiatry.  He's also President of the Russellian Society (philosophy society) at the University of Sydney. 

 

July 14: Skye Nettleton: Loving Powerfully: Nietzsche, love, sex, friendship and marriage. 


Friendship is the highest form of love, according to Friedrich Nietzsche, because great friends can inspire each other to achieve great things.  Nietzsche thought a good marriage should be based on friendship; yet sex creates complications because romance eventually fades and ontological differences between men and women turn love into a war.  Skye looks at Nietzsche’s criticisms of heterosexual romantic love relationships and his solutions. 

Skye has her MBA from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management and a background in finance and management consulting.  She is currently undertaking her PhD on the topic relating to her talk, also at Macquarie.   
 
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