Carolyn Nordstrom calls it “the tomorrow of violence.”
Quoting a survivor of war, who says, “the life of war is a damaged (estragado) life,” Nordstrom begins to reflect on the complicated and ubiquitous ways violence, particularly war, affects societies. How has exposure to war – even in such places as in the United States where for many war has been more indirectly felt – shaped culture, politics, and personal and shared development?
Center research Joe Wiinikka-Lydon gave a lecture at the University Hradec Králové's philosophy department titled "Moral Injury and the Hidden Costs of War."
In the new instalment of Centre blog, Ondřej Beran argues that rationality is overrated. You can read it HERE.
This short reflection is motivated by my vague uneasiness about some twists of the ways in which people – “ordinary” people as well as those with academic background and aspirations – sometimes talk about (and praise) rationality.
On Tuesday, February 4, Centre for ethics will host an internal workshop entitled Disagreement, (In)tolerance and Moral Change.
It will take place in room Alpha (G building, 5th floor).
Programme:
10:00-11:00 Kamila Pacovská: Disagreement about populists: a case for moral response?
11:15-12:15 Matej Cíbik: Changing societies, changing roles
Lunch
13:00-14:00 Hugo Strandberg: On (Moral and) Political Disagreement
14:15-15:15 Joe Wiinika-Lydon: Moral Laboratory of War
The second instalment of the Centre blog was just published, Nora Hämäläinen talks about "The Ethical Environment".
You can read it here: https://centreforethics.upce.cz/en/ethical-environment
Often one is well served by a readiness to revise one’s view of other people’s work. I have since early on had a dismissive attitude to the philosophy of Simon Blackburn, partly due to his contribution to a meta-ethical conversation that I as a student found dreary, and partly due to his negative review of Iris Murdoch’s Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals – a book I continue to find important. Recently, however, I came across one of his ideas in a context outside philosophy – in a popular book by the Swedish historian Sverker Sörlin – and was forced to reconsider.
The Centre blog has been launched!
From now on, it will be regularly updated, with a new philosophical reflection/short text available roughly every two weeks.
The first instalment is available at https://centreforethics.upce.cz/cs/node/3089.
Enjoy!
