Emerging Scholar Lecture Explores Human Maturity

Elmira, NY (03/12/2019) — Dr. Thomas Meagher, visiting assistant professor of philosophy at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, was the featured lecturer in the most recent Emerging Scholar Lecture Series, giving a lecture titled "Freedom, Anguish, and Maturity." The lecture explored various topics of maturity in regards to the relation with human freedom.

"What does it mean to be adult? Human beings inhabit a world in which "maturity" is both explicitly and implicitly demanded but is often defined incoherently or not at all," explained Meagher. "Adults are human beings existentially situated with an expansive range of accountabilities that stimulate anguish, a form of uncomfortable consciousness of one's freedom that may yield a desire for immaturely denying one's responsibilities. By taking serious critical insights from Africana and feminist existential phenomenology, I sketch what it means to choose maturity in a world that may secretly prefer that you not do so."

The Elmira College Emerging Scholar Lecture Series provides advanced graduate students and early-career faculty in various Humanities fields an opportunity to present their research and meet with interested faculty and students.

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Dr. Thomas Meagher, visiting assistant professor of philosophy at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, was the featured lecturer in the most recent Emerging Scholar Lecture Series, giving a lecture titled "Freedom, Anguish, and Maturity."