Finding Meaning and Connection in the Larger Story of Life
Building on John Teehan’s February 8th talk on evolution and the human search for meaning, David Sprintzen offers further reflections on what it means to be human within the larger story of life on Earth.
In Reflections on Our Place in Nature, David invites us to consider how recognizing ourselves as part of the natural world can deepen our sense of connection, purpose, and ethical responsibility. Rather than diminishing human life, this perspective may open new ways of finding meaning in the lives we share.
Join us for a thoughtful continuation of this important conversation.
David Sprintzen has been, with his family, a member of the Ethical Humanist Society of Long Island for 45 years. For 12 of those years he served on its Board of Directors, 2 of them as Vice President; and for an untold number of years as the Society’s unofficial Social Action Coordinator. He has often been a Platform speaker at the Long Island Society, and on occasion at other Societies in the New York Metropolitan area. Since 2018, he has represented the Long Island Society on the New York State Community Equity Agenda, for most of that time serving on its Steering Committee. He was a recipient of The Muriel Neufeld Ethical Humanist Award in 2014, and The Social Justice Leadership Award in 2015.
David Sprintzen, professor emeritus of philosophy at Long Island University, a leading scholar of Albert Camus, among his published works are Camus: a critical examination, and Sartre and Camus: a historic confrontation. The latter work includes the only English translation – with accompanying commentary — of the celebrated 1952 exchange with Jean-Paul Sartre in Les temps modernes. Dr. Sprintzen is also a celebrated community activist, and pioneer in the movement for ecologically sustainable economic development, having been the founder of the Institute for Sustainable Development at Long Island University in the 1990s. In addition, he is the author of numerous books and articles, both theoretical and popular, including the Critique of Western Philosophy and Social Theory, and most recently Human Emergence and Our Place in the Natural World. He has sought to put his theoretical work to the advancement of human well being.
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