Everyone is welcome to attend the first in a series of Department of Philosophy talks on November 24 from 1:00 to 2:30 pm in SDU Main Building. JoAnna Howlett, “The Erotic, Aesthetic, and the Ethical” The connection between the erotic, the aesthetic, and the ethical is obscured but ever present. The interplay between these concepts can be demonstrated in diverse fields. JoAnna will focus on personal identity, eroticism, and art as they relate to tattooing. Dr. Daniel Harris, “Nietzsche, Atheism, and Desiring Life” Friedrich Nietzsche is infamous for his claim that “God is dead”. Nietzsche, however, is not interested in entering debates about whether or not God exists. Instead, his question is: what is it like for a culture to lose its religious faith? His answer is that it becomes important to create new aesthetic interpretations of existence that make us desire life. Nietzsche argues that science is an important, but ultimately failed, attempt to do so.