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Umberto Curi - The place of happiness Wednesday 24 October 2018, 5.45 pm Sala del Maggior Consiglio Going back to the origins of Western cultural tradition, we encounter two different meanings of happiness, to which different terms correspond. The relationship between happiness and time is relevant. But no less significant is the recurring effort to identify a privileged place in which it is possible to be completely happy. Time and place define the coordinates of happiness attainable by man. But alongside individual happiness, in modernity the idea of a “public” happiness has also asserted itself, which constitutes the objective of politics. The problematic and controversial connection between public happiness and individual happiness will therefore be investigated. Umberto Curi is Professor Emeritus of History of Philosophy at the University of Padua. Visiting Professor at the University of California (LA) and Boston, he has held conferences and lecture series at about twenty European and American universities. Review The Pursuit of Happiness, edited by Francesca Romana Recchia Luciani and Simone Regazzoni