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LUMEN Morning Meeting - September 2024

Maria Nørby Pedersen: "On the Path to a Happy Life. A moral philosophical manuscript by Birgitte Thott, 1659"

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Info about event

Time

Friday 13 September 2024,  at 09:00 - 10:00

Location

1453-415 (Bed og Arbejd)

Organizer

LUMEN

In 1659 Denmark's first known female philosopher, Birgitte Thott, finished her original neo-stoic manuscript book on happiness. It is an exceptional comprehensive work that discuss what happiness is and how it is possible to prepare the path for the true happiness of the eternal life already in the world by practicing how to acquire a calmness of mind amidst temporal hardship and worry. Thott died shortly after finishing her manuscript and it is now being prepared for publication to a worldwide audience.