Online: The House We Live In – Virtue, Wisdom, and Pluralism
with Seth Zuihō Segall
Thursday, March 2nd, 2023 | 7:00pm – 9:00pm ET
Our society is suffering from economic inequality; a continuing legacy of racism, sexism, and homo- and trans-phobia; growing anxiety and depression in the young and deaths of despair among the middle aged; increasing political and affective polarization; an overvaluation of wealth, popularity, and fame; and a failure to adequately address climate change. While liberalism, pluralism, and democracy are under sustained attack from right-wing forces, liberal democracies are failing to cultivate and transmit the values, wisdom, and virtues that promote individual and collective flourishing.
Our problem is not a lack of possible solutions, but a lack of a consensus on what makes lives meaningful and worthwhile. This is an ethical question that calls for a renewed understanding of human flourishing and the wisdom and virtues that make it possible.
In this talk, Zen Buddhist priest and clinical psychologist Seth Zuihō Segall explores the commonalities between Buddhist, Confucian, and Aristotelean approaches to virtue and wisdom. We will examine the moral and intellectual virtues that promote flourishing, the diversity of ways in which we flourish, and the factors all flourishing lives share. Finally, we will address the problem of talking to each other across political and cultural divides, affirming the necessity of discovering ways to live together despite seemingly incommensurable differences.
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Teacher(s)
Seth Zuihō Segall
Seth Zuihō Segall, Ph.D. was ordained as a Zen Buddhist priest in the White Plum Asanga and Zen Peacemaker Order lineages by Daiken Nelson Roshi and is affiliated with Pamsula Zen of Westchester. Before studying Zen, he was an Insight Meditation practitioner. He is a retired clinical psychologist who was formally Assistant Clinical Professor at the Yale University School of Medicine, Director of Psychology at Waterbury Hospital, and president of the New England Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation.
Seth’s publications include Encountering Buddhism: Western Psychology and Buddhist Teachings (SUNY Press, 2003), Buddhism and Human Flourishing: A Modern Western Perspective (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020), Living Zen: A Practical Guide to a Peaceful, Positive, and Balanced Life (Rockridge Press, 2020), and The House We Live in: Virtue, Wisdom, and Pluralism (Equinox, 2023), as well as chapters in The Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Meditation (2022) and the Springer Handbook of Positive Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality (2022). He is a contributing editor for Tricycle Magazine and the science writer for the Mindfulness Research Monthly. His work focuses on integrating Asian and Western approaches to human flourishing within a naturalistic, pragmatic framework.