Hledat

Apart from the public lecture, Raimond Gaita will lead an intensive seminar at our Centre. You can find the programme of his activities below. 

Thursday December 5 (EB 01017)

­14-16          “One of those books we cannot do without”: Reflections on Primo Levi’s If This is a Man.

Public Lecture with Professor Raimond Gaita (University of Melbourne/Centre for Ethics, University of Pardubice).

Friday December 6 (Alpha, Seminar Room)

In 1978 Václac Havel wrote his now legendary underground essay on the ”power of the powerless” in the post-totalitarian Soviet bloc. Dedicated to the memory of Czech philosopher Jan Patočka (1907-1977)––like Hável, a member of the Charter 77 human rights movement––the text examines a constellation of concepts that remain crucial for understanding Soviet Eastern Europe specifically and political oppression generally: power, ideology, freedom, responsibility, technological civilization, and the central yet problematic figure of ”the dissident”.

Research seminar programme:

24th Sep Antony Fredriksson: The Phenomenology of Intersubjective Attention

1st Oct Kamila Pacovská: Wanting to be better. On the Self-Defeating Character of Moral Perfection

8th Oct Frits Gåvertsson (Lund): Emersonian Perfectionism in John Williams’s Butcher’s Crossing

22nd Oct Christopher Cordner (Centre for Ethics/Melbourne): Some Reflections on the Spirit and the Letter

29th Oct Michael Campbell: Two Styles of Thinking: A Case Study